Fonte: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techguru_brazil/~3/466170114/Post.aspx

A Lenovo está desenvolvendo um sistema de segurança dos mais interessantes para os usuários de seus notebooks 3G. Isso porque o recurso permitirá que o usuário desligue o portátil via mensagens SMS.

Com o nome de Constant Secure Remote Disable, a funcionalidade fará uso da conectividade 3G presente nos equipamentos. Em caso de roubo ou desaparecimento dos mesmos, a vítima poderá enviar mensagens de desativação para até 10 números de telefones previamente cadastrados no notebook. Assim que o portátil receber o alerta, ele também enviará um SMS ao usuário, confirmando o bloqueio. Caso a máquina seja recuperada, será possível reativá-la por meio de um sistema de códigos também pré-definido.

Este novo recurso de segurança estará disponível nos modelos ThinkPad que tragam suporte às redes 3G e, o melhor de tudo, será uma funcionalidade gratuita para quem for o feliz proprietário de um exemplar da marca.

Fonte: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techguru_brazil/~3/466581640/Post.aspx

Pelo jeito, a Microsoft vai realmente entrar no mercado de smartphones como fabricante, como já foi dito neste post aqui. De pouco tempo para cá, os aparelhos com tela sensível ao toque passaram a ganhar popularidade, puxados pelas fortes vendas do iPhone no mundo inteiro. Depois, a HTC e a operadora T-Mobile lançaram em parceria com o Google o G1, que já é um sucesso nos Estados Unidos e Inglaterra.

A grande questão é: Será que vale a pena para Ballmer e cia lançarem o ZunePhone?

Hoje o rumor ganhou mais força ainda pelas declarações de Jim Goldman, jornalista da CNBC e autor do blog Tech Check. Ele afirma que o aparelho seria desenvolvido em parceria com a Danger Inc, companhia americana de software que foi adquirida pela Microsoft em abril deste ano. Além disso, o nome provável do Zune Phone seria...Pink! Será que é de bom gosto?

O smartphone seria apresentado em fevereiro, e traria o chip NVIDIA Tegra, com processador e placa de vídeo no mesmo componente - o que provavelmente daria uma gigantesca qualidade de vídeo ao celular.

O lançamento não seria de todo mal para a Microsoft, já que o Windows Mobile 7 teria sido adiado para 2010 - o que não ajuda nem um pouco a companhia. As recentes declarações de Ballmer de que a companhia planeja usar o software do Zune em outros celulares reforça o rumor sobre o Pink, que teria uma interface parecida ao tocador de música.

O Techguru gostaria de saber a opinião dos leitores: Você acredita em um possível smartphone da Microsoft? Ele teria força o suficiente para brigar com titãs do ramo como o iPhone e o recém-chegado G1?

Fonte: http://www.gizmodo.com.br/conteudo/sincronizacao-completa-com-exchange-chega-ao-android-desenvolvedor-particular

Falando em Android, você que é fã do G1 talvez se lembre que o telefone foi lançado com zero-vírgula-zero funcionalidade com o Exchange, irritando mais de um executivo (pelo menos uns dois ou três). Os mestres do Android disseram que a plataforma suportaria de bom grado a integração com o Exchange feita por desenvolvedores particulares e veja só, ei-lo! semana passada a NitroDesk lançou o TouchDown, “a primeira solução para acessar o seu e-mail no Exchange Server, seus contatos e o calendário em aparelhos móveis com Android”.
Talvez você se lembre que há um mês eu falei sobre um aplicativo gratuito de sincronização de contatos para o Android. O TouchDown, que custa 30 dólares, é um pouco mais extenso:
•    Funciona com Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 e a “maior parte” dos hosts online do Exchange
•    Você pode compor, enviar, responder, responder a todos, encaminhar e deletar e-mails
•    Você pode acrescentar, deletar ou editar contatos do telefone, atualizando nas duas vias para a sua conta Exchange
•    Ele não requer um aplicativo rodando no seu computador para transmitir as coisas para o telefone.
Eis algumas telas:

Nós provavelmente não testaremos o aplicativo logo de cara, mas se você chegar a rodá-lo, favor comentar aqui embaixo para o benefícios dos demais.

