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Clouds on Vista's horizon to be dubbed Strata? {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2008 4:34PM That was an epic fail.
Who failed?
That's right.
No, I'm asking you... WHO failed?
Who?
No, I mean the person...
Who.
Wrote...
Who.
The lame post.
...etc
HTC's Touch HD gets very early review, called an iPhone killer in German {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2008 3:41PM And if you've used the TouchFLO interface at all, you'd know that it's NOT the same old WinMo experience.
The email tab alone is worth the price of admission. The fact that you can quickly thumb through your accounts and catch the first paragraph is good enough, but even better is that when you touch a letter to open Pocket Outlook, it doesn't open the whole program, just the account that you need, which makes it faster and more efficient.
This applies to the other elements as well, such as SMS and the quick contacts. You can either press on the persons face to call up the 'call work, call mobile, SMS, email etc page', or press on the phone icon under their name, and it will automatically dial whichever number you've set as the 'most frequently used'. For the browser tab, you can have a list of most frequently visited pages to scroll through, without them having to be just another icon in a pixel sea. The media tab is pretty sweet too, though I wish there was a way to integrate with CorePlayer so I'd have quick access to my native DivX files.
HINT HINT HTC, make a deal with CorePlayer similar to the one you made with NewsBreak (called RSS Hub on the Diamond - download podcasts over the air without worrying about anyone banning the app).
TouchFLO 3D (and 2D on the Opal etc) is much more than a cosmetic upgrade. It's by far the most useful interface I've used on a smartphone, and I've used them all from Apple to Symbian. It makes all functions easy to access, but has depth, if you want it, unless you're an absolute email junkie and can work with a RIM device.
Android-powered HTC Dream to sell for $199 on T-Mobile {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2008 1:13AM Well, Android DOES have copy/paste functionality.
I've installed it on my HTC Touch, and that worked fine.
The web browser is really nice, but Flash content came up with the classic 'jigsaw puzzle' plug-in content box instead of actual video.
Can't speak to the other stuff, and this was an early from April that was in a single executable space, as opposed to more recent releases like the following...
http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/
HTC Touch 3G revealed {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2008 12:18PM I gotta say I like the 2D TouchFlo. Keeping 2D might also let it run on the 400Mhz HTC Touch CDMA version... I guess I'll keep my eyes peeled at XDA-developers, as Mobile Shell is close, but not quite the same. :D
HTC Touch 3G revealed {Engadget}
Sep 15th 2008 12:13PM Only if you think the Touch HD is the pinnacle of mobile phones. Sure the HD has a gorgeous screen, but it's the same physical size as an iPhone, which I found both too big and found a pain in the ass for 1 handed navigation.
It's easy to hit the upper right corner of the screen with your thumb on the original Touch, and I image that it'll be about the same on this, though the spread from the top of the screen to the D-pad looks to be a bit too much, though it IS narrower, which might help.
I'm also betting that this will be a lot cheaper than the Touch HD, and sales wise, the original Touch and the Palm Centro have shown there's a real market for devices in this space. Coupling that with slightly pared down version of the Diamond's TouchFlo is an awesome move on HTCs part.
(though I'll checking xda-developers to see how the new interface runs on
WSJ reviews HTC Touch Diamond: "can't disguise WinMo's flaws" {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2008 1:37AM @ Matt: I agree. Sure the iPhone is a lot slicker than Palm, but the basic "pages of app icons" interface has been around since the B&W 160x160 PalmPilots.
As for Jubei, calling HTC a 'me too' company just displays Jubei's ignorance. :D
WSJ reviews HTC Touch Diamond: "can't disguise WinMo's flaws" {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2008 12:09AM Just the kind of review I'd expect from an Apple fanboy. Though it's credited to Katherine Boehret, not Walt, so maybe I should say fangirl.
Opera (at least on Telus), renders the full websites that are mentioned in the review. And seriously, Kinoma over CorePlayer (or even the free TCPMP)? Hell, I'd just stick with the built in WMP instead of using Kinoma.
Amongst other glaring problems.
HTC Touch Diamond headed to Telus on August 14th {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 7th 2008 2:20PM Biased? Nah. In a 5 page article titled "Flaws In Touch Diamond Exposed", other than mentioning the battery life under heavy use, they don't mention any other flaws, still call it the best WM device ever and only give it 3 1/2 stars.
HTC Touch Diamond headed to Telus on August 14th {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 7th 2008 2:08PM @ SSErik: That review was the ultimate in weak sauce bias.
If the reviewer actually HAD used a number of WM phones in the past, he would have known that there's a great repository for just about every free WM app out there, and even has a mobile site. Same goes for paid software. And there's certainly a lot more of it out there for WM than there is for Palm. The idea of having an RSS reader is so verboten on the iPhone platform that each news site and podcast has to create its own app just to get at their feeds.
And exclaiming the virtures of the iPhone start screen is akin to oohing and ahhing over Palm OS's start screen from the past 10 years, albeit much prettier than the old greyscale days.
And to combine the two: the very best app ever made is Microsoft's Voice Command, which lets you tell your phone to play your favourite artist or album, launch a program, make calls etc without any training, totally eliminating the need for any program icons on the interface.
Carrier-specific restrictions don't count much in reviews for me, because every carrier has their own deals (even on the iPhone).
HTC Touch Diamond headed to Telus on August 14th {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 7th 2008 1:37PM Actually, Telus (and Bell), will be doing a GSM switch over the next 3 years or so, probably using the licenses they won during the spectrum auction. Part of Telus' reasoning is the 2010 Olympics and the influx of GSM users.
They'll probably be dual networked for a couple of years after that. That's why I took the dive and went with the $7 Bell data plan with the HTC Touch, as my contract will be up by the time they get the ball rolling on GSM and they'll be more REAL competition in the wireless space (not to mention all the newcomers to the Canadian wireless space).
