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August 9th, 2008

HTC’s manual for Touch Pro mentions interesting features

The manual for the new HTC Touch Pro (Raphael, Vario IV) has been published on the company’s homepage. It contains lots of new screenshots which show for example pre-installed applications or the new Touch Flo 3D. There is a quick start guide, the Touch Flo 3D as well as the complete manual on htc.com. We have a summary and some photos of the manual.

Pre-installed applications

Office Mobile (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote), Calendar, Contacts, Internet Explorer Mobile, Messaging, Phone, Help, Games (Bubble Breaker, Teeter, Solitaire), ActiveSync, Adobe Reader LE, Album, Audio Booster, Bluetooth Explorer, Calculator, Camera, Comm Manager, File Explorer, FM Radio, Getting Started, Google Maps, Internet Sharing, Java, JETCET Print, Messenger, MP3 Trimmer, Notes, Opera Mobile, Pictures & Videos, QuickGPS, RSS Hub, Search, SIM Manager, Sprite Backup, Streaming Media, Tasks, Voice Recorder, Voice Speed Dial, Windows Live, Windows Media Player Mobile, WorldCard Mobile, YouTube, ZIP, STK Service

Various features

  • Printing .txt, .jpg, .xhtml, .vcf and .vcs files via network, Bluetooth or PictBridge
  • Battery life
    • Standby: up to 367 hours for GSM, up to 462 hours for WCDMA
    • Talk time: up to 419 minutes for GSM, up to 378 minutes for WCDMA
    • Video call time: up to 189 minutes for WCDMA
  • 5 way navigator has a sensor which supports sliding clockwise / counterclockwise (see f. e. Apple iPod)
  • PC can access an inserted memory card as a USB flash drive
  • YouTube Player, Windows Live, RSS reader, Google Maps
  • GPS photo
  • 10 band equalizer
  • Java Micro VM
  • Business card reader (OCR)

Notices

  • Several news services mentioned that the connector of the Touch Pro supports Video out. Such a cable is NOT included.
  • SAR information: 0.462 w / kg @10g (head) , 1.31 w/kg @ 10g (body)

Images

August 9th, 2008

TouchFLO 3D - underlying technologies exposed to reveal open source stuff

Like most other about screens, the about screen of HTC’s TouchFLO 3D app contains loads of gibberish that doesn’t really do anything except satisfy legal requirements. Enter Johan Sanneblad.

He took the time to “decompile” the text and found a stunning amount of open source projects which were used in the creation of HTC’s user interface.

People wishing for the full list can give Johan a click here:
http://www.sanneblad.com/2008/08/05/touchflo-3d-technologies/

August 9th, 2008

HTC overhauls its e-club to make access to updates easier

So far, HTC’s web site has been among the most annoying on the internet (along with Sprint’s) - you had to give up your email address and get an account in order to get ROM updates for your (purchased) device.

According to SmartphoneThoughts, the company has now seen the light of day. From now on, you just need to enter the serial number of your machine in order to get your hands on updates.

P.S. Other device makers give out updates to everyone. I consider it somewhat likely that HTC intends to introduce “tracking information” into the updates eventually…which could be very helpful when it comes to quenching the flow of “inofficial updates” seen at xda-developers…

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