Most people probably have seen this by now, but if you haven’t, i’ll tell you about it. Sprint has finally gotten a new HTC phone other than the Touch, and it is called the Diamond. It has some beastly hardware specs including a 528 Mhz processor, 256 MB of RAM (4x the Mogul’s memory!), 4GB of internal storage, Wifi, 256 MB of ROM, EV-D0 Rev A, and the best part in my opinion, a VGA display. Web browsing on this device is going to be pretty awesome, and also remote desktop will look great. The Sprint version of the phone also includes a 1350 mAh battery compared to the GSM versions 900 mAh. The only downside to that is the extra 3mm of thickness because of a larger battery cover.
At the moment the phone is only available through Telesales and Online, but it should be in Sprint Corporate stores around the 28th. It is selling for $249.99 with a two year contract and after a $100 mail in rebate. My sprint contract just expired this month so this is a very tempting phone…Although people over at XDA forums are working on bringing the touch flo interface to other phones, I have it on my Mogul right now but it is a bit buggy and kind of a memory hog unfortunatly especially since my Mogul only has about 24 MB of RAM available at startup.
Yes, it is yet another web browser post, but I think this one is pretty cool. The people over at Torch Mobile are working on a browser for Windows Mobile that is based off of WebKit, the rendering engine used by Safari on Desktops and the iPhone and iPod Touch (Which by the way, should be recieving an update in a few days…) and also used in Google’s new browser, Chrome. WebKit is known to be lightweight and fast which translates well to mobile devices. The browser features smooth scrolling, tabbed browsing, smart zooming, and much more. It currently does not run as smooth as Safari on the iPhone, but that is to be expected, because Iris was not designed with one particular device in mind like Safari was. I will be uploading a video demo of the browser soon so be on the look out for that.
Ok, well for the past few days I have started college again so I have been a bit busy, but during that time I was able to update my phone with Sprint’s new official ROM. The biggest change in the update? Windows Mobile 6.1. Read more…
Well I am back from my trip, it went very well. When I got back I got a text from Skyfire saying that I had been added to the beta, so I downloaded it. You have to accept some sort of agreement so I won’t say much about it, but it was a very good experience. It loads pages extremely fast because it sends all it’s requests through a central server which renders the page before it is sent back to your phone. I have not really read the directions if there are any, but I am not a big fan of the zooming, Opera Mobile is much smoother in that aspect. With a bit of work this browser could definitely give Opera some competition.
I won’t be posting any for the next two weeks, as I will be out of the country. I am going on a missions trip to Guatemala through my church (raleighfirst.org). I am not sure exactly what we will be doing but I know we will be putting on some children’s programs, painting, and maybe even putting a roof on a house. So it should be fun. Anyways, i’ll be back in 2 weeks.
This home screen plug-in is pretty much the most used feature of my Mogul, since it is the first thing I see when I turn it on. This home screen mimics the home screen of the HTC Touch. Read more…
This is not really a tip or trick, just something to look out for on your Mogul. Basically, almost all of my hard buttons stopped working, with the exception of the QWERTY keyboard, power button, and d-pad. It sucks because I don’t have the equipment protection program offered by Sprint, so I can’t get it replaced unless I find a cool rep at a Sprint store. So I no longer can use my buttons. I have found that it isn’t so bad after all… Read more…
Some people have noted that the amount of available memory on their Mogul decreases during the period of the day. I have a little program that will help with that. Also this may be the last post for the next week because I am going to help out at a summer camp.
One of the primary reasons I bought the Mogul over say, the HTC Touch is its nice sliding QWERTY keyboard. While this is great if you have two hands free sometimes it is just not useful, say when you are walking down the street while carrying a bag or something. This is where the onscreen keyboard comes in. Unfortunately it is near impossible to use without a stylus which means that you still need two hands to operate it. There is a wonderful solution to this problem, and it is called the PocketCM Keyboard. Read more…
Most people probably have seen this by now, but if you haven’t, i’ll tell you about it. Sprint has finally gotten a new HTC phone other than the Touch, and it is called the Diamond. It has some beastly hardware specs including a 528 Mhz processor, 256 MB of RAM (4x the Mogul’s memory!), 4GB of internal storage, Wifi, 256 MB of ROM, EV-D0 Rev A, and the best part in my opinion, a VGA display. Web browsing on this device is going to be pretty awesome, and also remote desktop will look great. The Sprint version of the phone also includes a 1350 mAh battery compared to the GSM versions 900 mAh. The only downside to that is the extra 3mm of thickness because of a larger battery cover.
