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HTC HD2 Video 1st Look – Initial Device Setup

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0000

The HD2 comes with a super setup utility that goes through setting up your mail, your Wi-Fi connections, your carrier, and even your social media sites. There is a tutorial on how to use the onscreen keyboard too. The device is really thorough and it would be a shame not to share that aspect with you too. Hit the break to see this 10 minute video. More videos are coming over the next few days too!

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HTC HD2 – Photo of a sheet of paper

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:41:30 +0000

One of the problems with the HD2 that has surfaced is a pinkish tint in the center of pictures taken with it’s camera. I don’t use cameras on my phones too often, but I did have a request to see if my demo is experiencing this issue. I took a photo of a piece of paper and here it is…

Both photos were taken with nothing changed on the HD2’s camera. The photo on the left was without my overhead and side lights on and the one on the right with them on.

The pinkish hue is present on both. This issue has already been addressed as a software issue and HTC is supposedly working on a patch to clear it up already. I can’t confirm this 1st hand, but that’s what the interwebz are telling us. I will know more about it after the holiday hopefully.

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HTC HD2 Video 1st Look – Unboxing and Hardware Tour

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:28:21 +0000

The HD2 has landed. We’ve finally got our fat, grubby mits on the holy grail of Windows Mobile for 2009. We have the HTC HD2 in hand and yours truly gets to give it the look over. I have passed on some stellar phones this past year to allow our other great guys and gals to get into the action, but Thanksgiving or not, I ain’t sharing this one. Sorry folks!

You’ve seen all the overseas unboxings, you’ve seen the long, exhaustive reviews, you’ve probably heard more about the HD2 than you actually care to hear, but you haven’t seen my video yet. Do you want to? Read on and I will share!

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Microsoft talking about IE9

ctitanic — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:40:00 +0000

Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows Live Division discussed the future of IE9 in the PDC 2009 keynote.

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Mobilitysite’s HTC HD2 Photo Gallery

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:55:41 +0000

Ok, it’s finally here, the HTC HD2. I have the coveted HTC HD2 to review and the 1st teaser is some photos I took this evening. I will be uploading 2 videos today and they should be ready by Thursday evening. I will do a couple more showing off other aspects of the device after that too. For now, enjoy the photos. The HD2 is really, really nice. Until you’ve held one in your hand, you can’t know how nice.

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Motorola Droid Photo Gallery

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:35:00 +0000

Here is some device pr0n showing Verizon’s Motorola Droid in all sorts of provocative poses. Please enjoy the show. I really enjoyed this shoot. The model was very fun to work with and it shows.

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Happy Thanksgiving Mobilitysite!

Chris Leckness — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:51:51 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to our all readers on behalf of the staff here at Mobilitysite. Without you guys, this site would not be what it was back in the Aximsite days and it definitely would not be what it is today, almost 7 years later. This ride all started out on Aximsite in December 2002, then I created Mobilitysite in April of 2005. Slowly but surely, Aximsite faded into Mobilitysite and here we are 7 years later, still kicking. For this opportunity, I am truly thankful. I am sure I speak on behalf of all the contributors to Mobilitysite when I say, THANK YOU, the readers!

Most importantly, I want to thank my family for putting up with this ridiculous obsession that I have for mobile tech and building sites that end in the word site. My wife has been all too tolerable to all this over the years and my kids have been forgiving as well. As they get older, I am neglecting the site more and more in attempts to spend more time with them. Thanks Bonnie, Brittney, and Brett!

Still important… From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all the volunteers that assist me here at Mobilitysite. You guys are the glue that keeps this all together. I know and you know that all these readers aren’t here to hear me blab about my obsessions. Thanks guys!

It would also be a shame to leave out the sponsors and the companies that have supported us over all these years. Cases.com, Dell, HP to an extent, HTC, Wagged, Edelman, MWW, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and more! I am sure I have left out many great supporters too, sorry. Thanks folks!

Lastly, I personally want to thank Bill Gates and Steve Jobs too! Thanks for heading up the companies that make the technology that a lot of our desires and passions revolve around!

What are all of you thankful for?

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Swype Replaces Type On Verzion Samsung Omnia II

Marilyn Torres — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:22:34 +0000

A little over a year ago Chris posted a piece about the Swype software, and yet here is Swype again attempting to change consumers’ perspectives on typing using software keyboards. Since my introduction to software keyboards came in the form of the near-microscopic keys in Windows Mobile 6.0, I was slow to adopt the prediction-correction-ridden virtual-boards. The correction software on even the iPhone still throws me for a loop, and yet Samsung decides to turn convention on its head to welcome the 2009 holiday season with Swype on the Samsung Omnia II for Verizon.

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Megalith-Systems releases DynaInk

Elrendhel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

My good friend Gabor has created yet another wonderful program:

Megalith-Systems (the original publishers of the popular GPS Tuner 4.x / 5.x series) has announced the release of DynaInk, a new and exciting drawing application for Windows Mobile devices.

DynaInk is a simple yet revolutionary new drawing application, which simulates real drawing experience on a touch screen mobile device. Thanks to it’s patent pending technology, DynaInk can react your drawing dynamism, automatically changing the line width and line color accordingly. The result is a rich and eye-pleasing picture.

Top Features

Natural Drawing Experience (Patent Pending)
Dynamic line width and color
Vector based, Scalable Graphics, EPS export
Instant E-Mail with picture attachment
Unlimited Undo with thumbnail images
Works with Integrated Camera
Manually Tracing Photos
Markup your Photos
Stylish notes and messages

With DynaInk, you can brush-up (pun intended) on your drawing skills, or quickly create a masterpiece! Kids love it too!

