Tidak ada kerjaan, proyek luaran juga lagi sepi, enaknya ngapain yah ? hmm.. akhirnya saya kembali ke PDA saya, sekaligus menindak lanjuti tentang postingan saya yang lalu mengenai HTC Tytn II, saya tidak puas begitu saja. Jika mengandalkan kemampuan windows mobile original pabrikan, rasanya kurang bisa “lari” lebih kencang lagi. Juga tampilan masih terbilang standar banget.

Untuk itu, saya coba baca-baca di beberapa forum yang membahas tentang PDA, khususnya yang menyangkut Tytn II ini, pasti ada yang membahas seputar bug, upgrade, atau ‘flashing‘ yang sering kita dengar. Konon, katanya setelah di flash, banyak perubahan yang kita dapatkan, diantaranya misalnya  batre yang semakin irit, screen freeze yang dapat diatasi, dan masih banyak lagi feature lain. So, simak aja deh.

Disini saya hanya sekedar bercerita tentang bagaimana dari kondisi awal pabrikan Tytn II dengan windows mobile 6.0 original yang kemudian saya upgrade hingga sekarang yang saya pakai dengan Windows Mobile 6.5. Resiko dalam meng-upgrade cukup besar, apabila terjadi kesalahan, bisa mengakibatkan fatal alias PDA tidak bisa digunakan selamanya. Bila ada diantara pembaca yang mengikuti langkah ini, boleh saja, tapi resiko ditanggung oleh pembaca sendiri.

Hingga saat ini, PDA saya telah sukses upgrade dan syukurlah semuanya berjalan lancar. Awal mulanya, kudu diketahui dulu bahwa ini hanya berlaku khusus untuk PDA jenis HTC Tytn II/Kaiser/Vario III/Tilt/AT&T. Dan ROM yang saya pakai adalah ROM milik Abusalza dari Indonesia, yaitu PDACorner Ultimate-X2 versi 9. ROM ini adalah ROM buatan, bukan offisial, sehingga perlu diketahui bahwa apabila mengotak atik ROM tentu akan menghilangkan garansi PDA anda.

Sebelum menggunakan ROM ini,berikut ini adalah beberapa hal yang harus diketahui terlebih dahulu :
1. HardSPL, (SPL = second program loader) ini gunanya untuk Boot OS loe. Bila PDA anda sudah di HardSPL, bisa mencegah PDA anda menjadi rusak/bata dan kemungkinan PDA yang dah jadi bata untuk hidup lagi masi lebih besar daripada tidak memakai hardSPL… HardSPL juga membuat PDA bisa diflash sgala macam ROM yang cocok, dan bisa ngeflash segala macam radio yang cocok… dalam beberapa kasus, versi HardSPL juga bisa mempengaruhi performa PDA anda.
2. Radio. Radio adalah semacam jembatan antara hardware dengan OS (ROM) nya.. jadi, kalau setelah berhasil flash ROM baru, dan kita merasakan gejala baterei boros, camera jelek, suka hang dll, bisa jadi radio nya tidak cocok.
3. OS ROM yang baru… ini adalah OS kita.. jika download dari official web nya, biasanya OS itu sudah jadi satu ama radio. tapi kalau dari forum xda-dev, banyakan OS stand alone. ROM cooked itu brarti ROM yang didalamnya telah terdapat tweak2 atau aplikasi2… isinya ya tergantung chef nya.
4. baterei PDA loe harus diatas 50persen bila melakukan upgrade/flashing. paling aman ya diatas 80persen lah. jangan perna mem-flash dibawah 50 persen.

Jadi, kenali terlebih dahulu apakah Tytn ii anda sudah pernah di Hard SPL, karena Hard SPL hanya boleh dilakukan sekali saja. Untuk mengetahuinya, tekan tombol power dan camera, tahan, sambil menekan tombol reset di lubang kecil memakai stylus. Kemudian akan muncul layar dengan 3 warna, disana akan terdapat tulisan seri SPL nya. Milik saya waktu itu masih 3.29.0000. Arti 0000 disini menandakan belum di Hard SPL, seharusnya apabila sudah pernah hard SPL, maka ada indikasi .Hard di seri tersebut.

Saya pilih Hard SPL ke 3.34 milik Dave yakni 3.34 Hard SPL nostuckinSPL Force USB. Untuk tata cara bagaimana tentang hard SPL ini, saya ikutin langkah dari beberapa referensi berikut :

• http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=433835 (versi bahasa inggris)
• http://www.kaskus.us/showpost.php?p=92489073&postcount=1485 (versi bahasa indonesia)
• Video tentang prosesnya bisa dilihat di http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZ-2lHi3T8 via youtube.

Setelah Hard SPL berhasil, lalu jangan lupa untuk upgrade Radio nya. Radio yang saya pakai adalah Radio 1.71.09.01. Caranya juga bisa dilihat pada referensi yang saya sebut diatas. Resiko cukup tinggi untuk melakukan Hard SPL dan radio ini, namun setelah berhasil, barulah saya bisa upgrade dengan PDACorner Ultimate-X2 versi 9.

