You may have heard about how Apple is suing HTC about violating their intellectual property patents and then how HTC is suing Apple for the same thing. Well, here’s a very special pocketnow throwback showing you one of HTC’s very first iPhone-like phones. The HTC Himalaya or i-mate Phone Edition 2003 was first released in 2003 in Dubai U.A.E. We had a guy ship us one from Dubai so that we could be the first …
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My 3G is Faster Than Your 4G
Later tonight we’ll get to see the new Sprint HTC EVO 4G phone, which would be the first one in the States that’s capable of connecting to Sprint’s 4G WIMAX network. Everyone is all a buzz about 4G networks since they promise faster broadband wireless speeds and all that. But what’s the real deal with WiMAX? First of all, the current specification tops out at 40 Mbps, but in order to get anywhere close to …
Continue readingReminder: Don’t Install 64-bit Outlook If You Want to Sync
Remember when Office 2010 x64 Beta wouldn’t work with Windows Mobile Device Center for syncing with Windows Mobile Devices? Since you couldn’t install x86 versions of Offie 2010 beta on x64 versions of Windows at the time (newer builds could), we wondered if Windows Phones would sync with Outlook in the future at all. The final version of Office 2010 is now available to MSDN & Technet Subscribers and will be available at retail in …
Continue readingSteve Jobs Hates Task Managers?
Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan recently wrote about many of the problems he sees in Apple’s new iPhone OS 4. Most of them are the primary new features, like the new task manager. He finds it just as easy to jump back to the home screen with a single press of the home button than to have to double press it and flick through just one row of application icons. The row of active tasks also seems …
Continue readingThrowback: Being Able to Read Your Screen Outdoors
Back in the old days, around the turn of the century, did you know that people actually had portable computers with screens that were visible in direct sunlight? Back in the year 2000, Compaq released the extremely innovative iPAQ H3600 (manufactured by HTC). This device had a transflective screen with side-lighting. Most screens these days are backlit, but with the transflective screen on the iPAQ, the light from the sides within the bezel would illuminate …
Continue readingDo You Use a Hand-Free Interface?
A hands-free interface is very important for mobile devices if you happen to have a lifestyle that involves some multi-tasking that may require the use of your hands and eyes. I use voice control and text to speech while driving a car, or on the motorcycle, but it works great while walking, jogging, etc. as well. A year ago we took a survey about whether or not you think a centralized voice enabling interface would …
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