“T-Mobile apparently has a trade-in program that may help those who can’t decide what to do with that old iPhone. From April 1 through May 19, you can trade in an iPhone for up to $350 credit towards a new HTC HD2. Participating T-Mobile dealers will be authorized to give a minimum of $100 credit (max $350) to those trading in their iPhones. The iPhone must be functional and in working condition; screen not broken, damaged or leaking; and no liquid damage or corrosion present. According to the details, activation is not required with the credit being applied to the fully priced HD2.”

If you’re looking to ditch an old and dusty iPhone for some HD2 goodness at T-mobile (assuming they have some HD2s in stock), you’re in luck – the Trade-in program is live!

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

“T-Mobile’s not officially selling its world-beating HD2 until Wednesday, but if you’ve a Walmart nearby and hankering to get HTC’s latest and greatest a few days early, it might be worth a trip out. JDMiPhoner managed to score one from his local Wally World a full four days early, and he’s been kind enough to unbox it, boot it up and give us a few first impressions on video.”

So I guess I’m happy I live in a country where money talks and official release dates walk, as evidenced by this lucky man’s ability to pick up an HD2 ahead of the March 24 official drop date. He has the first “official” consumer unboxing, so feel free to take a look and further solidify your HD2 want or justify your HD2 “skip” status!

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

Looking at Chris Leckness’ sweet blog layout makes me think it’s about time for a JonWestfall.Com redo!

Am I the only one who thinks the Nissan Cube looks like a regular vehicle a giant picked up between his thumb and forefinger and squeezed.

“I was just going off about this on twitter and I felt it was worth posting about too. I downloaded the beta for FourSquare on Windows Mobile. However, the application requires .Net Compact Framework 3.5 on the device. At first, I figured that a new HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 should already have the 2 year old version of the Compact Framework installed in the ROM. Guess what I found out – No .NetCF 3.5 on the device. While that’s just short sighted and stupid on Microsoft’s part, the solution is pretty simple. All I need to do is download the CAB from the web and I’m good to go. Sadly, it’s just not that simple. You see, the .NetCF 3.5 installer is a 33MB desktop installer that contains the CAB files inside of it. So you can’t simply download it to your device and install. Now I’m really wondering what the hell Microsoft is thinking. Have they lost sight of the end user in all this?”

Thoughts Emeritus Mike Temporale has a good point about the .NET Compact Framework that you may be wanting to install (in order to run other programs). I found out the same thing Mike did last summer when I wanted to install an app and had to hook my phone up to my computer, download the framework, and install it, all while having the CAB for the actual program sitting on my phone waiting. It used to be (e.g., 2003) that only expert geeks knew about CAB installations to their phones, of course that was also when every device shipped with a cradle and it was expected that the device would be docked a considerable amount of the time. Nowadays docking is mostly an annoyance, and the lack of a CAB for the .NET CF is annoying.

Of course come to think of it, I’ve never had a good time installing ANYTHING .NET… so why should the CF be an exception? <sigh>

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

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