HTC Raphael officially announced as HTC Touch Pro
The Windows Mobile 6.1 super-phone will be getting its power from Qualcomm's MSM7201A 528 MHz CPU, and will also boast virtually every possible acronym you can imagine — including HSDPA, GPS, WiFi. Rest of the specs involve a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD memory expansion slot, 288 MB of RAM coupled with 512MB of ROM, 2.8-inch VGA screen, and, behold the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Because of the last mentioned, the Touch Pro is much thicker than the Diamond but few extra millimeters are there for a reason. The 18.05mm thick device weighs 165 grams, and is set to hit Europe in "late summer", while North and Latin America will have to wait a little longer…
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
HTC Touch Pro (Raphael) keyboard reviewed
by Will Park
The hype building around the QWERTY keyboard-toting Windows Mobile 6.1 superphones from HTC and Sony Ericsson has finally come to this - a keyboard review. Sure, it might seem that a review of just the keyboard falls seriously short of giving potential customers an idea for just how great the HTC Touch Pro (codename: Raphael) really is, but when push comes to shove, the HTC Touch Pro and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 are touting their keyboard as a major feature.
MobileBurn has been lucky enough to get their hands on an early version of the HTC Touch Pro and they've proclaimed the keyboard on the HTC Touch Pro as superior to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1's QWERTY bits. With smaller buttons than HTC's previous keyboard keys, the HTC Touch Pro's keyboard is at once extremely usable and quite innocuous. With the keyboard tucked away under the full-body touchscreen, MobileBurn says that it's virtually impossible (aside from the added heft) to tell that the handset sports a full QWERTY keyboard.
Unfortunately, HTC didn't want their TouchFLO 3D interface getting toyed with just yet. Apparently, there are some new features that HTC wants to keep under wraps for now. That means MobileBurn's review is limited to just keyboard and design analysis. But, for anyone looking to plunk down some serious coin for either the HTC Touch Pro or the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, any sort of review is gold.
by Will Park
The hype building around the QWERTY keyboard-toting Windows Mobile 6.1 superphones from HTC and Sony Ericsson has finally come to this - a keyboard review. Sure, it might seem that a review of just the keyboard falls seriously short of giving potential customers an idea for just how great the HTC Touch Pro (codename: Raphael) really is, but when push comes to shove, the HTC Touch Pro and Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 are touting their keyboard as a major feature.
MobileBurn has been lucky enough to get their hands on an early version of the HTC Touch Pro and they've proclaimed the keyboard on the HTC Touch Pro as superior to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1's QWERTY bits. With smaller buttons than HTC's previous keyboard keys, the HTC Touch Pro's keyboard is at once extremely usable and quite innocuous. With the keyboard tucked away under the full-body touchscreen, MobileBurn says that it's virtually impossible (aside from the added heft) to tell that the handset sports a full QWERTY keyboard.
Unfortunately, HTC didn't want their TouchFLO 3D interface getting toyed with just yet. Apparently, there are some new features that HTC wants to keep under wraps for now. That means MobileBurn's review is limited to just keyboard and design analysis. But, for anyone looking to plunk down some serious coin for either the HTC Touch Pro or the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, any sort of review is gold.
What's new in Nokia's S40 6th Edition?
What's new in Nokia's S40 6th Edition?
Posted by Stefan on Saturday, June 28th, 2008 at 5:42 am under Nokia
Those of you with sharp eyes may have noticed that two of the 4 products announced by Nokia yesterday have the latest version of S40, 6th Edition. While S40 is not a smart phone operating system due to the lack of a native programming model and the lack of multitasking, it is still impressive and many many many more people use S40 rather than S60. Here is a change log from the S40 Forum Nokia homepage:
Series 40 6th Edition represents a continuing commitment by Nokia to mobile application developers, with support for MIDP 2.1 and the subset of the Mobile Service Architecture (JSR?248). JSR?248 provides a common implementation of seven popular JSRs. These implementations are shared with S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, and it is expected that other manufacturers of Java™ phones will implement JSR?248. This means that developers will be able to create applications for Nokia platforms that will also run on other manufacturers' devices, with little or no change.
