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i908 Omnia hack - Modify sensitivity of touchscreen

Using any registry editor, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DEVICEMAP/TOUCH/

Change the value of CalibrationData to:
519,503 177,881 182,129 847,127 849,872
You can jot down the original values of your Omnia for backup purpose.

Save.

You should feel better touch when using, especially when dialing.

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INQ1 - Winner, Best Mobile Handset, Global Mobile Awards

INQ¹ (INQ1) is the winner of the Best Mobile Handset of the 2009 Global Mobile Awards.

INQ¹ does not have cutting-edge technologies, but it has virtually every function that you ever need to use in your daily life. Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Facebook, Last FM (UK-based online radio), you can keep in touch with all friends with this little machine without even have to install anything.

Its convenience makes it to the top of the award. Congratulations to INQ¹!

This phone is currently only available to 3 (Hutchison) users in UK, Australia and Ireland.

LG KM900 Arena Device Presentation, MWC 2009

In Mobile World Congress 2009, all major manufacturers are presenting their flagship mobiles, attempting to astonish the crowd. We don't have the ticket to the Congress, and so we are lurking around in website and Youtube trying to get the bits of information:

Official Promo Video:


Youtube video taken by commentator sites of MWC:


One more:


and finally:


The multimedia subpage seems to be not quite convenient if you have a lot of pictures (Before believing everything in the video, think "Cache" and "Thumbnail". They might have did something before presenting). If you have lots of MP3s, especially when you don't have the album art stored, you will surely face massive problem in scrolling.

Oh, btw, the three buttons on the bottoms seems to be sensored by heat, will it work if air temperature > 37 degrees?

iPhone/Tocco/Diamond whatever Themes for KU990

Hacking LG KU990.

This phone is known for its flexibility to customize due to the fact that its a massive Flash Player.

Some FAQs for the customization of KU990 (in additional to those you can find in the wiki courtesy of the MyGreatPhone UK)

Q: Can you change the operating system to Windows Mobile?
A: In short: NO WAY. While you can change the layout of almost all the graphics of KU990, its system is totally independent to Windows Mobile.

Q: How about the layout of Windows Mobile?
A: Up to today, there is no themes resembling WM6 to our best knowledge. But there is a similar theme that mimics the TouchFLO of a HTC handset (and they call it "Diamond"), it is yet to be released though.


Q: And Samsung F480 Tocco?
A: Yes, the official thread here.


Q: There must be the ever-popular iPhone theme.
A: True, there are actually a range of options, each one with different scale of similarity to iPhone. One example:

Touch Diamond2 - HTC's new phone announced in MWC

HTC is finally realising their problem on naming their product. "Diamond 2" is never going to be searchable in Yahoo!, and they name it as "Diamond2". Wise move.

There were two notorious problems that gives irritates Diamond users: speed and battery. Diamond2 is taking a bold move to resolve the two problems.

Speaking of speed, the CPU is now upgraded to QUALCOMM 528MHz with 288MB RAM and 512MB ROM. Of course, due to WM restraints, its speed is no way comparable with iPhone. With the nefarious TouchFLO still around to devour Diamond2's phone system resources, believing the blatant lie of "as fast as iPhone" is going to disappoint you.

Specifications (according to HTC's Official site for Diamond2):

CPU: Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating System Windows Mobile 6.1 "Professional", 512 MB ROM, 288 MB RAM
Dimensions: 108 X 53 X 13.7 mm
Weight: 118g (Diamond is 112g)
Display: 3.2-inch touchscreen, resolution 480 X 800
Network: HSDPA/WCDMA/Quad-band EDGE
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0 EDR+ A2DP, 802.11b/g, GPS,
Camera: 5.0 megapixel
Battery Capacity: 1100 mAh
Talk time: Up to 5 hours
Standby time: Up to 500 hours
Misc: microSD slot, FM Radio, G-Sensor (Accelerometer)

Extend battery life for HTC Touch Diamond and other WM6.1 phones

Universal ways:
- Turn off wi-fi
- Turn off Bluetooth
- Dim the background light (Settings->System->Battery->

Light)

For Windows Mobile (WM6.1):
- Check email less frequently
- Don't run unnecessary software
- Disconnect Windows Live Messenger
- Disable ActiveSync

For Diamond or other HTC WM based Handsets:
- Turn off the TouchFLO 3D Manila (Settings->Today->Items->Uncheck TouchFLO 3D)
- Buy a battery with larger capacity

Meizu MiniOne M8 is already out

M8 phone is made by Meizu. Perhaps this brand is not famous in many countries, Meizu has been renowned for making nice MP3 players with remarkable voice quality.

When iPhone 2G just came out, M eizu had immediately responded with design pictures with similar graphs like iPhone 2G, at that time copycat cries were heard all over the net, but after two long years, the first phone of the very company finally came out in mainland China on December 2008.

