Rule #1 was Design with Consistency. Rule #2 is Enable Keyboard Shortcuts. The great majority of Windows Mobile devices have hardware buttons and keyboards/keypads. Beginning with Windows Mobile 5, the operating system was designed to take advantage of hardware buttons for increased user interaction efficiency and usability. Windows Mobile has two hardware keys that are assigned to the left and right bottom bar menus/functions also known as soft keys. This makes it very easy to …
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Latest Update on the HTC Kaiser’s Missing Drivers
If you don’t already know about the issue where the HTC TyTN II and variations seem to be missing drivers for the video acceleration hardware, take a look at this post first. Well, the latest update at HTC ClassAction.org to be filed in the rumor-mill department is still quite promising: Update January 17, 2008 #2: A very interesting new response has just surfaced! One HTC support employee has stated that an internal e-mail has just …
Continue readingChronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Symbian: Part 1
I was expecting the switch between Windows Mobile and a Symbian powered Nokia N95 to be kind of like switching between Mac and Windows; the commands are in different places and things look a bit different but when you look at the big picture, it’s pretty much the same. I was also expecting to see some really nice things along with some frustrations just as Rita Khoury mentioned in the discussion about her visit to …
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