Fonte: http://msn.techguru.com.br/SIM-Card-traz-GPS-integrado.htm

Aos poucos, os SIM cards vão mostrando um potencial multimídia até então insuspeito, principalmente pelo seu tamanho. Isso porque duas empresas, Sagem Orga e BlueSky Positioning, conseguiram integrar um receptor GPS no componente em questão.
A novidade pode vir a se tornar um interessante padrão para novas gerações de celulares e smartphones, permitindo que os usuários tenham esta funcionalidade a preços mais acessíveis o que não acontece agora. Além disso, este recurso pode ser inserido em outros gadgets, como câmeras digitais, relógios e também midia players. Até o momento, as idealizadoras da novidade ainda divulgaram quando ela estará disponível comercialmente. E também temos de avaliar se este GPS será tão preciso quando os modelos tradicionais.

Foto ilustrativa: Wikipedia

Fonte: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CEnriqueOrtizWeblog/~3/v-OGyeyKIHI/

I’ve written an article/tutorial on mobile web/widget development using Yahoo! Blueprint; see Develop mobile widgets with Yahoo! Blueprint (IBM developerWorks). The article shows how to develop a Weather widget using the Blueprint XML markup and infrastructure, PHP for server integration, and the consumption of Yahoo! services on the web.

Developing mobile applications can be a daunting task. With hundreds of handsets to develop against and support, mobile application development can be time consuming and costly.

With Blueprint, you can author a mobile application one time that can be targeted at mobile devices with a browser (or devices that support the Blueprint platform), allowing you to potentially reach thousands of users. In this tutorial you will see how to develop a weather mobile widget using the Yahoo! Blueprint platform.

This tutorial is for developers interested in learning how to develop mobile widget-based applications using the Yahoo! Blueprint platform. While this tutorial is for entry-level developers, general knowledge about Web applications, mobile applications, XML, and PHP is desirable, but not essential.

The article is dedicated to the memory of Heidi Carson:

This tutorial is dedicated to the memory of Heidi Carson. She was the editor of IBM developerWorks (dW) Wireless and Web development zones. I used to write about mobile and wireless for her; many years ago Heidi gave me the opportunity to write for dW. And she was friendly, kind, and always willing to help through the process. As I learned that she has left us, I’m saddened. But a part of her can be found in each of my previous articles at dW.

ceo

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1237

Yesterday, we posted about the preview of the Internet Explorer mobile 6 which is based on the desktop version of the Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, we could only test it via Device emulator. We managed to test it on the real device. Here is the review of it.

Please note that all the screenshots are in VGA resolution (640 x 480)

The browser has two modes: desktop and mobile. This basically tells the other sites that you are using a mobile device or you can set the browser to Desktop mode, which will tell the other sites that you are using IE 6.

If you type in anything in the above box, it will live search it and display you the results. Odd that it uses the mobile version of it even in the Desktop mode

Zoom feature

You would say that the zoom feature is also there in the IE mobile included in the Windows Mobile 6.1 devices. But wait, this is a desktop-class IE. Remember? It displays pages accurately. GadgetMix.com is a fairly complex website and it displayed perfectly!

Sadly, it takes a while to get to page zoomed out. Even on a powerful device like HTC TOUCH DIAMOND

When you have Zoomed out (menu>Zoom out), you can just tap the portion you want to zoom into.

And the youtube works inside the pages as well. It is slow, but it works. I’m sure this will improve in the future builds.

Other nice things I really liked

When you open Gmail, it takes you to the Desktop version of gmail!

But, we didn’t remain happy for a long time. See following screenshot

As soon as I clicked on 'sent items', it showed me this error

One of the nice touches of new IE is the ability to auto-complete the URL

Quirks:

• Sometimes, it is not able to identify itself as Desktop browser. For example: going to engadget.com on the device lead me to the mobile version.
• No tab support: It may be implemented in the future versions
• Slow! It is way too slow right now to be useful

But still, it is a BIG initiative by the Microsoft to develop a desktop class web browser.

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1257

ASUS P565, a business PDA phone that boasts an 800 MHz processor—the fastest in the world at the time of this announcement. Featuring ASUS’ latest touch-driven user interface—Glide—the stylish, leather-accented P565 delivers graphics and system performance beyond anything else on the market at present scores almost two times that of competing products in its class. This enables the P565 to glide through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and to handle heavy multitasking exceptionally well—making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools.

Rounding off its impressive feature set is a 2.8″ touchscreen running at a high resolution of 480 x 640 pixels, delivering an unprecedented degree of clarity that does wonders for both personal photographs and spreadsheets.

Talk about being powerful! The 800mhz clearly blows away all the Windows mobile and other phones. No phone has ever come with so powerful processor till date.

