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Change the HTC Touch Pro Operator Name

PaulSpoerry — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:09:18 +0000

You can personalize your operator name on the HTC Touch Pro with a handy little program made by a craft fellow over at XDA. It’s been said to work on all Windows Mobile devices but definetely works on HTC. It was made by a developer at xda-developers called NP9660.

Download the cab file here. Install on on to your main memory, not the SD card. It will prompt you what text you want to have in place of your operator name. That’s it. If you want to change the text, just go to Start>Programs>Personalizer.

Some people were having trouble with HTC Home being turned on after a soft reset. To work around it, open “Personalizer StartUp.mscr”. The last entry enabled HTC Home, changing the final value to “0″ fixed the problem.

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New HTC’s 2009 Devices

PaulSpoerry — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:50:16 +0000

Supposedly the images below represent the 2009 line-up of HTC devices coming out. Of note are the Sprint HD Pro ( Tungsten W), VZW HD Pro (Rhodium W) & the Sprint Jasper. The posters of at PPCGeeks suspect that the Jasper will be the first HTC Android phone for the Sprint network… looks like I might be waiting on getting a new phone after all! (view all the phones by clicking the Read More link).

The information comes from a poster named Arlen over at PPCGeeks, you can view the original post as well as the comments being thrown around by visiting the PPCGeeks thread.

HTC Sprint Touch ROM with GPS, RevA, Windows Mobile 6.1 released

PaulSpoerry — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:16:04 +0000

About freakin time. The Sprint Touch (HTC TOUCH) update to Windows Mobile 6.1 has been released. This ROM update will install Windows Mobile 6.1 and enable both GPS and RevA data speeds. You can get the update directly from HTC here.

Sprint Touch with Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS, and RevA

Why update the ROM on your device?

The software upgrade posted below provides several key enhancements for your Touch:
Why update the ROM on your device?

The software upgrade posted below provides several key enhancements for your Touch:

Upgrades the operating system from Windows MobileÂ® 6.0 Professional to Windows MobileÂ® 6.1 Professional
EV-DO Rev. A functionality for faster download and upload speeds when utilizing data services wherever EV-DO Rev. A coverage is available
Advanced GPS functionality including the Sprint Navigation application
Adds the Opera browser
Adds a full Qwerty on-screen key Qwerty keyboard

Free Cell Phone Headsets

PaulSpoerry — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:50:32 +0000

Ok well ALMOST free, you pay a small shipping charge.

I don’t know what they get out of it, but FreeHeadset is offering to send you a headset you can use with your cell phone while driving. That could be important if you’re living in California on July 1–the date you have to go hands-free, or just convenient if you live anywhere else.

FreeHeadset says they do it to promote safety and claim to have shipped over 250,000 headsets. My guess is they hope you’ll opt to pay for a headset with more features than the freebies–but if you choose a free headset, you pay only $3.94 for shipping. It takes about five days to reach you. Check the FAQ for details.They didn’t have a free set for my HTC Touch, but I did find one for my wife’s LG Rumor. $4…. nice!

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HTC Touch ROM Update in early July – From the Sprint Developers

PaulSpoerry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:32:02 +0000

The official update has been released… click this link to see the post.

A crafty fellow who goes by joe11223 posted a question to the Sprint Developer website and received a response that it should be early July.

We are currently working on the ROM update for HTC Touch and the official release date is not finalized. However, we are targeting to release the update in first part of July. Once the update is officially released, We are going to make the update available on our ADP website and we will also be notifying our developer community via this forum.

Thanks,
Ram Koya,
Sprint Nextel ADP Team

Of course they didn’t say July of 2008 (after all the initially said it HAD GPS and then they said it’d be updated in Q12008). LOL. Seriously, the wait is out of control and I’m sick of Sprint and this experience has led me to want to switch carriers. Here’s to hoping we actually see it in July.

The post date was June 23rd, 2008 and you can find the post here.

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HTC Touch Pro Announced (a.k.a. the Raphael)

PaulSpoerry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:48:44 +0000

If you looked at the HTC Diamond and thought “Nah, I need a keyboard”, heads up: this might be the phone for you. Featuring much of the same look and feel of the HTC Diamond, the HTC Touch Pro boasts HSDPA and HSUPA connectivity (up to 7.2 mbps – glorious!), the same 2.8 inch VGA screen as the Diamond, a 1350 mAh battery, 512 MB of flash ROM storage, 288 MB of RAM (what a curious number – why not 256 MB?), microSD expansion, GPS capabilities (no real GPS, only AGPS? Really?), built-in TV-out functionality, and a 3.2 megapixel camera. The full press release is below, followed by a bunch of images of this beautiful device.

