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INTRODUCTION
From the day we first caught a glimpse of the Touch HD, we’ve been in love. The device features a screen that has a larger size and much higher resolution than the iPhone, and its gorgeous, minimalist design, has caught the attention of many. Every time I show this to someone for the first time, the response is always the same: “Wow!” In this review, we’ll take a deep and thorough look at the sexy Touch HD, and will help you decide if it should be your next mobile phone. Read on for more!

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Let’s talk specs. The Touch HD sports a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor running at 528MHz. It has 512MB ROM (322MB accessible), 288MB RAM (195MB accessible), and has a microSD/HC expansion slot for added memory. Most Touch HDs are shipping with an 8GB microSD card, which is great. The screen is a huge 3.8″ and is WVGA 480×800 resolution, making for a pixel density of 245ppi (the Touch Diamond’s screen is 285ppi and the Apple iPhone’s screen is 164ppi). It’s a quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) phone with dualband UMTS (900/2100) with HSDPA and HSUPA. It also has assisted GPS, WiFi b & g, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, USB 2.0, FM radio, and an accelerometer for screen rotations in Opera Mobile and while viewing photos. The rear camera is 5MP with auto focus and no flash, and the front camera for video calls is VGA resolution. Powering all of this is a 1350mAh battery.

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BrightHand quotes a Microsoft spokesperson stating:

We recently gave Windows Mobile device makers the final updates to our new browser. It’s now up to our partners to roll out Internet Explorer Mobile 6 on their handsets; we’re expecting some of the first phones with IE6 to be available in Asia and Europe by the end of calendar year 2008, with U.S. offerings to follow.

Unfortunately, it looks like existing Windows Mobile handsets will not receive this upgrade. Customers on recent HTC devices will not be annoyed too much (they get Opera for free – everybody else will be less than happy.

As Microsoft gives up a large part of the market by not supporting legacy devices, I consider it highly possible that an aftermarket upgrade of some sort will become available.

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Like that virtual keyboard you’ve seen in those iPhones your friends have? Well now you can get something similar from Spb. It’s the Spb Keyboard 4.0 which was just released. All you need is a Windows Mobile device to install in ton. And it would be very useful if you had a touchscreen to go with that. Spb Keyboard 4 offers bubbles or “slkding pop-ups” which will let you see what you are typing. Here are some other features of this application: • Three modes of text input: Full-Screen, Half-Screen, and Standard • New finger-friendly interface and skin engine • Built-in support of 35 languages • Sliding Pop-ups • Smart Gestures • Better Auto-complete • Wise Memory Consumption The application comes with a trial period but after that it costs just $14.95. You can get it right here.

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Weather is a Windows Mobile software for getting weather forecast right on your device. It has intuitive and finger-friendly interface. In Winterface weather icon shows either the degrees of the first city in the list or the image that shows whether it is cloudy, snowy, windy etc. Download

Weather for 100% USA cities & all major world cities Forecasting for up to ten cities at the same time Fahrenheit or Celsius temperature

Opera Mini 4.2 beta installs next to any existing stable Opera Mini version on your device and will not overwrite any of your data.

Alternatively, you may download Opera Mini to your computer for a manual installation.

• Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAR (124 KB)
• Standard Opera Mini 4.2 beta JAD (4 KB)
• BlackBerry Opera Mini 4.2 beta ZIP archive (104 KB)
• Palm (requires JVM installed) Opera Mini 4.2 beta PRC (316 KB)

Windows Mobile is an operating system that can bring a lot of the power of your personal computer to a mobile device, such as a pocket pc or smartphone. A Windows Mobile smartphone, for example, is more than just a regular phone. It’s also a personal digital assistant (PDA) that keeps track of your important contacts, appointments, and tasks. It’s a very useful tool that gives you access to all your e-mail messages, whether for work or pleasure. It also frees you from your desk by providing Internet access and, in many cases, the ability to view, create, and modify Microsoft Office documents. In addition, depending on the model you choose, it can play a number of other roles ranging from digital camera to media player to global positioning system. Windows Mobile also allows your mobile device to work hand-in-hand with your personal computer. Work you do on the road is automatically reflected on your PC, and vice versa. It synchronizes your devices so your Microsoft Outlook data and important documents are up to date in both places. This allows you to use your mobile device for even critical business tasks such as managing your expense account or tracking inventory.

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There has been a lot of requests from forum members asking “How do I view YouTube content on my Tilt, Mogul, Touch, etc”. There are several options to viewing YouTube on your device, and below there are three options. If anyone has any additional sites that have proven useful for viewing YouTube content, please feel free to add it here. If you do add any information, please follow the format shown below, provide a description of the service and cost if any, include step by step down/installation/configuration instructions and verify that any hyperlink you reference is functioning.

