A contributer at the XDA-Developers forum has posted a new T9 PhonePad software input method application with a black and grey skin theme to match the HTC Touch color scheme. If you log-in as a member, there are links to download the software. Also included is a multi-lingual version and a button vibration program which adds tactile feedback to button presses. If you don’t want to be taking out your stylus to type messages on …
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iGuidance v4 Coming Soon
The new version of iGuidance is on it’s way. Existing customers can preorder the upgrade now for $79. New customers can pre-order starting June 22 here. New V4 features include: • New Navteq map including Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands • Text to speech (TTS) (street name in voice guidance) • Extended POI listings (6 millions) • Pre-generated seamless map file for entire N. Ame (1.3GB) • Automatic font sizing for POI’s w/ long …
Continue readingOpera Mini Beta 4 Works Like iPhone Safari Browser
As posted by Gizmodo: There are many reasons that you could call the Opera Mini 4 Beta an assault on the iPhone’s Safari browser. New features include: • Overview mode empowers people to browse their favorite Web sites • Zooms in and cleanly focuses on the content you want (as seen in Opera’s Wii browser) • Dynamically changes size of text and images, to read without a lot of scrolling • A virtual mouse to …
Continue readingHTC, Please Bring the T9 PhonePad Back!
Beginning in 2004 with the HTC Magician, HTC started licensing T9 text input capabilities and included a software input method for their devices that let you easily type out text using common T9 techniques. This was a great feature for phones that only had touch screens since you could use your thumb to type out messages in much the same way you would do so on a standard numeric keypad using T9. However, it appears …
Continue readingiContacts Adds Touch Scrolling to Windows Mobile Contacts
If you like the way the iPhone can scroll through contacts with finger gestures and inertia scrolling but you wish you could have that on a Windows Mobile device, take a look at iContacts. This is a free program that shows all your normal contacts in a larger list that you can push around with your finger. Tapping and releasing on a contact name will open the normal Windows Mobile contact display screen. You can …
Continue readingI’m Bringing New Back
In my frustration with the removal of the “New” soft key button in the new Windows Mobile 6 Messaging application, I’ve been searching for something to make it easy to create new messages again. Someone suggested to use FlexMail 2007, which has many much more useful features than the default messaging app, but it was kinda overkill and it didn’t integrate with the today screen or my contact photos. Then I found a thread on …
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