Author: Tarandeep Kaur

Here are some fresh screenshots of the leaked ROM taken from HTC TOUCH HD. I’ve given explanation for the screenshots wherever it was required. First is the rumored sliding panel interface. Also, notice how nicely the wallpaper blends with the start menu. Next is the lock screen.

Honeycomb interface is working on HTC TOUCH HD. Here are couple of screenshots. You can customize the positions of the hexagonal boxes. Also, the first screenshot shows the soon-going-to-launched Marketplace by Microsoft. It is rumored to be launched at MWC, 2009.

Incoming Call interface has been a huge facelift. It now shows two sliders: one to answer the call and other to reject the call. Also, the menus are a lot more finger-friendly. That will let you to use your device without taking the stylus out of its silo.

The best news according to me is the CONFIRMATION of market place in those screenshots. Only Microsoft has the funds and the resources to make the application store for Windows Mobile successful. We hope that it is real and it is not a simple link to the Mobile Application store

UPDATE: Although the market place is not working yet, but its presence in the ROMs gives us an assurance that it will be available and working in the final release.

credit: juelu at pocketpc.ch (submitted via contact form)

Just when you thought browsing couldn’t get any faster, Opera unveils its latest innovation for better browsing, Opera Turbo. This all-new, turbo-charged way to surf will make its exclusive appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 16-19, 2009.

Currently, the mobile web browsers like Opera Mobile do all the heavy-duty jobs like downloading the webpage; optimizing the webpage and then rendering it on the device. This takes a lot of CPU power, whcih means faster battery consumption. Opera Turbo takes away the much of the load by optimizing the webpage at the Opera servers and then it send the optimized data to the device. This speeds up the operations and makes the device use suck less power. Overall, it also reduces network traffic.

Due to Opera Turbo, even the people with devices with weak hardware configurations will be able to enjoy better performance.

The Opera Turbo will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress

[related press release]

Imate is going to unveil a truly peculiar phone for the consumer market, which is weatherproof, shockproof and can withstand extreme temperatures. On the top of scoop, it runs Windows Mobile and comes with all the latest bells and whistles like digital compass and accelerometer coupled together with WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and 3G. Imate also promises to give you lifetime warranty on it. What more do you want?

Special emphasis is given on its security side. It comes with an application called Secure i-Q, which lets you lock the device; erase data and even trigger an alarm in case it gets stolen. The 810-F will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress next week in Barcelona, Spain

[via mobilechoice]

Normsoft, the maker of Pocket Tunes has released new version of the Pocket Tunes, which come with heaps of advancements over the previous version 4. The core advancements over the previous versions are:

• Podcast Subscriptions
• iTunes sync
• WMA Internet radio
• Last.fm scrobbling

New version is available at $37.95. Others who already own it can upgrade to the latest version 5 for just 19.95.

http://www.pocket-tunes.com/

Point UI has released BETA of Home 2, which is set to replace the old version one. The Point UI is extremely popular mobile shell, which makes basic functions of your Windows Mobile device easier to access. It also makes the whole user-experience more finger friendly.

The only officially supported devices are:

• HTC DIAMOND
• SONY ERICSSON XPERIA X1

It has quite huge running process footprint of around 14MB, which is quite huge by Windows Mobile standards. Other than that it runs great on my HTC DIAMOND.

Download it from here

The PocketGear has launched an App Store for Windows Mobile. For those of you who know about the Palm’s App store, this news is not new. The Palm App Store was nothing but a link to PocketGear’s IE Mobile friendly webpage.

This makes the so-called new PocketGear application nothing new.

http://appstore.pocketgear.com/winmo/

It is high time that someone release a proper App Store for the Windows Mobile. One endeavor is Gecko, which is still in its infancy stage. All hopes now lie on the Microsoft to release a proper application store for Windows Mobile.

Note to the developers: to submit your application to the App Store, follow this link.

Let the pictures say the story. The one on the left is the HTC DIAMOND and the one on the right is the HTC TOUCH PRO.

As you can see, on the HTC DIAMOND’s display has much more saturation and the image looks much more dense on the Diamond’s display as compared to HTC TOUCH PRO.

Also, on the  Diamond’s display, the white color is more whiter, while on Touch PRO’s display, the white appears as pale yellow although my camera was not able to differentiate effectively, but in person, the difference can easily be observed.

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