Here are some specs:
Talk Time: 370 minutes
Standby Time: 179 hours with SIM card, 374 hours without SIM card
Music playback time: 21.5 hours
Dimensions: 108mm x 59mm x 12mm
Weight: 118g
Misc: accelerometer, Light detection, Infrared range detection, touch screen.
Camera: 3.2 Megapixels

. . . and of course, no 3G. Besides, 802.11g wi-fi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR+ support are deliberately omitted in the mainland build as a compliance to the State Law of China, but there is the hardware and one can easily unlock the functions.

Meizu M8 is based on the relatively unpopular Windows CE 6.0, but its speed it impressive. Worth a try if you can get one around. If you shop by Internet, just don't get ripped off, never pay 500€ for the phone. We have reliable sources confirming that the new version with wi-fi, bluetooth, multilanguage support international version will be available on March 2009.

Running out of space for your Windows Mobile 6.1?

It is reported that your WM6.1 phone will still go out of space even if you do not install any software. You fail to search any suspicious large files inside your Samsung Omnia/Touch HD/Xperia/Glofiish/iPAQ 610 or whatever. You might think a hard reset is the only way to go.

No, we are here and we might be of some help.

If you use Windows Mobile MSN Live Messenger, that might be the problem. This software will download the display picture of your contacts (AND NOT ERASE THEM). To make things worse, when your contact change the picture, the stupid program just download the new picture . . . and leave the old ones intact! So, somehow you have a couple of weirdo friends who made a slideshow of display pictures, you will download a crap load of display pictures of them.

To solve this, simply go to your phone's system folder and erase the oldest display pictures, and your phone will be smoother. If you don't know the exact folder path of your phone, leave your brand and model below as comments and we will get notified and update this page.

Samsung Omnia i900 (i908) Silent Camera Hack

First, grab your Samsung Omnia i900/i908, type *#0002*28346# in your dialpad without editing

Go to notincall -> notincall_headset_camera -> common part -> speaker volume

Change the spk left value to -46.5, rinse and repeat for spk right

Technically it isn't silent, but the camera sound should be not audible.

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Amazon Kindle 2 to lanuch on 24 February 2009

Amazon has just announced its latest reader, Kindle 2, which is supposedly an upgrade of Kindle. Stats of the Amazon Kindle 2:

Thickness: 0.91cm or 0.36 inch
Price: US$359
Speed: 20% faster than Kindle
Storage: 700% larger than Kindle
Battery life: Up to 2 weeks of normal reading.
New Function: The "Whispersync" bookmark function, allowing user to read the bookmark on another Kindle
Availability: Pre-order will be shipped on 24 Feb. This is only available to users in USA.
To order: Click here


This is what Amazon said:
We’re excited to introduce Amazon Kindle 2, the next generation wireless reading device. With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperpack, the new Kindle has seven times more storage and now holds over 1,500 books. It has a longer battery life and faster page turns. An advanced display provides even crisper images and clearer text for an improved book-like reading experience. And Kindle 2 even reads to you, with “Read to Me”, our new Text to Speech feature.

With Kindle 2 we kept everything readers love about the original Kindle—the convenience of reading what you want, when you want it, the immediacy of getting a book wirelessly delivered in less than 60 seconds, and Kindle’s ability to “disappear” in your hands so you can get lost in the author’s words. We’re also excited to announce that the Kindle Store has over 230,000 ebooks available.

To order: Click here

How to change the font for LG KU990 Viewty

In our testing machine of LG KU990 (Viewty), there are two font files, one is LG_Vector which is pretty small and contains Latin alphabets like English, the other one is LG_Vector_Gothic which contains other fonts like Chinese.

The English fonts on KU990, "LG_Vector" look nice in most cases, but for Chinese fonts, even the font style is way better than SonyEricsson or Nokia's defult font, the font style can be improved.

Warning: Inexperienced users might brick the phone during the process. Please stop reading if you are not familiar with the "EFS_MEDIA_BUILDER" software (a software for hacking KU990, more information on MyGreatPhone UK's wiki). Never try this unless you know what you are doing!

Step 1:
Get your favorite .TTF font, but mind that: 1) it can only be .TTF, no .TTC or .FON files; 2) the font display on phone might shrink for some fonts.

Step 2:
Load the EFS, and use the "TOTO method" to rename the file, i.e. rename the LGAPP folder to TOTO or anything else, as a backup measure. Disconnect and restart the phone.

Don't panic if you see the yellow "REFRESHING. . ." screen.

Step 3:
Reconnect using EFS, go to TOTO/Media/Font and rename the LG_Vector.ttf (or LG_Vector_Gothic.ttf) to anything else.

