Category: Windows Phone

Windows Mobile provides many interfaces and capabilities that can help keep the device informed about its environment—where it is, whether it has a signal, how much of a signal, and so on. But how can these features be used in your applications? The most prominent and arguably useful of these capabilities is location awareness. This should enable you to create location-aware applications, ranging from the rather obvious satellite navigation program to the much more sophisticated task list that will be discussed here.

This article will look at the issues involved with using this capability and the additional code you need to write to develop useful applications. In this article, I will discuss the mobile application development environment and utilities, and show you how to build a location-aware task list application that can remind you of a task when and where it’s appropriate.

Read the full article here

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xboxmod has ported the HTC TOUCH HD’s manila to the HTC DIAMOND. The Touch HD’s manila has some nice enhancements like ability to display weather of upcoming days; more information on contacts tab, inclusion of stock tab and ability to change the arrangement of tabs.

Directions to install:

• close Manila (Uncheck touchflo 3D from today)
• install XBmod HD MANILA.cab INTO DEVICE NOT INTERNAL STORAGE
• install attached FIX v5.cab
• reboot
• wait until manila boot

Get the required files from this post at xda-devs

Panosha, at xda-devs has converted some images for the beautiful VGA screen of HTC DIAMOND.

All the wallpapers have VGA resolution, so they should look perfect on the HTC DIAMOND. Here are the download links:

[Rapidshare] [Megaupload]

Note: Since the wallpapers have VGA resolution, they would look perfect on any device with VGA resolution. This includes devices like ASUS P565 and HTC TOUCH PRO

Motorola MotoSurf A3100 was planned to made available in the Q1 this year. But, it has already gone on sale in Taiwan, just mere 9 days after it’s announcement! Motorola MotoSurf is powered by Qualcomm 7201A processor clocked at 528MHz processor. It has a 2.8″ QVGA display, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM, 3MP auto-focus camera, aGPS and 1170mAh battery.

It may not the the most powerful phone in the market, but it is certainly better than the old Motorola’s Windows Mobile handsets. It is priced at NT$15,900 (€363/$477/£325) and comes without a contract, which means you can pop-in any GSM SIM card and you are ready to go.If you live in Taiwan, you already place the order here

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HTC has been rolling out new updated ROMs for the HTC TOUCH DIAMOND. Yes, HTC has not forgotten the Touch Diamond users (totally).

Improved Functions and Fixes:

1. When you launch the Camera while the system is working on other programs, the preview screen may become black.
2. When playing a video, sometimes a portion of the video will be cut off a little bit.
3. Fixes Audio playback problem with the speaker. Specific issues: sometimes the music will turn off and on after 10 minutes, or there is a buzzing sound or no sound at all.
4. Fixes the problem of not being able to receive MMS when in standby mode.
5. When launching music via the Music tab on TouchFLO 3D, the sound may intermittently turn off for a second and come back on.

HTC warns that after the update, you won’t be able to roll back to previous official ROM.

Get the European ROM from here

Other HTC DIAMOND users shall get their update from their regional HTC website. Go to Support link to find out if HTC has an update for you.

Note: There is no update for the Indian HTC DIAMOND

Usual warning: This is a generic update, which means that it would wipe-off the data on your device. Make sure to do a proper backup. Please note that the contents of the “intenal storage” would remain intact.

Obama currently uses a blackberry for mobile-email. No doubt, it is great for email, but routing his email all through Canada does raises a few security concerns. Instead, he can use an NSA-approved Windows Mobile device, which would give much more security.

According to the General Dynamics site, the Sectéra Edge boasts the following:

• Secure and non-secure wireless phone, e-mail and web browsing
• Withstands rigors of both tactical and everyday environments
• Global roaming over GSM, CDMA or Wi-Fi* wireless networks
• Software upgradeable to VoIP
• Exchange secure e-mail with government personnel, including S/MIME BlackBerry® users
• IPv6 software upgradeable
• Familiar Microsoft® Windows® Platform
• Wireless desktop synchronization
• Separation of Classified and Unclassified applications
• One-touch switching between classified and unclassified PDA functions
• Advanced Security Features
• Secure wireless access to the SIPRNET and NIPRNET
• DoD PKI enabled Common Access Card (CAC) support
• Supports DoD 8100.2 requirements
• Type 1 encrypted storage of classified data
• Can be used inside closed areas with “SCIF-Friendly” feature

It is also NSA-certified. Oh and I forgot to mention the price of that Windows Mobile device. It is mere $3500 :)

via WMpoweruser (via Dallasblog)