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HTC Touch Diamond Launching In Malaysia - 27th May

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted May 21, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Photo sourced from Mobile Hornet

This post in MyPDACafe alerted me that the Touch Diamond will be launching on the 27th May, for the price of RM2799. Here are the specs for this smartphone:

Processor Qualcomm® MSM7201A™ 528 MHz
Operating System Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
Memory ROM: 256 MB
RAM: 192 MB DDR SDRAM
Internal storage: 4 GB
Dimensions 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)
Weight 110 g (with battery)
Display 2.8-inch TFT-LCD flat touch-sensitive screen with VGA resolution
Network HSDPA/WCDMA:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
  • Up to 384 kbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds

Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:

  • Europe/Asia: 900/1800/1900 MHz

(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control TouchFLOâ„¢ 3D
Touch-sensitive navigation control
GPS GPS and A-GPS ready
Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g
HTC ExtUSBâ„¢ (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
Camera Main camera: 3.2 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera
Audio Built-in microphone, speaker and FM radio with RDS
Ring tone supported formats:

  • MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA, WAV, and AMR-NB
  • 40 polyphonic and Standard MIDI format 0 and 1 (SMF)/SP MIDI
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion or Lithium-ion polymer battery
Capacity: 900 mAh
Talk time:
  • Up to 270 minutes for WCDMA
  • Up to 330 minutes for GSM

Standby time:

  • Up to 396 hours for WCDMA
  • Up to 285 hours for GSM

Video call time: Up to 145 minutes for WCDMA
(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)

Truth to be told, I can’t be bothered. There’s on so much you can cover up Windows Mobile or let me put it this way, there’s only so much sugar you can coat a piece of sh*t to make it sweet.

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Vodafone Struck Deals to Distribute iPhone in 10 Countries

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted May 6, 2008 at 8:30 pm

This post over at Engadget says Vodafone releasing iPhone in Australia, Italy, India, and seven other countries. I wonder if Celcom will be the first telco in Malaysia to bring in an iPhone. Hmm….

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Maxis Scraps Broadband Contract Period

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted May 4, 2008 at 7:48 am

Looks like Maxis has finally wised up by removing the minimum contractual period of 18 months previously imposed on subscribers. Both Celcom and DiGi does not have any minimum contractual period but instead tries to attract people to stay by tying in with other products such as mini laptops and smart phones. I guess it really is a no brainer that this will be scrapped - who in their right mind would subscribe to something for 18 months?! All is not rosy though as it seems defaulters will still need to pay RM200.

My advise - skip Maxis broadband. There really is no reason to with it with this sort of ridiculous terms. Want 3G? There’s Celcom. Wait till DiGi joins the 3G race to see some really interesting stuff.

Source: Mobile World

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Interesting Stuff To Download This Week

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted April 30, 2008 at 11:03 am
  1. NetBeans IDE 6.1 Download
     - if you’ve got an inner coder waiting to burst out, try this one. It’s user friendly and comes packed with features. I’m still using Eclipse though
  2. Windows XP SP3 - not yet official so YMMV
  3. Star Wars - Legacy of The Force Book 1 - it’s free for a limited time only. I love these marketing ploys where they offer the first book for free :)
  4. Naruto Shipuuden Movie 1 - all Naruto fans, get yer fix here (torrent)
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iPhone UI Coming to Windows Mobile?

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted at 3:30 am

Watch this video:

Source: Video: iSwish puts the iPhone UI on any Windows Mobile phone - Engadget

Btw, if you’ve outgrown Windows Mobile and are using a Palm, ZLauncher has an iPhone skin that can pretty much make your Palm look like a static (non of the finger flicking stuff unfortunately) iPhone. It’s the only skin I would use on a Palm. Somehow Apple did manage to nail that simple yet elegant feel.

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Palm Beta Testing New Device

  • Written by Bernie
  • Posted April 23, 2008 at 9:41 am

Engadget caught wind of this, but nothing concrete. Oh, and it’s a Windows Mobile phone - yawn. Saw this on other Palm websites as well so it’s probably true. Rumored to have WiFi this time.

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