Author: Tarandeep Kaur

Every year, SPB conducts a survey in which it asks the various mobile enthusiats some questions to know the current trends in the mobile phone market and what they like/dislike. It also brings out some very interesting facts like 56% people will like to buy the same gadget they currently own!

Here are some other great facts:

• The majority of survey respondents are still male (95%), 57% of them are aged between 19 and 35, and 58% have at least a Bachelor’s degree
• The majority of Spb Survey respondents are from North America and Western Europe
• About 17% of respondents are students, 17% work in the field of mobility, and an amazing 68% are ‘device fans’
• Brand-wise, HTC smartphones have the absolute leading position, being the brand of choice for over 49% of all Spb Survey respondents. HTC is followed by HP with nearly 6%, Asus with 5.5%, E-TEN with almost 4%, Dell with a little over 3.5%, Nokia and Samsung with 3%, Qtek with 2.6%, MiTAC with 2%, Toshiba, Sony Ericsson, Palm, T-Mobile, and i-Mate — each at around 1.5%, and Fujitsu Siemens with O2 XDA at about 1%. All other brands ranked below 1%
• The single most popular mobile device model is HTC TyTn II, followed by HTC Diamond, and HTC Touch Pro. Among the top ten most popular smartphone models, only one is a non-HTC device
• Surprising 27% of all respondents use a second SIM card
• 62% of respondents would buy a device of the same brand, and 56% claim they would even buy the same model
• Among the best things about their devices, 69% of respondents first put the looks (design), 68% — the availability of built-in Wi-Fi, 47% — business features and big screen, with the ‘price’ placing 8th in importance, and ‘music platform’ — last
• The top two aspects most disliked in devices are ‘Low memory’ and ‘Weight’
• The majority of respondents upgrade to a new device once in every two years
• Most respondents user their smartphones first for business — then for entertainment
• 31% of respondents use Push Email
• 80% backup their data
• Nearly 80% of respondents use software they paid for

read complete results here

This program allow you to change screen resolution. Program is designed mostly for devices with wide screens – 800×480 or 400×240. (Toshiba G900, SE Xperia X1, HTC Touch HD, HTC MAX 4G). So if game or program don’t work in wide mode you can try it in normal VGA/QVGA mode. Probably it will work.

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There is a post at XDA-developers, where the people are complaining that after using the Touch Diamond for few months, the backlight goes down permanently! The screen’s backlight does not come up even after reverting back to the original firmwares. This clearly signifies that it is not due to firmwares as other HTC Diamonds are working fine.

Flashing the base ROM gives the following error:

MicropERROR
Microp Version Mismatch 0
Please update latest Microp firmware

I don’t know what it means. It is too early to make out, if the problem is hardware-related. I hope it is software-related because then, the issue can be solved via releasing firmware. But, if it is hardware-related, then HTC will have to deal with millions of Diamond owners from all over the world.

GScroll allows you to swipe your finger left/right/up/down on the touch panel to scroll or navigate. This functionality will work in any Windows Mobile application that supports scrolling or navigation via the directional pad.

GScroll allows each of the 4 quadrants of the touch panel to be assigned to a custom application. Double tapping the quadrant will launch the application of your choosing. You can also assign custom actions to the hotkey, such as ‘Open Start Menu’ and ‘Close Current Application’.

Download GScroll Demo (restricted to be used for only 2mins)

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