For more info, please visit dynaink.com

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Samsung Moment Review – Do you have a moment?

Chris Leckness — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:00 +0000

Reviewing this phone has been a pleasure. I passed on reviewing the HTC Hero on Sprint because of the absence of a physical keyboard. That and the fact that Marilyn was looking forward to reviewing it too. The Hero was a great phone, but I had my eyes set on this Sprint Android powered phone. The nice looking keyboard lured me in, I admit it.

The Samsung Moment is an Android powered smartphone on the Sprint network that features a slide out QWERTY keyboard, an AMOLED screen, and all the other things that you’d expect from a modern smartphone. Maybe I should mention that it’s got one of the fastest non-Snapdragon processors out there, an 800mhz speedster.

So, we have all these features packed into an affordable phone, why have you never heard of it? Simple, there was so much buzz with the HTC HD2, the DROID, and others that it was launched with little fanfare. Even the much anticipated Blackberry Storm 2 was drowned out with all the DROID madness. Well, I noticed this one and decided to take if for a test drive. How did it perform? Read on…

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Get a Tilt 2 for -$99.99, Yes that’s negative $99.99…

Chris Leckness — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:24:12 +0000

Yes, you read that right. Wal Mart is selling the Tilt 2 for 1 cent. Take that offer, get a $100 rebate from HTC and you have a hot phone and you make $99.99. Sounds like the best deal ever if you ask me.

Now this isn’t exactly getting $99.99 absolutely free, that part comes from the HTC trade in program I posted about the other day. I mean, if you qualify and plan to do it anyhow, it’s a sweet deal.

Source: WMExperts (ps. They also have a link to a similar T-Mobile Deal)

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Motorola Droid Unboxing and Hardware Tour Video

Chris Leckness — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:10:23 +0000

The Droid has finally invaded Mobilitysite. Well, there are already a few Droid owners contributing to Mobilitysite, but they haven’t gotten around to sharing their thoughts yet. Maybe they are too busy enjoying the phone. Even though I got sick of all the buzz and ad saturation of this Droid launch, I feel the device is one that I would considering using longterm. It’ really surprised me. If the keyboard was better, It would be a touch choice for me right now. Check out the video after the break…

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Ebooks: Good News and Bad News

Zealot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:20:56 +0000

First, the good news….Amazon announced today that a free firmware upgrade will be going out to all Kindles that increases the battery life by 85 percent and adds support for PDFs (hmmm…maybe in support of iMagz?). The upgrade will be installed automatically in the background via WhisperNet. Wow, makes you wonder just how inefficient the code was that a firmware tweak nearly doubles battery life.

As for the PDF support, users can read PDF files by emailing them directly to their Kindle address or by loading them on the device via USB. PDFs can also be automatically converted to the Kindle format by emailing them with ‘Convert" in the subject line.

Not a bad pre Christmas upgrade…BOY Amazon must be feeling the heat.

Now, the bad news? Digitimes is reporting that Scott Liu, chairman of Prime View International (PVI), the company that makes the screens for most Ebook Readers is telling us not to hold our breath for the $100 reader.

He says the market is just not big enough and competition isn’t fierce enough yet to see screen prices drop in 2010…and as the most expensive element of an Ebook Reader is the screen, we shouldn’t look for any many price breakthroughs for another year at least.

Still, one can hope.

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Can your phone do this? (NSFW) Plus bonus site info…

Chris Leckness — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:12 +0000

I am not going to say much about this, but if you are interested, hit the jump to see. It’s not all that bad, it involves a little foul language, but hey… I know some might not appreciate it. I find it’s funny and props to the guy that took the time to get it set up.

Merging
In other news, I am going to go forward with merging iPhoneMVP and GotZune into Mobilitysite. I will provide some filtering of content as well as separate RSS feeds. I won’t do this until I have it set up right. Really though, Zune news is slow unless it’s launch time and iPhone News is everywhere already. What we’ll have for iPhone is mostly reviews, tutorials, and commentary.

Big Contest Coming Soon!
Our anniversary (I am going to quit calling it a Birthday) is coming soon. So far we have 5 Pantech Matrix Pro Smartphones and an HTC Snap to give away. More to come…

Droid and HD2
Coverage of our own soon. These both should be sitting in my office now for when I get off work.

Ok, don’t forget to check out this finely crafted message after the break…

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Ebooks: iMagz Coming?

Zealot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:14:39 +0000

The Observer is reporting on some very interesting information they have from “sources” that may indicate the future direction of electronic magazines. Everyone has heard Wired yapping about preparing custom digital content for “some unannounced device that Apple MAY produce someday…*giggle*giggle*”, but it seems other major magazines are not sitting around waiting for Cupertino to call. Some months ago I reported on the rumor that Time and other big time magazines were looking seriously at electronic distribution methods with an intent towards creating their own Reader device and online Amazon-style store. Considering the number of devices upcoming in 2010 and the buzz over various “tablets”, the Reader option may be off the table. No need for it really if there are so many other devices already out or soon to be released that are not picky regarding where their content comes from.

Instead, the source says that Time and other publishers are looking at setting up a single web portal for downloading magazines from all different companies to any reader device as well as ordering print copies. The sources described it as like iTunes, but for magazines.

BRILLIANT! I like to call it….iMagz.

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