HTC just announced their newest smartphone, the Diamond. The successor to the Touch, the Diamond offers some amazing hardware and software innovation that should have made it an iPhone-killer, but as with seemingly every Windows Mobile device, it suffers from a few design flaws that keep it from reaching its full potential.
First off, let’s look [...]
Okay, the new Touch Diamond to be announced next week is one of the worst kept secrets in tech right now, but I wonder how many people have done the math. The specs listed for the replacement to the Touch are impressive, to be sure, but the size is what blows me away. Mobile tech [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to optimize the Windows Mobile user interface. Palm OS and the iPhone/iPod variant of OS X get a lot of props for being so simple and easy to use, and Windows Mobile always seems to lag behind. A while back I was reading an article on WMexperts.com about [...]
I’ve been a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done time management methodology for years. And while I had it down to a science on my various Palms and Treos, a really good GTD implementation has eluded me on Windows Mobile until just recently. There are lots of different ways to do it, of course, [...]
This is going to be a new running feature at JeffKirvin.net, where I kick around ideas about mobile user interfaces. I’ve always been fascinated by UI. I guess a big chunk of it is my own tendency to tinker with things in a continual and ultimately futile attempt to make them the perfect synthesis of [...]
A while back I wrote about different ways of capturing my thoughts in the moment to process later, GTD-style. As I mentioned then, this was dead simple in Palm OS because of an application called Slap, which provided a basic notepad and the ability to arbitrarily convert lines of text to appointments, contacts, tasks, etc. [...]
I’ve been struggling to adapt David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to Windows Mobile for about a year now, and I’m still having trouble. The biggest issue I have has to do with the very first step in GTD, ubiquitous capture.
Basically, GTD requires that whenever something runs across your mind, you write it down. Sounds [...]
Note: I’m still working on the review (short version: it’s frickin’ awesome), but try it out for yourself.
Spb Pocket Plus: Reincarnating the Legend
You can find this press-release online:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/about/pressreleases/2007/oct16.html
Spb Pocket Plus product page:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/pocketplus/
Press-release picture:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/about/pressreleases/images/spbpocketplus4.jpg
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Spb Pocket Plus: Reincarnating the Legend
St. Petersburg, Russia - October 16th, 2007 - Spb Software House, the world’s leading Windows Mobile software maker, [...]
Just wow.
I’ve been laboring with a choice for a while now. My beloved HTC Apache is getting on in age, and Sprint isn’t even thinking about fixing Apaches anymore, much less replacing them. The problem is that so far, I haven’t found a worthy successor. The Mogul and Tilt are the obvious choices, but neither [...]