HTC Streaming Media Player

Recently, YouTube had updated their site so that additional mobile devices could view their mobile website, so long as you had the appropriate media player. More recent HTC devices like the TyTN II and the Touch came with an application called HTC Streaming Media Player, which allowed users to view sites like YouTube. Unfortunately, a lot of the carrier branded devices (such as AT&T Tilt as to HTC TyTN II) did not include this application. Fortunately for us, the great folks at www.xda-developers.com have extracted this application and created a .cab file out of it. You can find that file here.

Installation:
After you’ve downloaded the above file, you’ll find that the file contained in this .zip file is a .cab file, to install this file, extract it out of the .zip file first, thencopy the .cab fileto your phone (any directorywould be fine, but preferbly in My Document folder, just remember where you put it). This file is intended to work on AT&T 8525 and the AT&T Tilt, other device users should use at your own risk. Still, it’s worth a shot. Now go to your windows mobile phone, open “File Explorer”in your programs folder, navagate to the folder where the .cab file is resting, click on it, the program should install, and when it’s finished, it’ll ask you to restart(accept any warrning messages, if any). Once installed, when you go to http://m.youtube.com and click on any of the video, the HTC Streaming Media Player should automatically pop open, and start buffering and playing the videos.

Troubleshoot:

• If, while browsing m.youtube.com’s contents, RealPlayer poped up, that means you didn’t properly install the HTC Streaming Media Palyer or you haven’t restart your phone after install. Double check on above instruction on how to install the player, and soft-reset your phone.
• If, HTC Streaming Media Player poped up, but it’s not buffering and shows “Connecting” forever, your network setting might be wrong. Click on Menu->Options-> and double check “Connect via:” option, see if it is correctly targeted to your interent connection(AT&T GPRS ISP, The Internet, T Mobile DATA etc, etc.). Switch different connections and try them one by one, till you get one that would allow the player to buffer the content

YouTube Pocket

YouTube Pocket is a free PocketPC portal of YouTube that was created by a gentlemen named Anthony Capobianco. He runs the site free of charge to all users and is basically just a port of the full YouTube to PocketPC/Windows Mobile Devices. To use this site, you just need to go to www.ytpocket.com and start browsing.

Required applications for this method:
Install any .cab file follow the installation method described in HTC Streaming Media Player installation instructions above.
Two applications are needed for this site to work. The first is TCPMP Core Player. Choose download Touchscreen Pocket PC version orNon-Touchscreen smartphone version. You will also need to download a Flash Plugin for TCPMP Core Player. All of the instructions to set this up as well as the TCPMP Core Player are on the site. This application works pretty well and is been used for quite some time. Just remember that you have to visit www.ytpocket.com if you want to view the YouTube content.

vTap

vTap is a solution created by Veveo. It aggregates several different video sites into one application. So instead of just viewing YouTube, you can also view ESPN, ABC News, CNN etc. on your device. This also a free service and the client can be downloaded from their website. The client offers incremental search and does a good job of buffering to offer smooth playback. It is also possible to type search terms in ‘number mode’.

vTap also has a site http://m.vtap.com which provides MMS based streaming for Windows Mobile devices. The Windows Media player on your HTC phone is capable of playing this stream. This website does not require any additional software to be installed.

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To change the splash screen follow the instruction:

When WM5 starts up, there is a first screen that lasts about 18 seconds. We will change that second one.

Here is how.

Take a picture you would like there, and resize it into a 320 X 240, 24bit .png file. This can be done with MS Paint, Photoshop etc. Open the picture in Paint, resize it and Save As a .png with the 24bit color quality. Rename  the filename to welcomehead.96.png and just drop it in the /Windows directory. Use Activesync.

“Lookie what we have here… The little the phone that never goes away quits. The less than impressive HTC Opal landed in the hands of the FCC this week showing off its 850/1900 GSM support and not so blazing EDGE capabilities. After the HTC Touch HD was canceled for North America, we were hoping to see something a bit more exciting than the underpowered HTC Opal but it looks like we have to take what we can get. We’re still not sure who fell asleep at the wheel on this one - are any of you guys looking forward to it?”

HTC’s low-end Opal has apparently made it’s way through the FCC testing. There is some speculation that the Opal will replace the very similar basic Touch model in HTC’s offering lineup. Not exactly the Touch HD many were hoping for, but should fit the bill for an entry-level smartphone. There have been no carrier or cost annoucements yet.

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