In addition, Series 40 6th Edition delivers exciting new opportunities for the creation of location-based applications, with the introduction of the Location API for J2ME™ (JSR?179). This API can utilize an external Bluetooth GPS unit to obtain location information.
Series 40 6th Edition also provides improved support to Adobe Flash developers with the inclusion of the Flash Lite 3 Player. In addition to playing stand-alone Flash Lite content and applications and offering animated screen savers, Flash Lite can also be used to create animated "organic" wallpaper for Series 40 devices.
For Web developers, Series 40 6th Edition brings new opportunities with a browser based on the WebKit open source components WebCore and JavaScriptCore. This new browser delivers support for HTML 4.01, CSS2, JavaScript™ 1.5, and Ajax. Series 40 users can now experience a desktop-like Web browsing experience, which opens up new possibilities for Web developers to deliver sophisticated Web-based services to the mobile marketplace.
The platform continues to support 240 x 320-pixel screens, meaning media developers continue to benefit from the improved viewing experience and realize continued growth in the consumption of content and media. The platform approach, with its uniform implementation of technologies and supporting tools, documentation, and examples, will continue to offer developers the easiest route to seize mass-market opportunities.
And more information can be had in this PDF, most notably:
An enhanced UI with transitions support providing smooth-state transitions during UI navigation.
Additional audio and video codecs with support for Windows Media Video (WMV) 9, and Windows Media Audio (WMA) 10.
Extended WLAN capabilities.
Series 40 6th Edition — OMA MMS version 1.3 is supported, and the maximum supported message size has been increased to 600 kB.
Small screenshot (not 1:1 pixel scale):
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Posted by Stefan on Saturday, June 28th, 2008 at 5:42 am under Nokia
Those of you with sharp eyes may have noticed that two of the 4 products announced by Nokia yesterday have the latest version of S40, 6th Edition. While S40 is not a smart phone operating system due to the lack of a native programming model and the lack of multitasking, it is still impressive and many many many more people use S40 rather than S60. Here is a change log from the S40 Forum Nokia homepage:
Series 40 6th Edition represents a continuing commitment by Nokia to mobile application developers, with support for MIDP 2.1 and the subset of the Mobile Service Architecture (JSR?248). JSR?248 provides a common implementation of seven popular JSRs. These implementations are shared with S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2, and it is expected that other manufacturers of Java™ phones will implement JSR?248. This means that developers will be able to create applications for Nokia platforms that will also run on other manufacturers' devices, with little or no change.
In addition, Series 40 6th Edition delivers exciting new opportunities for the creation of location-based applications, with the introduction of the Location API for J2ME™ (JSR?179). This API can utilize an external Bluetooth GPS unit to obtain location information.
Series 40 6th Edition also provides improved support to Adobe Flash developers with the inclusion of the Flash Lite 3 Player. In addition to playing stand-alone Flash Lite content and applications and offering animated screen savers, Flash Lite can also be used to create animated "organic" wallpaper for Series 40 devices.
For Web developers, Series 40 6th Edition brings new opportunities with a browser based on the WebKit open source components WebCore and JavaScriptCore. This new browser delivers support for HTML 4.01, CSS2, JavaScript™ 1.5, and Ajax. Series 40 users can now experience a desktop-like Web browsing experience, which opens up new possibilities for Web developers to deliver sophisticated Web-based services to the mobile marketplace.
The platform continues to support 240 x 320-pixel screens, meaning media developers continue to benefit from the improved viewing experience and realize continued growth in the consumption of content and media. The platform approach, with its uniform implementation of technologies and supporting tools, documentation, and examples, will continue to offer developers the easiest route to seize mass-market opportunities.
And more information can be had in this PDF, most notably:
An enhanced UI with transitions support providing smooth-state transitions during UI navigation.
Additional audio and video codecs with support for Windows Media Video (WMV) 9, and Windows Media Audio (WMA) 10.
Extended WLAN capabilities.
Series 40 6th Edition — OMA MMS version 1.3 is supported, and the maximum supported message size has been increased to 600 kB.
Small screenshot (not 1:1 pixel scale):
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