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Near Bezel-less design
Zellweger noted that HTC will be coming out with near bezel-less screens in the future. When there is no bezel around the screen this leaves more space to implement technology in the case below the screen. He goes on to reason that nobody will complain when you make the screen larger but leave the phone dimensions around the same size (so that it won’t take up even more space in your bag/pants or wherever you carry your phone). Next to the bezel-less design they are certainly aiming to dive below the 10-13mm thickness that most HTC phones currently have.
If this means that we will see more differentiation in HTC designs is unknown. But we believe the company sure could use some new ideas.
Another big question here could be if HTC will continue to use their beloved Super LCD screens or will they be able to buy some of the production of Super AMOLED screens by samsung? They tried to jump to AMOLED when the HTC Desire was first released, but met with a huge shortage which led them to SLCD technology.
NFC
Zellweger from HTC also noted that the new models will be coming with an NFC chip. NFC (Near Field Communication) allows you to make payments with your mobile phone by holding it close to a transaction point. Google recently launched their NFC payment service Google Wallet so it’s probably not speculation that the new HTC phones will be compatible with this service.
Onscreen keyboard with feedback on the touchscreen
Tweakers.net also reported that HTC is working on a technology that allows for feedback while using the onscreen keyboard. How they will manage to do this is still unknown. Zellweger hinted at possible use of bubbles on the screen where they replace hardware keyboards. Do we really want bubbles on our smooth touchscreens? We can’t see this working out very well – but perhaps HTC will prove us wrong here.
Many users have been outing their concerns about making bezel-less phones, but why? Well imagine a phone doesn’t have a bezel at all and you would drop it on a corner – even from a very low fall the phone screen would most likely shatter or at the least be damaged. Certainly this would not pass HTC quality control? Could it be that HTC is coming out with more bendable screens that could withstand such a drop/pressure? Time will tell. It’s certainly an interesting idea.
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Earlier this year, there was a lot of news around HTC concerning their locked bootloaders. A locked bootloader means that the HTC Evo 3D can only boot a kernel that is signed with a private key that only HTC has – making it impossible to boot a custom kernel. There was an uproar on the internet and some major news blogs picked up the story. HTC Promptly responded that they would revise their bootloader policy. Shortly after this the CEO of HTC issued the order to make the bootloaders unlockable – but not before the HTC Evo 3D was shipped. The did however promised to unlock to bootloader in an update.
Of course the folks at XDA aren’t too patient and love a challenge. This has now lead to the bootloader of the HTC Evo 3D to be hacked by “Team Win”. Because of there efforts the HTC Evo 3D phone is now open to custom software. The procedure isn’t easy so Team Win is still working on that – but it’s coming. Please follow their effort in the source link below and please.. read before you act – don’t ruin your brand spanking new kickass htc phone!
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148819
A small rundown of the Evo 3D’s short but interesting history:
March 22, 2011, The HTC Evo 3D was announced to the public on. The phone started going on sale on
May 19, Evo 3D information and release date of June 4th was leaked
May 24, Evo 3D was confirmed to have a cryptographically signed bootloader, recovery and of course kernal image. The internet responded with furious anger
May 24, HTC released a statement hours later that they will look into their bootloader policy
May 26, HTC realised there was no other way out – Peter Chou the big cahuna aka CEO of HTC issued a response saying they will no longer lock their future bootloaders.
June 24, HTC Evo 3D goes on sale!
July 4, HTC Evo 3D bootloader cracked
Next to being a big fan of HTC Phones (Android and Windows Mobile). I also highly enjoy using a phone I recently received called the Motorola Milestone. It has been some time now and the Motorola Milestone has finally been rooted. You can find instructions on rooting your phone at the following URL:
http://motorolamilestoneroot.blogspot.com/
Some reasons that would make you want to root your phone:
- Screenshots of your ‘desktop’
- Wifi tethering
- Push or remove new APK files to your system partition
And there is a lot more but maybe I will go into detail later on.
