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Meego 1.1 in October?

The next release of Meego 1.1 – becomes available to the public! The official project wiki pages, in fact, have appeared two new roadmap, one for version 1.1 and later for a further 2.1 , that the first will be available in late October, the second mind by the end of April. This semi-development cycles, similar to those of Fedora Linux distribution, which is based Meego. We just have to wait and see

Twitter, Seesmic and TweetCaster updates for Android

Some fresh updates on the Twitter client for Android, just from yesterday. Following the change of some API known social networks, especially those relating to how it is logged in users, many applications were in fact updated to fit the new situation. Among them, the official Twitter, which reaches the 3.1 version, Seesmic, with 1.4.3, and finally TweetCaster, so now is a version 2.2. May be it’s time to update your social apps

Google Earth 1.1 for Android

Here is the latest Google Earth version 1.1 for all Android users, after more than four months since the previous version 1.0, released last April.

Given the summer release, the developers of Google have decided to make available the opportunity to discover on your Android smartphone even the marine world, which is well known as 3 / 4 of the planet. Just zoom in a marine area and goes to see what lies beneath the surface of the water. As per tradition of Google,there is also a new layer that lets you explore the depths even better, with hundreds of photos and videos from employees of all kinds.

This is for all devices running Android 2.1. The lucky people who already use devices with Android 2.2, however, can also use Flash within the program and you can then view the video directly to Google Earth in cartoons. Simplified further controls in order to make it even easier to travel and observe the surrounding environment.

The find Google Earth – get it for free on Android Market.

WakeVoice app for Android

The app’s name is WakeVoice, it’s not yet available in the Android market, but when it does (within “the next day or so”), it may just revolutionize the way you look at your alarm.  Using Android’s speech synthesis (TTS) engine, your alarm clock can actually talk to you. It can announce customize message, the weather forecast, and even the latest news.
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iGO8 true pitch to zoom for HTC HD2

This is only first alpha version of applying pitch to zoom for iGO8.

installing
1. Import attached reg file to phones registry and reboot
2. Save attached HD2-iGO8-Multitouch-Landscape.exe or HD2-iGO8-Multitouch-Portrait.exe (depend on your iGO screen orintation) file on phone. Run it. Second run unloads program from memory. When tool is running try to zoom in iGO8 using multitouch. (possible you need to disable Zoomer VirtualDesktop for igo)
3. Report please is it work and how good it’s works
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MeeGo is Nokia’s answer to Android

Intel and Nokia have been working on it together to try and bring new life into Nokia’s product offerings. It’s got potential. Currently MeeGo is still in “pre-alpha” mode and the UI is still developing. The Nokia version of the UI is very heavily “Nokia influenced”, rather than Intel’s UI for netbooks and tablets. MeeGo is a Linux-based, open-source operating system which includes various API’s and is finger-friendly, just like Android!

“MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space.”

HTC HD2 3D driver patch 2.50 (beta version)

The original driver didn’t work well on some Snapdragon devices (the LG Expo, for example), and on some ROMs also didn’t work very well, according to some. The new one works on the programs, games, and devices I have tested it on so far, namely OGLCubes, Electopia, GLBenchmark, Manila/TF3D/Sense(/whatever), on a stock (NLD) HTC HD2.

How to test it?

First of all, test if all your apps and games still work. If an app/game does not start at all anymore, go into CF3DConf and set the application’s driver to “Original”. That should let it start again.

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Toshiba TG01 hack – phone reset mapped to power button

This is a cab file which overwrites the standard PowerOffHint.exe in the Windows directory with a copy of JWMD Phone Reset version 1.2b. What this means is that when you perform a long press on the power button of your Toshiba TG01 it will now load JWMD Phone Reset application, which has the added option of resetting your device.

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Ubuntu released for HTC HD2

If you have been looking forward to a Ubuntu port for HTC HD2, well you got it now. Just moments ago HTC_Linux tweeted the link to the very first release of Ubuntu port on the HD2. The ported version has been seen quite often from sites not just our own, and now you can try it out on your own. The file is quite large, around 655MB and so the file takes a long time to download.
Ubuntu ‘Karmic Koala’ for HTC HD2 version 0.1

Needs Storage Card with at least 2GB free space. Recommended is a fast Storage Card (Class 4 is ok)
This is intended to be used as a netbook/desktop type setup with keyboard and mouse connected via USB. Check this site for information on how to do this.

Be sure to read included README.txt for install instructions, features and developer information.
Quick instructions: Put the ubuntu directory into the main/root directory of your Storage Card and tap HaRET executable.

Size: 635M
md5sum: 327a4b2c17e14dd5649964fe18f837e9
Mirrors:
http://linuxtogo.org/~lgorris/hd2/hd2-ubuntu_0.1.zip

HTC Wildfire announced today, on contract with – Orange, Vodafone, Tmobile, O2 offers UK

It is essentially a slimmed down version of the HTC Desire and will be free on contracts of around 15.00 –20.00 GBP per month. We have been saying for a while that this is where Android will truly beat Apple. There is a gap for phones that are inexpensive, but can still run apps. Not everyone can afford iPhone prices and with the introduction of lower costing Android handsets, we can expect the Android App marketplace to grow considerably over the next year. We have had a quick hands on with the device and we have to say that we really like it. If you want Desire style functionality on a budget the HTC Wildfire is definitely the way to go. Watch this space for more information on this handset.

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Microsoft Facebook 1.2 for Windows Mobile

This Facebook version is out on the Windows Marketplace for Professional devices so it should work on every WM6.5.x touchscreen phone and any screen resolution.

