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Treo Pro sales pitch

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

It looks Palm set to announce the Treo Pro today. Not mentioning details specifications , but the email did confirm that the device "features a one-touch Wi-Fi button, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1 and a high-resolution flush color touchscreen".

 

After googling , some specifications on the new Treo.

New details on the Treo Pro

• The battery is pretty much confirmed to be a near-unbelievable-for-this-size 1500 mAh.
• The WiFi switch is over on the side and works exactly as you’d like it to
• There is a decidedly non-Treo-esque power button up on the top, which brings the Treo more in line with traditional Windows Mobile devices.

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HTC Shift X9500 fit for mobile workers

Posted by sawaru | Category: Laptop & Notebook, Tablet PC & UMPC

HTC Shift X9500 is the latest entrant into the ultraportable notebook market.

The HTC Shift is made by a phone company but for calls you need to use a headset or go hands-free, with its sleek shape and on-the-run connectivity features, the Shift should prove useful for road warriors, although some poor software choices and sluggish specs may annoy power users.

The Shift’s best feature is undoubtedly its compact shape.Displaying its crisp 7in, 800 by 480 resolution touchscreen and weighing a mere 800g, the Shift is an ideal size for mobile workers.

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Google Android on HTC delayed

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Software

Running Google Android on HTC could be push back to early 2009 the release of the cellphone maker’s first phone using the Google mobile operating system. The company rejects assertions by Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry that both technical and minimum payment issues are affecting the release and insists that the phone is on track for a fall 2008 launch. The researcher’s belief “does not match the facts,” the firm says.

The late 2008 launch is widely believed to be part of a high-profile release for not just HTC but also T-Mobile USA, which has been all but confirmed as launching its nationwide 3G network on October 1st and may launch the HTC device, often rumored to be the Dream touchscreen phone, as a companion to wider access for the carrier’s faster data speeds and improved call quality.

Most other Android phones aren’t slated to launch until early 2009 and are heavily rumored to have been partly hindered by delays in the Android software itself. LG, Motorola, Samsung, and others are part of the Open Handset Alliance instrumental in promoting Android.

[via The Unwired]

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HTC Touch Diamond on track for millionth mark

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

Taiwanese HTC handset maker CEO expecting HTC Diamond Touch will hit the 1 million mark by mid August. HTC Diamond Touch is a great device and we’re everything but surprised to see HTC saying the sales projections are on track. 

In a further statement, Chou confirmed HTC’s plans to ship 2 million units this year. However, sources at the Taiwan handset industry speculated that HTC will eventually revise its projections to ship between 2.5 and 3 million Touch Diamond smartphones by the end of 2008.

As a sidenote, it took HTC about five months to ship one million HTC Touch devices. It’s still not Apple, which sold 1 million iPhones 3G for a weekend, but they’re working on it. Keep up the pace folks, you’re onto something!

via Digitimes & intomobile

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Demand boost in Middle East market

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News

In a market dominated by so-called resistive touch technology, Apple’s iPhone uses a different technology called projected capacitance that enabled the multi-touch functionality that had been lacking in resistive-based touch panels.
HTC launched its first touch-screen phone - HTC TyTN and HTC P3300- in 2006 and LG launched its Prada in 2007 and Samsung in 2008 while Apple launched its iPhone in 2007, but iPhone is not officially available in the Middle East.

Samsung has four main sleek touch-screen phones - the Omnia, the Haptic, the F490 and the Instinct and LG has the Prada, the Viewty, Venus and the Voyager while HTC has the HTC Touch, Touch Dual with Touch FLO, TyTN II, HTC Shift HTC Advantage X7510 lined up to take on Apple.

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Touchscreen ease between mobile work and play

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News

The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the one-hand, one-touch mobile Internet a reality. HTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLO™ 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers. The Touch Pro includes a new innovative touch-sensitive control for device interaction.

With the introduction of Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and wireless connectivity. Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they are designed to be viewed on a PC. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

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Typhoon complaints to many touchscreen device manufactures

Posted by sawaru | Category: Trend Watch & News

Typhoon’s complaint alleges that defendants have infringed and continue to infringe its US Patent 5,379,057 issued 3 January, 1995 and entitled “Portable Computer with Touch Screen and Computer System Employing Same,” and US Patent No. 5,675,362 issued October 7, 1997 and entitled “Portable Computer with Touch Screen and Computing System Employing Same."

It launched litigation over the alleged infringements in December 2007 against Dell. Now, Typhoon has added Apple, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Lenovo, Panasonic, HTC, Palm, Samsung, Nokia and LG Electronics to the list of companies it is litigating against.

“The addition of these defendants is a further step in protecting Typhoon’s IP from being unfairly exploited. Hopefully, the world of potential infringers will take notice that it is the company’s intent to aggressively protect its intellectual property,” said Typhoon’s director of legal affairs and licensing, Hofheimer, Gartlir & Gross lawyer, Craig Weiner.

