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Xperia X10 unboxing video by Sony Ericsson

gohyc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:38:04 +0000

It is strength to see an unboxing video by the manufacturer itself. Anyway, Sony Ericsson has published an unboxing video of Xperia X10 And you might enjoy it.

An early blurry video of HTC Supersonic

gohyc — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:31 +0000

HTC has not had any official word on the Supersonic yet. However, there have been leaks and video for this interesting device. Here is another video. And it is a blurry video. However, it is better than nothing at the moment.

A video review of HTC Legend

gohyc — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:52:36 +0000

Coolsnmartphone has got a Legend from HTC for review over the weekend. And below is one of the video published. It covers some of the updates for HTC Sense as well as other new features. It is good to look at.

Enjoy!

Multitouch on Nexus One may be broken

gohyc — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:10:36 +0000

There have been quite a number of complaints about multitouch on Nexus One isn’t working properly. Robert Greeen of Battery Powered Games has created an application called Multitouch Visible Test (available in Android Market Now) for testing multitouch on phone. And he quoted: “This app shows how your phone’s hardware handles multitouch. The event data is not processed in any way. The two dots are drawn exactly where the phone reports you are touching. For many current Android phones, there will be lots of bad data including axis flipping and near-axis influence.”

However Dianna Hackborn, a Google engineer, has responded: “Sorry I meant exactly what I said: this is how the touch screen hardware on the Nexus One works (which is essentially the same screen as on the G1 and myTouch). The Droid has a sensor from a different manufacturer, with different behavior. Other phones will likewise have different sensors.”

It could mean a hardware issue on Nexus One. Shall we dump Nexus One and get a Motorola DROID?

Google to back HTC in Apple lawsuits

gohyc — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:53:15 +0000

Google has emailed Techcrunch and officially stated that they will back HTC against Apple for the patent infringement lawsuits.

“We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it,” as stated in the email from Google spokesperson.

General believe that Apple action is actually targeted at Google’s Android. After Eric Schmidt left Apple’s board and Google’s decision to turn on multitouch for Android few months ago, Apple fires the first shot to HTC (or Google?) That marks the end of the buddy relationship between Apple and Google.

May be Apple is afraid of Android will destroy their smartphone phone market like how PC destroy the Mac market years ago. And may be that’s why Steve Jobs is doing this to prevent history to repeat itself.

But Apple, please stop suing people around for patent infringement and concentrate on bring better products to the consumers. I like your products and creativities but not the things you do.

[via techcrunch]

Apple declares war with HTC – sues HTC for infringing 20 patents

gohyc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:17:31 +0000

Just few months after Nokia case, Apple is doing this again. Apple has just file a case to sue HTC for infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.”

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

Apple has submitted over 700 pages of exhibits to the District Court. The phones from HTC that are on the list: Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream / G1, myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2, and Droid Eris. That’s really a full range of HTC phones, running both Android and Windows Mobile, with and without Sense / TouchFLO.

HTC, at the moment, refuses to make further comment about it.

[via engadget]

Microsoft says no Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6x devices

gohyc — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:18:03 +0000

Many of the high end Windows Mobile device (like HD2) owners are hoping to get Windows Phone 7 upgrade when Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 later this year.

Device like HD2 has a snapdragon CPU with high resolution capacity touch screen, 5MP camera and enough RAM seems to be one of the devices that qualified for Windows Phone 7 hardware requirement and likely to receive Windows Phone 7 upgrade.

However, here is a piece of bad news from Microsoft, officially. Natasha Kwan, General Manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, said that the HD2 “doesn’t qualify because it doesn’t have the three buttons”.

“Because we have very specific requirements for Windows Phone 7 Series the current phones we have right now will not be upgradable”, Kwan explained.

And it sounds like all existing Windows Mobile devices in the market will not be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7 and now we have to put our hope to the hackers from XDA-Developers

[via apcmag]

LG has a Windows Phone 7 series with QWERTY keyboard

gohyc — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:43:00 +0000

This came out to be a surprise during one of the Engadget show. The Microsoft executive actually brought an LG made prototype Windows Phone.

The device shown was running the early version of Windows Mobile 7. And it has a side sliding QWERTY keyboard with back, home, search and camera dedicated buttons. The camera is found to be 5MP. And the device has an impressive thickness. It is just slightly thicker than iPhone and Nexus One!

We will see more phones from manufacturers that are working with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 7 series to the market and Microsoft is definitely pushing for a big launch.

[via engadget]

HTC Sense (from Desire) ported to DROID

gohyc — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:30:57 +0000

Have a Motorola DROID and want to run the beautiful HTC Sense on it? The hacker community never sleeps and they are bring you the HTC Sense to your DROID. Watch the video below, HTC Sense is running on DROID. IT is still in early development but we are expecting better versions are coming soon.

[via alldroid]

Nexus One gets colours for the track ball

gohyc — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:23:45 +0000

The trackball of Google’s Nexus One is capable of displaying different colours for notifications. During the launch the Nexus One, this was shown. However, for some reasons, the handsets delivered to the market are not equipped (removed?) with this features.

And the Nexus One community has talent modders that were working hard to bring missing features and enhancements to Nexus One. The latest addition is to bring the missing colours back to Nexus One. The Nexus One owners can now have different colours for various notification for messages, emails, and even twitter updates.

The mod has been added to the latest Cyanogen mod as well. You can view the information of the mod here.

Download and install yours today!

WebOS 1.4 coming today, with a long list of changelog

gohyc — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:00:12 +0000

Yes, it has been reported that Palm will release the version 1.4 of WebOS to the Pre and Pixi owners by today. And we have a long list of have been fixed and addedd:

Fixes

Time Zone bug Fix
Network time sync bug fix to reflect accuratenetwork time
BT car-kit transition to device corrected
No EV-Icon bug fixed (random)
Random browser formatting bug fixed
Fixed bug that incorrectly displayed Sprint when actually was Digital Roaming

Enhancements

Phonebook Transfer
Supports Video Capture Capability
Performance enhancement within phone and calendar

Apps

Calendar

Dial phone # from within a meeting event
Allow custom Alerts sounds for Calendar event and reminders
Added AM – PM detail within Calendar events

Embedded phone $ or email address (embedded inemail) can be easily added to Contacts app
New email sort options (date, Sender, Subject)
Return to inbox view after send – email

Messaging

Ability to forward SMS to email
Ability to dial phone # from SMS chat session (No need to open contact any longer
Press and hold on a phone # to get more options( Call, SMS)

Universal Search now includes EAS (outlook Exchange) GAL corporate address look up.

Application Launcher – Easier user interface providing usermore feedback during an application launch

Pre Button in gesture area blinks when notification pending

Added Adobe Flash 10 Beta – Palm Pre only

Supports Flash 10 Beta – download available in Palm AppCatalog

[via precentral]

HTC Incredible shown on video

gohyc — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:54:26 +0000

Here is a video of HTC Incredible being test for camera under low light condition. Can’t wait to have a hand on this incredible device