The long-awaited Home Screen plugin is finally here! Introducing a fully featured Home Screen plug-in that brings weather forecast to your Smartphone Home Screen! Packed with customization features the new plug-in makes PocketWeather the ultimate weather-tracking solution!
SBSH PocketWeather 2.1 Highlights
Home Screen Plugin – Tabbed Display, Multiple Locations
I’ve been waiting for such device from since the original iPhone came out. Big display, easy to use interface, powerful processor, tons of program memory, those are some of the qualities I was looking in a true iPhone contender. After a lot of wait, well, it is finally here! THE HTC TOUCH HD
Recipe: Take a HTC touch Diamond, put in a 3.8″ display, remove D-Pad, add a 3.5mm headphone jack and you will have the HTC TOUCH HD!
By it’s looks, one would assume that it is just another iPhone-wannabe, but that is where the story ends. The HTC TOUCH HD is the first truly amazing muscle phone containing massive 3.8″ display having a very high WVGA resolution (800 x 480).
Ok, this portable gaming machine looks like a bit like Sony PSP, but don’t expect it to play any PSP games. It is just another cheap chinese rip-off, the 2PG TC8281handheld plays 8-bit and 16 bit retro games that come only on special multi-game cartridges.
The 2PG console comes with five built-in games, as-well-as an additional “112 in 1″ game cartridge, for a total of 117 games for under $50. Hundreds of additional games can be played if you know where to look for the proper cartridges. The system also has an AV out and comes with a funky-looking Playstation clone controller so you can play games on your TV.
If you’ve an appetite for such cheap Chinese stuff or if you’re unable to afford a PSP, you can get your hands on one of these from DealExtreme for $48.80 USD.
Orange has just launched the ASUS EEE PC 901 with integrated 3G. What does this means? This means that you won’t have to use the Icon 225 dongle to get onto the network.
The specs of the original 901 have not changed much, but this time the 3G connectivity is on-board, thus eliminating the need for the dongle.
For £25 per month, you can get one with “Internet Everywhere” plan which has 3GB data allowance and 100 texts. There are two colors to choose from: black or pink. One for you and one for your lady :!:
It was inevitable, really – now that ARM processors are bound for netbook and the like, it follows logic that ARM would tag team with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to their shells. The two firms have collaborated in order to bring full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 Processor architecture to address demand from device manufactures.
Sadly, you’ll have to wait until April of 2009 to see the fruits of this so-very-special relationship.
ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. This enables the P565 to glide through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and to handle heavy multitasking exceptionally well—making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools.
Rounding off its impressive feature set is a 2.8″ touchscreen running at a high resolution of 480 x 640 pixels, delivering an unprecedented degree of clarity that does wonders for both personal photographs and spreadsheets.
If you happen to live in North America, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is now available for pre-order. Unlocked Xperia X1 can now be ordered for $799.99 from SonyStyle.com from November 13, 2008.
The Xperia X1’s unique panel user interface is at the heart of the device’s ability to create and adapt consumers’ personal choices. With up to 9 panels, it’s easy to find and enjoy the information and entertainment content they want. Sony Ericsson is busy working with third-party developers to create a wealth of new applications and new panels that will soon be available for download.
Yesterday, we posted about the preview of the Internet Explorer mobile 6 which is based on the desktop version of the Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, we could only test it via Device emulator. We managed to test it on the real device. Here is the review of it.
Please note that all the screenshots are in VGA resolution (640 x 480)
The browser has two modes: desktop and mobile. This basically tells the other sites that you are using a mobile device or you can set the browser to Desktop mode, which will tell the other sites that you are using IE 6.
If you type in anything in the above box, it will live search it and display you the results. Odd that it uses the mobile version of it even in the Desktop mode.
Zoom feature
You would say that the zoom feature is also there in the IE mobile included in the Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. But wait, this is a desktop-class IE. Remember? It displays pages accurately. ApoTheTech.com is a fairly complex website and it displayed perfectly!
Sadly, it takes a while to get to page zoomed out. Even on a powerful device like HTC TOUCH DIAMOND
When you have Zoomed out (menu>Zoom out), you can just tap the portion you want to zoom into.
And the youtube works inside the pages as well. It is slow, but it works. I’m sure this will improve in the future builds.
Other nice things I really liked
When you open Gmail, it takes you to the Desktop version of gmail!
But, we didn’t remain happy for a long time. See following screenshot
As soon as I clicked on ‘sent items’, it showed me this error
One of the nice touches of new IE is the ability to auto-complete the URL
Quirks:
Sometimes, it is not able to identify itself as Desktop browser. For example: going to engadget.com on the device lead me to the mobile version.
No tab support: It may be implemented in the future versions
Slow! It is way too slow right now to be useful
But still, it is a BIG initiative by the Microsoft to develop a desktop class web browser.
Available on new Windows Mobile devices soon, this browser will provide a high-quality browsing experience on your device that more closely resembles a desktop browsing experience.
New/Improved features:
Improved fidelity (support for full fidelity desktop rendering)
Layout fixes to accommodate a mobile screen (text wrap)
Enhanced Script and AJAX support ( Jscript v5.7 from Internet Explorer 8 )
Improved multimedia experience (Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 for Adobe Flash content)
Deeper integration with search
Enhanced cursor navigation model
Touch and gesture support – pan support
Multiple zoom levels
Easy switching between mobile / desktop versions of sites by specifying UA strings