Enjoy the root for now, and sorry for going a little bit off topic on this blog. Hope you don’t mind!
HTC Hero mobile phone was launched on 24th June 2009, in London, by HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones. It presents itself with variant selection of widgets on the screen of the phone. You can alternate the designs and sizes to suit your personality. HTC Hero is an Android phone and prior to it HTC G1 was having this facility. Hero introduces a unique blend of functions which improves the Android experience. Android is an operation system, functioning on Linux kernel, initially developed by Google and later on by Open Handset Alliance.
The merits of this phone lie in its simplification of the operation system thereby making easier for the users. In this phone you need not scroll around to search a name. All you have to do is type a few letters of the name and you get the name. When you search your mail in the inbox, unlike a list of e-mails, you will find a list arranged systematically, important notes flagged and a library for the documents along with the attachments. The search button easily finds the tweets in Twitter and searches through your appointments in the calendar. Operating the phone, you have a custom made experience. Hero is primarily a touch screen device.
The hardware which is added to its features are the screen, a 3.2-inch TFT-LCD display with 320 x 480 resolution, 5 mega-pixel auto-focus camera, 3.5 mm audio jack, and a custom built HTC user interface. With its 3.2-inch display, the HTC Hero is optimized for Web and multimedia. Adobe is, also, working with HTC to make sure that the Hero can run Flash. Which implies the Flash elements and components on the web will run smoothly on the Hero. Users will be able to observe YouTube and various videos and video shows.
You will only realize about the phone when you see the specifications. It has 512MB ROM /288 MB RAM, Internal GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP support, 900/2100MHz HSPA and Quad-band GSM, 802.11b/g WiFi with 3.5mm Audio Jack, 5 mega-pixel auto-focus camera, micro SD expansion, G-sensor and many modern applications.
Improvised on a culture of innovation, HTC Heroshapes the mobile experience to a new generation gadget. To get the best of mobile phone deals and demonstration of Flash working, visit dialaphone.co.uk.
Source: articlealley.com/article_964969_45.html
The Android market is slowly become more of a mess because of the sheer amount of android applications uploaded to it every month. If you are browsing through the latest additions you often find a lot of junk and it’s often hard to even understand what this Android app you are looking at does. Though they these Android applications are free, they are often also just a complete waste of your time.
The real high quality applications that also happen to be free are hard to find in the Android Market, especially for new users (like the lucky HTC Hero Sprint owners for instance!). Because it’s hard to find and hard to understand what certain applications do we made a list of a few apps that you really don’t want to pass on. If you are looking for Android Games go here.
GDocs for google Android
If you are using an Android device I’m sure you also own a google mail account, if you don’t you are obviously missing out on the amazing google account integration of the Android operating system.
If you have a google account I’m sure you have seen, heard or toyed around with goole documents. Google documents allows you to store your documents online and edit them from everywhere around the world on your Android phone.
GDocs allows you to edit these documents from anywhere you are in the world while using your Android phone to do the editing. GDocs is an amazing piece of software and it’s great to touch your documents up, find some information or do anything else with your stored documents. Find out more about GDocs in the following location: http://sites.google.com/site/gdocsforandroid/
Palringo for Google Android
Many Android users out there love to use their device to chat with friends and or family. I’ll don’t go around the bush on this one, if you are looking for an instant messenger client for Android you have to get Palringo. Palringo makes the default IM client look like the first ICQ client ever released. Palringo supports nearly every messaging protocol that excists:
- Google Talk
- AIM
- Yahoo
- MSN
- ICQ
- iChat
- Jabber
- And many more but you will find out when you use this application
Because Palringo supports all these protocols it makes it the best Android application for IM by far. It’s just very convenient to have everyone in one package and always use the same application for a certain task. If you have Palringo open you receive system notifications if you get a message and because we used it often while traveling (lose 3G network quite often) we have noticed that it works great on the Edge and even GRPS networks. To find Palringo just search for it in the android market.
These 2 free applications for Android devices are just amazing, be sure to at the very least try them out!
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