Penasaran hasilnya seperti apa, berikut ini adalah tampilan yang akan muncul di layar PDA setelah memakai ROM PDACorner Ultimate-X2 versi 9.

Alhasil, semuanya telah berjalan lancar. Tampilan makin oke dan performa juga makin yahud. Batrei pun tidak boros, dikarenakan signal yang lebih stabil.Windows yang dipakai sudah menggunakan windows mobile 6.5, dan dilengkapi berbagai fitur untuk kelancaran beraktivitas, termasuk fitur GPS lengkap. Program tambahan diluar program default juga sudah include didalam ROM ini.

Hingga saat ini belum ditemui efek apapun, semuanya syukurlah lancar-lancar saja. Segitu dulu deh, semoga bermanfaat terutama bagi anda pemakai Tytn II juga.

Tutorialnya bisa dilihat di postingan saya tentang All about Tytn II/Kaiser SPL and ROM.

Benarnya dah dari minggu lalu saya beli gadget ini, soalnya lagi ingin membongkar abis dunia PDA itu kayak gimana. Disisi lain juga dikarenakan keinginan memiliki PDA yang sejak lama dan baru bisa tercapai sekarang, ha.ha.ha.

Demam online lagi marak-maraknya. Namun banyak orang yang menjadikan Netbok sebagai pilihan. Namun lain halnya dengan saya, bagi saya, netbook rada susah untuk dikantongi, so, saya pake PDA ini dikarenakan segala fungsi netbook sudah terpenuhi oleh PDA tersebut. Kayak gimana sih featurenya ? Disini lah saya ulas semua gadget satu ini.

Atik punya atik, PDA ini keluaran dari HTC, dikenal dengan nama Tytn II, namun juga sering dikenal diluaran dengan sebutan HTC P4550 atau Kaiser, atau Tilt atau MDA Vario III. Untuk di Indonesia, sebutan nya menggunakan HTC Tytn II. Dilengkapi dengan fitur GPS terintegrasi adalah salah satu unggulan HTC TyTN II. yang  diperkenalkan di Indonesia pada awal Oktober.

Tampak depan dan samping HTC Tytn II

HTC TyTN II memiliki jenis tipe sliding phone, tipis, dimensi 112 x 59 x 19 mm dengan bobot 190 gram. Pecinta papan ketik / keyboard Qwerty juga telah dipersiapkan gadget ini, letaknya tersembunyi di balik layar utama dengan teknik sliding. Cara akses TouchFlo yang sudah diaplikasikan pada HTC Touch kembali diperkenalkan di ponsel ini. Anda dapat mengakses menu hanya dengan satu jari saja.

satu jari untuk segala aktivitas

Di bagian depan ponsel, dengan pulasan warna hitam dan perak ini, dapat Anda jumpai layar sentuh seluas 2,8 inci dengan resolusi 240 x 320 piksel, dibesut oleh 65 ribu warna pixel. Dijumpai kamera VGA dibagian depan dengan kualitas VGA yang mampu untuk melakukan panggilan Video Call. Sedangkan kamera utama berada pada bagian belakang dengan resolusi 3 mega pixel, maksimum gambar yang dapat dijepret yaitu 1536 x 2048 pixel.

Sliding dengan 45 derajat sudut kemiringan

Layar ini dapat diatur ketinggiannya. Saat menggunakan ponsel di atas meja, Anda bisa mengatur ketinggian layar sampai 45 derajat. Ini membuat tampilan TyTN II laksana sebuah notebook yang super mungil.

Tampilan bak laptop tanpa dibekali dengan fitur pendukung tentu tidak berarti apa-apa. HTC membekali ponsel ini dengan kemampuan HSDPA yang memungkinkan jelajah Internet dan akses data bagi pengguna TyTN II. Dukungan 3G HSDPA serasa membuat kita bisa berinternet dimanapun kita suka.

Tipis, ringan dan Kecil

Ponsel ini menggunakan sistem operasi Windows Mobile 6 Profesional. Beragam aplikasi yang umumnya menyertai ponsel dengan sistem operasi tersebut, seperti kemampuan untuk melihat dan mengedit dokumen (Word,Excel,Power Point), ngobrol dengan teman melalui fitur Messenger (Live Messenger), mendengarkan musik (WIndows Media Player 10), menerima surat elektronik dengan cara push e-mail, browsing menggunakan Internet Explorer atau dapat juga menggunakan software yang bisa diinstal sendiri.

HTC TyTN II merupakan produk pertama yang menggunakan prosesor Qualcomm MSM7200 400 MHz. Melvin Chua, Manajer Pengembangan Bisnis Operator & Korporasi HTC untuk wilayah Asia Tenggara, mengatakan pemilihan prosesor ini ditujukan untuk meningkatkan performa ponsel, terutama untuk penggunaan beberapa tugas yang dilakukan secara bersamaan.

HTC TyTN II memiliki memori internal ROM 256MB dan RAM128MB. Untuk menambah memori, pengguna bisa menambah memori eksternal berupa kartu microSD yang diklaim mampu membaca microSD kapasitas besar (up to 32 Gb). Slot memori eksternal micro SD ada di bagian bawah tak jauh dari port USB.

