WANTED: "AROUND ME" Pendant - Touch HD Themes and Apps

Hi Guys!
First of all I want to say hi to everyone. I'm going to buy the HTC TOUCH HD during the next couple of days and I want to get as much information as I can.
So I came to this Forum and I'm overwhelmed by all this information here.
This is a huge database full of important topics!
I was struggling with me whether to buy an iPhone or the Touch HD. Finally I decided that I'm going to buy the Touch HD, because of the flexibility and the advanced technology of this phone.
My friend got an iPhone and showed me an application called "AROUND ME". It basically locates you via GPS and shows you any store or bank or any other business thats in your vicinity plus calculates a route to that business. As I remember it was freeware. As I know I can't use this on Windows Mobile operating systems, but is there a similiar application for Windows Mobile - if possible Freeware? I was already using the search engine and got lots of results but none that gave me an specific answer.
I heard about Windows Live Search Mobile (or something like that) but since I'm living in Germany I can't use this service, because it only supports France, USA, Italy, etc..
Can anyone help me?
Thanx in advance!
Mat

GoogleMap mobile you can see search, and Streetview may be available in your area. It's free and pretty cool.

Thank you very much! I can't wait to check it out as soon as I have the HD in my hands!

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Anyone with a HTC P3300 yet?

Does the wifi work?
Do you like the mouse button?
Does it take 2 GB mini SD cards?
How many hours can you use TomTom on one battery load? (wifi, Bluetooth, GSM, FM Radio, enabled)
(That's 5 receivers!)
T-mobile germany has a P3300 (T-Mobile MDA compact III) on the website.
A dutch guy maggoo has a preproduction? T-Mobile compact III, only he is on Holiday now...
His wifi is not working BTW...
Offcourse BengalBoy (King of gadgets) has a preproduction? P3300 since august 2006.
Apparently, Bengalboy has posted his on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-Artemis-P33...ryZ64355QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Nice Phone and a ugly Woman
LOL,
i wish i would own such a sweet device for changing it with my Trion or Wizard. The only thing i really appreciate is the FM receiver. Everything else i wouldnt exchange with my Trion. Due the fact that this device is not that perfomant like other PDAs
But why not having a small device in the pocket? Fits perfectly to my suit
I was thinking about the GPS.... Does the GPS work fine?? I really2 like the size
That ebay auction looks fishy to me. No recent feedback, bank transfer, no warranties etc etc....
guess it has not been release yet still, same here for my country singapore, anticipating it release along with the p3600
Hi!
I did actually test the device last Saturday. It was displayed at the Microsoft stand on a Norwegian multimedia exhibit. The device performed very well and the GPS and FM tuner worked perfectly. The head of Microsoft Windows Mobile in Norway confirmed that the mass production started October 13th, and that the device would be shipped to Europe after 15 days (October 28th).
PK
paalkr said:
Hi!
I did actually test the device last Saturday. It was displayed at the Microsoft stand on a Norwegian multimedia exhibit. The device performed very well and the GPS and FM tuner worked perfectly. The head of Microsoft Windows Mobile in Norway confirmed that the mass production started October 13th, and that the device would be shipped to Europe after 15 days (October 28th).
PK
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oct in europe so soon wow, dunno when it will b shipped to singapore or whether it would b sold in singapore under htc
Blackberry on Artemis?
Does anyone know if it will support Blackberry connections?
The Artemis Proto is available for purchase. The ebay auction was mine and not fishy.
As for the "ugly woman", I suggest getting your eyes checked immediately, or, should you be at CES in Vegas this January, come introduce yourself to me and say it to my face. Hehe... but we all know you never would..
BegalBoy - don't know if anyone else has greeted you, but it's great to have you on the forum! You're a legend! Keep up the exceptional work.
V
Thank you Vijay555 for the welcome. I visit XDA-Devs all the time. This is the "Site" for operating system development and individual work for improving the performance of the devices we all love. It has been the only place since I got my first XDAII (imate Pocket PC) back in the day to offer assistance and improvement on issues with the operating systems long before solutions are provided by the manufacter. I always have respected the "code warriors" here and the fact that you rarely see any juvenile posts,,, only tech and device related. But I couldn't resist when I saw that unusual comment about one of my girls.
Thanks to all of you for assisting the community, if I can ever be of any help providing ROMs on unreleased devices don't hesitate to ask.
BengalBoy said:
Thanks to all of you for assisting the community, if I can ever be of any help providing ROMs on unreleased devices don't hesitate to ask.
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It would be nice if you could dump the roms on your unreleased devices and post them here, if you need technical assistance just ask
just out of curiosity, where do u get the devices so early?? I saw that no one bid for them on ebay... but what you have to do if you want to sell them is send the ebay auction link to people at imei-check, they usually buy preproduction devices at any price to have the unlockers ready when the devices are released.
was really tempted to bid n buy the item coz its not available in singapore yet, really a neat device after seeing the video introduction on Youtube by none other than bengalboy himself, the p3600 n p3300 are really devices worth waiting for, would choose either one to replace my exisiting O2 mini aka magician which have been serving me well still...
any idea regarding the price over in your country yet?
Zomg it's BengalBoy
hey there bro nice to see you here, yeah this is probably the best gadget forum in regards to wm phones, hope to see ya around more often you could contribute greatly to the community,
p.s. nice site you have
Be happy to dump the ROM for you guys, got some instructions??? Its prototype, but, maybe you guys can help me.... I have this proto rom as well as a new ROM with Tom Tom on board.. Which do you want? Would be nice if someone could help me CID unlock my device to install the new ROM on.. Also have the Trinity if you want that ROM as well...
pardon my newbie-ness but just whats the purpose of dumping the ROM here?
BegalBoy, this is a good description of how to dump roms the "hard way", so to speak. There are other easier tools, but they've given mixed result on the Treo, so this method is generally sound.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_HowtoDumpRom&action=BackLinks
lmf_slacker: we enjoy taking roms apart to see what's been changed, updated, perhaps incorporate new features that haven't migrated into our roms yet. Not all operators are diligent in updating "obsolete" devices, but we like to keep them alive!
V
i can see from the link http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index...on=Back Links that u can change the language of the device if u change the ROM, is that all u change?