It comes with 256MB ROM/128MB RAM,1300maH battery, microSD slot and SiRF Star III GPS too.

link to the official page

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1306 by harvsingh

I’ve been waiting for such device from since the original iPhone came out. Big display, easy to use interface, powerful processor, tons of program memory, those are some of the qualities I was looking in a true iPhone contender. After a lot of wait, well, it is finally here! THE HTC TOUCH HD

Recipe: Take a HTC touch Diamond, put in a 3.8″ display, remove D-Pad, add a 3.5mm headphone jack and you will have the HTC TOUCH HD!

By it’s looks, one would assume that it is just another iPhone-wannabe, but that is where the story ends. The HTC TOUCH HD is the first truly amazing muscle phone containing massive 3.8″ display having a very high WVGA resolution (800 x 480).

Unboxing
The box came with the usual stuff. It didn’t have the HTC Touch Diamond like Diamond box, but the HTC manages to provide decent unboxing experience.

Box Contents

• HTC Touch HD (expected Santa?)
• 8GB microSDHC card
• AC Adapter
• USB Cable
• Stereo earphones with microphone
• Case
• 1350mAh Battery
• Additional Stylus
• Screen Protector
• Getting Started CD, User Manual CD

All the accessories are same as the it’s sibling HTC Diamond except for the 3.5mm headphone jack which now supports direct plugging of your normal headphones without use of converter.

Design and looks

The HTC TOUCH HD has rounded corners and remarkably polished looks. It follow the minimalistic approach. The front of the device is mostly covered with glass and thus attracting fingerprints.

At the back, it has a  rubber finish which provides a firm grip to the device. Also, as it does not attract finger prints due to it. You will also find the 5MP camera here. There is no flash.

Display

The HTC TOUCH HD has a BIG 3.8″ display. When was the last time you saw such a big display on a mobile device. Perhaps 5 years back on those QVGA 3.8″ screen iPAQs. So what has changed then? It comes with a WVGA 800 x 480 resolution, which promises great internet experience as compared to the normal QVGA devices in the market.

The best part about the display is that you don’t have to press the display hard to register a tap. A little touch on the screen makes the device register the tap, which brings the sensitivity to whole new level for Windows Mobile devices.

Buttons

On the top, you will find the power button. Below the display, you will find four touch sensitive buttons(answer, end, Home and Back key), which can be felt by haptic feedback (you can disable it too). There is no D-Pad. So, you may find difficulty in navigating the device if you have just bought the device. After you get used to the design, you won’t have any problems navigating. On the left side, you will find the usual volume buttons.

Stylus

Just like HTC Touch Diamond, the stylus resides in the lower right corner of the device. The magnet holds the stylus in it’s place, again just like Touch Diamond. The stylus is non-telescopic, which is a nice thing as I’ve never been a fond of telescopic stylus.

The evil reset hole

HTC has also carried the genes of evil reset hole which is hidden behind the battery cover. So, everytime your phone gets hanged due to some reason, you will have to remove the battery cover just to reset it.

The micro-SD slot is also not accessible directly from the sides of the device. You again have to remove the battery cover to access it. If you don’t change your micro-SD cards frequently, then it won’t bother you much

Software

The HTC Touch Diamond runs Windows Mobile 6.1. HTC has made a lot of enhancements to the usual interface to make the user experience better. The popular TouchFlo 3D has been borrowed from the HTC Diamond and it really shines on the massive display.

Here are few screenshots of the TouchFlo 3D interface of the HTC Touch HD.

1) Home: Beautiful home screen with a big clock. Flipping your finger up will make the clock small and it will provide room to display more appointments.

2) People: This contains the list of quick dial numbers with big pictures. Clicking the contact opens it in the contact application providing you the option to send an SMS/EMAIL or call them.

3) Messaging: I find this tab the coolest to show-off the TouchFlo 3D. Dragging your finger up takes you to the next message while dragging your finger down takes you to the previous message. The words slither away!

4) Mail: Similar to the messaging tab. It shows email instead of SMS

5) Internet: It has a big button to launch the Opera Browser. Below it reside the bookmarks you’ve done in the Opera Browser

6) Stock: This is a new tab that was not there in HTC Diamond. It shows latest stock prices.

7) Photos and Video: This tab shows photos and videos stored on your device. You also get access to the still camera and video camera from here.

Weather: This shows weather for the current day and for the next four days underneath the weather for the current day. It can set to fetch data for upto seven cities

9) Music: You can flick through the albums by swiping your finger up or down. It shows album art too.

10) Settings and programs: Settings let you do basic modifications to the TouchFlo 3D. Unlike the TouchFlo in diamond, you can also change the order of the tabs. Programs lets you define shortcuts to your favorite program.