Posisi kartu SimCard dibalik Qwerty keyboard

Anda yang kerap melakukan pertemuan bisnis dapat terbantu dengan kehadiran fitur pembaca kartu nama. Dibandingkan dengan menyalin kartu nama secara manual, campur tangan fitur tersebut dapat menghemat waktu Anda. Fasilitas Wireless Lan (WiFi), bluetooth dan kemudahan koneksi ke komputer menggunakan Active Sync membuat PDA ini terasa full featured.

Pada produk ini, chip GPS terintegrasi ke dalam prosesor Qualcomm. Anda yang gemar menggunakan GPS juga dapat memanfaatkan fitur QuickGPS untuk mempercepat penerimaan sinyal. HTC TyTN II juga memiliki fitur assisted GPS yang pada ponsel ini datang dengan nama QuickGPS.

Camera utama 3 MP dan built-in QuickGPS

Untuk penjualan produk di Indonesia, perangkat ponsel ini dibekali dengan peta kota Jakarta buatan MapKing. Saat ini peta yang tersedia baru terbatas pada kota Jakarta saja, tapi ke depannya HTC akan menambah peta untuk kota-kota besar lain di Indonesia. Bahkan juga bisa download melalu internet untuk kemudian anda install sendiri di PDA anda. Menu yang ada di interior nya tergolong cukup mudah dan hampir sama dengan PDA rata-rata yang sudah populer seperti O2.

Dengan kapasitas baterai Lithium Polimer 1350 mAh mampu bertahan dipakai selama 3 hari dengan intensitas yang agak banyak untuk bertelepon, SMS, memutar lagu dan video. Sedangkan menurut vendornya waktu siaga untuk GSM sampai dengan 365 jam, untuk UMTS sampai dengan 350 jam. Waktu bicara untuk GSM sampai dengan 420 menit dan untuk video call sampai dengan 120 menit.

Menu yang tidak rumit

Fasilitas program yang mudah dicari

Spesifikasi:

Beberapa software yang bisa didapat untuk mendukung aktivitas kamu :
GPS software:
TomTom (www.tomtom.com)
Pathaway (www.pathaway.com)

iPhone theme:
iFonz (bisa download di www.freewarepocketpc.net, ato ke forum.xda-developers.com, dan search for iFonz
Freestyl (www.freestylwm.com)
PocketCM (ini utk menu contact yg finger touchable, d/l di www.pocketcm.com)

Islamic software:
Al-Qur’an lengkap dengan terjemahan dan audio, waktu sholat seluruh dunia + adzan (bisa milih mo adzan di Masjidil Haram, Masjidil Aqsa, Masjid Nabawi, adzannya Yusuf Islam, dll), arah kiblat, tanggalan hijriyah, & hadits. Bisa didownload gratis di: (www.smartnetwireless.com)

Crack software (resiko tanggung sendiri loh):
Kalo mau ngetest software sebelom beli (forum.ppcwarez.org).

Software yang paling digandrungi saat ini untuk jenis PDA yaitu Manila 2D yang bisa didownload di sini. Manila 2D merupakan software yang akan merubah tampilan default HTC dengan themes yang unik-unik seperti dibawah ini.

themes Manila 2D

themes Manila 2D lain

Untuk harga baik baru maupun harga second, bisa digoogling aja, karena beda-beda sesuai kondisi barang maupun lokasi. Product sheet asli dari situs HTC untuk tipe Tytn II ini bisa didapat dengan format PDF di Sini.

Ah! O Windows Mobile, quanto sofrimento para azeitar este sisteminha.
Uma das coisas que me irritava profundamente no Windows Mobile 6.1 era o fato dele não suportar a gravação de ligações telefônicas. Aliás ele até suporta, mas apenas a gravação de sua voz. A voz da pessoa com quem você fala não é gravada.

O recurso conhecido como ICR (Incoming Call Recorder) ou 2 side call recorder sempre foi um recurso muito solicitado, mas nunca atendido pela Microsoft ou pelos fabricantes de celular.

Ao que tudo indica isto é causado não por um erro de drivers ou descaso com o consumidor, mas por uma lei americana válida em alguns estados onde é proibido gravar a conversa telefônica com alguém sem que a pessoa esteja ciente disso.

No Brasil não é proibido utilizar este tipo de recurso, mas dificilmente uma gravação como esta seria aceita como prova em um julgamento qualquer.
Qual é então o objetivo de gravar uma conversa telefônica se ela não pode ser usada como prova?

Bem pelo menos para mim o recurso tem diversas funções, como por exemplo escutar minhas próprias ligações telefônicas no fim do dia, o que me ajuda a saber se estou esquecendo de algum compromisso, ou quando um cliente quer me passar algum telefone ou endereço e eu estou com as mãos ocupadas, não preciso me preocupar em anotar na hora. Fica tudo gravado no celular e quando puder eu anoto. Enfim, os usos são muitos.
Não preciso nem dizer que foi um dos recursos que mais senti falta ao migrar para Windows Mobile.

