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GPSToolPro reaches Beta .3 and touches my cell…

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Cell tower anyways.  GPSToolPro is a new program done up by CLShortFuze over at XDA and it looks really nice. Not only does it get a really fast GPS fix, but it also gets your Lat/Lon from Google from the Cell Towers.  CLShortFuze is a .NET developer and is much smarter than me and describes … Read more

Let’s Map More Touch Pro Buttons

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Ok, let’s talk about mapping a long press of the end key and a long press of the power key. First for the easy one. There’s an easy way to remap a long press of the end key. Simply go to Settings – System – Long Press End Key and you’ll see the options to … Read more

In Call Recording Enabled For Touch Pro

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There was a leak a few weeks ago of a Touch HD ROM that had in call recording (ICR) enabled. This was a shock since ICR was supposed to be impossible due to hardware limitation (apparently not). In no time it was ripped from that ROM and ported to other Touch HD ROM’s and now … Read more

HTC Weather Master reaches Beta 2

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Not even a week goes by and JoeWilcox over at XDA comes out with an update to his already great Weather Master program.  We first looked at it here. Changes since 1.0.b1 include: Added a Current Weather page for managing your current weather locations  WM no longer overwrites existing weather Added code to fix the … Read more

Fennec Leak

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Kernman of XDA provided a link to a leaked version of Fennec (Firefox mobile). As we know, a beta version of Fennec is expected next week. So what can I tell you about the leaked version? It is NOT the beta version scheduled for release. How do I know that? It lacks any form of stability. It is a whopping 23megs, requires a soft reset after installation and installs into the Games folder (which is oddly appropriate since navigating a webpage without a crash is a game). As of now, the load times are mediocre and responsiveness is questionable BUT we can still learn a few things about it. It is VGA and as we’ve seen with some other browsers the font is really really tiny. The keyboard does not automatically pop-up (even the keyboard icon does not come up automatically). You need to begin typing with the physical keyboard and then the onscreen keyboard may appear (this may be a problem for Diamond users unless they set a physical key to toggle the onscreen keyboard). And the default is to load the mobile version of the website (not the full version).

Here are a few photos to give you a sense as to what it currently looks like:

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MobileMatt FuzeBerry v7CFC Released To The Masses

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This new theme will upgrade all of the Manila files to CFC in order for the FuzeBerry theme to run as intended. View HERE for details on CFC conversion. ** Changelog v6.0.0 > v7CFC: Removed VZ Landscape Changed flip clock to the Crystal Clock White Added the "Profile" tab back into skin Changed "Music Library" … Read more

Arcade Park Releases Version 1.5 For VGA Support

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The one thing we Fuze/Touch Pro Owners enjoy is the beautiful VGA screen that comes nicely equipped on our Devices. It has made our Multimedia experience  a real pleasure. The problem is though that aren’t a whole of games that are being developed for it yet. Even though our own SCDavis has nicely assembled a … Read more

Microsoft Aiming To Recover Lost Ground In Mobile

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Microsoft has made some stumbles in the mobile world, but a strategy shift made more than a year ago will soon pay dividends, the company’s top Windows Mobile executive said in an interview with CNET News.

Andy Lees, the executive brought over from the server unit a year ago, said that Microsoft’s efforts to make sure that its mobile software could run on a wide range of phones resulted in an operating system that failed to take advantage of advances in hardware.

"We aimed to go for a lower common denominator," Lees said. Microsoft was also limited by the origins of Windows Mobile, which was developed to power handheld computers that neither connected to a network nor handled voice.

"We started out when we were in PDAs (personal digital assistants) and then a phone got strapped to the back of the PDA," Lees said. The company also failed to recognize that phones–even those that were used for business–were still as much personal as they were professional.

Meanwhile, Apple and Google have joined the fray with operating systems designed from the ground up to take advantage of the latest in phone technology.

