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Our good friend Julian Zrotz at PocketPC.ch has gotten his hands on a brand new HTC Touch Diamond2 review device and has shared with us some HD videos and pictures to help show off this sexy little touch phone.
Featured Videos: Unboxing, hardware tour, comparision with the original Diamond & HD, TouchFLO 3D 2, hardware tour, video performance comparison with HTC Touch HD, file explorer, and internet experience.
As well as some awesome HD pictures!
Click here to see the HTC Touch Diamond2 video and picture gallery
This leak has made my year! As we all know, I am in love with the Toshiba TG01. Well, here comes the TG02 and TG03, the TG01’s sexy siblings — the Baldwin brothers of the Toshiba smartphone world!
Full rundown of the leaked roadmap for Toshiba’s TG02 and TG03 including pictures!
Mobile Syrup’s quick rundown of the Canadian version of the Samsung Omnia
Alright Canadians, listen up!
Sure, we’ve told you this before. But in case you’ve forgotten, the super sexy Samsung Omnia will be launched via Bell tomorrow!
Who’s going to be at the doors at the crack of dawn to snatch one of these up? Please, share your excitement with us! I, for one, can’t wait to get my hands on one!
Be sure to let us know how your new Bell Omnia handles!
Rhomobile has announced details around the ‘Mobile Application Development Challenge’ they are hosting, including an extension on the deadline. The contest promotes Rhomobile’s Rhodes framework, which allows developers to write once to create native apps for all leading smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android, and features a $10,000 grand prize.
Click through to read more details about this great mobile development contest
Here’s another exclusive video from CTIA 2009 of the Samsung Propel Pro – a Windows Mobile 6.1 device featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and enterprise applications. The Samsung Propel Pro will be on sale for an expected $149.99 in April (customer’s pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate, receive $50 AT&T promotion card).
The Samsung Propel Pro will likely be released as part of AT&T’s spring lineup.
Over the weekend my HTC TyTN (aka Hermes) suffered an untimely death.
I felt the phone vibrate and took it out of my pocket to check my new text message when I noticed that the screen was white and unresponsive. I turned the phone on and off again… nothing. I rebooted the phone… nothing. Pulled out the keyboard and pushed it back in again… still nothing. I put it back in my pocket and anxiously tried to ignore it but that didn’t seem to fix it either. Twenty minutes later I pulled it out of my pocket again and – voila! It worked. But as I was replying to my text message, the screen faded to white again.
A quick search of Google later, I discovered that this is a common cause of death among the TyTNs. Apparently there are often problems with the ribbon connector from the mainboard to the screen. I tried several of the non-intrusive tricks I found online — tightening the screws on the back of the screen, loosening the screws on the back of the screen. Nothing. There are several suggestions that one can strip it down gently, clean the connectors and re-attach cables with new tape to better secure the ribbon, but since I am technically still under warranty, I’ll avoid that one. I will bring my phone to Rogers and see if they can resurrect her.
Tell me all about your experiences with untimely phone death! What did you do? How did it happen?
And be sure to read my follow up report, hopefully entitled “How Rogers made my day by resurrecting my HTC TyTN!”
Another exclusive thanks to Nan Palmero – a preview of the HTC Touch Diamond 2.
The HTC Touch Diamond 2 features an improved version of TouchFLO 3D, a better camera, a microSD slot, and a larger battery (hooray! More battery life!).
Another video directly from CTIA 2009 from our own Nan Palmero. This time we’re taking a look at the HTC Snap. HTC says that with the Snap they were trying to keep all the good stuff about the HTC Dash but with bigger keys, same small, smooth frame, integrated volume keys, and a 2MP camera.
Looks great!
Our good friend and contributor Nan Palmero was nice enough to get us a one on one look at the HTC Touch Pro2 at this years CTIA!
I must say, this device looks super impressive to me — larger screen, prettier curves, a tilt screen, much more responsive… I can’t wait to get my hands on one!
Be sure to check out the above video for a complete rundown of the HTC Touch Pro2 straight from CTIA.
Go Canada!
Not only will Bell be offering the Palm Treo Pro and the Samsung Omnia, but now it looks as though Telus will have them too! Though, I wouldn’t celebrate just yet — looks like Telus is going to be charging more than Bell ($20 and $50, respectively) than Bell, and that’s based on signing up for a 3-year contract, too! Eep. I’m betting that there are more than a few of you out there who aren’t happy about that. But being that these devices are oh-so-cool, will you pay anyway?