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Choosing the best Smartphones going to hard

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, PDA, Smartphone, Trend Watch & News, Windows Mobile

The 3G iPhone is nearly with us - but will its touchscreen technology make it the smartphone market leader?

It’s three weeks until the 3G iPhone is available - and rivals are already pointing to their own advantages over it. If you’re looking to buy a smartphone, how do you choose between them? The first question is not so much whether you need or want a particular smartphone, but whether the word “smartphone” is itself a red herring. Manufacturers are very particular: a smartphone, they’ll tell you, has an open operating system that lets you add applications. If a phone doesn’t have that, but has email, a touchscreen and other bells and whistles, then it’s a “feature phone”. (Quite where the iPhone, which can only add applications that Apple has approved, fits isn’t obvious.)

Still, what’s definitely coming this summer is a battle of the touchscreen phones. Apple, through marketing if nothing else, is leading the charge but Samsung, RIM (the BlackBerry people) and HTC are there as well. LG is keen not to be seen competing with smartphones, but its Secret model has a perfectly good touchscreen and media player capability.

Consumer demand

But do people want touchscreens? The launch of the original iPhone, at least in the UK, must cast some doubt on that - on the launch day the queues didn’t stretch around the streets as they did in the US, although the initial order did sell out. Tony Cripps, an analyst with the consultants Ovum, cautiously believes there’s a demand. “What people want is an easier way of interacting with their phones and devices generally. As long as a touchscreen is allied to a well-designed user interface, they can go a long way to making this happen.”

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Windows Mobile 6.1 improvements

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Windows Mobile

Microsoft recently introduced Windows Mobile 6.1, an upgrade of the Windows Mobile operating system.

It adds new features and capabilities to the previous (6.0) version, enhancing your Web browsing and day-to-day use of Windows Mobile. It also adds new features and capabilities of interest to the enterprise users. This article looks at some of the more important enhancements.

Improved Messaging

Microsoft has made some significant enhancements in the Messaging application. For enterprise users Microsoft added Exchange Auto-Discovery, which makes it easier to set up synchronization with Exchange. Users are now able to download e-mail from all accounts at the same time. Microsoft added auto-complete for e-mail recipients, which makes it easier for users to enter e-mail addresses on small keyboards and touch screens. Also, Windows Mobile 6.1 added the ability to select multiple e-mail items in the list so you can easily delete or move e-mail. Finally, Windows Mobile 6.1 includes optimizing the bandwidth utilization for Exchange, POP3, and IMAP4, which is very important to enterprise wireless data users.

 

Other enhancements to WM 6.1

A number of enhancements made to Windows Mobile 6.1 are of particular interest:

• Bluetooth headset auto-pairing: Makes it easier to pair your device with standard Bluetooth headsets.
• Bluetooth phone address profile: This enables the transfer of phone book information across phone-enabled Bluetooth devices.
• Network Time (NITZ) Description: Automatically updates the time on a device when it moves into a new time zone or receives a Daylight Savings Time (DST) change from the cellular network.
• Cut, Copy, and Paste capability added to Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) smartphones.
• Enhanced "Getting Started CD" not only contains user-installable versions of Mobile Device Center and ActiveSync, it includes software that helps the user set up their device and an application that makes e-mail setup easier by exporting their Outlook settings from a desktop PC to the Windows Mobile device.

Managing Mobile Devices—System Center Mobile Device Manager

Last fall, Microsoft released a new server to manage Windows Mobile devices called System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM). SCMDM actually adds Windows Mobile Devices to Active Directory and provides group policy management of the device security as well as a separate VPN connection optimized for Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 is required to support SCMDM. SCMDM is covered in detail in the Enterprise section on page 55.

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Double touch screen gaining popularity

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News

If you have an affinity for pushing buttons, this is not going to be your year.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless have added two more touch-screen phones to their lineups. And you can expect more.

AT&T, of course, is known for selling the iconic iPhone. Selling it exclusively, I might add. But I can’t blame AT&T for not putting all of its eggs — er, Apples — in one basket.

So, it has introduced the LG Vu ($299 with a two-year contract and mail-in rebate).

As with the iPhone, buttons are minimal — just a small row along the bottom of the phone for making and ending calls and a couple along the side for locking the phone. Yet, navigating the Vu is a straightforward process because most of its touch-screen menus are clearly marked.

Still, the Vu isn’t intuitive.

It will take you six steps to accomplish something that should have taken two steps. I can’t even remember how many times I had to hit "OK" and "Yes" and "Done" to log into MySpace Mobile. I zoned out because the Vu was beginning to remind me of an annoying Windows PC.

The Vu also has a QWERTY keyboard similar to the one on the iPhone. But again, the Vu’s version isn’t intuitive. The keys are too close together, making typing with two hands awkward and typing with one hand really awkward. It does at least have tactile feedback.

Still, the Vu is pretty and sleek, duplicating the minimalist trend that’s been so popular in the LG Voyager. The phone is also light — so light that I didn’t think the battery was attached when I took it out of the box.

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