mobile tv

I've had mine 2 weeks tomorrow i am loving it!!!
The only thing is,because i got mine early(unbranded) but with a vodafone contract i am told i can't use the mobile tv or live.vodafone,now i have found a way of accessing live.vodafone(pretty useless) but no options of mobile tv.the advisors tell me i need the voda firmware to use tv? Funny thing is they never said that when they sold/mis-sold me the tv package???
Does anybody know of any other way to access my paid for skysport package?
Regards Rich
Ps Big thanx to everyone on here who develop all the cool stuff and are a big help to most if not all problems!
This is the message i posted on the Rubbish Voda Forum,AND THANX TO THIS FORUM im sorted!!! Just waiting for one of the Great custom Roms that are gonna be about soon(i hope) and i have one very very nice piece of kit...Big Up for The Touch Pro2
OH YEH!!!
You better belive it........Success and with one day to spare before the Ashes starts.
As i sit here writing this message i am watchin SkySports on my crystal clear 3.6inch Touch Pro2 screen. And i must say,i was impressed with my kaizer on T-Mobile mobile tv but from what i've seen so far Voda Wins hand down. The picture is much clearer and the buffering non existant,a very strong connection of over 3.5Mb downlink(in most areas i have been so far).
So apart from the lack of help and the "Do it yourself" attitude i am very pleased with my new Phone and Voda Contract.
Thanx for your Help Neil_Brown You certainly sent me in the right direction,and altho the isp setting i needed were already set in my phone,the thread in the Great Forum Xda Developers is invaluable
Also thanx to DPH
All i needed was a Different Browser and Player With a Few Tweeks on both!
best not say to much on this forum tho as it might be seen as my trying to spoil Vodas exclusivity?
As they said "I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO WATCH MOBILE SKYSPORTS ON MY UNBRANDED PHONE" lol

Newbie deciding in between repairing his nokia E62 or going for an E600 and flash it.