Poxa até o meu velhíssimo Motorola 120t (o celular do Guga) que uso até hoje diga-se de passagem, tem a função de gravar as ligações como notas (mediante o uso de um botão lateral do aparelho).

O Treo também fazia isto lindamente através do CallRec, e foi um dos motivos que quase voltei a usar o velho aparelho pois o recurso realmente me faz falta. Minha memória é um lixo

Pois bem, na semana retrasada um dos membros do fórum XDA Developers descobriu uma gambiarra capaz de fazer o ICR funcionar no TyTN II. Envolvia a instalação de um programinha, algumas acrobacias e principalmente sorte, pois o esquema não funcionou para todo mundo. Para mim por exemplo gravou, mas as vozes ficavam muito baixas, quase inaudíveis.

Conversa vai, conversa vem, um fanfarrão descobriu que para ativar o ICR bastava tão somente a edição de algumas chaves do registro e pronto tudo funcionando! Nada de atualização, nada de drivers novos, nada demais!
Um outro zé-ruela criou um arquivo CAB e pronto, agora temos ICR 100% loud and clear no TyTN II e diversos outros aparelhos sem stress.
Mais um ponto para o pessoal do XDA-Developers.

Logicamente é preciso um programa de terceiros caso você queira que a gravação seja feita automáticamente. Eu uso o Vito Audio Notes Touch ($7,00 seu mão de vaca) que você encontra aqui:

Vito Audio Notes Touch

O arquivo CAB para ativar o recurso você acha aqui:

Forum XDA Developers

Palm Pre! Chega logo!

One of the biggest drawbacks of using a Windows Mobile PDA-phone as your media device is that you end up with a tangle of wires that makes you look like you’re on life-support.

My HTC-manufactured phone (TyTN II) doesn’t have a 3.5″ headphone jack socket. The device was designed more as phone than media player so the audio connections are geared around being able to make and receive calls.  So it comes with a phone-controller dongle which plugs into the phone via a mini-USB port.  There is a 3.5″ jack socket but it is in the dongle, not the phone.

You can use the supplied earphones, which have a wire of the right length when used in combination with the dongle. Unfortunately the quality is dreadful.  I wanted to use my Sennheiser in-ear headphones but the cable is much longer, because it is intended to plug straight into say an iPod.

The result is a mess.  You have the phone in your pocket, with the dongle plugged in and clipped to your jacket or shirt. The cable is quite long and flaps about.  You then have the further wire from the Sennheisers which plugs into the dongle, but which dangles and flaps around even more. The overall effect is hardly neat and the wires catch on everything.

When you get to wherever you’re going, you put the assembly of wires in your pocket. When you later come to fetch dongle and headphones out you find they are so tangled together it can take several minutes to tease them apart without damaging them.

My Sennheisers are now playing up.  The left hand channel has lost volume; it plays at half the volume of the right. I know it’s not a case of sudden one-sided deafness because I tried switching the earphones round, and also plugged in the supplied headphones. The channel balance was fine, which also confirms that it wasn’t a problem with the phone or dongle.

The deterioration in the Sennheisers is probably the result of wear and tear on the wires due to the incessant plugging in, unpglugging, wires getting caught, wires getting tangled. I have been through a surprising number of earphones in the last few years.  The attrition rate is huge and always due to the constant bending/unbending of wires, eventually causing a channel to fail. The Sennheisers have been more robust than most but I am getting fed up with the wires and fed up with the regular loss of channels due to wear and tear on the wires. I would far prefer to go wireless.

So, if the Sennheisers are on their way out, I may as well replace them with stereo bluetooth earphones.  Thankfully the HTC supports the A2DP protocol so can stream good quality stereo over bluetooth. I like Sennheiser in-ear phones so a set of MM 200’s would seem to be a sensible bet. And no more tangles.

Previous “This iPhoneless Life” posts.

Well, I just installed Windows Vista Business x32 and tried to set up a sync partnership with my TyTn II (which is running WM 6.1 – official ROM from HTC).

Although the device is seen by Vista (i.e. Explorer), I couldn’t convince it set it to configure with Outlook 2007. After browsing few sites I have found that Microsoft released a new software for syncing required for desktop. You can download it from here (requires genuine validation). Then after installation was successfully detected by Windows and syncing worked as the software suggested.

Here’s a screenshot:

I will mention that before this update, I went to Start > Settings > Connections tab, opened USB-to-PC and unchecked ‘Enable advanced network functionality’ as seen suggested on some forums, device was rediscovered by Windows still didn’t synced with Outlook though.

Good luck!

I’ve had my TyTn II for about 7 months now and yesterday it just started playing up. I made no software or hardware changes or did anything unusual. It just wouldn’t go into standby, and when it did, it was a Standby Of Death (SOD). Also, when I slid the keyboard out, the screen wouldn’t flip to horizontal.

I’ve checked about a bit for Windows Mobile 6.1 update for this device (T-mobile Vario III) and it’s not released yet. Anyway, after many soft resets it seems to be playing nice again so I’ll post again if it redevelops.