Unfortunately, the beauty is just skin deep. For example: If you click on any message in the TouchFlo’s SMS tab, you will to not-that-finger friendly messaging application.

On the brighter side, HTC keyboards provide quite nice finger typing experience, again thanks to the big screen. On my Diamond, I still struggle to type on that keyboard.

HTC has also put it the G-Sensor application, which was first seen in the HTC Touch Pro.

Sound and Video Quality

It’s ability to take 3.5mm headphone jack is the immediate advantage over most of the Windows Mobile phones, which use ext-USB. This lets you use your favorite headphones with it. The sound quality is really nice!

The WVGA screen of the touch HD is great for watching videos. Don’t get fooled by the word “HD”. It is not meant to play those HD WMV files.

Signal Strength

The TOUCH HD has very powerful GSM radio module which manages to pick up a nice signal. The sound quality at both ends (sender and receiver) was great. No calls were dropped. Like Diamond, the screen switches off when you are on a call.

So, what is missing?

Well, it does not support TV-out like Touch Pro, which may be a let down for some. The HTC TouchFlo 3D is a valiant effort by HTC to make the windows mobile friendly, but unfortunately, HTC cannot make the whole windows mobile interface finger friendly. But, the big 3.8″ display surprisingly made everything very finger friendly.

Battery life

It comes with a 1350mAh battery. It is adequate for the average Joe. Even a power user should be able to easily squeeze out one day of battery life with heavy use. With casual use, getting two days of battery life is no big deal too.

Final Words

Undoubtedly, it is the most advanced Windows Mobile handset I’ve ever used. The big, high-resolution display provides great internet experience thanks to the wonderful Opera Browser. TouchFlo 3D adds to it’s “wow factor”. The sensitivity of the screen is great; sound quality is great and has one of the best GSM modules I’ve come across in the windows mobile arena.

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Pros:

• WVGA resolution (800×480)
• Big, easy to read display
• TouchFlo 3D
• 5MP camera
• Good battery life
• GPS
• Sensitive screen
• Including opera browser was a wise choice by HTC

Cons:

• Unfortunately, TouchFlo 3D just cannot make the whole windows mobile finger friendly

Official HTC TOUCH HD page

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1319 by Kamal DS

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Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1308

The HTC Raphael is known by different names depending on the version and where in the world you bought it. Some of the names include the HTC TOUCH PRO the AT&T FUZE.

The HTC Touch Pro is where I will be focusing my attention today . The Touch Pro is a much awaited upgrade to the HTC Diamond. The Touch Pro has fixed most of the complaints that people had with the original diamond.

If you were to take a picture of the HTC Diamond and the HTC Touch Pro from the front you would see that they look almost identical. The real only change can be seen once you slide out the keyboard, or even flip the phone around and see that the camera that now adds a led flash next to the camera. You would also notice the huge thickness difference between as well.
Hardware
The pro features a 2.8 inch screen that has a overlay of glass over the touch resistive screen. The screen is flush to its housing. The resolution is VGA (640×480). This makes the images on the screen look very vivid and alive. The fonts also look very crisp and readable without straining your eyes.

The next thing is that tells itself apart from the diamond the keyboard. It features a 57 button keyboard. HTC has dedicated an entire row to numbers only. On previous devices, you had to either hit some type of shift/fn button to bring up the numbers. The keyboard also features a few dedicated shortcut buttons. The icons differ on each device but in general, you get one for a new text or mms message as-well-as a mail inbox button. There are a couple of other shortcuts that require you to hit the fn button because they share a button with another icon, those include a opera mobile button and a communication manager that allows access to Bluetooth ,WiFi and phone profiles. The keyboard has a very nice feel to it. Not too hard or too spongy. All the buttons are flush and don’t stick out. I had no problem typing long emails or text messages.

There are ‘only’ 8 buttons on the device. Some of the buttons that you are used to are no longer there such as the ok button. On the front, there is an end button and a call/answer button. On top row there is a home button and a back button. On the left side of the device, there are volume buttons and on the top, you can find the power button. The power button serves 2 purposes. The obvious turning off the device and also as to turn off the backlight. The last one is the D-Pad or D-circle. It has two functions: it can function as a normal D-Pad as-well-as be used as a jog wheel in certain applications.

The Touch Pro has a 3.2 mega pixel auto focus camera as-well-as a video camera that can produce video at 4 resolutions

• Small (128×96)
• Medium (176×144)
• Large (320×240)
• CIF (352×285)

You also have an option to choose the format you want it to be in H.263, 3GPP2, MPEG4.
The still camera has a few options, besides the option to just take a picture. There is panorama, contact and picture theme. You also have the choice to choose different resolutions. There is no traditional shutter button on this phone like most phones. HTC choose to use the center on the D-pad to be its picture button. The camera has the auto focus feature. If you lightly touch it, it will engage the auto focus and then notify you that it ready to be taken.