Hello everybody, this is a really nice forum, all you need to know about flashing an Excalibur windows mobile is here. Just amazing I found this!
Well, the story goes as follows:
My Nokia E62 died for no reason (when I turn it on, it just get frozen on the nokia logo) it seems there's a cure, but I need to send it to a repair shop or something like that.
The other option I have is to buy a new "unopened" (but unlocked) HTC E600 from a store, and flash it with a WM 6.5 or 6.1... I already have some flashing experience: I own an Acer N311 PDA that sports WM5 and I flashed to WM6.0 which brought new life to my PDA (except for some minor-and-not-often unstability issues)
My dilemma...:
1-send my beloved E62 to repair and keep going with it...
2-or buy the E600, new phone, new year, new life...? is it really a good choice? I like WM6 on my PDA, but is WM good when using it as a phone? What could go seriously wrong? Is the Java implementation good enough? Will I miss symbian...? etc etc..
no option 3 I could think about... (it would become a trilemma if so )
Thank you very much in advance!
TheFumigator said:
Hello everybody, this is a really nice forum, all you need to know about flashing an Excalibur windows mobile is here. Just amazing I found this!
Well, the story goes as follows:
My Nokia E62 died for no reason (when I turn it on, it just get frozen on the nokia logo) it seems there's a cure, but I need to send it to a repair shop or something like that.
The other option I have is to buy a new "unopened" (but unlocked) HTC E600 from a store, and flash it with a WM 6.5 or 6.1... I already have some flashing experience: I own an Acer N311 PDA that sports WM5 and I flashed to WM6.0 which brought new life to my PDA (except for some minor-and-not-often unstability issues)
My dilemma...:
1-send my beloved E62 to repair and keep going with it...
2-or buy the E600, new phone, new year, new life...? is it really a good choice? I like WM6 on my PDA, but is WM good when using it as a phone? What could go seriously wrong? Is the Java implementation good enough? Will I miss symbian...? etc etc..
no option 3 I could think about... (it would become a trilemma if so )
Thank you very much in advance!
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Well basically I think you got to figure out by yourself , since you are the one who knows what phone will be suitable to fill your expectations and cover your daily mobile needs. For my point of view, you need to compare the functionability that you want from a phone and if that phone is capable of provide you that. For me and many others, the dash and the amazing roms posted in this forum provides you all of that; since they have been elaborated to the different "tastes" of the thousands of users in this site. Because here, we want to take the dash to the edge and squeeze the last drop of resources that it can provide us. That is my personal opinion and many others will have a different one or similar. Something that might help can be a basic comparison and see what phone is offering you what. You can look here and decide from this basic specifications. http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=1708&idPhone1=1696. Other thing to consider is this amazing forum, something that not many other brands might have. This can provide you an added value to your purchase if you decide for the excalibur.
I hope that helps
Thank you very much for the reply!!
Im pretty sure I will end up buying the E600... I am just a little worried about battery life.
Also, what about performance? My E62 was terribly slow, it took like 7 seconds to open a message (sms), but I eventually got used to it... and such "details", menu navigation was laggy and slow. It always been this way...
Is there any noticeable difference in between the E600, S620, S621?

I am about to buy this phone, but...

... still, I am not sure Android fits me.
I use the phone only for professional use, so I need:
- full MS exchange support, and possibility of cable sync (whenever I am on a plane or the network is not available)
- a GPS navigator software at least as good as tom tom
- Blackberry Connect software to enjoy free emails and navigations wherever in the world.
I am enjoying all these thing in my Topaz, but both the hardware and the battery life are quite poor, so I am ready to give up to BBconnect.
also, I am considering the HD mini as an alternative, but I am afraid WM is a dead end road.
Can somebody give me a clue??
Thanks,
Get an HD2 (got one for sale if you want it )
atalanta1 said:
... still, I am not sure Android fits me.
I use the phone only for professional use, so I need:
- full MS exchange support, and possibility of cable sync (whenever I am on a plane or the network is not available)
- a GPS navigator software at least as good as tom tom
- Blackberry Connect software to enjoy free emails and navigations wherever in the world.
I am enjoying all these thing in my Topaz, but both the hardware and the battery life are quite poor, so I am ready to give up to BBconnect.
also, I am considering the HD mini as an alternative, but I am afraid WM is a dead end road.
Can somebody give me a clue??
Thanks,
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You're going to get very biased answers in here, but I've read on numerous occasions that Android isn't great for enterprise/business use.
That's supposed to get better with FroYo, but you could be waiting a while for that. Why not grab a WM phone or other for the time being and then upgrade around Christmas?
By then we'll have dual core 1.5Ghz Android phones running on the Gingerbread build. Hubba hubba
yeah, android is certainly not business class just yet. stick with windows mobile for the time being until maybe a year or so down the road when android should be up to speed.
as for winmo being a dead end, the 6.5 fork is supposed to be carrying on alongside 7 the last i heard....or has that all changed? i can;t say i exactly bother to keep up to speed with wm any more!
Froyo will include bb like business function. If you want that asap maybe get a nexus one instead as this will get froyo very soon
thanks everybody for valuable answers, i will try a newer ROM and stick to wm for a while! hope Android will soon support business apps, i think htc will not develop new wm hardware...
thks!
GG

DEV IDEA POOL [Sift through for ideas] USERS must post REQUESTS/IDEAS here -MANDATORY