This was a useful post about it all: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-332088.html

Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM for TyTN II is now available for download from HTC e-Club. Currently downloading the 66.94MB update at 25kbps. Watch this space. Will (probably) update the outcome once the update’s done.

p/s: Select the region you’re in before registering with e-Club. Apparently they have different versions of ROM for different region of the world.

Da qualche giorno circolano in internet una serie spy-shot che dovrebbero mostrare una serie di nuovi dispositivi HTC. Tra questi, ci ha colpito in particolar modo quello che dovrebbe essere il successore del fortunato TyTN II, l’HTC Diamond.
Nelle immagini diffuse in rete, il Diamond appare come un PDA Phone dalle forme decisamente squadrate, apparentemente sottile, dotato di schermo VGA da 2,8 pollici, con altezza e larghezza simili a quelle del TyTN II e tastiera slide qwerty con la quinta fila di tasti numerici. Finalmente lo schermo VGA, ci vien da dire. Tuttavia, in fatto di dimensioni, si sarebbe potuto fare qualcosa di più. Sulla carta l’Xperia X1, costruito proprio da HTC, appare più compatto e con schermo di dimensioni e risoluzione maggiori. Ottima cosa la quinta fila di tasti numerici.
Ci sono altre caratteristiche, comunque, che ci fanno ben sperare, ma qui entriamo nel campo del “si dice”.
Il Diamond dovrebbe disporre di memoria ram da 128 MB, connettività Wi-Fi, aGPS, sensore fotografico da 3 Mpx e interfaccia tocuh flo evoluta. E fin qui siamo in linea con le caratteristiche del TyTN. Se le caratteristiche tecniche ricalcheranno quelle dell’altro misterioso prodotto di HTC, il diamond, la CPU sarà costituita dal perfomante processore Qualcomm da 528 MHz. Meno probabile che anche sul Raphael verrà installato l’Hard Disk da 4 BG previsto per il Diamond.

Well, this one’s a keeper!

A couple of months after getting my TYTN II, it’s still gracing (rather than “bulging from”) my pocket. It’s not a huge step up from the TYTN – indeed, it’s not really worth upgrading, unless the few hundred quid you’ll spend is worth it for these bonuses:

Memory
That 128MB does make the difference! I’m having the strange kind of experience I used to have on my P910i, where I’d check my running tasks, and find some big app (like Opera Mini, or the web browser), happy sat in the background, and I hadn’t even realised. On the TYTN I, having more than 2 large apps would lead to out-of-memory problems, but the TYTN II now seems comfortable enough to let you get on with things, without micro-managing.

GPS
Again – is actually useful. Not that taking out a separate Bluetooth GPS and switching it on was that big a deal, but there was often the “Oh, it’s unpaired; Ah, there’s some COM port error; Eek, the battery’s flat”. With the TYTN II, you select GPS in the app, and it just works. “Nice!”

Keyboard works during calls
Yes, you read correctly! Or maybe you never even noticed.. But the TYTN I would only allow numeric characters to be typed on the keypad during calls – making it useless for writing notes while on a Bluetooth headset. All OK in the TYTN II.

Tilt-screen
I never thought I’d say it, but it is a small bonus: resting the phone on your desk/breakfast table, and tilting the screen up to read. I never thought it’d be useful, but it is. And it does allow 2-4 fingered typing; I’m not yet as fast as when using my thumbs blackberry-style, but it is an alternative.

Camera
Genuinely better than the TYTN – and I’m not talking about just having ‘Sharpness’ turned off in the camera settings. The picture is still a little sharp, with flat colours, but it is better than the TYTN. However, due to the terrible frame rate, with the blurry, jerky image on the pre-photo ‘viewfinder’ screen, it’s always a pleasant surprise to see that the photo isn’t as bad as the preview was. It also works surprisingly well in low light – I mean, really surprisingly not bad for something that is basically a pocket computer with a camera as an afterthought.

And on the downside? Simple:

Stylus
It’s on the wrong side! Really, it is… for a right-hander. Unless you’re one of the 10% that the TYTN II seems to have been designed for, you’ll have to fumble the stylus from one hand to the other, somehow. Two months later, and I’ve still not found it to be as easy as the TYTN I

Battery
As before… except now the case is sleek enough that I don’t want to bolt a 3000mAh brick onto the back of my phone. So it lives on the end of my laptop or a pocket USB charger whenever possible.

Camera
Those people talking about the slow drivers? They’ve got a point… the view you see on the viewfinder screen will be nothing like the photo that’s actually taken. (Fortunately, the photo itself is usually better!)