Another difference between the different versions of the pro is the back portion of the device. Most of them have the same back has the Diamond. But some also have a flush smooth back.

Stylus

The stylus is non-telescopic, just like HTC Diamond. I prefer non-telescopic ones over telescopic ones. The stylus is held into the unit by small magnet.

Battery life impressions
The battery life on the Touch Pro can be sum’d up into few words. Some words that come to mind are “crappy” “pathetic” “reasonable”. All of these keywords have their own merits. First let’s discuss the spec of the battery.
The Touch Pro comes with 1340 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. Some could argue that it’s not enough juice to power this device. I happen to agree with this. If you look at all this device has to offer especially other things like the GPS, high resolution screen, bigger processor and more ram, one question would pop up in your mind. Is the 1340 mAh battery really enough for a device like this? If you look at other device in the same range they offer bigger batteries. The Samsung Epix that was just released for AT&T (US carrier) has similar specs. It also has GPS and even a 624mhz Intel processor but yet it packs a 1800 mAh Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. The Palm Treo Pro offers a higher resolution screen (320×320) GPS and that 128mb of ram as-well-as wifi and GPS and it packs a 1500mAh lithium-ion. Why would HTC decided to go with a lower battery? Is it money? A design flaw? A bigger battery can be done with the same size. Seidio offers a 1500mAh battery that is the same size as the stock battery.

Ok so back to those keywords I mentioned earlier ‘crappy” I think HTC went the cheap route and ordered smaller mAh batteries to save a little money. The battery performance on a stock ROM (meaning that no modifications have been made) is really crappy. In my personal experience I’m getting less than a work day out of the battery (yes, you can flash or modify your device will discuss this later) that is with push email (push email is on call email so your emails are in real time) and a few texts and web browsing. “Pathetic” can also be a choice of words do to the amount of battery life you get from the device you could argue it’s a new battery. I also mentioned “reasonable” because of the amount of stuff that can be done with this device and its specs. Let’s get this straight, these are not the old school pocket pc device that we started off with that only featured GPRS and in some cases, EDGE. The processor have come a long way too. We were running those OMAP 200mhz processors on the standard QVGA screens(240×320). The amount of ram that was there in those devices was pathetic too by today’s standards. But all these types of features require a lot of juice to run.

For me personally I have been getting pretty good battery life after a couple of weeks. But this is because of some tweaks and hack as well as some custom ROMs that I have put on my device. I installed all the known battery performance tweaks as-well-as having the EDVO(US form of 3G data) connection turn-off itself after a certain amount of time. Battery life can be improved with these various tweaks and more. I just wish HTC put a bigger battery into this great device.

User interface
The Touch Pro features the TouchFlo 3d interface. In a nut shell, it’s basically eye candy that gives you short cuts to different programs. The TF3D (TouchFlo3d) has a very eye appealing look to it. The shell offers a new interface that most people aren’t use to using or seeing on a windows mobile device. The interface can be customized if you install the right programs. In general, there are 7 grids or panels in TouchFlo 3D. Since its customizable, you can remove any that you don’t like.

Home
The first tab is called home it gives you all the basic info you would need, such as time date, missed calls calendars and network name. On the bottom of each tab you are given 2 different soft keys. In the home tab, one takes you to the phone application and other to the programs.

People
Next is the peoples tab. Here you are given option to add your favorite people you like to call or text. HTC choose to use the term people instead of contacts. On this tab your soft keys are all people and menu. The first give you access to all your contacts and not just your favorites and the menu gives you the option to add a new favorite

Messages
The next is messages, here you are given the option to read most of the text messages on the front screen without having to open the inbox, you can also slide up and down to see the different messages. In this tab your soft keys are all messages and menu the all messages open up to well of course all messages . The next is menu, tapping on that gives you three options new reply and delete.

Mail
The next is the same as the last but give you access to the email inbox. The only difference is the soft keys menu brings up new mail, a option to change email accounts, as-well-as send and receive, incase you don’t have your email on push.

Internet
This tab give you shortcut to the opera internet browser. It also give you shortcut to the YouTube app as well as favorites you have on your opera browser. The soft keys on this tab are all bookmarks and open browser.

Photos and videos
This tab gives you the option to view all the pictures and videos you have taken. You can also flick your finger up and down to move to the next picture/video. The soft keys on this are album and slideshow. The album shows all the pictures you have taken. The slide show does just that.

