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HTC X7500 -Reviewed-

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HTC X7500 (Advantage) –Reviewed-
If you think this device is too big for a phone or if you are the guy who told me its one-handed use is terrible, please stand up. You are dismissed. You may go now. Thank you for your time.
Now for the rest of you, my intent in this review is to focus on the X7500’s usability.
There are really only two things about this device that make it different from other Windows Mobile devices. It has an 8gb hardrive, and most importantly it has a 5 inch screen. This is one of the most significant changes we have seen in a Windows Mobile device. There have been lots of innovative changes made to converged devices, but few in the area of mobile computing. With the X7500 I like to call it “non-desktop computing” The 5 inch screen enhances the viewing capabilities of Windows Mobile by leaps and bounds, as I will show later with screen shots and pictures.
Before I get too far into this review I want thank Paul and Igor of SuperiorGadgets for putting the device in my hands for a few days so I could review it.
The complete review is posted here:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1150688

Excellent review! I agree with nearly everything you stated. Thanks.

I love the color. The only reason I could consider giving back my Dopod U1000...

Radio
What's the phone signal like on the u1000? I had a universal qtek 9000 and the phone signal was always weak. I finally stop using it. The u1000 would have to have a good signal.
Dan

iPhone screen on WinMo?

This sounds stupid but is it possible to hook up an OEM iPhone LCD screen http://cnn.cn/shop/apple-iphone-complete-digitizer-p-1863.html to a WinMo device? WinMo6 supports 480x320 correct?
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Kind of like hooking up an external monitor to a laptop. Are the connectors the same? Just thought I'd ask. That would be sweet to hook up a iPhone screen to say a Touch board. Then duct tape them together. . Better yet dual screens! Haha.

nice idea !

cool idea, but you would need to write yourself a driver for the screen, unless WM6 is pornographically plug-n-play.

i've just replaced the lcd screen on my hx4700. they are not the same.
even between differen't ipaqs they are all different screen connectors.
fairly sure with the multitouch hardware it wouldn't be compatible without someone with alot of knowledge of this stuff to create something to make it work.
sorry to be a downer.
what would be a really cool idea though is if someone put iphone-on-ppc apps on their x50/x50v, then painted black over the buttons and labels (the DELL, A X I M, X50/X50V bits),
then added a little extension to the top of it to continue outer the silver edge around the whole screen.
then just add a compact flash card that you insert a sim card and it adds phone capabilities to it (i have such a card),
and you'd practically then have an unlocked iphone with a 3.7" vga screen and graphics accelerator, that is capable of running windows mobile aswell (if you want to).
i.e.
>>>
(note - my mspaint skills suck. it probably wouldn't look as bad in real life.)

Probably you would need the controller for the screen (chip) and other stuff... nice idea but not possible.

Hermes (TILT) copy for $200!! W/TV antenna & more features. -> HTC CLONES <-

Hermes (TILT) copy for $200!! W/TV antenna & more features. -> HTC CLONES <-
I just saw this page:
http://tiltsite.com/2008/04/would-the-real-htc-tytn-ii-att-tilt-please-step-forward/
and it looks like there are TILT clones for much cheaper prices.
The Awang A9000
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I cant find anything about the CPU or the Radio version - I wonder if it's the same internally
the camera is only 1.3Meg - but it has dual sim, TV, and more features
what do you guys think?

It's definitely not a Kaiser, not even a Hermes...
A cheap copy at best
According to Dealextreme.com:
"- OS Note: while the interface may resemble Windows Mobile,it appears to be a proprietory OS and not Windows Mobile."
"- MicroSD/TF memory card slot supports maximum 1GB memory"
On the other hand it does seem to have a dual sim an tv tuner (ntsc) both not available on the real thing + it's half the price of a Hermes....
I say: if you can afford it, go for the original HTC (either Hermes or Kaiser)

It also only supports gsm, NOT 3G. I do believe it was tri-band though... Its all over ebay, just do a search for mobile phone with tv...
Have a workmate who got one off ebay for $0.99 with $40 delivery to australia. NOT Windows os and pretty basic. Can be a proper mongrel to find what you want and still hasn't figured out how to turn the ringtone down to fog horn yet either (supposed to be set on lowest setting before off, YIPES!!!)
Cheers...

never trust anything that is a cheap knockoff with wang cryptically hidden in the name... even if it starts with A

Can we have the Touchwiz Today Plugin from Omnia?

I'm refering to these great widgets on your today:
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See it here in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEhT76wVzc
(he only starts showing it after second 34)
It has been asked here and there over this forum, but this is the main area, so its better to ask here...
Any way we can get the rom to extract a cab or something? I dont think its hardware dependent, so it should work on our machines...
Anybody...?
PS: I think the iphone came and slap M$ and all the ppc makers right on the face with its 200mhz machines since 2003 and 64/128 low ram micro upgrades...
Now these great plugins start showing up here and there and machines suddently have 4 gb of rom, finally some long-awaited REAL upgrades!

I wonder if the rotation animations can be ported i mean even though you may not have a accelerometer it my still hide the usual lag.

Actually I was refering only to the gadgets...
The diamond album was easily re-used by other htc's, but you couldnt turn the images because you had no accelarometer, it worked fine without anyway...

Infuruno said:
I wonder if the rotation animations can be ported i mean even though you may not have a accelerometer it my still hide the usual lag.
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Agreed! The way the screen changes orientation is slick.

its cool..oh man why nowadays peoples brain are getting smarter..always out with something new

PIGEON! v1.2.0.17

Finger friendly ICQ messenger.
Developer: VirtualProjects
OS: Windows2003, WM5, WM6, WM6.1,
Windows Smartphones (2003 - WM6)
Processor: ARM
Screen: qQVGA, qVGA, VGA, WVGA
Supports downloadable color schemes.
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Features:
- Touch-oriented interface: slide your fingertip in contactlist window horizontally to browse contacts or vertically to browse the messages preview.
- In messages window vertical slide allows you to browse ? conversation, horizontal slide allows to browse smileys.
- Pigeon does not require much system resources: requires only 500KB RAM and runs perfectly on 200MHz CPUs.
- Does not use .NET platform, so works very fast.
- Supports downloadable color schemes and downloadable smiley packs.
- Supports WM 2003, WM5, Windows Mobile 6.0 and Windows Mobile 6.1.
- Intelligently sorts your contact list.
- Few ICQ numbers in one window support.
- Supports fast access through the Home & Today plug-in included.
- Supports hardware keyboards on phones and PDA.
It MAY HAVE BUGS although it has been tested for a long enough time.
Not fully translate - this mean, what some menu and buttons will be empty (without texts) and not tested.
Official english and russian forum here: Get it here for free or Direct download