Step 4:
Rename your favorite font to LG_Vector.ttf (or LG_Vector_Gothic.ttf) and put into TOTO/Media/Font, and then rename the TOTO folder back to LGAPP. Disconnect and restart and you should see the change.

Toshiba TG01 - Yet another "iPhone killer"?

*Yawns*.

Toshiba has just unveiled announced their latest flagship - a WM6.1 mobile phone in London with very powerful system configurations.

HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS are a must for any reasonable iPhone killer, and we need no introduction for these.

The eye-catching specifications for TG01 are:
- A giant 4.1 inch screen featuring 800 x 480 resolution.
- Less than 10mm thick, which is thinner than both iPhone and HTC Diamond.
- A 1GHz CPU chipset. To quote SlashGear, TG01 "is the first device to use Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon QSD2850 chipset."
- A long battery duration capable to sustain multimedia uses as the CPU can regulate its speed. No info on battery capacity yet.

Too bad this very brand is notorious for its poor voice quality, the fundamental function required for proper communicate. If the voice quality is the same as G800/G910, we will continue recommending reader not to buy one.

The rumoured launch date is not earlier than Summer 2009, before that, will it be possible that another brand launched a better phone? Windows Mobile 6.5 might probably be launched by then.

LG Arena KM900, another copycat of iPhone?!

According the photo put up by AllAboutPhones.nl (Holland language site), which is supposed to be on a certain promotion material in Holland language about LG Arena KM900, a high-end phone with GPS, wi-fi and "innovative S-Class 3D interface".

The layout and color scheme is fairly unoriginal. What phone is it trying to mimic?

Nokia E63 - Basic Blackberry-style QWERTY Phone

Nokia E63 - Basic Blackberry-style QWERTY Phone

Mimicking as a Blackberry-style QWERTY business phone, Nokia E63 is sometimes regarded as a watered-down version of the popular handset of the same brand, E71.

For a budget smartphone 200€ you can't really ask for trendy stuff like GPS or 7.2MB HSDPA. It is:
- 113x53x13mm, 2mm thicker than E71, but still compact though.
- UTMS 900/2100 or 850/1900
- Wi-fi (802.11b/g)
- Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
- Screen size 2.3", resolution 320x240
- 2.0 Megapixel camera (1600 x 1200, 1.92mp)
- 3.5mm audio jack! How often can you find a non 2.5mm jack for a Nokia phone? Props to Nokia.

E63 features two distinctively sharp colors - dark marine blue, and red for users with different business styles. (As a side-note, this machine has the same name as a model of an AMG saloon. Though with this color scheme, we doubt that Mercedes Benz E63 AMG users would be interested in this E63.)

The death of WiMAX?

Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition Internet Tablet

On 8 January 2009, Nokia announced the discontinuation of N810 WiMAX Edition Internet Tablet, and market are reading that this non-phone non-PDA monstrosity as a failure of the initial WiMAX technology. WiMAX technology is notably in South Korea (the "WiBro"). However, in the rest of world, WiMAX is yet to be supported

In Hong Kong, licenses for use of spectrum for wireless broadband "WiBB", (or "BWA", broadband wireless access) has been awarded to network service providers, three providers took the spectrum from 2.5GHz to 2.69Ghz. However, the spectrum profile for WiMAX in Hong Kong, 2.3GHz, was not interested by any providers.

Coincidence? Who knows.

Review Update: Bad bugs for Philips GoGear LUXE SA24

After the extensive tests by our team, we have found problems which might seriously affect your interest in acquiring one of these MP3 Bluetooth headsets.

1. The software of the GoGear is disturbingly unstable for us. Calls, regardless incoming/outgoing, sometimes do make your LUXE halt. And by sometimes we means around 25% probability, which is absolutely too high to tolerate.
   
   The 25% probability means you have to drop the bluetooth connection and return to phone, and sometimes this machine won't respond unless you pin the reset hole.
   
   To make things worse, you need to bring your own pin.
   
   
2. The shuffle list is seriously bugged. It has really stupid shuffle system. You turn on the machine in shuffle music mode, play the first song (A), and the next song is (D), and (F)(B)(E)(C) for example. Now you turn it off or reset it due to the bug in problem (1).
   
   Restarting the machine and the GoGear LUXE will go back to the ADFBEC sequence, with absolutely no reordering. Someone please tell us how on earth is it qualified as "shuffle"?
   
   
3. The reception of headset is unstable and depends on luck. If you switch back to phone, the problem is gone, so we're 100% sure it's the headset that matters.
   

Without a viable update of firmware, we have to downgrade the headset to a 3/10, for it fails to provide an acceptable quality of telephone conversation.

First Review - http://geektechpost.blogspot.com/2009/01/review-on-philips-gogear-luxe-2gb-sa24.html
Initial Introduction - http://geektechpost.blogspot.com/2009/01/philips-gogear-luxe-sa24-perfect.html