Is it possible to have a fully featured Twitter app on a handset with a price to make other’s eye’s pop out? We take a look at Seesmic for Twitter to see what’s occurring.
Hopefully you saw my HTC Legend unboxing video yesterday and although I did do a quick demo of a few of the features in that video I thought it would be a good idea to record another to show you some of the other apps and features that the HTC Legend has too offer.
I have to say that after 24 hours with the Legend I really like it. The build quality is nothing short of fantastic and that Super Bright AMOLED display is, er, Super! Although I like Android devices generally and thought I would like the Legend I’ve actually decided that I love it. That’s come as a bit of a surprise to me as I generally like to have a device with a larger and higher res screen but with the Sense UI and additional features that HTC have added I think the Legend may have simply made me even more impatient to try the Desire!
We’ll have the Legend for another few weeks while we prepare our review so please do feel free to ask your questions via the forum. You’ll find the demo video after the break. It’s over 20 minutes long so make yourself comfortable!
Matt from Tracyandmatt.co.uk has unboxed the HTC Legend and had a good look at it. Things seem to be extremely positive for the aluminium block.
Last month saw the launch of a few new HTC devices, the HTC Legend being just of of them and it seems that this one will be the first to go on sale.
So the Legend review units seem to have started to arrive with various journalists over the past few days and ours arrived just about an hour or so ago. Wasting no time I’ve grabbed the camera and recorded an unboxing and demo video for you.
In the video I’ll take you on a tour of the hardware and then we’ll have a brief look at the operating system and user interface. I’ll record another video later on and will look at more of the applications in greater detail.
We’ll also have the full review for you once we’ve had time to give the Legend a thorough road test. As you know, we wont write a review of anything until we have been able to use it properly!
After the jump you’ll find the video as well as a couple of teaser photos…
In a recent blog posting, Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel wrote about the Windows Phone 7 Series application development and he explains that Microsoft had to change its strategy to accommodate what developers have been asking for. Specifically developers told Microsoft to focus on the end user experience and take more responsibility for delivering integrated end user experiences, invest more deeply in the developer platform and developer experience as well as driving a standardized hardware platform creating a simpler ecosystem and a larger – consistent – opportunity. And therefore Windows Phone 7 developer experiences will build upon the following technologies:
Phandroid are reporting that Orange are apparently bloking access to some paid apps on the android marketplace. This doesn’t seem to be affecting usages, rather you are unable to find them when searching the marketplace for them thanks to a recent update. Read on for more info and a quote from HTC:
Slashgear have unboxed and photographed the HTC Legend. There is a whole host of images and videos so see. Android looks to be running nicely and the screen seems nice. Of course the build quality is looked at since this would be the main attraction of this device.
Swype is pleased to offer an Android Beta!
You signed up to be emailed when this happened, and probably gave up on us. Well, we are (finally) pleased to announce the limited availability of the Swype Beta for Android. Thanks for being patient over the past year as we’ve been focused on improving the product and preparing for our launch with multiple phone manufacturers and carriers.
Here are the details:
- Initially we will have a limited number of participants – we’ll expand it soon
- In English and Spanish – more languages to come
- Limited Features – some key features of Swype require OEM integration
- HVGA and WVGA Resolutions – don’t worry we’ll detect this automatically
- Limited End User Support – mostly via our user forum at www.swype.com
- If your phone came pre-installed with Swype DO NOT download this beta (it won’t work)
How will this work?
You register with an email address you can access via your mobile and we send you a link to download Swype.
That’s it!
Android is definitely going from strength to strength finding its way on to ever more mobile phones from different manufacturers and other products such as the Archos 5 portable media player. Now, with the release of the Aspire One D250 we’re starting to see Android on netbooks too!
We’ve been reviewing quite a few laptops and netbooks lately and you may have seen the title of this post and thought I’m sure that tracyandmatt have reviewed the Aspire One already!?
However the model we are looking at here is one of the newer ones, released at the end of last year.
There are so many of these small form factor laptops/netbooks available now one is pretty much spoilt for choice and it’s often a difficult decision to make. Manufacturers are having to come up with new ways to make their own models stand out from the crowd so perhaps Acer have achieved this by making the Aspire One D250 run Android as well as Windows?!
Our Aspire One D250 review is underway but for now take a look at the unboxing and quick demo video below for a taster.
The International Pass gives excellent call rates to over 50 popular countries, with up to 75% off calls to mobiles, up to 50% cheaper calls to landlines and 25%lower text rates than before. T-Mobile is unbeaten for voice calls (pence per minute) against rival mobile network operators to their Top 10 countries*. The International Pass will be available to all new and existing customers on pay as you go, and will benefit from similar rates to pay monthly customers on International options. Customers already on the Pass will automatically get the new rates from 8 March. Any other customers wanting to take advantage of these special rates should text INT to 441 free of charge..
Connect
Connect with us on the following social media platforms.