Music
This tab give you the option to listen to music from the home screen. You are also able to flick through the songs. Your soft keys are library and menu. The first takes you to all the music you have. The latter takes you to the following options repeat, shuffle, properties, add to playlist, and audio booster which is just a fancy name for equalizer.

Weather
This tab gives you the ability to view the weather with some fancy icons and animation. You can have 7 different city to look at and flick up and down to see different weather of next/previous city. The soft keys are 5 days and menu . The menu brings up “add a new location”, “remove location”, “update now”, “toggle between”, “f or c settings”, and the “about button”.

Programs
This tabs has a shortcut to programs you use most often or programs you choose to add, the soft keys are all programs and remove

Landscape touch flo 3d
Unlike HTC Diamond, the TouchFlo 3D also works in Landscape mode although it is not as shiny or eye appealing as the portrait mode. It does offer some shortcuts in the form of simple square icons, no fancy flicking or sliding. Just tapping.

GPS

The device also has a built in GPS as-well-as A-GPS. A-GPS is a feature that pulls cell-tower information to give you a faster lock on your location. There isn’t really much to say on it since there are some bugs and problems with it. One for example is once you lock on; there is a stutter with tracking. Sometime you lose the signal and sometimes it has problems keeping up with your location.

Overall impressions
The Touch Pro is a great device if you want the same function as the diamond but yearn for a physical keyboard and a led flash for pictures. This also gives you the best option for the money.

Sponsor love:

You can add protection to your HTC Touch pro/fuze by using these wonderfully stiched cases from PDAir. They come in 2 styles: book-type and flip-type

book type

flip type

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1344

by Kamal DS

How about changing the wallpaper automatically according to the time of day? Concept surely do sounds very cool, if not productive. gorrunwe, a talented coder at XDA-devs have come up with such application

Click here to download the application and here is a little GIF image, which demonstrates how it works.

How to install:

1. Mortscript 4.1 or 4.11b must be installed on your ppc
2. Extract the archive and eventually put your own “xx.jpg” pictures (where xx is between 00 and 23) in a directory which is inside the created AutomaticWallpaperChanger\Pictures directory (at the beginning there is only the Moon pictures set inside of it)
3. then launch the AutomaticWallpaperChanger.mscr file (select the “Reinstall” option if you have used an older version).

Also, there is a evergrowing list of beautiful picture sets.

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1210

First we had news of Touch HD’s TouchFlo3D working on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and now someone has been able to run Xperia’s panels on the HTC Touch HD. This is a great news for the HTC Touch HD folks as now, they too can have the best of both worlds just like Xperia X1.

According to harvsingh(at xda-devs), who has made this possible says that he has found the ‘frontend’ a lot better than the TouchFlo3D interface.

He has also posted a proof-of-concept video. You can see the video at this link

Fonte: http://msmvps.com/blogs/nunoluz/archive/2008/07/02/changing-you-mdc-icon.aspx

This blog post has two objectives: welcoming J Allard as Chief Experience Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Entertainment and Devices Division, and showing you how to change your device’s icon at WMDC.

Well here’s what you need:

1. Some sort of Icon editor/creator software (I used Stardock Icon Developer);
2. WinCE Cab Manger or Visual Studio to create the CAB file;
3. One Windows Mobile 6;
4. A Windows Vista Powered PC;

The first step will be of course choosing the image you would like to appear as soon as you connect your device to your PC.

As an example I used the carismatic J Allard. Please take in account that the Icon you will be creating will have pre-defined sizes like 255x255 (WMDC Image), and 64x64/32x32/16/16 wich are the icons that will appear in Windows Explorer.

Next you will have to create a new CAB:

1. Name the CAB file “sync.ico”;
2. I used WinCE Cab Manager and added the file with the following path: “%CE%”;
3. As you might have noticed I have included a link to J Allard profile. In order to do this you have to create the followinf keys: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Activesync\OEM Links\Allard”;
4. And the add the Following strings:
   • description (name of the link)
   • Icon (image to appear)
   • priority (order in wich it will appear if there are more links)
   • url (link to the site)

Now just save the file and copy it to a Windows Mobile device. Preferably a device that will be connected for the first time to ou PC, otherwise you will have to uninstall the previous information that was synced previously.

To do so you must have your device connected and go to your Control Panel, System, and select Device Management. Find the Mobile devices tree and expand it. Next right click your device and uninstall it.

Afterwards restart both you PC and your device, and connect them again.

Notice: doing this will delete the current partnership

The final result is in this file that you can download and install in your device.