Nel video sotto riportato vengono mostrati i nuovi prodotti sviluppati da Eten per la Serie Glofiish. Interessante ed esteticamente accattivante il V900, dotato di sintonizzatore per il digitale terrestre.
Viene mostrato inoltre l’M810, del quale abbiamo parlato nel precedente articolo. Diversamente da quanto scritto da noi, non si capisce ancora se la risoluzione dello schermo sia VGA o QVGA. Secondo PocketPCItalia.com la risoluzione è di 480×640 (VGA), mentre per SoloPalmari.com la risoluzione dello schermo è una più banale 240×320 (QVGA). Considerato che il dispositivo, secondo entrambi gli articoli menzionati, sarebbe stato sviluppato e pensato per il popolo dei blogger e dei frequentatori delle chat, riteniamo che la risoluzione VGA sarebbe la scelta migliore per questo tipo di utilizzi. Staremo a vedere.
Interessante la seconda parte del filmato, dove tutti i nuovi prodotti Eten vengono mostrati a fianco di un TyTN II di HTC.

I don’t necessarily want to get political yet, because then the legions of the Dempublicentarian Party will come and cast spells at me with their best wizards and witches (I’m not saying anything bad about any candidates, but doesn’t Hillary’s famous cackle sound something like The Wicked Witch a la The Wizard of Oz? Maybe it’s just coincidence…At least, it seems that in the polls, she’s flying high, defying gravity)

But what I did want to talk about was another thing…buyer’s remorse. I guess in some ways, it’s a good thing to feel bad if we have made a poor purchase. However, in other ways, it’s probably a good thing to try to defend our purchases no matter what. So many people do it every day with the PS3 (and my Xbox360 fan friends say that owners of the Wii also do this in a sacred shrine, but who’s video taping that?) However, petty video game squabbles…they are petty.

What happens, though, when you buy something with prior conducted research, a clear plan and strategy, and all of those other good things? If you find fault with the product, should you speak out against it or the manufacturer or should you stay silent?

Enter numerous disgruntled HTC product owners who think that they have a right to create a big stink about the fact that HTC has “forgotten” to include the drivers for video card graphical acceleration in a number of their phones. The major issue is this: if you spend upwards of $700 to buy a phone unlocked (thankfully, our American cell phone providers, which in every other way are screwing us over [or perhaps you want to read this long one that goes into a lot more detail?] DO subsidize the costs of phones) and it is advertised as one of the most cutting-edge, capable phones around, then you should expect certain capabilities of it.

For example, if you have a camera with the phone, shouldn’t it be able to take pictures without having to wait 7 or 8 seconds to process? I dunno about you, but Kodak moments usually don’t pose and hold for hours and hours like they used to. Or, if you wanted to play some videos on youtube, like that slick iPhone dealie that Apple’s got (and which you might say influenced and pressured your decision to buy a device like the HTC Touch or HTC Kaiser–to compete with the iPhone), would you stand for unnecessarily slow performance if you didn’t tweak the videos heavily?

According to HTC, you shouldn’t care about pictures, and you should be able to take slowdowns. After all, in their words, not mine (with emphasis added):

HTC is committed to delivering a portfolio of devices that offer a wide variety of communication, connectivity and entertainment functionality. HTC does not offer dedicated or optimized multimedia devices and can confirm that its Qualcomm MSM7xxx-based devices do not use ATI’s Imageon video acceleration hardware.

HTC believes the overall value of its devices based on their combination of functionality and connectivity exceeds their ability to play or render high-resolution video. These devices do still provide a rich multimedia experience comparable to that of most smart phones and enable a variety of audio and video file formats.

HTC values its customers and the overall online community of mobile device enthusiasts and fans. HTC plans to include video acceleration hardware in future video-centric devices that will enable high-resolution video support.

So, essentially, according to this, it’s acceptable that these devices have limitations, because these aren’t “video-centric” devices. They are for business users, right?

Well..then…what might a business user want to do? Maybe he’d want to do GPS? Nope, graphical acceleration gets in the way there, so you can see that the updated model lags to a much older device. Or, what about when the device lags in doing the most basic tasks, like moving from portrait to landscape mode and back? I don’t know about you, but iPhones can do that quite well…

As HTCClassaction.org and other HTC devices users at xda-developers.org or elsewhere have noted, the problem is that the lack of these drivers affects the performance fundamentally. So, to me, I don’t know what to think when I read something like this in the AT&T forums for HTC-based devices:

I understand that everyone wants good drivers, and I am right there with them, but to completly knock the device because of it just boggles my mind. So what that a feature is not up to par with the rest of the phone? Because of one feature that is inferior to the others makes it a bad phone? The way I see it, is if you need to watch videos, go watch them on a HDTV… and if you are on the move, take a laptop or PSP. If all you bought the phone for was for just for watching videos or taking pictures, then you need to stick with a laptop or an actual digital camera. We need to remember that this is a phone with added features… not a video player or camera with an added feature of a phone.

The fact that this phone does wi-fi, internet, e-mail and several others makes it completly [sic] awesome but it seems to me that the attitude is ‘I have to have it ALL or would rather have nothing’.

The thing is that these problems are all encompassing, first of all. They extend into core functionalities of the product. If, by some chance, a user of an AT&T Tilt or MDA Vario III or Sprint Touch or ANY HTC device affected NEVER notices a decrease in functionality from using their device (because they are “only” using the device for text messaging and perhaps calling), I’d suggest a few things.

