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The Mobility World Congress is already popping out some great info.  Yesterday we talked about the new Bolt browser from Bitstream and now today we hear that there will be a Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond 2 released in the near future.

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ — HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today unveiled two new flagship devices, the HTC Touch Diamond2(TM) and HTC Touch Pro2(TM). Integrating innovative simplicity with unique style and an intuitive interface, the devices balance function, form and cutting-edge technology to personalize the communication and mobile Internet experience.

"The HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2 introduce a mobile communication experience that simplifies how we communicate with people in our lives whether through voice, text or e-mail," said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. "HTC is delivering the latest, cutting-edge sophistication in a broad portfolio of mobile phones that improve how people live, work and communicate."

The new TouchPro2 looks a lot like the Tilt.  Maybe they got a lot of requests for the tilting screen?

The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be available to customers across major European and Asian markets in early Q2 2009 with broader global availability coming later in the year. The Touch Pro2 will be available across major global markets beginning in early summer.

Damn them! I dont know if I could convince the boss(wife) to let me get another new phone.  And I’m still waiting for a new version of TF3D.  Ohwell..

EDIT: check out HTC’s Homepage TouchPro2 Overview, Diamond2 Overview. Looks like the same phone, same ROM, same RAM, same Processor speed(MSM7200 vs MSM7201) just a new WVGA screen.

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  The Mobility World Congress is already popping out some great info.  Yesterday we talked about the new Bolt browser from Bitstream and now today we hear that there will be a Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond 2 released in the near future.

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ — HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today unveiled two new flagship devices, the HTC Touch Diamond2(TM) and HTC Touch Pro2(TM). Integrating innovative simplicity with unique style and an intuitive interface, the devices balance function, form and cutting-edge technology to personalize the communication and mobile Internet experience.

"The HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2 introduce a mobile communication experience that simplifies how we communicate with people in our lives whether through voice, text or e-mail," said Peter Chou, president and CEO, HTC Corp. "HTC is delivering the latest, cutting-edge sophistication in a broad portfolio of mobile phones that improve how people live, work and communicate."

The new TouchPro2 looks a lot like the Tilt.  Maybe they got a lot of requests for the tilting screen?

The HTC Touch Diamond2 will be available to customers across major European and Asian markets in early Q2 2009 with broader global availability coming later in the year. The Touch Pro2 will be available across major global markets beginning in early summer.

Damn them! I dont know if I could convince the boss(wife) to let me get another new phone.  And I’m still waiting for a new version of TF3D.  Ohwell..

Read on for the Full Press Release.

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Bitstream, the company behind the subscription based Thunderhawk web browser (and other things) are planning to be releasing their newest baby to the public as a beta on Monday.  Bolt has been in private beta, but the access codes have been circling throughout the internet like found here.

Cambridge, Mass. and Barcelona, Spain – February 16, 2009 – As the world’s wireless and mobile industries assemble at Mobile World Congress, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today the  public beta of its acclaimed BOLT(TM) mobile browser.  Previously available by invitation-only, BOLT is a browser built for speed and completely optimized for mobile phones, providing a desktop-like view of Web pages on even the most basic feature phones.  Beginning today, people everywhere can download the public beta version of the BOLT mobile browser for free by visiting: http://boltbrowser.com/.

Be sure to change “Beginning today” to “Beginning tomorrow” :).  I am Hesitantly optimistic about the browser because of what I read about the subscription based Thunderhawk.  But things look good and some of our staff have been trying it and I’m sure we’ll have a full write-up tomorrow when we get to download the public beta.  Oh and something that is not in the full press release, they will be releasing the download Sunday at midnight Pacific, 9am in Barcelona.  So, for people like me that can never figure it out, that means that at 3am EST, 2am CST, 1am MST and then Midnight PST you can download the Beta.

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I may be alone in this one, but I have been having problems finding an easy way to sync my  calendar with my Google Calendar.  I have found a way and its even from Google itself!

Now for starters, Google is taking over the world… Really… Especially with the G1, which uses all your Google information to help you get through the day.  What happens if you loose your G1? and have your password saved somewhere and someone can get it.  There goes your life.

Onto the real story.  When browsing over at XDA, i noticed a post by l3it3r talking about syncing your Google Calendar and Contacts.  I thought, hmm that sounds nice and gave it a try.  The official instructions are found here and are pretty simple to follow, but I had problems.  Maybe because I’m not too smart or because I had another activesync setup.  And that actually makes me shudder because I have struggled disabling activesync for a while and now i have to use it.

An interesting Issue though is if you have full-day events that you don’t associate any time to, it doesn’t sync.  Which is weird, but it is BETA like everything else Google so lets hope they get it working soon.

Read on for MY instructions on how to setup the syncing.

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With Mozilla’s Fennec getting some press lately as well as Torch Mobile getting high marks on my AT&T Fuze and Tilt, it seems Skyfire has been pretty quiet lately. Until today! Skyfire fires back with a new version update to 0.9 which included a Twitter or Facebook status update that can be viewed directly within the Skyfire client. Some other good news is for you HTC Touch HD owners (DavidK) that will now see Skyfire with WVGA support. 

Skyfire, which already supports Flash 10, Silverlight, Ajax and all Web 2.0 browsers is now the most adept take on Web 2.0 with these new features in the updated 0.9 version:

• New FriendFeed-like starting portal gives users feeds from their favorite RSS sources as well as their feeds from their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts
• You can also update your Twitter or Facebook status directly from the Skyfire client
• Dozens of usability and performance enhancements, including improved text reading and updated page rendering.
• WVGA support is announced with this release
• The ability to download media files

For more information and to download Skyfire Version 0.9, head on over to their website or just  CLICK HERE

You can also read the full run down on Skyfire 0.9 be jumping after the break and reading the whole press release.

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It has been a while since I wrote a user interface review – and I sure missed it, so today I will check out the hot stuff PointUI has been releasing with the new version of the PointUI shell for Windows Mobile.

The ‘home’ screen of PointUI includes 2 main areas:

The applets area:

The applets area (located at the top) includes few applets that can be easily navigated using left/right finger gestures or the selection panel beneath them.Among them you will find the usual weather applet, email, images, and Tasks.

moving between applets is fun and work smoothly using D-Pad or finger gestures. It can also be done dirrectly using a special context panel just beneath the applets area.

Want to read more? Check it out by jumping after the break!

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