HTC, the company behind many of today’s most popular Windows Mobile smart phones, is known for offering a broad range of devices. It has done petite, thin, and powerful, and it’s even gone above and beyond traditional smart phones, as we saw at CTIA 2007 with the introduction of the HTC Shift and HTC Advantage. And now, the company has once again pushed the limits of design with its latest project: the HTC Touch.
Under the hood, the Touch isn’t that different from its HTC and Windows Mobile 6 sibling, the T-Mobile Wing. Yet the HTC Touch makes its mark by offering TouchFLO, a brand-new user interface that allows you to operate the smart phone just by swiping your finger on the device’s touch screen. It’s innovative and cool, but it’s also flawed. Our main concern is the lack of a sizable keyboard, which is a huge drawback for messaging fanatics, and it even slows down simple tasks such as entering new contacts.
HTC is hoping to capture a broader consumer audience with the Touch–someone who is thinking of making the leap from a cell phone to a smart phone–and it’s certainly a step in the right direction. It’s fun to use,…
When I filled up the iPhone with mobile apps, one of the first apps that I downloaded and put on the iPhone home screen was the Google app. Since Google is the homepage on all the PCs and laptops that I work on, I assumed my behaviour on the iPhone would be similar to the computer. I was wrong.
Once I downloaded a fleet of useful iPhone apps, I quickly discovered that I used Google far less on the iPhone than I do on a computer — even over Wi-Fi and even when doing many of the same activities. That is partly due to the fact that mobile search needs to improve, but it is also do to the nature of the smartphone itself.
When I’m sitting at a computer, I typically use Google at least two to three times per hour. It is usually the first place I go to get information. Google is not as much of a sleuth as it is a concierge. For example, when I’m pulling up a site, I often don’t use a bookmark or type the URL into the address bar. It is just quicker to open my Google homepage and type in the company…
Soon after the iPhone OS 3.0 beta was released, developers were quick to find data strings which hinted at Apple’s future hardware plans for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
One of those data strings made reference to “iPhone 2,1″, which is largely believed to be Apple’s method of numerically labeling the next iPhone model. To put it into context, the original iPhone was referenced as “iPhone 1,1″ while the upgraded iPhone 3G was referenced as “iPhone 1,2″. Interestingly, when Apple makes a significant hardware upgrade, the first number in the string increases. Relatively minor hardware upgrades result in the second number in the string increasing. Needless to say, the upcoming iPhone upgrade is going to be a doozy, with a number of rumored improvements such as a higher quality camera lens with auto-focus, and video recording capabilities.
Now, developers have unearthed images from within the iPhone 3.0 SDK which are titled “iPhone 2,1″. But before you jump out of your seat with excitement, there doesn’t seem to be anything too noteworthy about the photos. As a matter of fact, the pictures, if accurate, indicate that the upcoming iPhone model will look almost exactly like the current iPhone 3G. Of note, the iPhone…
Have you just bought a new iPhone and are having a hard time getting the voice mail set up? You may have spent hours on the phone with customer service and gotten nowhere. Here, you will find the help you need to get your voice mail set up easily.
The first thing is not to put the SIM card from your old phone into your iPhone. Everything else will work but you voice mail and visual mail will likely not work. If you go to an AT&T store, you can get a new SIM put in your phone and help with getting everything from your old SIM card transferred to it.
Now you are ready for the next step. Call customer service at AT&T (the exclusive iPhone service provider in the US) and tell the representative that you need to setup voice mail. Be sure to tell him or her to check to make sure the forwarding feature to forward calls to your voice mail is turned on. This is something that is often overlooked by customer service representatives. Once this is done, you are ready to actually setup voice mail.
Before you begin, it is a good idea to know what password…
