Archive for February, 2009

Windows Mobile 6.5 video on the HTC Touch HD

We saw quite a few screenshots a few days back taken from an HTC Touch HD running a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM, well now we have a video to go with it and it is over 9 minutes long so make yourself a cup of tea and sit back and enjoy. It starts right from the beginning showing the actual flashing of the ROM so its all covered. After watching it I have the impression that this is a nice looking update and it seems very snappy with lovely smooth scrolling. See what you think, the videos after the break and if it doesn’t play jump the slider along a few seconds and it should work, not sure why that is but it worked for me.

Trailer for the iPhone Everything

Check out the Purchase Brothers, the ones who are making a big dent in Youtube, they have put together a fun little trailer for the iPhone. Seems to contain everything humanly possible including the Neural Interface Revolution. Check out the video after the break (when you are done go and watch the Half Life 2 short they made: Escape from City 17.)

iPhone Jailbreaking proposed to be exempt from Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Even though it’s officially not illegal to jailbreak your iPhone 2.2.1, etc., it still would make everyone rest easy if it was indeed made legal especially if it would help you retain whatever warranty you have on it. Well, that’s what the Electronic Frontier Foundation is doing right now. They’ve proposed to the Copyright Office that the iPhone be exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s rules on breaking access protection thus making jailbreaking totally prohibited and legal. Of course, you wouldn’t expect Apple to take this one sitting down as they’ve already expressed their counter-arguments for such a proposal. We won’t go into the full details of this, but we will, however, report whatever happens come October where the Copyright Office is expected to make a final ruling. I’m sure this will be of utmost importance especially for hesitant jailbreakers out there.

[PMP Today via engadget]

Point UI Home 2 (beta) review

One of our readers David Hush has been testing out the just released beta of Point UI Home 2 and has very kindly shared his experiences of this much improved software for Windows Mobile. David has been using it on his HTC Touch HD and these are his thoughts:-

First of all I downloaded the .cab from the Point UI website (www.pointui.com) on my Touch HD using my t-mobile HSDPA connection (it’s only 500k!). Ran the .cab to install, changed my today plugins by deselecting Touch Flo 3D and selected Point UI and WOW! Read on for the full review.

Ofcom looks to boost mobile broadband

UK communications regulator Ofcom has taken the next steps in its plan to release more radio spectrum to support mobile broadband services. The watchdog has launched a consultation today on proposals that could lead to faster, more reliable wireless broadband services in homes, offices and businesses across the UK. "In particular we are consulting on how we should implement a proposed European Directive and a draft Radio Spectrum Decision that would require the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands to be made available for UMTS (3G) as well as GSM (2G) technologies," said Ofcom in the summary section of its consultation.

Android Market now accepting paid applications

Eric Chu of Google has announced what we already knew, “ I’m pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application(s) along with end user pricing for the apps. Initially, priced applications will be available to end users in the US starting mid next week. We will add end user support for additional countries in the coming months.

HTC release Blackberry Connect for Windows Mobile

HTC have released BlackBerry Connect Desktop Tool and Connect Client 4.0 for HTC TyTN II/ Touch Diamond/ Touch Pro/ Touch HD. So you can now access your BES server from your Windows Mobile device. Only available from the South East Asia site at the moment as far as we can tell.

Download BlackBerry Connect Desktop Tool to setup your email using BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). Next, download the latest BlackBerry Connect client to start using BlackBerry email services.
Installation Instructions:  More info and download details after the break.