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HTC Touch Cruise debuts
John Chan | Jan 17, 2008
First announced last year in Europe, the Touch Cruise is HTC's third model (fourth, if you consider the upgraded HTC Touch to be a new product. We don’t.) in its Touch series of PDA-phones. There's quite a bit of anticipation for this one because it comes with the full suite of connectivity options including GPS for navigation. This is the one area we were critical of in the previous models; lack of essential features--HSDPA in the Touch, and Wi-Fi in the Touch Dual.
As with the other Touch handhelds, the Cruise comes with HTC's TouchFLO interface. This means it has bigger icons for finger tapping and a modified interface which makes performing certain tasks more convenient. Check out our latest video of this device on CNET Asia TV. We'll be putting up a full review soon, so look out for that, too.
The HTC Touch Cruise will available across Asia Pacific from early February. It will cost S$1,198 and come with navigation software and one free map for your country.
GSM Palm Centro spotted at CES
John Chan | Jan 10, 2008
The Palm OS-touting, entry-level PDA-phone Centro doesn't interest us much because, so far, Palm has only released a US operator-specific CDMA version which won't work here. We've heard rumors of a GSM version, but this sighting has got to be the most concrete so far.
The crew at treo|central was scouring the CES showfloor for new accessories, and a Centro caught their eye. What drew them to it was its shade of white because this model has not been released in that color. Upon closer inspection, they found
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Who stole my BlackBerry?
John Chan | Jan 08, 2008
Singapore-based company BAK2u reckons that it has a way of helping BlackBerry users get their phone back if it's lost. It has launched the PhoneBAK BB software, a Java application that checks the SIM card in a BlackBerry device, alerting the rightful owner if a foreign one is inserted.
Such software is not new. WaveSecure is another company which provides a similar service as part of its security software package for Windows Mobile and Series60. i-mate also built in such features into its Windows Mobile devices right out of the box. Nonetheless, this seems to be the first one designed specifically for BlackBerry devices. A good move,
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An early look at WM7's overhauled interface
John Chan | Jan 08, 2008
At the InsideMicrosoft blog is a long article about the touch and motion gestures that will be part of Windows Mobile 7 (WM7)--the next version of Microsoft's mobile OS for smart phones, handhelds and PDAs. In it, he has many screenshots detailing how multi-touch and physical motions applied on a device will affect what's seen on the screen.
Before iPhone fans start the "copycat" accusations, the source of the images and information are supposed to be from an internal Microsoft document, and the screenshots seen there may not be in the final product. In one of the images, the onscreen keypad has a text bubble which magnifies the letter being touched--just like on the iPhone. But right beside it, a screenshot showing the desktop version of Word is superimposed on the handheld's display. This just goes to show that some of these images have been created to illustrate concepts and ideas. We certainly hope the end-product will look significantly different from Apple's.
According to the blogger, this new version of WM will ship in 2009. Here are a few of the screenshots but head on over to the source for the full 3,000-word write up.
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Impressions of the Samsung SGH-i780
John Chan | Jan 04, 2008
The i600 (left) compared to the i780 (right)
Too good to be true. That was what we should have told ourselves when we got a specifications sheet from Samsung last year saying that the SGH-i780 has 256MB of RAM.
Today, the Korean chaebol finally took the lid of its WM6 (Windows Mobile 6) Professional PDA-phone. Sad to say, when we got our hands on it at a launch event today and went to the settings page to find out what makes it tick, the RAM size registered at only slightly above 100MB. Even then, there's a lot to like about it--here's why.
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