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Some weeks ago I wrote a review post about the new HTC Touch Diamond2, where I explained its advantages and drawbacks besides my personal experience with it. Today we have prepared in the office, with our friends from Confëttika, some good pictures of the smartphone that will let you know it better. Enjoy them!

Let’s see the top!

Zoom out… and here we have the Programs menu and TouchFLO with Mail.

Now let’s touch and type!

Links: Confëttika | HTC Touch Diamond2 Review

I am really glad to write this post about the new HTC Touch Diamond2 which I have had in my hands . I will talk about the real experience I had with it and of course with new TouchFLO 3D. I will not focus on every technical specification cause they are really similar to HTC Touch Cruise ones, which was already posted. You can see some of the following improvements in the video below, recorded and produced by our friends in Confëttika (thank you friends, great job!).

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Once you have the HTC Hero in your hands, you can say at first sight this is the first 100% HTC ANDROID project, as one of HTC members said.

In fact it’s the first device delivered by HTC not including the “with Google” logo on his back, what makes the Hero more independent from Google services than was Magic or G1.

GUI

With the introduction of HTC Sense, HTC gives Android their own look and feel, very close to the look and feel of their Windows Mobile devices, but integrating much better with the most basic applications of Android such as calendar, dialer, etc…

HTC Sense makes the device look more elegant than original Android and includes some functional improvements as well. For example, the number of desktop tabs. Pure Android devices as G1 or Magic have only three tabs for placing all your shortcuts and widgets, what becomes insufficient after the first weeks (well… at least for me), but HTC Sense provides up to 7 tabs for placing your favorite shorcuts and widgets.

And there is a lot of widgets to put on! It’s specially remarkable the great widget collection included in HTC Sense. Quantity and quality! Stocks, clocks, calendar, twitter, and more… This is one of my favorite things in HTC Hero.

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One month ago, our CTO, José Manuel Cristobal, has the opportunity of attending the presentation of HTC Hero and HTC Sense. Then, we could read his first impressions about the event and about the device itself.

Now, we have put our hands on this little precious for a couple of days, and have new things to share with you: a video review showing the main features of HTC Hero and Sense and how the mobile applications can help in our daily life. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Thanks to our friends of Confëttika, for this great videos.

First, unboxing and looking at HTC Hero design …

Getting it to work …

Reviewing …

And a real life sample …

Last 1st April, HTC hold an event for bloggers to show up their new product lines. Sevenclick was there, and they lend us the fabulous HTC Touch Cruise 09.

After more than a month of daily use of this nice WinMo device, I can affirm that its one of the best HTC devices right now. Here you have the full review.

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Well, this is something new for mobile devices. So far we have found applications like web-browsers, media players, file browsers,  text processors, office files editors… Nothing about IDEs for software developers neither 3D modeling/animating applications (which actually is kind of the same case).

Maybe this limit has come to an end, because iPhone can work as a 3D modeler with the new application iTracer, which belongs to the games developer Fabio Policarpo.

iTracer allows you to build a 3D scene with basic primitives like cubes and spheres, and use extrusion and revolution operations to edit the models. It also supports generic triangle meshes with per-vertex normals.

According to materials, it includes a material editor which supports diffuse and specular components, opacity, refraction, reflection, transparency and ilumination. With this app you can render your scenes and save them. This render can work with shadows and multiple lights.

And what about the multitouch feature? iPhone and iTouch include this feature, which is really useful in this application. It allows view scaling, panning and tilting; and object translating, rotating and scaling with simple touch movements.

Review:

From SevenClick we’ve wanted to have a try to this app. In general, just to say that it works as it should, but I will note some conclusions.

• GUI: it’s simple, so easy to use. As a good thing I have to say that the iPhone multitouch feature is essential to make the app handy. It helps a lot in the operations of camera movement and rotation.
• Multitouch: as I’ve said before, it’s essential. But as a drawback I can say that the fact that you cannot use both hands (like in PC apps), makes you work slower. Cause you always have to switch between object and camera operations, or have to select and operation from the screen what is commonly faster done by using keyboard commands on PCs.
• Object operations: when objects are small (often when they are created) it’s difficult to select them and operate. So you have to zoom in to be able to take that object properly.
• Renderer: it’s far from computer applications, but includes all the basic features like transparency, refraction and reflection.
• Delete operation: it is “hidden”, is not a visible operation on the screen, you have to navigate through several steps on the menu to be able to delete an object.
• Curve points uneditable: meshes constructed by extrusion or revolution are based on curve points. These points are not currently editable so now you cannot edit the objects you have built using this curves. But iTracer could take this into a future update.

