few days ago, i had a chance to play around with the vodafone blackberry 9500 also known as 9530 from US verizon. i was very impressed with the blackberry UI and its OS too comparing with buggy WM6.1 on the HD i have.
After testing the blackberry, I almost traded in my HD for the blackberry; yet, I still wanted some feedbacks here if the current problems can be solved.
two things impressed me the most from blackberry
1. the feedback mechanism on the blackberry 9500, it makes you feel like you are actually pressing on a keyboard
2. the landscape mode is much responsive and precise comparing with either too laggy or sensitive on the HD..
my question is:
has anyone ever thought about installilng blackberry OS on the HD? the other is, is there a possibility to change the feedback mechanism when press on HD just the same feeling as on the blackberry?
any feedback is appreciated
As for the feedback on the Blackberry Storm (9500), that is achieved by the display unit actually floating on a button at the middle.
This image will clarify...
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Thus, it is impossible to create that type of feedback on any device without the same design.
In other news, I've tried that device myself and it didn't do much for me at all... Pushing in on the screen itself was just...weird and unnatural.
And if buggy is what you're looking for, try out the Blackberry OS 4.7 that is currently on the Storm. I have to admit that winmo can be...iffy at times, but at least the issues can be resolved by either using other software or actually making changes to the OS. Blackberry OS 4.7 has be a nightmare and users can do nothing but wait for RIM to put out an update to fix the problems.
1. install touch response and the phone can vibrate every time you press the screen making it feel like your hitting a something.
2. the storm has had terrible reviews with buggy software. altho yes will agree with the bold is probably faster than the HD, but you can't put your onw rom on the bold.
storm has no wi fi ^^ that's enough for me to prefer the HD
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hi all
Recently got an M700 and am loving it. Since discovering this place I've been amazed at what customisations you can do, and with flashing to WM6 using AX3L's fantastic ROM, getting TomTom6 working, and a few choice other apps to allow FTP etc., i've now got a device that does pretty much everything I could ask of it anywhere! (Probably matter of time till I brick it though...).
What I am missing though, is a decent VNC client (although I've used the RDP client semi-successfully).
I've searched for 'VNC' but no joy - surely that can't be the case when there's so much other stuff available? or is the search function not liking the term...?
thanks for a great forum & resource
Did you see the posts re zoomVNC on PocketPC Thoughts? Looks nice!
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http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=440789&sid=3c02eeaea509b9f859136237f11fbb17
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i have now
thanks - looks excellent
i guess there's others out there i couldn't search for too!
For me the best is PTPocketOffice.
It was recommended by Menneisyys:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1572&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
It consumes a lot less data than the others VNC.
It's fast.
It has fullscreen.
It can be used one handed.
The server side can resample the pictures to make it smaller (less data and better image than if it was done by client side).
The only minor thing I'd like to see improved is their proprietary softkeyboard. why not using the system keyboard? I don't want to use a new keyboard with each of my apps...
that's a great article
i hadn't thought to even try logmein until reading it there, i'd assumed that with their remote screens always being slightly fuzzy and smaller it mightn't be great - wow, was i wrong!
just tried logging onto a client's SBS server and the screen scaling and rotation together make it nearly as useable as a standard desktop! the screen scrolling at the side of the screen is a great interface! there'll be occasions where i need VNC, but for know i think I've got a favoured solution
The Mozilla Foundation has released the latest version for their Firefox browser for Mobile devices.
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Alpha 2 brings the following improvements:
Improved panning performance
Newly designed theme
JavaScript error console is now built in
Improved add-on support
Numerous bug fixes
Improved UI polish
Unfortunately it would not be an Alpha is there were not plenty of bugs still. A major one may be that panning and scrolling in iframes have not been solved yet, meaning web sites like Google Mail and Reader remain difficult to use.
Download the latest alpha, for the HTC Touch Pro specifically, HERE. Might work on other devices as well, I have not tested yet.
Found info at WMPowerUsers
I posted in another fennec thread but nobody even looked at it so thought I would start my own. Sorry for another fennec thread.
tried it on my vogue, its supposed to be alpha 2, so they are exused, but still, never saw a program so worthles at its alpha stage, just wondering why they release it all? whats the point? bug reports? are you kiding me? its one big bug!
one new thing I noticed, it now does support touch screen keyboards, so you can now try it with devices that do not have a hardware keyboard.
makes me wonder why its not mentioned in the release notes.
I like how the TF3D bar made it into the picture
Tried this one and the previous ones on my HTC Fuze. It doens't really work quite right and the things is really really slow. ...but hey it IS an alpha version - I will wait and try the next realsed one cause this one is worse than the first one...ha
Alpha or not I would be embarrassed to show anyone this large pile of crap!!