“Taipei, Taiwan â€” June 4, 2008 â€” HTC Corp., a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design, today unveiled its advanced next generation business phone, the HTC Touch Proâ„¢. Bringing a beautiful new angle to mobile business productivity, the HTC Touch Pro utilizes similar styling and functionality of the highly anticipated Touch Diamondâ„¢ and introduces a variety of business-focused enhancements that make getting work done on the go quick and easy.

â€œThe 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,â€ said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. â€œHTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLOâ„¢ 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers.â€

“A New Dimension To Touch â€“ One hand, one touch
HTC has taken a great leap forward in touch screen innovation with its 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D. TouchFLO 3D provides a stunningly intuitive way to zip through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls with just one touch. Delve a little deeper to find that your music, photos, contacts and surfing the web are also responsive to the touch. In addition, the Touch Pro includes a new innovative touch-sensitive control for device interaction.

Making The Mobile Internet Useful and Fun
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 HSUPA 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.

In addition to Web browsing, the Touch Pro includes an HTC-developed, YouTube application for watching a variety of user generated video content as well as including Google Maps for mobile for mapping and traffic data.

Unmatched Style With Complete Productivity
Like the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro is crafted with precision to fit comfortably in a userâ€™s hand and brings together elegant touch screen response with the direct precision of HTCâ€™s trademark sliding keyboard design. Introducing a new five-row QWERTY keyboard layout that makes typing-intensive tasks like composing email or working on Microsoft OfficeÂ® documents quick and easy. Built-in TV-out functionality means users can deliver the perfect PowerPointÂ® presentation from the Touch Pro.

Bursting with Innovation
The Touch Pro delivers an unrivalled combination of features and functionality. The 2.8 inch display provides near-print quality viewing that enables beautiful Web browsing and viewing of photographs. The built-in camera includes an optical auto-focus lens that ensures the photos you take will be clear and consistent. Advanced wireless and auto sensor screen pivoting are just a few of the features that make the Touch Pro experience a stand out.

Availability
The HTC Touch Proâ„¢ will be available to customers across all major European, Asian and the Middle East markets in late summer. The North American and Latin American versions of Touch Pro will be available later in 2008.

Key HTC Touch Pro Specifications
â€¢ Size: 102 x 51 x 18.05mm
â€¢ Weight: 165 g
â€¢ Connectivity: WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
â€¢ Operating system: Windows MobileÂ® 6.1 Professional
â€¢ Display: 2.8-inch VGA touch screen
â€¢ Camera: 3.2MP, with video calling
â€¢ Internal memory: 512 MB flash, 288 MB RAM
â€¢ Expansion Slot: microSDâ„¢ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
â€¢ Keyboard: Slide-out 5 row QWERTY keyboard
â€¢ Bluetooth: 2.0 with EDR
â€¢ Wireless: WiFi 802.11b/g
â€¢ GPS: GPS/AGPS
â€¢ Interface: HTC ExtUSBïƒ¤ (mini-USB and audio jack in one; USB 2.0 High-Speed)
â€¢ Battery: 1350 mAh
â€¢ Talk time: GSM: up to 8 hours
â€¢ Standby time: GSM: up to two-weeks
â€¢ Chipset: Qualcommïƒ’ MSM 7201Aïƒ¤ 528MHz

HTC Introduces New Accessories
Also today, HTC announced multiple accessories will available for the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro including a similarly designed desktop cradle and travel charger accessory pack as well as an extended battery and slim collapsible case for the Touch Diamond.

About HTC
Founded in 1997, HTC Corp. (HTC) designs, manufactures and markets innovative, feature rich smartphone and PDA Phone devices.

Since its establishment, HTC has developed strong R&D capabilities, pioneered many new designs and product innovations and launched state-of-the-art PDA Phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the US, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operator and device partners.

HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile device market. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.”

And here are some more high-resolution photos for your enjoyment:

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iPhone vs HTC Touch Diamond – pictures

PaulSpoerry — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:50:15 +0000

This article has gotten a lot of traffic from Stumbleupon. If you’re coming here from Stumbleupon, the URL to this article has changed (used to be paulspoerry.com/index.php/…. and now the index.php has been removed. If you could, please hit your “I like it!” button and give me a thumbs up.Thanx.

Engadget Chinese got their hands on an HTC Touch Diamond and compared it (visually) to the iPhone. HTC seems to be doing what Microsoft should have done a long time ago… making Windows Mobile fun, attractive, and easy to use. Plus the specs on this thing are wicked.

Comparison pictures:

Original article (in Chinese) can be found here.

Here are the specifications for the new HTC Diamond – via the HTC Web Site:

Re-defining the perception of advanced mobile phonesâ€¦ the HTC Touch Diamondâ„¢ signals a giant leap forward in combining hi-tech prowess with intuitive usability and exhilarating design.

Featuring a sharp 2.8-inch touch screen housed within a stunning formation of brushed steel and flawless faceted edges, the HTC Touch Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it is to use.

