Category: Windows Phone

Well, it did not take them long to do it. First, we heard about Windows Mobile 6.5 ported to old Blue Angel. Well, it has now been ported to the latest and the greatest devices by HTC: HTC TOUCH DIAMOND and HTC TOUCH HD. They have able to get most of the things working correctly, but not everything is working. We are pretty sure, it won’t take the folks at xda-devs much time to get all the components working correctly.

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Read ApoTheTech’s HTC TOUCH DIAMOND review

Read our ApoTheTech’s HTC TOUCH HD review

This new ROM update for the Samsung i780 will upgrade the software version from Windows Mobile 6.0 to Windows Mobile 6.1. It seems like folks at Samsung took a really long time to come up with this update especially when the Windows Mobile 6.5 is around the corner.

Note that since this will a ROM update, it will erase all the contents of your device. So, you should do a backup of all of your data before performing the update.

[related ROM update webpage]

thanks to John for the tip

Do you hate those (ugly) line separators, which border the today plugins? XDA-devs have come up with a interesting tweak which can hide those lines. For this, you will need a registry editor like Resco Registry (comes with Resco Explorer) or PHP regedit.

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftToday. add a new DWord key with name “HidePluginSeparators” and value 1

After doing the registry add, soft reset. No more ugly today screen lines!

[via wmpoweruser]

While we may have seen the (leaked) Windows Mobile 6.5 running on the old HTC Blue Angel, we were still yet to see it running on the recent hardware. Folks at Exeda have posted a couple of images of it, where it is running the alpha version of Windows Mobile 6.5!

This clearly shows how capable the Exeda is.

Marvell PXA270 520MB CPU
128MB RAM
2 banks of internal FLASH, 512MB each
2MP camera with flash
GPS with built-in and external antennas
MicroSD socket with SDHC support
Built-in microphone and speaker + 3.5mm stereo jack
High capacity 3000mAh battery

For those who don’t know about Exeda, it is a device made by CompuLab that has the capability to dual boot between Andrioid and Windows Mobile using U-bootloader

[Exeda running Windows Mobile 6.5 official webpage] thanks to Jake for the tip!

vn1minh, at xda-devs have come with a simple and light weight application called MobilePad, which is a simple note-taking application.

MobilePad is a light, speedy multitab text editor that allows you to create quick notes or long journals for daily activities right on your Windows Mobile Phone.

Features:

1. Customize Auto-Save
2. Send current document as SMS
3. Send current document as Email
4. Save and Insert custom Signature
5. Call or SMS valid highlighted phone number right from your document
6. Supported Landscape mode
7. Now support TXT, XML, INI, and LOG extension
8. Small and speedy

[Download here]

The new official ROM for HTC Diamond comes with many minor improvements. But, the key improvement that I’ve seen so far is the new Dialer, which brings two great advancements:

• slider when a call comes in
• automatic screen lock, whenever you’re having a telephonic conversation

Here are some screenshots of the screen lock. To answer the call, slide the slider to the left and to reject the call, slide the slider to the right.

And here is a video showing how the automatic screen lock works:

HTC DIAMOND new Dialer from Taran DS on Vimeo.