HTC Touch Cruise (codename Polaris) review

HTC Touch Cruise Highlights:

• Full multimedia experience with the large 2.8-inch touch screen
• Revolutionary TouchFLO™ touch-screen technology that allows finger-touch scrolling, panning, and photo zooming
• Innovative 3D Touch Cube interface for quick and easy navigation
• Worldwide connectivity (3G and GPRS/EDGE/GSM)
• Windows Mobile® 6 Professional with Direct Push Outlook® e-mail
• Live HTC Home™ featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings
• 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus for shooting photos/videos and a second camera for video calls or self-portraits
• Built-in turn-by-turn GPS navigation with TomTom® software offers you a full navigation experience
• Entertainment features including an FM radio, MP3 player, and video playback

Here it is - HTC Touch Cruise review at Mobile-review.com:

http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-touch-cruise-en.shtml

Added UPDATE PDA Section

We added an "Update PDA" section where you can find tips and tricks how to upgrade your HTC PDA Phone.

iGO My way 8 from Nav N Go Kft

It will be delayed to November 2007, the new GPS navigation software from Nav N Go Kft. iGO My way 8 is the latest version of their popular GPS navigation software.

Overview of new Features in iGO My way 8

• 3D Terrain and Cityscape Rendering
• maps include shaded topographic elements and building models to provide an even more realistic view
• Although only a few big cities have been mapped in 3D so far, they plan to extend this virtual sightseeing feature to more and more cities in the near future.
• Fast, Real-Time Shading
• Color and Texture Mapped Surfaces
• Roads on Terrain
• Lane Navigation
• Satellite and Aerial Imagery (under development)
• The advanced POI management of iGO My way 
• Enhanced Guidance iGO My way gives precise voice prompts in all traffic situations.
• improvements to navigation software to more accurately distinguish sharp turns from gentle ones and to track main routes more reliably.
• display lane information to help the driver identify necessary lane changes.
• Redesigned User Interface - iGO My way has a brand new user interface. Not only is it more attractive and fashionable, but it also has separate Basic and Expert modes. Basic is for beginners and even those with no technical knowledge can use it easily. The Expert mode, however, can satisfy even the most experienced users with full customization and several color schemes.
•  Text-to-Speech Function One of the latest innovations of NavNGo is the Text-to-Speech function that can read out map content and navigation messages in some widely-used languages to make navigation even easier.
  

 

CeRegEditor - registry editor for any device (PDA)

The CeRegEditor is a registry editor for any device (PDA) based on WindowsCE, PocketPC2003 and WindowsMobile(WM5, WM6) system. It runs on desktop PC but operates on a mobile device.With this feature user is able to user a normal keyboard, ....

Main features:

• Navigate and edit(create) registry keys/values
• Fast search
• Export/import keys in REG format
• Management of favourites keys in registry
• "Image" of registry with compare and restore service

 

I-mate: Ultimate 6150 and Ultimate 8150

I-mate has announced 2 new Pda Phones. They are both Windows Mobile 6 devices, use 3G networks and have touchscreen VGA-displays.

Ultimate 6150

Operating System: Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Processor: Intel Bulverde 520MHz

Quad-Band GSM/EDGE

Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 or 850/1700/2100

Memory: 256MB ROM + 128 MB RAM

Screen: VGA 262K Color LCD Touch Screen

WiFi 802.11b/g/e/i

Bluetooth® v2.0 + EDR - up t 1.3 Mbps

Mini USB high speed - 480 Mbps

Direct Video Out XGA

Micro-SD card slot

2.0 mega pixel camera

Battery: 1530mAh

FM Stereo Radio

 

Ultimate 8150

Same specifictation as Ultimate 6150 and comes with keyboard

 

 

HTC P3600i: specification, review

HTC P3600i Specification

• 3.5G GPS PDA phone
• designed for executives and professionals
• 2.8-inch screen QVGA screen
• 500 MHz CPU
• ROM memory of 256MB,
• access the Internet: Wi-Fi 802.11g and HSDPA
• phone’s body has a luxurious high gloss finish that when touched, is reminiscent of a top-end grand piano, and will be available in Polished Black.
• GPS technology,
• 360-degree scroll wheel, providing easy scrolling of information without need for a stylus
• 2 mega-pixel camera
• media player
• music to be played in surround sound through Bluetooth A2DP
• A Mini-SD memory slot