Let us know what you think!
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Just released as a standalone yesterday, Spb TV is a highly usable IP-TV solution, optimized to run on mobile devices. Spb TV provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee!
The now standalone mobile TV solution for Windows Phones, Spb TV was first introduced to the market in September 2008 as the flagship feature of Spb Online. Since then, it has hosted millions of mobile TV sessions. Spb TV is unique in its approach to the mobile TV experience, offering the unexpectedly natural simplicity of watching live TV on a phone. Spb TV goes a long way to support the genuine TV watching behavior on a handset: quick TV guide check-up and channel hopping, on-screen controls for volume and backlight, neat integration of TV functionality with other mobile features (such as messages, calls, and battery life monitoring).
Video courtesy of Pocketnow
Today at CTIA Wireless, Spb Software – a leading maker of mobile applications, announces the release of Spb TV – a practical mobile TV player with patent-pending on-screen controls and fast channel switching technology, use of intelligent stream correction, picture-in-picture mode, and an integrated TV guide with export of show reminders into Outlook. Spb TV is a subscription-free and international live mobile TV solution that is geared up to utilize the new generation of faster wireless networks.
Video: Spb TV 1.0 Mobile TV, the way it should be (press release)
Dying to find out what the Windows Mobile Marketplace will be all about? How it will work? Microsoft has posted a video showing you just that! In the video are details telling how the system works, how to pay, how refunds work, various carrier content, and info on their app guarantees!
Check it out right here after the jump, but be sure you have Silverlight installed first!
Back by popular demand, I will be posting about various Twitter applications for your Windows Mobile device!
Since my post about Twitter applications I’ve become even more of a Twitter addict. Check out my profile! I have well over 2000 updates now!
The Samsung SWD-M100 WiMAX MID that was paraded around at the Mobile World Conference was accidentally named earlier today in a post via Samsung’s RSS feed.
The now named Samsung Mondi features a 4.3 inch touchscreen, slide out QWERTY, and — brace yourself — 4G WiMAX via the Clear network (US only, booo!).
Though we don’t know of any of the other specs of the Mondi, we do know that it will be running WinMo, has two cameras (front/back 0.3 and 3 MP respectively), bluetooth, WiFi, the Opera browser, and a microSD slot.
Is the HTC Touch Pro2 headed for T-Mobile? Looks entirely likely!
A leaked ROM over at xda-developers has information included in it that indicates that the Touch Pro2 (code named ‘Rhodium’) will be showing up on T-Mobile in the US.
We’re sure to hear more about this at CTIA, so stay tuned!
Update: Click here to see a live image of the T-Mobile branded HTC Touch Pro2!
Still searching for a decent Facebook application for your WinMo phone? Well, in case you’ve missed this, some developers at XDA have recently supplied a rather awesome Facebook app.
Now, apparently this app is actually made by Microsoft themselves and has been stripped from the yet-to-be-released version of Windows Mobile - 6.5 (Build 21169). That being said, this app is in fact a pre-release version with ‘many known bugs’ (though, I couldn’t personally tell you what those bugs are as I’ve not actually run in to any myself, but see the list of known problems after the jump). I can tell you, I’ve been using it for a bit now and I really love it!
Click here for an overview and screenshots of this Facebook app from XDA!
Are you a developer looking forward to the upcoming Windows Mobile marketplace? Or maybe you’re looking to jump on the .NET development bandwagon. (Whoa, I’m trying to imagine what that bandwagon would look like…)
These Top 8 websites are everything that a Microsoft .NET developer needs!
Could it be true? Listen up, Canadians! A tipster from BGR is reporting that Bell is getting ready to launch the Samsung Omnia in April! Specifically somewhere between April 9th and April 12th.
The Omnia runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and has a 3.2″ 240×400 touchscreen display, and the usual — GPS, WiFi, EVDO Rev. o / Rev. A…
But at the top of the list of cool features for the Omnia is its super cool 5MP camera with autofocus, face detection, smile detection, LED flash, image stabilization and DivX/XviD video playback!
No pricing or launch details confirmed by Bell as of yet, but stay tuned!
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