1) They are in a smaller minority than women in MIT Engineering classes (just kidding, I believe in the ability for people to defy gravity.)

2) They are being apathetic in an issue they should not be apathetic in.

This is the point, people. These guys put their money where their mouths were and bought this product…it doesn’t make sense to give up and lie like dogs!

OK, OK, so in a past life, I often ripped on a few iPhone owners at the lacks in their seeming OMG WTF BBQ awesome 1337 phone, but this is the thing: now it’s happening all over again with HTC devices. When I would say, “Ha ha, your phone doesn’t have MMS,” others would say, “Well…I don’t use it and don’t need it. Or, when I would say, “Ha ha, your phone lacks 3g and custom apps,” they would say, I don’t need those.

Apple got on the ball. They will come out soon with a 3g-enabled iPhone (they probably should have done 3g with the first one, BUT I’ll give them that)…and the SDK kit for 3rd party apps comes out very soon.

What about HTC? If they won’t act on their own, maybe we do need some publicity to push them in the right direction…that’s putting your money where your mouth is.

Jeg har haft lejlighed til at afprøve afløseren for Windows Mobile smartphonen HTC TyTN som producenten meget fantasifuldt har valgt at navngive TyTN II. Da jeg selv tidligere har været bruger af TyTN, tænkte jeg at det var på sin plads at lave en lille minitest af afløseren. Jeg skriver mini-test fordi, at jeg ikke vil gå i dybden med den nye model, da der i bund og grund er tale om en opdatering af den oprindelige TyTN. Jeg vil derfor tillade mig, at henvise til min grundlæggende test af HTC TyTN for detaljerede kommentarer til konceptet bag denne smartphone.

Jeg synes, at der er to ting som man med det samme lægger mærke til ved TyTN II: Den ene ting er desværre vægten, der har sneget sig op på hele 190 gram. Det er ganske vist kun 14 gram mere end den gamle model, men den var i forvejen ikke ligefrem nogen letvægter – tværtimod! Personligt synes jeg, at 190 gram er alt for meget for en smartphone – selv når den har så mange features, som TyTN II virkelig har. Den anden ting som man lægger mærke til ved den nye model, er en stærkt forbedret finish – TyTN II fremstår ganske enkelt meget flottere og den er også blevet en smule slankere i fysisk størrelse. Jeg ved ikke, hvorfor at det så har haft en negativ indflydelse på vægten af enheden, men det har det altså desværre (

Skærmopløsningen på HTC TyTN II er desværre uændret i forhold til den gamle model, det vil sige kun 240 x 320 pixels, hvilket er okay. Jeg havde håbet på en opgradering til 480 x 640 pixels, som nogle af HTC’s konkurrenter er begyndt på, men sådan skulle det altså ikke være (

Til gengæld er skærmen på TyTN II blevet udstyret med en “tilt-funktion”, hvilket betyder at den kan vippes op, når tastaturet er trukket ud. Jeg ved såmænd ikke, om denne funktion er så meget værd, når det kommer til stykket. Specielt når man skal bruge tastaturet og skrive forholdsvis hurtigt, er tilt-funktionen nærmest kun til besvær. Men fint nok at funktionen er der – man kan jo bare lade være med at tilte skærmen, hvis man synes, at det er til besvær )

Der er også blevet plads til en indbygget GPS-modtager i TyTN II og der medfølger TomTom software således, at man kan også kan bruge enheden til navigation, hvilket helt sikkert vil tiltale mange potentielle købere. For mit eget vedkommende har jeg det nu bedst med en særskilt navigationsenhed, da jeg jævnligt bruger min smartphone under bilkørsel med et håndfri installationssæt, men så er det jo lige meget med kørselsanvisning fra TomTom navigationssoftwaren, når skærmen alligevel viser telefonopkald, kalenderaftaler, opgaver, mails eller sms’er.

HTC TyTN II leveres med Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional i modsætning til Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC i den oprindelige TyTN. Det er dog i sig selv ikke en grund til at udskifte sin gamle TyTN, da man gratis kan opgradere til den til Windows Mobile 6.0 ved at registrere sig på HTC’s website.

Ellers er det så som så med forbedringer i forhold til den oprindelige TyTN efter min mening. Nuvel, der er nu et tre megapixels kamera i TyTN II, men det kan altså stadigvæk ikke hamle op med kvaliteten fra et godt digital kamera, så det tæller ikke rigtigt. Samtidigt synes jeg ikke, at der er sket noget nævneværdigt med hastigheden af selve enheden og der er fortsat en vis form for forsinkelse i brugen af visse applikationer. Heldigvis er det blevet lidt bedre med hensyn til 3G-stabiliteten i telefonopkald som den gamle TyTN ellers var berygtet for (jeg har personligt prøvet at ringe det samme nummer op op til 10 gange uden at komme igennem på en TyTN).