To sum up, I think this kind of applications are not really useful in mobile devices. It’s great to use tiny non-keyboard devices, but for mobile devices purposes, not for computer ones. In this case, PCs are much more useful so that allow keyboard commands and mouse operations at the same time, what makes you develop faster. In addition, the screen is too small to develop big scenes, so the app starts to loose sense. Besides, the operations are too simple to model fine production objects.

However, this application is a beginning, and if it’s improved it could be more useful. But in my opinion, the current sense of this app it’s just to play with 3D modeling and test iPhone and iTouch as a mobile developer device.

Via SolidSmack

This is maybe the best attempt from Nokia to beat RIM BlackBerry devices. It’s a mobile phone oriented for people who often use e-mail services. Because of that it includes a QWERTY keyboard to make this easier.

This device has some problems if you use BlackBerry e-mail service or Exchange server. Despite this, it will be a good device for everyone, thinking on this kind of user oriented devices.

Let’s talk now about some of its features:

• Design:
  It’s really compact (114 x 57 x 10 mm) to have a QWERTY keyboard, Nokia has adjusted the size of the device. It weights 127g, what added to its reduced size looks to be a compact and resistant phone.
  In the backside metal part has a useful grid that will prevent it from falls. Besides, just to say that it really has a “Blackberry” style, as we can see in the picture.



• Screen:
  The screen has 2.36 inchs and can display 16 millions of colours. This size looks right compared to the size of the device. It has a 320×240 pixels resolution what it’s nice, although in some applications like e-mail, a better resolution would help to access more information of each message, as Xatakamovil has previously posted.



• Keyboard:
  It has QWERTY system. Its compact size makes this device a little bit more “portable”, so that it’s not as big as its competitors (what can be a drawback for people with big hands…). It includes direct access keys on the top, which link to Home, Diary, Contacts and e-mail.

• Connectivity: it can connect via 3G with a 3.6 mbps HSDPA connection or via WiFi 802.11g. It also includes infrared system and Bluetooth 2.0 with these profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP.

• Camera: it has a 3.2 megapixels (2.048 x 1.536) camera, with flash, autofocus and digital zoom.



• Battery: great news at this point, let’s the numbers talk. Up to 10 hours of speaking time, 20 days of non-use time and 18 hours of music playing time.

• Start screen: this is totally customizable. Actually you can configure 2 different start screens and swich them whenever you want. Eachone allows you to customize the direct access icons and even the information you want to be displayed on the screen like e-mails, WiFi networks…

• E-mail: it has a POP3 or IMAP oriented e-mail service that works perfect. It also supports Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email and Nokia Mobile VPN.

• Maps: it has a GPS receptor so with this Nokia phone you can navigate using Nokia Maps 2.0 and even search for restaurants or shops.

• Memory: it supports microSD cards up to 8GB size, and it has an internal dynamic memory of 110MB.

• Connectors: it has a micro-USB 2.0 port to connect your phone to the computer, and also an AV Nokia 2.5mm connector. The disadvantage of this port is that it’s not compatible with standard earphones, so that they are 3.5mm sized.

• Music: we can charge music files from the microSD card or from the computer via an USB cable. We can have the media player background working.

• Conclusion: good design, small size, powerfull applications… looks a great device, we are waiting it comes to our hands to play with it and give you more info and our non-technical opinion.

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Apple has published a great guided tour of its amazing iPhone 3G, this is the first opportunity to know more about this gadget.

Link iPhone 3G guided tour HD video

Sleek Audio SA6 earphones are here and we reviewed them, overall score 10. Unbelievable! this “transformers” are the best in high quality in-ear earphones around its price.

Continue reading this article to discover this great earphones.

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Some months ago we posted an extended In-ear iPhone earphones review. Today, as an update, we are going to review the Jays M-Jays Handsfree headset iPhone version.

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