Not with all the live stuff (would be nice though) but when I flip something up it goes into trash or closes it (think it is nice interaction) also with only pages/programs open shows up in screen slides with this interaction. Could possibly make winmo perform a little better. Sorry for bad wording and such but pressed for time at work Hope someone takes interest in this .
A really good simple app idea for Windows Phone 7
Its funny how one always has a great app idea after the event (read; http://www.windowsphone7.com/ineedt...2526pmodex253D1x2526gridviewx253D0#pbbh21054p),
An app I thought that would be really cool is a supermarket price comparison. The 'story' is that you visit you local store with your shopping list on your phone; the phone checks off the items on the list when you scan their respective barcodes, also as you scan the barcode it brings up the price for the product and the price from the competitor supermarket chains. I think this app would really sell well, and people will buy it because they know they will make their money back in their first shop
What do you guys think?
i would definitely use it
+1 !
but the problem is: who will update the price and the product list?
I believe there already is an API available (for the web -UK supermarkets) which does this for you...all a coder/dev needs to do is build the app.
an API for worldwide would be perfect... i think google provide such api for US/europe?
otherwise, maybe somebody can find an agreement with online stores to provide prices and models ...
really the idea is interesting and someone should start coding it (personnaly i don't currently have enough time )
I remember hearing of the Iphone porting of apps a while back
I was just wandering is anyone actually doing this? I know there is an windows equivalent every now and then but sometimes the apple app works better. I know I am a 6'4 guy that 270, and I love the Lose it App (my fiance has) and I know about vita one (no were near the build in database). And other things that help communicate with others and such. I am not going to apple been there 2x and always perferred windows mobile for the last 6+ years just wanted to ask this. If someone took it up to port apps I am pretty sure there would be hundreds or thousands of people willing to donate/pay for your hard work. Just a thought.
Problem with porting certain apps, is it requires you to actually have a iPhone
If you got some links to apps you would like ported, with screenshots and so on, I'd love to check it out, as porting apps is a good challenge to get familiar with the development environment.
Thanks I meant to put this in the development and hacking section in general not just windows 7 , here is a link to one of them I thought about creating a bounty or reward system for people to request apps and pay developers here to port them? Here is the link for one http://www.loseit.com/
really nice app because the database is constantly updated with nutrition facts from most of places we eat. I will have more later when I repo my girls phone for a while.
I would totally use this. I have the Shopaid app and it is okay, but doesn't update the price and such
The thing is with applications like that, is it depends more on the data that's available. Duplicating the interface into a Metro styled hub for weight-loss and exercise could be done in a day or two, but getting the actual data setup is a completely other story.
Beyond that, you can be totally sure people will duplicate that type of app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A4TdEV3Sk
Looks like someones already getting the ball rolling.
Someone is already developing that app actually, just go to Youtube and type "windows phone price check app" and you'll see. I can't post the link because I'm new here! The app looks amazing so far.
My company, with decades of experience with Windows development, is looking to break into mobile development in a big way with the launch of WP7. We have a couple of original ideas we are working on, but we would also like to officially port a successful iPhone app or game for some additional credibility.
I've approached a couple of different iPhone app developers with this proposal:
>>Let us port your app at our expense and we split the proceeds 50/50.
>>You retain all ownership and have quality assurance approval before launch.
I have tried every phrasing I can think of to convince them I am legitimate and that I want to create an arrangement where I take on 100% of the risk, but we share equally in the reward.
So far, not even a reply.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Jason
ebook readers
I curently have an HD2 and will probable end up with a WP7 device at some point when they come out. However I'm a big ebook fan and at the moment i'm tempted to get an android phone so that I can use he Kindle app. I'm waiting to see what developers come up with for WP7.
Do you think there's a good chance of a kinde app or something like it being made for WP7?
Cheers
Steve
I think so. I think the amount of sales will be suprising, and that there will be more hardware with WP7 on it than critics give it credit for. There are alot of peopl ethat HAVE an iPhone that want out. My father just got the AT&T Galaxy S (Captivate) and loves it, diching his iPhone 3G.
I think they would be silly not to. I'd prefer a Nook app on WP7 myself, but something to start would be nice!
Brandon Watson said they were worknig with developers who already had WM apps - that means B&N for sure. MS also has an eboo reader but it's unclear if they are going to bundle it with the phone (not likely). Based on the ease of writing WP7 apps I'd suspect all of the large developers to write a WP7 app and they are permitted to have their ebook stores.
Let's hope that you guys are right and there is a strong enough uptake to make all the big players developer readers for WP7. competition is a good thing after all!
Cheers
Steve
I relay like your idea…
After all because I had nearly the same
But I would give it more features…
X Online Service for the markets where they can register the products with barcode and price
-„POI“ Database with geodata of the markets
-Markets can enter special offers
X Online „Community“ section
-Users can Post reviews and vote for products
-Users can vote for markets / stores
-Users can enter alternate products
X Private section for Users
-You can make your grocery list an search for alternate products
-You can enter an amount of saving and a distance you would go for
So the system could give you a shopping tour
Now to the Phone App
X The App can download your grocery
X You can make a Live price comparison with the barcode
-The app could give you a market / store, it would consider your amount of saving and a distance you would go for
X You can do a live vote for Products and Stores
X You can enter a grocery list
X You can search for alternate products
X The app would use the geodata and GPS
SHOP NAV!
I thought of an app years ago called shop nav.
You type in your shopping list and your phone guides you around the store in the correct route.If your in your local then you know where everything is.but how many times have you shopped in a different store one only to find everything is in a different place.You spend most of your time doubling back on your self and walking up the same flaming isle 3 times!.Supermakets are getting bigger and if an app like this was possible it would save everyone time and ease shop congestion.

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