Konklusion

Alt i alt synes jeg ikke, at eksisterende TyTN brugere får så meget mere ud af, at investere i omegnen af 4.500-5.000 kroner på at opgradere til den nye model. TyTN II har bestemt gennemgået en række forbedringer – både kosmetisk og teknologisk set. Men hvis man smider den gratis Windows Mobile 6.0 opgraderingen på sin gamle TyTN, så synes jeg stadigvæk, at den gamle model gør det fornuftigt for de brugere, der kan leve med en 176 gram tung smartphone.

Hvad angår potentielle nye købere af HTC TyTN II, så er der ingen tvivl om, at man får en meget potent Windows Mobile smartphone med masse af funktionalitet. Indenfor sin kategori er det et rigtig godt bud på et professionel værktøj for den travle forretningsmand eller IT-medarbejder, der har brug for et fuldt QWERTY-tastatur, push-mail og lignende. Omvendt skal man også være indstillet på at bære rundt på en smartphone, der vejer hele 190 gram, hvilket er mere end rigeligt til at få ens jakkesæt til at hænge skævt, hvis man har sin TyTN II i inderlommen (

Dermed når vi også frem til min personlige dom over TyTN II. Desuagtet de tekniske og kosmetiske forbedringer bliver denne smartphone ikke en model som jeg kommer til at tage i brug – den har ganske enkelt den høje vægt imod sig. Som jeg allerede meldte ud for næsten et år siden (klik her for at læse min test), er jeg langt mere til HTC S620 smartphone, som ganske vist ikke har 3G eller en berøringsfølsom skærm m.m. Til gengæld har den har en noget mindre størrelse end TyTN og TyTN II og så vejer S620′eren kun vejer 130 gram. Ergo er det en langt mere handy smartphone, hvilket er et af mine væsentligste kriterier i valget af mobiltelefon/smartphone.

Så jeg holder fast i min HTC S620 indtil videre )

E’ finalmente disponibile online la prima preview del nuovo all-in-one di casa E-Ten: il superaccessoriato Glofiish M800. La preview, disponibile in inglese sul sito www.trustedreviews.com e rilanciata in Italia da SoloPalmari.com, sembra giustificare l’attesa creatasi nei confronti di questo promettente PDA Phone.
Ovviamente il sito pone l’accento sull’ottimo display VGA, luminoso e contrastato. Buone anche le impressioni relative alla fotocamera integrata, la quale, nonostante la risoluzione sia inferiore rispetto a quella del rivale TyTN II, genera scatti meno sovraesposti e può avvalersi di flash led e specchietto per gli autoscatti.
La radio FM integrata funziona tramite gli auricolari forniti in dotazione. Purtroppo per utilizzare degli apparecchi di qualità superiore è necessario acquistare un adattatore minu-usb / jack stereo a parte. La qualità audio delle chiamate sembrerebbe superiore rispetto a quella del TyTN II. Sono presenti il software per la scansione dei biglietti da visita, la funzione che permette di utilizzare il flash led come torcia d’emergenza e l’ottimo Spb Mobile Shell plugin per la schermata Today. Non è incluso un software per la navigazione satellitare.
I difetti? I controlli sotto lo schermo sembrerebbero particolarmente scomodi e la batteria, nonostante i 1530 mAh nominali, sembra non garantisca autonomia sufficiente per due giorni di utilizzo (con la modalità push email attiva). Non ci resta che aspettare qualche settimana per poterlo ammirare il Glofiish M800 negli scafali dei negozi italiani

Dopo averci fatto venire l’acquolina in bocca per mesi, Eten si è finalmente decisa a presentare ufficialmente l’M800, quello che da tutti gli addetti ai lavori viene considerato l’anti TYTN II per antonomasia. Dotato di chipset GPS Sirf Star III, Processore Samsung da 500 Mhz, Connettività Wi-fi e UMTS/HSDP, e soprattutto schermo con risoluzione VGA, l’M800 sembra superare in tutto il rivale TyTN, eccetto per la fotocamera, dotatadi autofocus e flash led ma limitata a 2Mpx, conto i 3 Mpx del gioiello HTC. A questo punto aspettiamo soltanto di vederli l’uno di fianco all’altro in una prova comparativa per verificarne prestazioni, ergonomia e portabilità. Di seguito le caratteristiche complete e definitive:

• Sistema operativo Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• Processore Samsung S3C2442 CPU a 500 MHz
• Funzioni telefoniche Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA (850/1900/2100 MHz)
• Display LCD TFT da 2,8″ VGA (480 x 640 pixel, 65.536 colori)
• 256 MB di Flash ROM
• 64 MB di RAM
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Ricevitore GPS integrato (chipset SiRFStarIII, 20 canali) con A-GPS
• Ricevitore radio FM integrato
• Fotocamera principale CMOS da 2 Megapixel (1,92 MP) con autofocus e FlashLED
• Fotocamera secondaria CMOS VGA (640 x 480 pixel)
• Tastiera QWERTY slide-out a 41 tasti
• Slot di espansione microSD (con supporto SDIO e microSDHC)
• Interfaccia miniUSB (USB 1.1)
• Batteria agli ioni di litio da 1530 mAh
• Dimensioni 113,8 x 57,8 x 18,4 mm
• Peso 178 g