“AT&T* and HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today announced the upcoming availability of the HTC TiltTM 2 and the HTC PURETM with Windows® Mobile 6.5. The HTC PURE delivers a touch screen experience in an alluring, compact form factor, and the HTC Tilt 2 features the convenience of a tilting touch screen combined with the practicality of a slide out full QWERTY keyboard.”

Ah, AT&T is announcing two great Windows Phone offerings, the Pure (The HTC Touch Diamond 2) and the Tilt 2 (The HTC Touch Pro 2). Who knows what’s pure about a Touch Diamond, or why we didn’t see a crazy new name similar to “Fuze” (Perhaps the “Cerket Braker” or “Swich”), and I’m sure these two new… Continue reading

“To sync tasks you need a compatible device (iPhones don’t have tasks support yet but Windows Mobile, Nokia and Palm Pre phones do). Register for a Toodledo account (free or pro). Enable and configure tasks on our web site—enter your Toodledo username and password.”

A few months ago I wrote about NuevaSync’s Push GMail Solution which beat out Google’s official support for GMail through Exchange ActiveSync by quite a few months. Now that Google has caught up, NuevaSync has again decided to up the ante by adding Tasks support! The catch is – the tasks sync isn’t with Google Tasks (Since it’s pretty bare bones and doesn’t have a published API), it’s with a task managing service named Toodledo!

I hadn’t… Continue reading

Earlier this week, synchronization service NuevaSync announced their latest addition to the platform, push e-mail. NuevaSync already had calendar & contact sync from Google to Windows Mobile, iPhone, and pretty much any platform that supports the Microsoft Activesync protocol. Since I’ve been using Google for the last month or so (in lieu of my exchange server), I thought it may be interesting to give this service a shot. After all, only $25 for a year of service isn’t too pricey (.002 cents per hour if you want to think of it that way…).

The first thing you notice about NuevaSync is it’s no-frills website. This makes it mobile friendly, and still usable on the desktop… Continue reading

Remember my little rant a few weeks ago? Well, if you know anyone on the Google side (Android), you can tell them that the lamentations they’ve been emitting can now be silenced. Google fixed the Marking Items Read issue. They write:

For those of you with Android phones, we’ve also fixed a particularly annoying bug that led to items not being marked as read correctly.

So that’s nice, they fixed a problem and even blogged about it to let us know. This little blog post, though, did more than inform me about a bug fix – it further annoyed me at the current state of Windows Mobile. My gripe today boils down to one thing: speed. Not speed of the operating system, but speed of the… Continue reading

“First things first… It’s no TouchFLO 3D. Ok, now that we have that out of the way we do have to say that we’re happy to see another company making an effort to tidy up the Windows Mobile UI a tad. Who knows how far away we really are from Windows Mobile 7 becoming a reality and in the meantime, even many Windows Mobile die hards seem to be losing patience with the very dated look of the OS. Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson aren’t the only companies attempting to bandage their mobile OS of choice however, as i-mate has just announced its “i-mate Go” UI. No, it’s not the catchiest name in the game, but those of you looking for high visibility and simple design… Continue reading

“Samsung’s Omnia is nice enough to find a good home in many a professional’s pocket, but in terms of overall desirability it doesn’t quite compare to the iPhone or G1. Why, then, did Verizon price the thing $50 higher than its alternate-platform competition? Your guess is as good as ours, but at least the company didn’t take long to see the error of its ways, dropping the handset under the magic $200 mark just a few days after the early-adopters got done paying too much for theirs.”

Verizon just couldn’t resist getting the big bucks from early adopters then dropping the price of the Omnia back down to normal levels to be in line with it’s major competitors. How do you early adopters on Greedy V… Continue reading

“Pretty much the only way to describe the Omnia is as an iPhone clone. No insult intended, that’s just the way it is. It copies the same basic form-factor and some of the specs of the iPhone, albeit with obvious differences: addition of a removable battery under the backplate, more buttons, memory card slot, etcetera.”

The Omnia is out and starting to be reviewed by real people. Aside from the pricetag, this Brighthand review seems to be indicating that it’s author, Adama Brown, is a fan. What do you think – is the Omnia worth its near $700 price tag?

“An invitation sent out on Tuesday by T-Mobile asks the media to gather next week to see the first phone built on the Android mobile platform, but will also pit Apple and Google against each other — if reluctantly.”

You mean they’re actually going to release this eternally leaked device sometime? Whoa! So press conference next week, and rumors of late October release. Perhaps Android will finally make it out of rumor and into consumer’s hands.

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“Now it is time to review the iPhone look alike Samsung i900 (Omnia). This is yet another high end, flag ship of a phone. Can it stand up to the claim from Samsung that it is ‘A truly all-in-one phone’? For various reasons I have not really been a fan for the later variations from Samsung, in the early days of splashing out cash for phones, my 1st choice was always for a Sammy. Lately I have been tempted away from them to seek the joys and delights of Windows Mobile, so, now Samsung are even entering that market, can I be tempted back?”

Tracy and Matt take a look at the Omnia, a device I have heard (almost) simultaneous praise and disgust over, depending on… Continue reading

“Now that the cat’s out of the bag it was no trouble tracking down HTC’s S740 this morning, and just for kicks we rammed the phone up against the Touch Pro, which we subsequently rammed against the Touch Diamond and an iPhone for a generally violent display of smartphone force. It is worth noting that while the S740’s keys are similar to the Touch Pro’s, they’re not quite as deep or clicky, which leads to a rather sub-par typing experience by HTC’s standards. That glossy mirror finish on the phone screens isn’t doing them any favors either — even when wiped smudge free it seems to impede viewing — and we must say the Touch Pro’s matte finish makes the Diamond and iPhone 3G look cheap… Continue reading