Christmas indeed came early for me this month. As Deluxe went and sponsored me a new phone which is the HTC TYTN II. No doubt it’s an old phone, but it was either this phone or the Acer DX900. As much as I wanted the DX900, but considering the price factor as well as the condition of the phone, the TYTN II apparently won. I’m not complaining though, unlike the DX900 this one at least have a QWERTY keyboard. So it will indeed save me a lot of time especially on writing sms or even emails.
So what have I’ve done with this phone? Well, at first when I received this phone on Tuesday, the current OS that it was using was Windows Mobile 6. So what I did was went over to HTC website and got the latest ROM for this phone which is Windows Mobile 6.1. Whereby one of the feature I was looking forward to use was the threaded SMS. So it’s sort of like GMAIL whenever you receive a new email from the same person it just shows as one user instead of multiple user like your conventional emails such as Hotmail or Yahoo. So you won’t have problem replying the person because you will still see the previous sms as if you were like chatting.
After upgrading my phone to Windows Mobile 6.1, the next software that my brother in law suggested to me that I should install SPB Mobile Shell which is a must have software for any Windows Mobile. He told me that SPB Mobile Shell is much better compared to Touch Flo, so I went and got the trial version and see what he meant. Apparently the new version had a lot of 3D emails and sms which was really cool where you can actually flip to the next sms. Yes the picture actually shows up if you add on to the contacts.
Another feature was a 3D carousel where you can flip from one screen to another like a rubik’s cube. But if your phone support Open GL, you would see the whole thing in 3D, not in 2D. So as you all might have guessed it, my phone does not have Open GL so I wasn’t able to use that function. But never the less, it’s still a nice software to play with.
They have also added Facebook & Twitter widgets, whereby you can actually update your status on your phone. So now all I have to do is just update it from my phone and I honestly feel that I won’t be using Plurk anymore because it’s kinda depressing when you see your karma dropped due to inactivity. So it’s all good.
They even have weather forecast embedded on this software, which I’m not sure why they need to do it. I was quite surprise that they even had Kuching for the location where you want to have it predicted. Apart from that you have your usual favorite contacts as well as a control panel where you could actually set your connections such as phone, bluetooth, as well as Wifi. There are also other widgets you could use such as birthday reminders, task & agenda to actually help you keep track of the things you need to do or appointments you have made. So that’s pretty much about that software for now, until I go and explore some more later.
Ok, another cool feature I found out with this phone is that it can actually be used like a router modem. What you need to do is connect the phone to your 3G, EDGE or GPRS and then turn on the internet sharing. You can pretty much link a few laptops via wifi and start surfing the internet. So that’s kinda neat. Anyway, I haven’t played with the GPS yet. But after installing google maps, I was told that I need to be connected to the internet for it to work. There are other softwares such as Garmin or Mapking, which I think you just install it on to the phone and it will pretty much work from there. Anyway, that’s the story for today. Will try and see if I can find anything else more interesting on this phone.
Current complaint? Well, I’m not too sure about the volume of this phone. For a normal call I would still be able to hear it. But until today, I can’t even hear the SMS beep. Maybe it might be due to the volume, but I’ll see what I can do with it. Until then you all have a good weekend.