 

Read John Chan, CNET Asia review of HTC P3600i

Handhelds Review : HTC P3600i

HTC plans more devices with Qualcomm chipset

By Reuben Lee

"TAIPEI, Taiwan--Handheld provider HTC today held a joint press conference with wireless provider Qualcomm to announce the continued collaboration between the two companies. HTC also revealed that it plans to globally launch a total of more than 10 handhelds based on the Qualcomm MSM7xxx-series platform later this year."

HTC plans more devices with Qualcomm chipset

HTC TYTN II review at Tracy and Matt's Blog

At Tracy and Matt's Blog have reviewed the new HTC TYTN II a 400mHz CPU, 256mb ROM, 128mb RAM, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, GPST Windows Mobile device.

"Some of the highlights of the article:

Keyboard: The built in keyboard is fantastic, certainly one of the best I’ve seen from any mobile device... Camera: 3.0 Megapixels ....Certainly the best camera I’ve seen in a WM device. GPS: I know that I mentioned this already but having GPS built into a device and not having to have an external unit is a real boon!

Some lowlights:

Size/Weight, Display, Battery Life..."

Read more:

Tracy and Matt's Blog

HTC Polaris in October

Key features

Windows Mobile 6 Professional
3.5" VGA screen
256 ROM / 128MB RAM
Qualcomm MSM7200 @ 400 MHz
WCDMA 2100 MHz, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps
EDGE/ GSM/GPRS, quad-band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Bluetooth
Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g
GPS/AGPS
Digital compass
FM radio
3 megapixel camera with auto focus
miniUSB, USB 1.1
MicroSD expansion

 

HTC product's name chart

HTC products are sold under several brand names — HTC, Dopod (HTC's subsidiary company) and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers such as Orange, T-Mobile, AT&T, O2 and Vodafone. At the link below you can find HTC product's name chart.

Link:

HTC product's name chart

HTC TyTN II / HTC Kaiser / HTC P4550

New communication device from HTC. HTC TyTN II also known as HTC Kaiser or HTC P4550 is a tri-band HSDPA/UMTS and quad-band
GSM/GPRS/EDGE device.

Key features

Windows Mobile® 6
Tilted 2.8” 240*320 QVGA touch screen
Sliding QWERTY keyboard
3 mega-pixel auto focus camera
Value Added Applications - HTC Home™, TomTom navigation software, Business card scanner
Tri-band UMTS with Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
ROM 256MB and RAM 128MB
360 degree 3 way jog wheel paired with OK button
microSDTM card slot
Advanced touch screen technology
built-in GPS navigation

 

 

 

HTC TYTN II specification

Processor

Qualcomm® MSM 7200, 400MHz

Operating System

Windows Mobile® 6 Professional

Memory

ROM: 256MB

RAM: 128MB SDRAM

Dimension

112 mm (L) X 59 mm (W) X 19 mm (T)

Weight

190g with battery

Display

2.8 inch, 240 X 320 QVGA TFT-LCD display with adjustable angle and backlight

Network

HSDPA/UMTS: Tri-band 850, 1900, 2100 MHz
HSDPA: Up to 384kbps for upload and 3.6Mbps for download
UMTS: Up to 384kbps for upload and download
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz

(The device will operate on frequencies available from the cellular network)

Device Control

Finger scrolling and panning

5-Way navigation control

Keyboard
Slide-out QWERTY keyboard

Connectivity

Bluetooth® 2.0

Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSB™ (11-pin mini-USB and audio jack in one)
GPS antenna connector

Camera

Main camera: 3 megapixel CMOS color camera with auto focus

Second camera: VGA CMOS color camera

Audio

Built-in microphone and speaker

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

1,350 mAh rechargeable Li-polymer battery

Standby time:

Up to 350 hours for UMTS

Up to 365 hours for GSM Talk time:

Talk time:

Up to 264 minutes for UMTS

Up to 420 minutes for GSM

Up to 120 minutes for video call

Expansion Slot

microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

AC Adapter

Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

DC output: 5V and 1A