With HTCâ€™s vibrant touch-responsive user interface, TouchFLOâ„¢ 3D, and ultra-fast HSDPA internet connectivityâ€¦ the HTC Touch Diamond offers a rich online experience to rival a notebook computer, allowing you to interact with Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia as freely as you would with a broadband connection.

Your contacts, favourite music, videos and photos are no longer an uninspired line of text. With TouchFLO 3D, album artwork, video stills and snapshots of your friendsâ€™ and familyâ€™s faces are brought to life for you to interact, play and launch at your fingertips.

A 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera will help you capture the perfect moment in style and with a massive 4GB of internal storage you can keep all the files you need. The integrated ultra-sensitive GPS will help you find your destination as quickly and efficiently as a dedicated satellite navigation unit.

Style and substance in a phone are no longer mutually exclusive. The HTC Touch Diamond has arrived.

Highlights

- 2.8-inch touch screen, with four times the pixels of most phones.

- Vibrant TouchFLO 3D user interface, responding perfectly to your finger gestures when scrolling through contacts, browsing the web, and launching mediaâ€¦ all vividly displayed as photos and artwork powered by the 3D graphics processor.

- HTC Weather – providing a constant view of weather at home and abroad.

- Surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA internet connectivity.

- 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera for quality stills and video.

- 4GB of internal storage to preserve more photos, music, files and exchanged data than ever before.

- Integrated GPS for use with maps software for a full turn-by-turn satellite navigation experience.

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HTC Touch Diamond with TouchFlo 3D (videos)

PaulSpoerry — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:04:51 +0000

Yesterday at a press event hosted in London, HTC unveiled its latest Windows Mobile device, the diamond.

The Diamond is equipped with a beefy 528 MHz processor, 4GB storage inbuilt, HSDPA, FM Radio, 3.2MP camera. Unlike the other “Touch” GPS built in and working out of the box. Check out the overview of the device:

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The Diamond runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1, Microsoft latest version of Windows Mobile. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t made many great improvements to the user interface of Windows Mobile, so what HTC has done is build in applications and customizations to work around the wonkiness of WM.These customizations are called TouchFlo 3D which adds the following sweetness to the device:

Rather than having to initiate it with a swipe, it replaces Windows Mobile’s standard Today screen
TouchFLO 3D also appears to be very well integrated in the OS. It’s less of an add-on and more of a new philosophy towards Windows Mobile. For example, the 5-way is also touch-sensitive so you can rotate your thumb around it to zoom in and out. It also demonstrates the power of Windows Mobile’s data structure — TouchFLO 3D has previews of emails, allows you to examine your pictures, and plays your music directly within the interface.
TouchFLO 3D tech is also built-into a custom build of Opera 9.5. But get this, no matter what your zoom level is, the text automatically wraps to the zoom. This is in contrast to the iPhone’s browser, which sometimes is unable to get the text to wrap properly.
TouchFLO 3D is, in fact, 3D in its animation effects. The Touch Diamond, unlike previous HTC devices, appears to be fully hardware accelerated and uses that power to full effect.

Weather

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Photos and Videos

People

Music

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Spb Mobile Shell Updated to v2.1

PaulSpoerry — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:19:44 +0000

Spb’s Mobile Shell is a must-have for Windows Mobile users. It’s design improves the use of Windows Mobile smartphones dramatically, as well as adding some much needed eye candy. You can check out my review as well as how you can customize it in my previous post Customize SPB Mobile Shell 2.0.

Version 2.1 contains mostly bug fixes in this new release, although there is a new data connection indicator on the Professional Now Screen, along with support for voicemail, hardware keyboards, and 320 x 320 screens. If you’ve got v2.0, this is a free update.

What’s New:

Data connection indicator on the Professinal Now Screen

Voicemail support

320×320 screens support

Hardware keyboard support

Stability bug fixes

Product page: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/mobileshell/

Sprint launches ‘Any Mobile’ Today – Unlimited calls to any mobile phone

How to: Install GPS/Rev A on Sprint Touch

PaulSpoerry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:00:10 +0000

The official update has been released… click this link to see the post.

Ok so the Alltel Touch got a new ROM update that added EVDO Rev. A. It also fixed some BlueTooth issues and added video messaging.It didn’t however, include aGPS (wierd huh?)

While Sprint users are waiting (and waiting) for the Windows Mobile 6.1 update that we assume will have REvA and GPS (only WM6.1 was officially announced) apparently some craft folks over at PPCGeeks have managed to take the Alltel ROM, rip it apart and get it to install on the Sprint Touch. So… if you’re comfortable with it you can now get not only RevA but GPS on your Sprint Touch as well!

Sprint Rev A + GPS
Verizon Rev A + GPS – some have reported this isn’t totally stable yet

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