I hope you liked this tutorial, and let me know what you used for your WMDC Icon, and share some screenshots :)

Fonte: http://www.adnews.com.br/lerrss.php?id=78856

A rápida adesão à tecnologia 3G pode sobrecarregar as redes nos próximos anos. A previsão foi apresentada ontem (29) pela Nokia Siemens.

Segundo um levantamento da empresa, o aumento no uso da rede para acesso à internet fará com que a capacidade das faixas disponíveis seja totalmente utilizada até 2011. As estimativas prevêem que o tráfego da rede crescerá 90% em cinco anos.

Para Marco Aurélio Rodrigues, presidente da Qualcomm, os problemas surgirão em 2015. De acordo com dados da companhia, em três anos o mercado terá 1,5 bilhão de assinantes e 900 milhões de usuários de serviços móveis.

Wilson Cardoso, diretor de redes e engenharia da Nokia Siemens, acredita que existem duas soluções para o problema com a demanda no serviço. A primeira seria um investimento das operadoras em equipamentos para que as redes sejam usadas de forma eficiente. Para completar, a faixa de espectro da telefonia móvel deveria ser ampliada.

O consultor da Accenture, Geraldo Araújo, salientou que a questão deve ser vista com cuidado pelos órgãos reguladores que estão redistribuindo as faixas de freqüência em alguns países. "Espectro é um bem finito e perecível", completou.

As informações são do Valor Econômico.

Fonte: http://www.adnews.com.br/lerrss.php?id=79118

A AT&T está testando a idéia de limitar a quantidade de dados que seus usuários podem acessar mensalmente nos planos de conexão à internet. Inicialmente, será feita uma experiência com clientes da operadora em Reno, Nevada.

Cada vez mais, os provedores de serviço de internet dos EUA estão estipulando limites de informações que os usuários podem gerenciar por mês, na tentativa de controlar “famintos por banda de rede” - internautas que fazem excessivos downloads e uploads.

Segundo a AT&T, apenas 5% dos seus clientes utilizam mais de 50% da sua capacidade total de banda. A partir de novembro, a maior operadora dos EUA restringirá os downloads mensais a 20 GB no serviço DSL. Os planos mais velozes poderão acessar mais dados.

Fonte: Associated Press

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1115

Kamal DS

Geniuses at XDA-devs have done it again! lepsyfou has come up with patch which would enable SDHC on SDHC-devices.

The price of SDHC cards have dropping faster than one even thought. Some manufactures and carriers didn’t come out with WM6.1 update which enabled SDHC support on their devices. I hope their device gets compatible with this ‘patch’ and they too can enjoy the high speed memory cards.

And now the best part of this news, it is FREE. Get it here!

From wikipedia,

SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity, SD 2.0) is an extension of the SD standard that appeared in June 2006.[16] SDHC allows standard-compliant capacities in excess of 2 GB. SDHC cards are often formatted with the FAT32 file system.[17] It uses the same form factor as SD, but the SD 2.0 standard in SDHC uses a different memory addressing method (sector addressing vs byte addressing), thus theoretically reaching a maximum capacity of up to 2 TB (2048 GB). However the SD Card association have artificially defined the maximum limit of SDHC capacity to 32 GB.

Fonte: http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=1146

by Kamal DS

Task2Gather is an online application, which lets you manage the tasks online. It is available for free for your Desktop and also for Windows Mobile and iPhone. Imagine your wife or girlfriend updating the list of items to be purchased at home while you are out. Your windows mobile device or iPhone will automatically display the updated list. Priceless!

Lets see how the first screen of the Task2Gather looks. If you have already registered online, then you can easily log yourself in. Otherwise, you can click on “have no account?” and register yourself on the device itself. This is really nice considering the fact that many windows mobile applications require you to go to the product’s website on the Desktop to register yourself.

Please note that the screenshots were taken off my HTC Diamond and thus had to be scaled down as they looked very big (480 x 640)

After the success of the Touch friendly devices by HTC, it has become mandatory for every application to be very finger friendly. Nobody is now interested in taking the stylus out just to write few words or characters. People at VITO (who have made this application) have well understood this fact. The Task2Gather application is very finger friendly.

After you’ve successfully logged in, you will be presented with a list of your projects, if you have already created them on the desktop or on your other devices. Clicking on any of the projects would enlist the tasks that the project may contain.

You can click on the “+” icon on the top right corner of the screen to create a new task. Just assign the task some title and click on the “save” button to save it. At the same time, the task can be viewed online too! Pretty slick. Changing between windows is very sleek and fluid. No jitters on the VGA display of my diamond. I absolutely love it’s interface.

