Pocketnow has discovered that the latest version of HTC Sense 2.5 build 2011 contains one particularly useful feature – the ability to delete e-mail directly from the Sense interface.
While this is a welcome addition, and another indication that HTC continues to refine their interface, I think adding a small menu item really shows a failure of imagination.
On this occasion the easy and fast deletion of e-mail really calls for a multi-touch gesture, possible in the form of scrunching the email up. Not only would this have been an amazing visual (and possibly auditory) effect, but would have helped move us even further away from the WIMP UI.
So in short HTC, thank you, but how about trying harder next time?
The Tiny Graphics Engine Tigre has been updated with a lot of new demo applications and sample code. Tigre is a free graphics engine that allows to develop fast and reliable 2D and 3D applications bases on OpenGL ES.
There are currently 11 demo applications that shows what you can do with Tigre. The code of those samples is available too to get you some help getting started. Tigre is targeting to get a full featured rendering engine for advanced games and interfaces. Although the engine is still under development you could create already some awesome applications as the demos shows. Please tell me if you’re missing any features so I can add them to the "to do" list.
It seems most people do not know their Windows Mobile phones are supported by Amazon’s unboxed video service. The key is to select in the Amazon Unbox Player to automatically download the portable file by going into Settings | Preferences and choose the option “Also download portable video files when downloading videos”. Individual mobile videos can also be downloaded by right clicking on the video and select “Download portable file to this PC”.
The last step is to connect your device, click on the devices tab and click on the transfer button.
According to Wikipedia: Mobile World Congress is the combination of the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a congress featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, vendors and content owners from across the world. This events starts in 11 days, on February 15, 2010. And we will be there on location reporting here, at WMPowerUser.com, with first-hand stories…
Some of the events/places that we are planning on attending are:
Microsoft press conference where Steve Ballmer himself and others will be announcing Windows Mobile 7; we want to provide LIVE video stream from this event, if it will not be forbidden by Microsoft
stand of Microsoft in Hall2
press conference of HTC
stands of various companies that will be showing Windows Mobile phones
Apart from that we have already scheduled one-on-one interviews with representatives from the following companies:
Opera – the makers of mobile browser that is present in majority of Windows Mobile phones being sold nowadays
Swype – company that makes virtual keyboard for Windows Mobile phones, that is so good, that even the iPhone people are envious
If you have suggestions regarding what else we should see at Mobile World Congress 2010, please post them in comments to this story!
If you are a representative of some company that is either exhibiting or just visiting MWC this year, please contact us under this email:
… and we can meet – if not for longer review, then at least for short presentation of your Windows Mobile -related products/apps/services. Just ensure that you will bring with you Windows Mobile phone – we are not interesting in demonstrations running on Android smartphones.
Swype has published this tutorial to show how to work their innovative keyboard, currently shipping on the Samsung Omnia 2 . The video gives a good idea of the actions involved, and despite the apparent complexity of its use, user reports are surprisingly good, both on the Windows Mobile and Android handsets where the software has found a home.
We have been lucky to get a CDMA TouchPro ROM going for you guys, and here is the info.
The ROM is done by NFSFAN and if it is not the fastest CDMA TouchPro ROM you have ever used then I will tell you my last name . The ROM is a very nice stable, smooth and like I mentioned earlier, faster than my Touchpro2, here is the info:
Important Notes:
*Kernel — 6.5 NK
*Modulated files
*Reduced ULDR Partition
*Enabled Full Kernel Trust Mode
*Super SLIM XIP
*UPX Compression
*SensorSDK v4
*SWP (Spinlock) functions removed (performance)
*OpenVG driver (3d performance)
*Optimized 3D drivers (OpenGL + D3DM)
Brief List of what is included in the ROM:
*.NETCF3.5
*Office Mobile 2010
*Internet Explorer 6
*SQLCEMobile 3.0
*1-Calc 3.2.7
*Advanced Config 3.3
*Bluetooth BPP
*Chess
*File Explorer EXT
*Google Maps
*GPS Viewer
*Hearts
*Teeter
*HTC Diamond Ringtones
*Inbox Menu Extension
*Custom SensorSDK v4 Driver
*AdobePDF
*Microphone AGC
*YouTube
*TouchFLO 3D 2.5
*HTC Album
*Bluetooth Explorer
*Bluetooth Tab Extension
*Java JBlend
*Streaming Media
*PIM Backup
*Pocket RAR 3.90
*MP3 Trimmer
*RSSHub 2.1.1.1107
*SMS Inbox Threading Switch
*PHM RegEdit
*Remote Desktop Connection Mobile
*Microsoft Voice Command
*Windows Live 10.7.61.500
*CapSure 1.11 (Screen Capture Application)
*Total Commander 2.52
*ArkSwitch 1.04 TaskManager (mapped to long press back key)
*WiFi Router
This great ROM was cooked by my friend NFSFAN, and as usual you can click his name and donate a little to him because this ROM is great and took him many days for him to have the ROM that was named “The Fastest TouchPro I or II ROM every.”
We all hope you can flash this ROM and enjoy it, but remember HardSPL is a must. Comment your experience, also Do not forget this:
If Device is bricked during the process we cannot be held liable for this.
We recently had a poll going on asking what device we should work on getting our ROMz on and we got nothing from it. The Poll did not really help us know as to where to go with this, and as someone commented, the list was made of mostly HTC devices and they all already have many ROMz going for it.
Due to that, we want to ask one more time, what non HTC devices would you like our ROMz on. The only device we got out of the post and are currently pushing to get the ROM going for is the TG01. We noticed the device produced 2 pages of comments asking for their first cooked ROM to come from us and with that and this post on Xda and Modaco asking people to vote for the TG01. We read that and felt bad that the device is super powered with snapdragon goodness and is crippled with Toshiba badness… so we are currently working on it, so yes we are working on it, but we have no promises at this point, so lets just hope.
The LG incite is in the works along side the Acer neotouch, HTC Hd, Samsung Omnia I & II. Are we forgetting something?
After trying out the 5001 Amazing Facts app from XiMad I was looking forward to review some of their other app and we got the chance too look at 3001 Wisdom Quotes today. Read the full review to see if the UI is as impressive as their previous app…
So speculates T-MoNews, who deduced this from T-Mobile’s Dark Project training schedule.
According to this schedule training for 2 secret devices are set to happen on the 17 February and 9th March, and they already know one is the Motorola Zeppelin, leaving the other for the already announced HTC HD2.
WindowsPhoneReview.com drew our attention to these pictures of the Chinese version of the Samsung Omnia 2, the Samsung i1810C.
The handset retains all the great features of the Samsung Omnia 2, including the great 3.7 inch AMOLED screen, and in addition supports China’s home-grown TD-SCDMA 3G standard.
Interestingly one of the areas the handset does differ is the “cube” button, which is much broader here and seems to support 2 functions, back and another.
Pocketnow has discovered that the latest version of HTC Sense 2.5 build 2011 contains one particularly useful feature – the ability to delete e-mail directly from the Sense interface.
. The ROM is a very nice stable, smooth and like I mentioned earlier, faster than my Touchpro2, here is the info:
