by Saijo George on August 26, 2008
in News
Here is the new baby from HTC , its the HTC s740. Whats special about the new device.
Features:
- Windows Mobile® 6.1 Standard
- Slide-out four-row keyboard for quick and easy text entry
- 2.4-inch TFT-LCD screen housed within a slim and elegant design
- Mobile Internet – surf and download at broadband speed with HSDPA and Wi-Fi®
- 3.2 megapixel camera for quality stills and video
- microSD™ slot for expandable storage
Check the HTC website for more Pics, Specs Sheet
Source : htc.com
Would you rather buy a HTC Touch Pro or HTC S740 ? Its the Touch Pro for me 
Some of you might remember about Dynamo2. For those of you who dont know what dynamo is… its an animated task switcher that allows you to pull up a picture of all open tasks and switch to that picture with your finger or close that task. Kinda like with Vista on windows desktop, except its VERY finger friendly. You can assign it to a hardware button or FTouchFlow gesture.
After the author published its source on xda-dev gps-lover has released an updated version to be run on wm6 and any resolutions. One con is it is very Memory intensive.
Just extract it into /Program Files and map it to some button.
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This simple tool allows you to easily toggle between Ringer, Vibrate, Mute and then back to Ringer. Best thing to do is assign it to a hardware button.
To install it: unzip and put the .exe anywhere on your device.
To use it: just run it. No GUI, no settings…
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DiamondBeer2 is a fun application that utilize the accelerometer from the Touch Diamond / Touch Pro. Its kind of like the iBeer application from the iphone.
Usage:
Start the program and keep close to your mouth, you don’t want to spill the beer ! Next “drink” from your PDA.
Menu -> New Drink refills your glass/PDA.
Enhancements:
- Beer “label” on your glass.
- multiple types of drinks: “Duvel” is the default, and a root beer (non-alcoholic) for kids (shows how “skins” would work).
- Bubbles in the glass ( go always up)
- If you tilt your “glass” to far, the beer empties immediately. (careful, you might get wet)
- Icon in “programs” group is again not visible now
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Caver is kind of like the helicopter game I used to play on some online gaming sites the difference is this games uses the Diamonds g-sensor to navigate your ball through the cave.
Features:
- Online Highscore list!
- Different difficulty levels
- Build your own levels simply by creating png files! (a howto will follow – but I think it’s pretty self-explanatory… just look in the gfx/Level 1 folder and build your own levels according to my example level…The levels don’t have to be black and white… everything that’s white is a valid zone for the ball)
- Highscore list
- Calibration of g-sensor
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This game uses the G-sensor to steer the ship and nav sensor (scroll wheel to shoot missiles/bombs).
Game instructions
- Steer the ship by moving the diamond (uses tilt sensor)
- Fire missiles by rotating the “scroll wheel” (aka navsensor) anti clockwise
- Fire bombs by rotating the scroll whell clockwise until the polygon around the ship is closed (screenshots will follow or just try it)
- collect weapon upgrades to get better weapons
- collect shild upgrades to repair your ship
- receive new bombs every 500 points
- receive extra lives every 25 shield upgrades
- receive a helper ship every 10 weapon upgrades
- the helper ship fires and collects by itself…
- if you fire a bomb you won’t get points or upgrades for the aliens which are killed by the bomb. you also get -100 points. so use it only if you need to…
- if you fire a missile you get -1 points. so don’t fire them blindly.
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As you all might already know the HTC Touch Pro has TV-out functionality, unfortunately TV-Out cable is not provided by HTC. Fortunately for us sub69 from xda-developers.com has put up a post describing in pictures how well this function really works.
When you plug it in the TV-Out you get the option to choose between NTSC and PAL. The device also automatically rotate to landscape mode. The Menu screen gives you quick access to applications like Powerpoint Mobile , the Youtube player, Internet using the Opera Mobile. He also played a movie using Coreplayer and reported there was a bit of flicker when using the “Qtv Display” option, but the “DirectDraw” option was flicker free, and worked flawlessly. No slowdown or judder at all with my 700Mb file, and the picture quality on the TV was surprisingly good. ( so the Video Driver issue that plagued the TyTN2 might not bother the Touch Pro ).
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