Part of the lure of a being on holiday is the ability to get away from all of your tech distractions. But if you’re reading this site, then you’re probably like me and derive an inordinate amount of enjoyment from having all of your toys and gadgets with you wherever you go. There’s a lot [...]
A Tale of Two HTC Touches
HTC introduced the Touch earlier this year, and this winter they have released the Touch Dual. Both feature TouchFLO, HTC’s touchscreen technology which allows “finger-touch scrolling, panning and photo zooming” with its “3D touch cube interface for quick and easy navigation.” Both have flush mounted screens which allow unfettered finger swiping, both are quite the [...]
The AT&T Tilt Review
It’s hard to believe, but a month has come and gone since I received the AT&T Tilt, posted its unboxing, gave a description of the hardware, and posted my initial thoughts. If you haven’t already read that portion of this review, click here and then come back; I’ll wait. In this portion of the review [...]
The AT&T Tilt Unboxed and Discussed
Yesterday, as my Fujitsu T4215 was experiencing an irritating hardware failure, and as the whole world was grinding to a complete stop, a box in a plain brown wrapper showed up on my doorstep. I had had little advance notice, and there was absolutely no fanfare. Inside, was this – the new AT&T Tilt, AKA [...]
Sony Ericsson P1i Review
Last year I bought a Sony Ericsson M600i for several reasons. First off it was very small, fit easily in a pocket without bulging, and felt great in the hand. It also had both a thumboard and UMTS, both features I wanted. The hardware aspect of it was fantastic, and I loved it, but it [...]
The Sprint HTC Mogul Review
[Note: This is a joint review between Just Another Mobile Monday and Gear Diary; it is being simultaneously posted on both sites. Doug’s comments appear in black normal typeface. Judie’s comments appear in blue italics typeface] Even if you have never used a device branded by HTC, you have probably used an HTC device. Most [...]
Unboxing the HTC Mogul, Sprint’s New WM6 Phone
I got a sweet surprise from HTC on Friday: the brand new Sprint HTC Mogul, which is a major upgrade to the HTC Apache / Sprint PPC-6700 and which incedentally does not appear to be called the PPC-6800 anywhere but on its battery. I’ll have the use of it for a month, and a full [...]
The HTC S710 (Vox) Quick Review
As a person who is constantly looking for the next best device for business use, it amazes me that no one came up with this design before HTC did. A quote straight from PhoneArena.Com says it all: The HTC S710 is the most compact messaging phone with an auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard. It is the first [...]
The HTC Advantage X7500 So Far…(a serial review)
I’ve been using the HTC Advantage for five days, which is definitely not long enough time to pass true judgement on the device, but it is enough time�to talk about some of my likes and dislikes. Ready? The screen is glorious…absolutely fabulous. 5″ of diagonal goodness that is clearer, and easier to read from, than [...]
The Treo 750 vs. HTC Hermes
Recently my dad�s company bought several of their employees Dopod 838 Pro mobile phones (based on Judie�s review actually ). His device arrived at the office a few days ago, but he is in Vietnam for work, so one of his colleagues dropped it off. For the last 3 days I have been using it [...]
The HTC Star Trek / Qtek 8500 WM5 Smartphone Review
It’s been a little over a month since I received a Qtek 8500, HTC‘s first clamshell phone which runs the Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone operating system. Unlike some of the other Smartphone OS devices available, such as the Dash and the Q, which attempt to “be all and do all” without the benefit of a [...]
U R A Q T: The HTC Star Trek / Qtek 8500 PINK Unboxing
UPS dropped off�a little jewel this morning, the HTC Star Trek branded as a Qtek 8500. This is HTC’s first clamshell Smartphone, and it runs Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone. �� Immediately evident is the fact that this is not the�business-like black version – oh no, instead�this is�the hot pink�version. So let’s unbox her and take [...]
Unboxing the Universal — O2 Exec Version
The HTC Universal is the device-of-a-thousand-names: i-mate JasJar, O2 XDA Exec, QTek 9000, SPV M5000, and HAL 9000 for all I know. It’s a hefty (10.2 oz/290 g), big (5.2″ x 3.1″ x 0.93″), hi-res (640×480 VGA), versatile (3G/GRPS, wifi, bluetooth, 1.3 Mp camera, Window Mobile 5), expensive ($1000 retail–go to eBay!) SmartPhone/PDA/convergent device with [...]
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, displayingimprecise digitizer behavior. Larry received one such device at [...]






















