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Latest Mobile Windows News: Q-Bench Pro v1.3 for Windows Mobile released August 08, 2008; [General] Now Supporting Windows Mobile 6.1 ... HTC makes access to ROM upgrades and documentation easier August 07, 2008; [with touch-screen] Previously: registration with user name, password and further details were necessary to access ROM upgrades, but now all you need is serial number of your phone (usually to be found under the battery). You should be careful though when upgrading your phone: HTC offers support at the Olympics August 07, 2008; [General] In few hours Olympic Games 2008 will start in Beijing China. Since HTC is headquartered in Taiwan and has just built several factories in China, and since Taiwan has very close cultural ties with China, HTC is offering support to all users of HTC phones at Olympics 2008: Release date of HTC Touch Diamond in Canada at Telus - now known August 07, 2008; [with touch-screen]
Canadians will be able to enjoy HTC Touch Diamond, in CDMA flavour, very soon as we reported previously but now the release date is known and it is: Insaniquarium Deluxe game for Windows Mobile released August 06, 2008; [General] Astraware is a respectable British software house that releaes plenty of fascinating games for Windows Mobile... and here theirs latest one! HTC Touch Diamond ROM Upgrade - official info from HTC August 06, 2008; [with touch-screen] HTC Touch Diamond is probably the best smartphone in the world - considering its tiny size and features and now with latest ROM upgrade it is practically perfect... New application for tilt sensor: Diamond Beer August 06, 2008; [with touch-screen] Updated: video review of this application added! It is amazing how vivid community of Windows Mobile user is: even though both HTC and Microsoft have not released officially API for tilt sensor, several people keep developing applications that use it - based on reverse-engineering and totally free. Here is an application that uses tilt sensor and that simulates action of beer drinking: G-Invaders for Windows Mobile released - another game that uses tilt-sensor August 05, 2008; [with touch-screen] It looks like tilt sensor, that is built-in into HTC Touch Diamond and compatible has bigger potential in gaming than in utility applications. Here comes yet another game that uses tilt sensor, at this moment in very early version (but free):
Here is a video that demonstrates this game in action: Tip: how to add 4th column to Program Files in HTC Touch Diamond August 04, 2008; [with touch-screen] Latest ROM upgrade for HTC Touch Diamond not only enables GSM quad-band feature (and thus also GSM850 band for USA) but also makes the phone even faster... but if you would like to improve user experience of your HTC Touch Diamond, you can still do it, with help of tips from power users... They make it almost sound, like there is some facility in the device being subverted to accomplishing this when in fact the option exists to be modified: HTC Touch Diamond coming to USA to Sprint soon August 04, 2008; [with touch-screen] Sprint has cheap mobile broadband offering so it is popular in USA, but Sprint customers still have some issues, like inability to receive SMS messages from special short numbers (like the one of Twit) so we are not sure we can recommend this carrier unconditionally... but Sprint is supporting Windows Mobile strongly: previously offering several Windows Mobile phones, recently launched Treo 800w and now launching yet another Windows Mobile phone... HTC Touch Diamond is available at practically all operators in Europe, some in Australia and many in Asia, but in USA it is not officially on sale yet. It will be probably CDMA version, not GSM/HSDPA version, that will be the first official HTC Touch Diamond in USA, because HTC Touch Diamond is coming to Sprint: Weekly audio: Windows Mobile podcasts from last week (July 28 - August 3, 2008) August 03, 2008; [General] Life is too short to waste time, so if you would like to use time when you are commuting or jogging then just download latest podcasts about Windows Mobile phones, so that you can get advice how to get most out of your Windows Mobile phone and you can listen to latest news! Here are the podcasts about Windows Mobile phones or related to Windows Mobile, that have been published recently: New game for tilt sensor released : Sensor Maze August 02, 2008; [with touch-screen] Maybe HTC should announce some competition related to games and program that use tilt sensor available in their phones? It would be good but since HTC even has not provided documentation about the tilt sensor API and developers had to reverse-engineer it, we wouldn't count it. In any case tilt sensor API should be part of Windows Mobile 7 - we asked Microsoft about it already several times when we interviewed them... Here comes yet another game that uses tilt sensor (you don't have to press any buttons, all you need is: tilting your phone in various directions!) and since it can generate new levels automatically, so you can play it for ever:
Here is a video of this game in action: For Developers: Windows Mobile API Usage Tool released by Microsoft August 02, 2008; [General] It looks like Microsoft will be making some Windows Mobile API obsolete in next version of Windows Mobile (i.e. Windows Mobile 7) so they are providing a tool to measure which existing APIs are used the most... Windows Mobile misses sales target for the fiscal year 2008 August 01, 2008; [without touch-screen] Fiscal year ended June 30, and apparently Microsoft no longer can pretend that everything is alright: Skype client for Windows Mobile 6.1 released July 31, 2008; [General] Explicit support for Windows Mobile 6.1 added! Skype writes ... Previous page   |
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