I'm super jealous right now. That machine is on my shortlist. Great OS choice as well!
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Today, I received in the mail an HTC Touch Pro. I paid $16, a far cry from the over $500 I paid in May 2009 when I got my first one. I have restored my TP to a backup I made on September 23, 2009. That was about two days after I received my iPhone 5. It's running Sense 2.1 w/Weather. Everything you see is done with CAB files - it's not a ROM.
Below is my 17" Powerbook and this new Touch Pro. This combination is what I had going from December 2009 to September 2012.
Below is my 17" Powerbook and this new Touch Pro. This combination is what I had going from December 2009 to September 2012.
I had one of those around the same time...and before it the HTC Touch Diamond...I didn't keep them very long though - replaced the Touch Pro with a Nokia E71.
So the weather plugin servers are still online or can you point it anywhere?
I remember how amazingly big the Touch Pro's 3.6" screen seemed at the time. I had an Xperia X1 (actually built by HTC) which was much smaller. I ran a custom ROM that had the goodies HTC's devices came preloaded with, TouchFLO (Sense) and all. Cool times (when smartphones didn't feel like they were all the same).
Sadly HTC is all but dead now. Not really sure what happened. I think the last phone they released was in 2018.
I have a HTC HD2 on the way...just to tinker with
Ah, the undisputed legend of smartphones. That thing is a black hole for your time - all kinds of OSes have been ported/coaxed to run on it. (And the once unprecedentedly large 4.3" display is tiny by today's standards. )
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According to gsmarena they're still releasing stuff.
Perhaps won't be doing that so much...more likely stripping out all the stuff that no longer works and installing old .cab files from my Windows Mobile/PocketPC days
IMO Motorola has always been the best phone maker. I love their quality and reliability, and most of all the utilitarian design they still maintain. My main right now is a Moto Z3 with several Moto Mods.
Nokia for me - by a considerable distance.
Perhaps won't be doing that so much...more likely stripping out all the stuff that no longer works and installing old .cab files from my Windows Mobile/PocketPC days
I see - if you ever get bored doing that, you know there's lots of other things to try
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In terms of their hardware, yes - but they totally blew their initial take on the post-2007 touchscreen revolution. A friend of mine had the N97 - certainly an impressive piece of hardware - but the UI was terrible beyond words. Another prime example of unfinished software being rushed out the door and the early adopters suffering.
Agreed, Symbian never made the leap - the last hurrah was the marriage of their hardware to Microsoft's OS - which is where I still am with my Lumia 930 and Windows 10 Mobile....but the clock is ticking
Agreed, Symbian never made the leap - the last hurrah was the marriage of their hardware to Microsoft's OS - which is where I still am with my Lumia 930 and Windows 10 Mobile....but the clock is ticking
Belle was actually pretty nice - but it was too late. By 2012, the ship had already sailed. And as nice as WP was, it never managed to bite into the duopoly that had emerged.
It's been so long since I was involved in all this, but whatever source the weather part uses still seems to be functioning. If I try to update it manually it will error, but left alone it's been updating on whatever schedule is set just fine. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for any of the other cities on my weather tab.
I may track this down, but probably not. All this stuff got installed between 2009 and 2011 and remembering what I did is a crapshoot. It took me over an hour yesterday to finally realize that I was looking for the WRONG backup app. I had two versions of the CORRECT backup app already on the SD card but because I was looking for something else I didn't see it until later.
Depending on your iBook, you could certainly give screen spanning doctor a go.No problem and thanks! Now if only my iBook supported screen extension...
It works perfectly fine on both of my iBook G4’s
Thanks! Sadly I have a G3, which doesn't look to be supported.Depending on your iBook, you could certainly give screen spanning doctor a go.
It works perfectly fine on both of my iBook G4’s
I doubt it's a limit of the G3, but rather the GPU's from the G3 era.
The original white ibook has a rage mobility 128 which does support extended desktop in the pismo and the original tibook.
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Granted, but regardless of that, this is not a limitation of a G3 whatsoever. I imagine there were so few G3's with capable GPU's that they didn't see the point of adding G3 support.
Later ibook g3s with radeon gpus are supported by this hack. I successfully used it on my 800mhz ibook g3. So, the question remains why the original ibook isn't supported, given the gpu itself is perfectly capable of running two independent outputs.
Sorry for missing capitals, on phone atm.
I have a HTC shift X9500 , however I rarely use it this days ... use to have Nokias and Eten Glofiish 500 (just before the first Iphone launch)... Now I just don't care about phones anymore... have many , use one(Nokia Lumia 520).
Always wanted one of those. Too expensive even used though, and quite underpowered sadly.
I am on the second microdrive.... its a b***h (works ok with win8 however) - Made in Taiwan.