But Lees said that Microsoft embarked on a new strategy some time ago that will come to fruition over the next 18 months. The first steps in that strategy, he said, will be announced at the Mobile World Congress conference that takes place in Barcelona in the middle of next month.

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Firefox’s Mobile Browser Fennec Coming Next Week!

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Here is breaking news! The much anticipated Firefox Mobile Browser that will be called Fennec, is now scheduled to land as a Beta next week! From Firefox: We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro. This was taken from the MozillaWiki that incidentally has a ton … Read more

The Mobile OS War Continues

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Not for long buddy!  Well maybe for another year at least. The great part about Capitalism is that for the most part the consumer usually wins.  (except for the case of the video drivers in the Tilt)  Competition brings better and more innovative products.  And it may seem that Microsoft is going to be dropping … Read more

Top 10 things WE(I) hate about the iPhone.

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Boy Genius Report has recently done a great write-up on the Top 10 things they hate about the iPhone, but they aren’t the first or last to do so.  apcmag.com has one and so does A Liverpool Web Designer.  Why is my list different?  I’m not a cell phone techie or a windows mobile super user AND I do my best to not use my cell phone for work.  I don’t get good service in my office at work, so that makes it tricky to use it there.  I think BGR and the others did great lists, but there are some simple things that they definitely missed that relate to non-powerusers.  For some background, I was seriously debating getting an iPhone when my Blackjack started getting poor reception.  So i was looking around at my options and saw the Tilt at the AT&T store and I thought it was really cool!(which it is!) So i bought one and the next day saw news that the Fuze was coming out so I returned my Tilt. (After breaking the screen and replacing it but that’s a different story.)  And I work with a lot of iPhoneAddicts(not the people from the site, but actual addicts) so I got to hear it first hand how great the iPhone was when it came out, how great it still is, and how great it will forever be.  I’m still not impressed.  I may have gotten an iPhone if it weren’t for all the problems that BGR went over and that I still have.  Bash me all you want, but let me say the iPhone IS a great phone, its just not right for me and a few others who have problems with it.

Time for my list.  I’ll start backwards… well in order… at 10.

10.  iPhone(Apple) users.  Don’t get me wrong.  I like people, but iPhone people and Apple people are their own breed.  They always think that Macs are the best, Apple is the best company ever and the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread.  They will push the iPhone on you until you hate everything Apple.  This includes you Walt Mossberg.  Apparently for the price you get one iPhone and a few pounds of smug to carry around with you. When the iPhone 3G came out I had to keep checking my phone to make sure I really did have 3G for years because the way it was advertised I was certain they were releasing something so new to the market I couldn’t have had it already.

9.  Applications made free for iPhones.  I can go over a lot of applications that come out for iPhone that are free and good, but were out for Windows mobile for years beforehand and were not free.  Shazam is out on Android and iPhone for free.  They came out with a program called “TagIt” in 2006, but that has disappeared and they only have the service for iPhone and Android or for people in the UK(no offense, US gets stuff first 9 times out of 10).  Pandora! Free for iPhone and its BIG NEWS, but its been out for Windows Mobile for a while, but you had to pay, which is not cool.  I’m sure there are more out there, but I cant think of them right now.  Those are the 2 big ones.

8.  Cut and Paste.  BGR is right, this is a big problem.  Just because the Macs dont have mice with 2 buttons doesn’t mean you need to cripple your iPhone to not be able to copy and paste! (I know you can right click NOW but that’s kind of new).

7.  1 word, Flash.  Skyfire has recently given Windows mobile users the benefit of Flash websites.  I’d expect the best phone in the world to do the same.  Flash mobile has been out for a while, but what sites recognize flash lite 3.1 or mobile 7?  And Safari is constantly touted as the best browser. The numbers are simple – SkyFire loads WebPages much faster than Safari plus you get the real internet (yeah, with Flash, etc).  Oh and congrats iPhone you finally have more choices.

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