Clicking on the task would reveal it’s usual details. Here, you can share the task with someone else using Task2Gather. Just mention his email address and voila! You are done. You can even assign a deadline to the task. Not only that, you can also add comments to the task, if you wish to.

Folks at VITO have created a very nice and functional date picker. One flaw I found is the inability to create tasks while I’m not online.  In reality, you cannot do anything with the Task2Gather when you are not online. If you are not logged in, you cannot even see the tasks which are due. I am very sure that VITO would address this problem in the upcoming versions.

You can also create subtasks. Creating subtasks is similar to the way one creates normal tasks. Just tap on the task and select “subtasks” from the top right corner of the applications. It follows a hierarchical method of arranging tasks, which is nice way to divide the jobs and tasks of the company based on the complexity and nature of the job.

Desktop version:

As mentioned earlier in this review, the desktop version is absolutely free. You can do everything you can do in the Windows Mobile versions and iPhone versions. Click on following screenshot to see it’s larger view

Task2Gather is a great application. I’ve made quite a few desktop applications in the past and I must say that it is a very nicely coded application. Everything is very swift and intuitive.

Pros:

• you can register on the device itself: This is a huge plus for the people on the go.
• Great user interface
• Real time synchronization of tasks.
• Cheap, just $5 for windows mobile client
• Free web interface
• Support for comments in the tasks
• Share tasks with someone else
• Fluid animations

Cons:

• No notification option on the tasks that you have created.
• Lack of offline support
• No support of themes. I prefer the black theme used by the Winterface

Task2Gather’s windows mobile client is avaible for just $4.99 and Desktop panel is absolutely free

Visit Task2Gather website: http://task2gather.com/

Fonte: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u465376.shtml

colaboração para a Folha Online

Um levantamento da empresa Canalys divulgado na quinta-feira (6) aponta que a fabricante finlandesa de celulares Nokia perdeu participação no mercado mundial de smartphone no terceiro trimestre deste ano, na comparação com o mesmo período do ano passado. De acordo com a pesquisa, a Nokia tinha 51,4% desse mercado em 2007, que foi reduzido para 38,9% este ano.

No mesmo período, a Apple viu sua participação nesse mercado deixar a parte de baixo da tabela (3,6% no terceiro trimestre de 2007) para assumir a segunda posição com o iPhone, que teve 17,3% das vendas totais dos smartphones.

Outra que aumentou sua participação foi a RIM (Research In Motion), fabricante do Blackberry, fechando o terceiro trimestre de 2008 com 15,2% do mercado mundial, contra 10,6% de um ano antes.

A pesquisa da Canalys é concluída com a quarta posição nas vendas de smartphones, ocupada pela Motorola (5,8%), empatada com a HTC, que fabrica o G1 --celular que carrega o sistema operacional Android, do Google.

Corporativo

Outro levantamento divulgado ontem pela JD Power e Associados colocou o iPhone com a melhor nota em relação a satisfação de empresas que utilizam smartphones. No ranking que vai até mil, a Apple ficou com nota 778, seguida pela RIM (703) e Samsung (701).

De acordo com a pesquisa, as preocupações das empresas na escolha de um smartphone são a capacidade de navegação na internet (45%), utilização de e-mail (41%), estilo (39%), Bluetooth (37%) e estilo do teclado (37%).

Fonte: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WmPowerUser/~3/445480689/

HTC is doing well, really, really well. In their monthly update they have just announced a new record for single month revenue of nearly 1/2 billion dollars, thanks in the main due to the success of the new Touch Diamond/Pro series of smartphones. The $488 million revenue is 10% higher than its previous record in November 2007 when it managed to make $441 million in revenue. Compared to October 2007 the result is 22.4% higher.

For the year so far HTC has grown revenue 30.8% compared to the same 10 months last year, to a dazzling $3.7 billion. HTC predicts the good times will continue, and expects full year revenue to exceed $4.5 billion for the first time, up nearly 30% on the previous year.

According to Canalys HTC has grown its own-brand device sales 171% YoY in Q3 2008, making it the 4th largest smartphone maker. This excludes the ODM work it does for Sony Ericsson with the Xperia and Palm with the Palm Treo Pro. HTC has gone on record in the past that it did not see any impact from the success of the iPhone 3G.

Interestingly, if one had invested in HTC 5 years ago, one would be nearly twice as well off as if one invested in Google, despite the economic turmoil at the moment (This is not investment advice).

HTC’s shares are up 3% on the news.

Source: CENS