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Gizmodo are running a story that originated over at XDA-Developers that affects the HTC Touch Diamond and renders the phone unusable due to the backlight going permanently dim after several months of use. The issue seems to be a software problem although hard resets and different Roms are not solving the problem so it is not 100% certain that this is the case or how widespread the problem actually is. HTC have been unresponsive so far with any fixes or comment for that matter so we will keep a close eye on things and see how it works out. If this is a bug then it is a pretty serious one and needs to be addressed sharpish. If you have a Diamond let us know if you have suffered the problem.
via Gizmodo
We posted earlier about a new application called GSCroll by mobile src that allows you to swipe your finger left/right/up/down on the touch panel to scroll or navigate on an HTC Diamond or Touch Pro, well msmobiles have now tested it out and we have a video of it in action after the break.
SBSH Mobile Software announced today the all new Calendar Touch for Windows Mobile Pro/Classic. SBSH Calendar Touch for Windows Mobile Pro/Classic is an exciting new personal information manager that guarantees a great boost to your daily time management and productivity! Introducing new gesture-based navigation technologies to accompany latest developments in the Windows Mobile market.
At the 3GSM event in Macau, TheMedicalPhone showed off a new flip device, the iCEPhone, which extended outwards not once, but twice. The device has a gaming style keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard, as well as a three inch touchscreen to boot, so even if you accidentally break one interface, there’s always another to back you up on this WinMo-powered handset. This bizarre device was designed with the emergency services in mind, which is shown by the presence of a key that automatically sends GPS and other info to local emergency services. The iCEPhone will cost around $1,000 (£667) when released in Q2 2009, although there’s no word of when or if it will be released in Britain.
via Techradar
We posted a while ago about the Touch Diamond and Pro having an area just below the screen that is capacitive and can support multi-touch, well at last we have a commercial application that can take advantage of this, GSCroll by mobile src allows you to swipe your finger left/right/up/down on the touch panel to scroll or navigate. This functionality will work in any Windows Mobile application that supports scrolling or navigation via the directional pad. More details and download links after the break.
Over at WMExperts (and elsewhere), a mystery smartphone photo has popped up and it’s giving us a definite Palm feel. The keyboard matches the layout of the Centro and Treo Pro nearly perfectly, the only difference being the location of the , -, and * buttons. The keyboard also looks to have the Centro/Treo rubberized feel as well. This definitely looks like a Palm device. More after the break.
We posted a story last week about a phone coming out of China that can run Windows Mobile or Android, well now we have a video of it in action running Android. Its over 9 minutes long though but shows you the OS in a very detailed way although it is silent so no translations necessary. Video after the break.
The guys over at Phonescoop have grabbed a look at the Nokia N97 and posted a video so we can all enjoy it. This new Nokia handset looks pretty nice and the specs also seem reasonably good too, take a look at the video after the break and see it in action, this may be a phone a lot of people will want to get their hands on.
HTC have released a bug fix for the Touch HD, apparently sometimes the screen stops responding for about 3 to 5 seconds when running an application that needs to use the stylus to click the screen repeatedly within a short time. For example, the windows built-in software like SMS, email, solitaire, etc. If you are experiencing this problem you should install the hotfix but only if your Rom version is less than 1.19. You can find all the information here.
Moneysupermarket.com have asked over 2000 UK citizens about their mobile internet experiences and got a resounding thumbs down. Nearly three quarters of users have internet capabilities on their phones, less than a quarter actually use it. Cost and speed were big issues, with 70 percent saying they had no idea how much it would cost and 24 per cent reporting that mobile surfing was too slow. One in eight actually called mobile internet ‘pointless’.
Gizmodo are running a story that originated over at XDA-Developers that affects the HTC Touch Diamond and renders the phone unusable due to the backlight going permanently dim after several months of use. The issue seems to be a software problem although hard resets and different Roms are not solving the problem so it is not 100% certain that this is the case or how widespread the problem actually is. HTC have been unresponsive so far with any fixes or comment for that matter so we will keep a close eye on things and see how it works out. If this is a bug then it is a pretty serious one and needs to be addressed sharpish. If you have a Diamond let us know if you have suffered the problem.
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