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    What HTC Means When They Talk About "Sense" On Windows Mobile

    T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?

    Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life

    Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones

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    Image of dingus dingus
    08/18/09

    In reply to What HTC Means When They Talk About "Sense" On Windows Mobile
    It seems like all of the sudden HTC is putting more muscle behind Android than WinMo (or WinPhone or whatever the hell).
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/18/09

    @dingus: I would imagine Android is cheaper to develop for, and possibly easier. It would also surprise me if its performance wasn't better. I have a Fuze and while I love it, Windows Mobile is just saddled with all sorts of "legacy" cruft. Even 6.5 is not much of an improvement, in fact 6.1 to 6.5 is kind of like XP to Vista. It looks marginally cooler, but actually runs worse, and still has a lot of little tiny, non-finger friendly buttons.

    My next phone will probably be whatever HTC phone has a keyboard and runs Android at the time. That'll be approximately 17 months from now :)
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    Image of MavisPuford MavisPuford
    08/18/09

    In reply to What HTC Means When They Talk About "Sense" On Windows Mobile
    It's funny that Windows Mobile can actually do way more than people think. Just check out the xda forums and all the accomplishments they've made.

    I gotta say though, stock roms are almost always horrible. You gotta go with the custom stuff if you want anything good.

    *Forgot to say something more on topic. Anyway, TouchFLO is looking better and better. It's nice to see some shiny things instead of the usual not-so-shiny windows mobile interface.
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    dingus promoted this comment Edited by MavisPuford at 08/18/09 11:32 AM MavisPuford was starred MavisPuford was unstarred
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    08/18/09

    @MavisPuford: J Average Consumer can't separate WinMo the OS from WinMo the UI. Windows CE is a great embedded OS and up until the last couple of years has been more suited to mobile hardware than Linux. The WinMo UI though looks much like it did when it was on black & white LCD palmtops.

    HTC is trying to clean up the UI end as much as a device vendor can. Ultimately MS has to get off their asses and deliver something significantly different or Android will drink their milkshake.
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    08/12/09

    In reply to T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
    Actually, I have the AT&T Tilt. The backplate DOES fly off half the time...
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/12/09

    @alexmg2420: Weird, yours must be broken, mine has never come off, it's hard to pull off when I want it to.
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    Image of Scazza Scazza
    08/12/09

    In reply to T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
    I think alot of people overlook the fact that on WM devices, as outdated as the OS appears to be, you can still load a shitton of free software from the web, you have a massive catelog of apps from WM2003 that all run fine. Plus its as easy to pirate software on a WM phone as it is on Windows, vs trying to jailbreak an iphone.
    You guys make it sound like WM will kill one of your pets. With the touchflo, most regular consumers will rarely even see the OS underneath all that skinning, and it works very well.
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    Image of Joshua Pacada Joshua Pacada
    08/12/09

    @Scazza: This is 2009, I think most regular consumers at least somewhat interested in this part of the market will have played with an iPhone. They would NOT confuse this phone with an iPhone or the Pre. Not even close.
    Trust me, I'm a tweaker and I love WinMo for the factors you mentioned, however to say that their 'skinning' is a substitute for the complete reworking of what a mobile OS can be is unfounded.
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    08/12/09

    @Joshua Pacada: I completely agree, its not a good substitute, but it is certain useable for most regular consumers. HTC, as a hardware company, have made a fairy nice skin that runs great (check out other skinning apps for WM, see how shit they run).
    However, my point is that everyone hates on WM without checking out some of its unique features that even now platforms like andriod and iphone don't offer. Also dont think this is a dig at either of them, I own an iTouch, and i love some of the apps, but having to pay for anything worthwhile, when I can DL for free similar stuff on WM is kinda annoying.
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    Edited by Scazza at 08/12/09 5:37 PM Scazza was starred Scazza was unstarred
    Image of KefkaticFanatic KefkaticFanatic
    08/12/09

    In reply to T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
    HTC phones are so nice, but they charge you up the ass for them. I wish I had a bunch of money.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/12/09

    @KefkaticFanatic: Not the Touch. I had one and it sucked ass.
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    Image of RT100 RT100
    08/12/09

    In reply to T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
    wow. that's pricy, especially for a winmo phone that comes loaded with 6.1! good that they tweaked it so much with touchflo-3d. the old touch diamond was really really hard to use.
    And i don't see it as that big of a deal that they removed the front facing camera, because who would you talk to? noone else has video-conferencing capabilities (on their mobiles at least). is talking with ONLY audio really that terrible?
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    John Herrman promoted this comment RT100 was starred RT100 was unstarred
    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    08/12/09

    @rt100 Penn State: Nah, but it's always frustrating to see a component stripped out like that, no matter how trivial.
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    Image of OblivionVII OblivionVII
    08/12/09

    In reply to T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?
    If this ran Android I'd be all over it.
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    John Herrman promoted this comment OblivionVII was starred OblivionVII was unstarred
    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    08/12/09

    @OblivionVII: That's actually a decent summary of the review, too.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/12/09

    In reply to Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life
    I replaced TouchWiz with Today 2 on my Omnia i910.



    TouchWiz became annoying for me to use as a daily thing.

    Anyone else running a Verizon Omnia can find some great stuff here:

    [knguyentu.com]


    I've also totally glommed onto the "Slide to unlock" thing. It's something I've envied the iPhone for. :)

    (Slide to Unlock 2 for the Omnia)

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    Image of nachobel nachobel
    02/12/09

    In reply to Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life
    Is that a T-Mobile branded Touch Diamond? The Hells?
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    02/12/09

    @nachobel: It's top secret! Or, I live in the UK. You choose.
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    02/12/09

    In reply to Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life
    So maybe we don't need to wait for WM7 or whatever it's called.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones
    Enabling quadband support with a cooked ROM that is.
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    11/07/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones
    Does anyone know if the rumor of enabling quadband support for the Diamond or Diamond pro is true? I need 1900 and 850 where I am at.
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    Image of PhilR8 PhilR8
    11/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones
    I've been running DCD's 3.2.6 rom on my Mogul for months now with very few problems. In fact, my phone has been running so smoothly that I have decided to hold off on upgrading to the Touch Pro.


    PS PPCGeeks.com is another great rom community, even if they mainly focus on CDMA devices.

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    11/06/08

    I know I've mentioned the great work the guys over at xda have been doing a few times on this site so it's great to see you guys recognize them too. Kudos.
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    11/06/08

    @Selcouth14: Add 28 for the answer: Yeah, I figured that Giz would have known about (and been occasionally hyping) XDA off and on for several years by now.


    I think this is only like the second article I recall seeing that mentioned anything about xda...

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    11/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones
    ppcgeeks and ppckitchen rule for cooking your own custom rom.


    WinMo 6.1 on a PPC6700 doesn't compare to the Touch Pro, obviously, but it's a hell of a lot better than what it'd be otherwise.

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    11/06/08

    @jerkyjones: ppcgeeks and ppckitchen rule, if you don't mind using reposts from xda with badly copied instructions...
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    11/06/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo Hack: Cooked Software Revives HTC Phones
    I've been running Kavana's 6.1 ROM for my Dash, and it's been nearly flawless. Gave me the ability to read SDHC cards (original ROM couldn't), added more apps, and they even included a bit of overclocking, too.


    on a side note, when did T-Mobile ever carry the Diamond? How did I miss that?

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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    11/06/08

    @Norcross: Oh, I'm in the UK. T-Mobile has totally different phones here.
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