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HTC Wizard (Qtek 9100) WM6.5.3 custom ROM

Rom version:
6.5.3.8 28205 bèta 1

Packages:
mHub VO (videocodecs)
Advanced Network (Mega)
HTC Animation

Memory:
Storage 38.86 mb
Program 25.84 mb

Known bugs:

• Buttons do not work until set in settings but some programs are not in the list (comm manager, camera etc.)
• On some area’s the ROM is a little slower
• No HTC camera
• Volume control doesn’t work fully

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WM6.1 Build 21127 RealVGA fast ROM for HTC Universal

- both 64 and 128 roms use XPR compression – much faster than Uni’s default LZX
- all modular exe/dll/cpl/mui/tfx/plg components have useless sections stripped thanks to bepe’s platformrebuilder. This saves ram, virtual memory and other resources
- mp3dmod and msdmo dlls included to allow support for apps that use them (pocketplayer and google’s youtube app, probably others too).
- AKU bug fixed to make Market work properly (thanks responderman)
- Drivers completely rebuilt. I had no choice, PlatformRebuilder crashed while building the old driverset as most of the modules were pre-stripped. I’ve also made an attempt to fix some audio choppiness in A2DP, but it’s difficult to test as my A2DP headset is very bad at A2DP. Handsfree is definitely working fine.
- Smaller wince.nls used to save ROM+RAM
- Yet more unused files and modules removed.
- Opera Mini 5 added. This version runs native, unlike previous java-based opera minis. It’s a very fast browser with low memory footprint (about 6mb with a single tab).

64mb versiom has 4.0mb Pagepool. 32.5 Mb free RAM on clean boot with 200+contacts and appointments synced)
128mb version has pagepooling disabled
Flash Disk enabled
Extended ROM enabled

Removed :-
- Windows Media Player (TCPMP integrated to replace WMP)
- Office OneNote
- Customer Satisfaction (SQM)
- FirmwareUpdate
- Catalog
- Entertainment (games)
- Transcriber
- Getting started
- Bootsplash/welcome images
- MS Sip input methods (replaced by fingerkeyboard)
- xiaojin1985′s TCPMP AVRCP plugin – it will be back someday, I hope

Included :-
- RealVGA
- SRS WOW HD
- Fingerkeyboard
- MP3 ringtones
- Opera Mini 5 native WM version
- Bimbam69′s TCPMP 0.72 recomp3 fully integrated to replace Windows Media. Suports WMA9pro/WMV/FLV/FLAC/OGG/DIVX/MP3…….
- PocketNotepad
- PocketRAR
- AdobePDF Reader 2.5
- No2Chem’s USB to PC usb mass storage driver
- No2Chem’s neuPowerCpl replaces backlight settings, power control panel and adds some nice options.
Note that it won’t display advanced usage stats (batt temp etc) as no neuBattery driver exists for uni.
- Dutty’s SDHC driver package (tested with 2/4/8/16gb)
- PimBackup
- JWright’s Network Plugin (mount windows shared drives over wifi/activesync)
- TaskManager 3.1
- TotalCommander 2.5.1
- Windows Live 10.7
- Remote Desktop Client
- Office Mobile 6.1
- PNG/GIF graphics optimised for size where possible.

This rom has no bootsplash screens, so you will see a black screen on boot, followed by a white screen.
Tap the white screen to begin using the device on 1st boot.

Drivers, XIP section, registry, pagepool and filesystem have all been optimised for speed and RAM.

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Get Android taskbar for your Windows Mobile phone

On Android devices, you get some pretty clear and clean icons in the taskbar area, on Windows Mobile, they’re not as nice. Thanks to an easy tweak from XDA, you can apply a CAB to get a full Android like taskbar and icons.

What’s new:

- Added Battery Percentage Versions
- Cleaned up a few icons
- Added the background on WM6.5 version to blend with the icons
- Added no start icon version
- Fixed Volume Problems
- Fixed Folder Icons

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Download for WM6.5.x

Windows 95 running on HTC HD2

Wanna get a real OS on your HD2? Here it is – a fully working version of Windows 95 ready to go!

Windows 95 for HTC HD2 itself works pretty fast once the vga drivers and all components are properly installed ,there is one issue with the mouse icon, and few other glitches, but still nice and usable. Also some games works, StarCraft being one of them and its quite playable, even the intro and cd sound works (though lags a bit) it’s by no means as fast as the pocketstarcraft port, but this is the real thing, all units and BroodWar expansion on it so its quite a nice!

Links:

http://397d1f63.youfap.com – Еmulator main files
http://2d1a955c.youfap.com- Windows 95 image

http://niuki.net/files/Heroes2POL.7z – specially prepared version of HoMM2 (Heroes 2 game)

Instructions:

1. Extract QEMU_WM.7z to the root folder on your SD card.
2. Extract additional packages (Win95 or Homm2) to ‘emul’ directory in QEMU folder.
3. Use qemu_launcher from QEMU folder to start selected VM.

Note: QEMU must be placed in ‘\Storage Card\QEMU\’ directory, otherwise you have to edit ‘cmdline.txt’ etc files accordingly.

HTC Legend unboxing video

SlashGear has gotten themselves an early version of the  HTC Legend (Android powered phone), and here is the unboxing video!

Mozilla Firefox Fennec shows off on Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid

The dreams come true to all mobile users out there – a better browser comes to the market, there is a lot of rumors about Mozilla’s Fennec, but nothing about the Android version of this mobile Firefox browser until today. We have two photos that shows Nexus One and Motorola Droid running a full (landscape mode too), non-mobile optimized version of Mozilla Firefox. Now, it seems that with the full version working well, some of Firefox’s features have been ported to its mobile cousin called Fennec on the Android platform. At this point, the shots are just being teased around and no release date has been established.