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HTC Touch Pro2 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:HTC Touch Pro2Editors' note: Portions of the Design and Features sections were taken from our review of the unlocked HTC Touch Pro2 since the two models share many similarities. Ever since the HTC Touch Pro2 was announced at GSMA 2009, there's been a ton of interest in the Windows...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Handhelds, accelerometer, HTC Touch Pro2, T-Mobile, HTC Touch, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-12

One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010

One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010Accelerometer is a chipSo that makes the headline fairly pathetic as it relates to the iPhone's competition.If there is the slightest indication an accelerometer might be useful, there is absolutely no reason not to include one of the device's mainboard.Accelerometer key to...

Tags: Smart phones, mobile, accelerometer, Apple iPhone, phone, cell phone, Accelerometer

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

HTC Touch Pro2

In the summer of the Palm Pre, Apple iPhone 3GS, Nokia N97, and T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the Windows Mobile camp has been pretty quite on the touch-screen smartphone front. However, there's been one WinMo device that keeps popping up in comment threads, forums, and e-mails when this group is mentioned...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, accelerometer, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro2, Touch Pro2, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-06-30

Rockr 1.0 (Mobile)

Rockr (also known as rock-paper-scissors, scissor-paper-stone, pierre-feuille-ciseaux, piedra-papel-o-tijera, jan-ken-pon, rochambeau or dung-pa-ski) is at long last available for iPhone. For too long, business travellers, students, bankers and surgeons have been without this invaluable tool, but now, thanks to the tireless work of our research technicians at Kontrollfeld, s/he need never...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Agency, Voice, Media, Apple iTunes, Accelerometer, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-25

LIVE from the Apple event

LIVE from the Apple eventiPod NanoI'm glad I just bought my son a 4 GB Nano for $199 from the Apple web site. OUCH!Apple events are better than Sleeping pillsAnother Yawn event from Apple, there will be a day when no one comes to hear Steve Jobs pamper his ego...

Tags: Games, Apple Events, MP3/MP4 Player, LOL Here, accelerometer, Apple Inc., Apple Event, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

New touch screen Classmates unveiled today

Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, “Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Use your cellphone as a 3-D mouse

Use your cellphone as a 3-D mouseMessage has been deleted.what about the accelerometers?If more cell phones start having accelerometers like the iphone famously does, why not just use bluetooth to get that information?Joey

Tags: Mice, Cellular phones, accelerometer, cell phone, 3D, mouse

Discussion threads 2008-01-19

Additional Resources

Awesome Laws Pro for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Awesome Laws Pro for iPhone packs over 1000 random, funny, and just flat-out bizarre laws. Guaranteed to keep you entertained for hours. It features no internet connection required, largest laws database, iPhone and iPod Touch compatible, total, read, and unread law numbers per State, accelerometer support, shake to get next...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Law, Icoderz, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Headspace Lite for iPhone 1.62 (Mobile)

With Headspace Lite for iPhone big ideas, great thoughts, even boring to-do lists are more fun. Create groups of related thoughts and position them in space. Rotate, pan, and zoom your view with finger gestures. Create hierarchical lists of items. Headspace Lite for iPhone features optional detailed notes for each...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Item, Flat Black Films, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Headspace for iPhone 1.62 (Mobile)

With Headspace for iPhone big ideas, great thoughts, even boring to-do lists are more fun. Create groups of related thoughts and position them in space. Rotate, pan, and zoom your view with finger gestures. Create hierarchical lists of items. It features optional detailed notes for each item, search function, supports...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Item, Flat Black Films, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Samsung Caliber (U.S. Cellular)

We've seen plenty of Samsung touch-screen handsets come our way, but not many of them make it to U.S. Cellular, a regional carrier based in Chicago. The only one so far has been the Samsung Delve, which made it to the carrier's lineup late last year. Now another one has...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, U.S. Cellular, Samsung Caliber, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless)

Editors' note: Over the next few days we will continue to test the Droid and add the results to this review.You have to hand it to Verizon Wireless: though the Google Android operating system now extends to a handful of devices, the carrier was able to get the tech world...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, display, Color Support, Verizon Wireless, Motorola Inc., Motorola Droid

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Gears of Gravity Lite for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)

With Gears of Gravity Lite for iPhone use your skills and rule the gravity to complete the dynamic physics simulated maze. Collect all plasma cores, step through or avoid all the obstacles by manipulating the gravity force and reach the teleport to proceed. Watch out for electrical currents, negative energy...

Tags: Ladder, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Gravity, Clickgamer, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Samsung Moment (Sprint)

In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Sprint Communications, Samsung Moment, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Beat Runner 145 bpm for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Beat Runner 145 bpm for iPhone plays a series of drum loops sampled at 145 bpm whilst you run with your iPod in hand, or in pocket using the built in accelerometer to sense arm/leg movement. The aim of the game is to race faster than a ticking time bomb...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, BPM, Ian Edmundson, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-21

HTC Tilt 2 (AT&T)

Editors' note: Portions of the Features section were taken from our review of the HTC Pure since the two smartphones share a number of same features.After waiting in the wings, AT&T's business customers are finally getting their turn with the HTC Touch Pro2. Dubbed the HTC Tilt 2 (and obviously...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone, AT&T Corp., Tilt2

Product reviews 2009-10-20

Dot Dot Dots for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Dot Dot Dots for iPhone uses the device orientation to set the direction dots fall to! This game, actually three different games in one, features smooth animation and cool graphics. Its addictive game play is sure to keep you playing for hours. This is the perfect game for commuting, work...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Animation, JPMartineau, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-16

RIM BlackBerry Storm 2 (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:BlackBerry Storm 2Let's be honest. Research in Motion's first foray in the world of the touch-screen smartphones wasn't exactly a smashing success. The RIM BlackBerry Storm was riddled with bugs and performance issues, which were resolved with subsequent software updates, but still, the damage had been done. However, there...

Tags: Handhelds, Keyboards, Smart phones, Verizon Wireless, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Storm 2, RIM BlackBerry Storm 2, Storm 2, BlackBerry Storm

Product reviews 2009-10-15

Motorola Cliq (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Motorola CliqIf anyone doubts that Google's Android has a future, then they haven't seen T-Mobile's Motorola Cliq MB200. With its easy-to-use design, spacious keyboard, and action-packed feature set, the Cliq combines an attractive, powerful device with the customization of the Android operating system. We won't say it's the...

Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Google Search Bar, Motorola Inc., Cliq, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-10-15

LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)

LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Cellular, LG Electronics Inc., home screen, LG Bliss, phone, Bliss

Product reviews 2009-10-14