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Reviews October 17, 2006

The HTC Hermes / Dopod 838Pro Review

Many of you by now will recognize the name HTC as the abbreviation for the Taiwanese based company High Tech Computer. They are the world’s largest manufacturer of Pocket PC and Smartphone OS based PDAs, and as such they are responsible for many of the more recognizable devices which are rebranded by companies including Hewlett-Packard, [...]

Touchy Hermes Screen?

I am about to begin work on the Hermes review a couple days ahead of schedule. In the meantime, I wanted to bring you an interesting article from Larry at Joel. It would seem that some of the HTC Hermes family of PDAs have erratic touchscreens, displaying�imprecise digitizer behavior. Larry received one such device at [...]

Slightly off topic…Dexter!

One of my favorite new series of books are those by Jeff Lindsay about his “serial killer that only kills bad people,” Dexter. The blurb for Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the first book in the series reads, “Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something in his past has [...]

The Vaja HTC Horizontal Pouch Review

One of the treats we received at Mobius Thailand this year was a Vaja case for the HTC Hermes / Dopod 838Pro. You would have thought it was Christmas! John Starkweather had no sooner announced that Vaja had made custom cases for our new Windows Mobile 5 Phones, when the room erupted with “oooooooohs” and [...]

BeNetSafe Internet Security Software Review

As parents we like to think that we know our kids, that we know they would never do or say certain things. But the fact is that we can never be too sure; all we can do is educate them, hope that they are being careful, and trust that they are being smart. If I [...]

SeV Performance T-Shirt Review

It wasn’t�so long ago that I reviewed the SCOTTeVEST SeV Performance T-Shirt. Since then Scott, never one to rest upon his laurels, has already come out with an updated version. Now before any of you start to wonder why I am reviewing “work-out” clothes, let me assure you that there is more to this shirt [...]

The RoadWired Pod Review

It’s so easy to get caught up in the “bigger is better” trap, and nowhere does this trend become more evident than when taking a look at what passes for some people’s gear bags. I’ll be the first to say that it is easy to understand this phenomenon, because as geeks one of our inherent [...]

Ahhh Yes, the cPC

Doug Moran reminded me last night that I have been severely slacking in my DualCor cPC updates since returning from San Francisco over a month ago. Wow time has flown, and he is absolutely right! He said and I quote: “So anyway, aside from the stuff below, and my interest in how you’re doing with [...]

Hermes Teasers

This post was created for Mitchell Oke, but hopefully many of you will enjoy the Hermes eye-candy… There is a 0.1 megapixel video camera on the front which may also be used for low resolution self portraits. The silver bar across the top toggles to select email or Pocket Internet Explorer; these buttons are remappable. [...]

Loading the Hermes

Wow, what a night! I stayed up late eating dark chocolate covered espresso beans, drinking decaffeinated Diet Coke (because I am strange like that), and loading the Hermes with applications.Today marks its first day as my daily driver…my poor abandoned JasJar is sitting forlorn to the side; oh the humanity!

The Cobra Show!

On the last day of Mobius 2006, John Starkweather, Jenneth Orantia, Derek Snyder, Joel Evans and I went to the Phuket Cobra Show. What happened next was nothing short of amazing! Click these links…if you dare! My new friend, the photo-op snake One guy, two cobras One guy, three lightning fast vipers One guy and [...]

The Universal Dilemma

I’ve been using the HTC Universal (branded as an i-mate JasJar) for almost a year. This in itself�has been�a bit out of the norm, because many of the PDAs I’ve owned haven’t lasted�near as long. Let’s go tripping down memory lane, shall we? The first pen-based (or stylus entry)�Personal Digital Assistant that I remember buying [...]