Unboxing Photos of the HTC Kaiser

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It certainly is a busy day at the Boy Genius Report. Now we’ve got unboxing photos of the HTC Kaiser! This one is going to be the one to watch. The HTC Kaiser is the best darn Pocket PC I have ever used! It really has everything you have come to expect nowadays. For instance, it’s a full Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 6 Professional, which we prefer over the smartphone bastard child. Detailed internal …

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WM6 Bugs: Today Screen Dialing

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One excellent new feature in Windows Mobile 6 Professional is the ability to begin dialing contacts from the Today Screen. If you just start typing someone’s name, the Today Screen will switch to the phone dialer and offer contact suggestions that begin with the letters you just started typing. So what’s the problem? Well, this only works if your device has a keyboard since the software based keyboards are not accessible from the Today Screen. …

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WM6 Bugs: The Delete Command

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Why moving the delete command was a bad idea In the new Windows Mobile 6 Professional, the menus for the Messaging application have been changed a bit. The most obvious is that the left softkey has been changed from “New” to “Delete”. The reasoning behind this is that most people have to delete a lot of spam on their phones and they wanted to make deleting messages easier. I don’t know who was surveyed for …

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O2 Germany released its Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for the Xda orbit

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Today O2 Germany posted a Windows Mobile 6 ROM download for their Xda Orbit Pocket PC phone (based on the HTC Artemis). I’m not sure how O2 was able to release a customized ROM for the Artemis before HTC could release it themselves for their P3300. Perhaps HTC want’s you to buy some of their newer Windows Mobile 6 devices first. Originally published on Pocketnow on May 21, 2007. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow …

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HTC P3450 Elf Photos Surface

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Slashphone has snatched up some pictures of the HTC P3450 “Elf” via NewsMobile.it before they were taken down. As Engadget Mobile writes: Guts include a rather anemic OMAP850 putting along at 201MHz, 128MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, microSD expansion, a 2 megapixel cam, Bluetooth 2.0, and quadband GSM plus UMTS (though it’s not clear whether there are any American 3G bands kicking around in there). The big draw here — besides the presence of …

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