Hello friends,
I've been using this phone for two years now and it was not bad until recently when touch screen started to misfunction, especially in lower third of the screen, making it impossible to type meny buttons and use keyboard correctly. Since then, I have properly flashed several ROMs, even cooked ones from this forum (btw, I find them very neat) but the problem persist in wide range:
- with some ROMs it get stucked on Screen alignment;
- even if "Remote Screen Alignment" tool was used, it didnt' help with most ROMs;
- Some ROMs like
_HTC Touch 3G_RUU_Jade_Orange_FR-B2B_1.71.73.11_Radio_Sign_12.36.30.29.UMA_0.29.30.U23_Ship
and
sj1.2.2-wwe_ultralite&clean (thanks to developers and uploaders)
pass well the screen alignment, but after short walk through Menu it starts again to be unprecise and makes use of keyboard and other impossible!!!
So, just before I grab my hammer and pulverize this dear and beloved Windows phone, is there ANYONE who can give me an advice here?
Thanks to all of you and keep developing, because you're doing a great deed for the people worldwide.
Cheers from France
Mais oui, mon ami. The problem lies with the digitizer, meaning the device which converts your screen touches to digital information. It's the phone's plastic screen cover, to be more precise. Either take your phone to a GSM service to have yours replaced, or buy a new one from e-bay and change it yourself, if you're a DIY kind of guy.
This is how the digitizer looks:
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Multumesc prietenului meu!
I thought it could be a hardware failure, because we just can't blame it on software every time.
Funny, but I think I didn't wear-out this digitizer that much in the past, but maybe their lifetime is not as long as three years?
I remember this Jade fell of the table once, so maybe it could be some bad connection?
I also took your advice and googled a bit for shopping results and it seems that there are TWO different sorts of displays and digitizers for the same model of HTC Touch 3G Jade T3232. This means that I should open up the phone prior to purchase of this spare part.
I promise to post here the result of this "surgical operation" once I get it done.
Thanks again
OK so biking to work today noticed a few different bugs I had not noticed so far, coming from iPhone I had never experienced these problems with Apple.
My bluetooth simply will not auto connect to my garmin 510, I have to go into both devices and "forget" paired devices and reconnect a fresh, every time I turn either device off/on.
Headphones crackling at high volume (which isn't really that high to be fair) can't be the headphones as there very high spec. Atomic Floyd HiDefDrum
Just tried to compose an email (original email client) and as I write the email the cursor moves by itself back into the middle of the line im writing making it impossible to write a full line??? WTF?
TBF, at the beginning of this note I seem to compare to Apple, but thinking about it these are basics that should work on any device, I have been perfectly happy with the S4 up until now.... But the 3 jobs I wanted it to do properly today, it's failed at....... miserably!!
OK, So I've managed to write my email. Had to switch to original samsung keyboard (from swiftkey)
Can anybody replicate this error using original email app/swiftkey
jus71n said:
OK, So I've managed to write my email. Had to switch to original samsung keyboard (from swiftkey)
Can anybody replicate this error using original email app/swiftkey
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I think I've read one or two complaints about the cursor issue. You can just install another keyboard from the Play Store. Thats the joy of android..
About the crackling, there's a whole thread on that topic. It seems that the S4, majorly the qualcomm LTE version I think, has crackling issues when you use headphones with a resistance lower than 14-16 ohms, so you're out of luck as of now until that issue is sorted by Samsung. You can find more info here, just search for it next time:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258831
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Noticed some bugs today.....
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I recommending this anti bug spray.
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Is very comfortable, you can carry in a pocket. When you see bugs just spray all over it with this magnificent product.
(But remember, this is not for internal use)
Upgraded to a new phone last week. Since then it's just been sitting around in my backpack on WiFi getting emails and stuff. I'll probably still use it every once in awhile with the Game Gripper for portable gaming. And it'll be a solid backup up phone. But this is what I miss most...
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I just got an Samsung S3. And my constant thought is, "Man this is a big phone" and "I miss my keyboard". Oh well, I'll have to wait for them to make a sensible sized phone again.
I still have to two of em, so I think they may be turned into home automation controllers.
Now, I am using different smartphone and definitely I miss hw kb the most.
eleph4nt said:
Now, I am using different smartphone and definitely I miss hw kb the most.
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got an iphone 5 and a one S on my drawer, those are my backup phone.
I also have an S3, but with a broken screen, don't know if I will repair it soon.
Still use the DZ as business phone. Open lot of dwg and pdf drawing on it. music. watching olympic games, and of curse lot of calls.
Thanks to the battery door, since its my buisness phone = 2 batteries a day.
i refuse to move away from the G2/DZ just because I love/need/want the physical keyboard.
coming from Blackberries and the G1... a physical keyboard is just impossible to do without, for me, because most of the time, I have to type up emails on my phone and having the ability to feel the key press and buttons allows me to type faster and sometimes without looking down on the phone.
Definitely the hardware keyboard and the battery time. I didn't get 8 days on it (duuude), but I got 4.
I just moved on to a SGS2 and I refuse to get rid of my DZ.
Keyboard
The keyboard is surely what I miss the most.
Those bluttooth keyboard just can't give me the same feeling as my Desire Z(G2):crying: