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Robot controlled by HTC HD2

August 9, 2010 | By Surur

Its not the most elegant control scheme, but here we have a video showing a Protos 3 Robot controlled by a HTC HD2.

Protos III is a universal robot used for experimenting with Wi-Fi,Computer vision, line following, navigation and through WIFI. The vision system uses the build in webcam of the netbook and then sends the X and Y axes of the detected object back an Arduino unit through USB cable. The robot then steers and navigate to the target.

The robot has been used in a SWARM test where a number of robots are controlled from the same notebook via WIFI. Protos III.

The robot is a project by Calex64 and is written up in detail on Letsmakerobots.com.

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Porting Windows Phone 7 to HTC HD2 “10 times more complicated” than first thought

August 9, 2010 | By Surur

HTC HD2 Pin-out No-one thought posting Windows Phone 7 to the HTC HD2 would be easy, but in this post Da_G, who has been working on it, soldering iron and JTAG machine in hand, confirms that it is in fact turning out to be a herculean challenge.

Read his pretty technical post after the break:

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NaviGame – new augmented reality MMORPG for the HTC HD2

August 4, 2010 | By Surur

quest_logo NaviGame is a new game MMORPG-type game which blends reality and the virtual world by using the many and varied sensors on the HTC HD2, including the GPS, , G-Sensor and compass.

At present the game consists mainly of planting virtual trees to gather resources, and having to travel physical distance to move from tree to tree (the board is about 100 KM big in real life).

The software uses Philippe Wechsler’s free Tigre OpenGL engine

3 quests already implemented include:

QUEST 1: I’ve planted 10 trees on map (positions are bellow), your goal is to find one of them and get some seeds from it (Player -> Interact -> Extract -> Get seed). Note: Extract feature works only if you’re very close to tree. Now look into your inventory, Tree Seed should appear there. You can get another one or two from that tree.

QUEST 2: If you already have your own Tree Seed, you can plant your own tree wherever you want (I recommend some place near your home, it will be easier to get wood from it in future). Now how can you plant the tree? Simply select it in your inventory and click Action -> Drop. Tree will be visible for you and for every other player after restart of the game. Yes, the in-game world will be very dynamic… You can also get next seeds from your tree

QUEST 3: Wait, until your tree grow (it takes a few hours). When you click „Extract“ on your tree, you can see how much of wood you can extract from it (Older tree = more wood). Now the real fun begins… Hold your phone like when you hold axe and make a move like with axe. Extracted value will raise and when you click OK, the extracted value will be added to your „Inventory“, just check it The tree you’ve extracted will be lost and you can plant another on that place.

Not the most thrilling missions yet of course, but its early days, and isn’t gold farming about 90% of WoW?

To get started read more at Shawn.cz here.

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Follow us on Twitter and win a T-Mobile HTC HD2! Only 900 followers to go!

August 4, 2010 | By Surur

The HTC HD2 is likely to be the pinnacle of Windows Mobile handsets, and to celebrate its release on T-Mobile USA we will be giving away one of these amazing devices to a lucky reader.

As regular readers know we are trying to give away the T-Mobile US version of the device while trying to increase our twitter follower numbers at the same time.

To win you need simply follow us on twitter – as soon as we hit 5,000 followers we will pick a winner for a T-Mobile HTC HD2, which has a no-commitment price of $450.

Unfortunately only US residents will be able to qualify for this give away, but if you are lucky enough to be in the USA, follow us on http://twitter.com/wmpoweruser.

Remember to re-tweet the contest – the sooner we get to 5,000, the sooner your HTC HD2 will be on its way

Edit: As we are very close to the launch of Windows Phone 7, the winner will have the choice of waiting for the first device to be released, and we will purchase it for the the no-commitment price if they so prefer.

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HTC HD2 gets (another) calendar hotfix

August 2, 2010 | By Surur

New HTC HD2 calendar hotfix now available

The HTC HD2 has just received another calendar hotfix (the last one was last year in December) which enables users to create annually recurring calendar appointments.

The hotfix, which is not applicable to the T-Mobile HTC HD2, should not damage your data, and can be downloaded here. A backup however is still always advised.

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For Developers: HTC HD2 recruited for Windows Phone 7 app development

August 2, 2010 | By Surur

If you are not lucky enough to be one of the developers to get an actual Windows Phone 7 developer device you will be stuck testing your application in the emulator, which is missing features such as the accelerometer all Windows Phone 7 devices will have.

Solutions so far have included using a Wii controller via Bluetooth, but its likely a Windows Phone 7 developer will have a recent Windows Mobile phone lying around, which already has an accelerometer built in.

Prabhu Kumar has developed a client and server system where his software will read accelerometer data from an HTC HD2 and transfer it to the emulator, where it can be used to simulate the sensor in the emulator, allowing games and such to be tested much more easily.

For the full source-code and guide to implementation read more at GeekswithBlogs.com here.

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Qi wireless charging standard finalized, XDA says maybe you don’t have to wait

July 26, 2010 | By Surur

The Wireless Power Consortium, consisting of heavyweights such as Duracell, Nokia and Phillips have finalized their Qi wireless charging standard for interoperability, meaning soon you will be able to charge any Qi-certified battery on any Qi-certified charger, bringing the wireless dream that much closer.

XDA Developers member Carnivore9 however could not wait for Qi-compatible batteries for his HTC HD2 to arrive, and inspired by an HTC Evo mod he ripped apart a Palm Pixi TouchStone back and forced wireless charging on his poor HTC HD2.

Fortunately his mod is non-destructive, but I think I will wait just a bit longer for the official accessory to arrive

Read more about his mod at XDA-Developers here.

Via Pocketnow.com and Engadget.com

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Touch Gestures For Windows Phone 7

July 23, 2010 | By WenWP

Pocketnow just recently made a list of gestures that will find their way on our next device, and some of them seem very cool. The list spans from the basic double tap, and pan to the slightly cooler flick and more. The gestures are not as cool as the ounces you can currently do with the HTC HD2 and LMT launcher, but it still does just about everything the others are doing.

Here is the list they composed:

The single touch gestures include:
1. the Tap which we already know by now with Finger up executing the action. A tap also stops any type of content from moving on the screen;
2. the Double Tap which toggles between in and out zoom states of a control or an application;
3. the Pan which is used to either move content on the screen or reorder a specific item;
4. the Flick that moves content from one area to another area. The difference between Flick and Pan is that the Flick ends with lifting the finger off the screen.
5. the Touch and Hold, which we are used to calling long tap and is used to display a context menu or options page for an item.

Are these gestures enough for you or do you have better ones in mind like maybe a multi-touch based application launcher.

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Android On HTC HD2 Video

July 23, 2010 | By WenWP

Having Android on a Windows Phone is as easy as you breaking an iPhone on a simple drop, but this is a little harder and this video shows you how it all looks at the end. This video posted by the guys at Pocketnow gives you a full demo of the OS running on our well loved HD2. While the build is not as stable as you would like it, you most admit that progress happened pretty fast, and the outcome is not bad.

Try this out of your device

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Windows Phone Sleep Monitor Application Updated

July 21, 2010 | By WenWP

Sleep Sense: The New Way To Monitor Your Movements

For the application development world, progress has slowed down but this software does not seem to be stopping. The application which was released quite some time ago was updated just last week and now you can have a more accurate monitor with better features.

Features:

Monitors your sleep cycle
Wakes you up gently
Alarm clock
Multiple Alarms
Choose Sounds
Choose Pictures
Run once
Repeated Alarm
View your Sleep cycle
Multiple charts
Sleep timer closes your player
Simple or Advanced mode
Integrates with the windows Alarm
Snooze alarm by shaking
Snooze alarm by turning around
Multiple Themes
Multiple Languages

Version:
# July 2010, 0.65 Beta

Download this stuff

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HTC HD2 CPU OverClock Application

July 20, 2010 | By WenWP

The HTC HD2 has an already fast processor, but people like me like to push it to the limit, and this software allows you to do so. This software was released quite a while ago, and being updated last month, it fixed some things, and brought some improvements.

Versions
v4
- For advanced users only: call LeoAutoCpuSpeed.exe with a custom performance level to set that speed (and disable autoscaling if enabled). So, calling "LeoAutoCpuSpeed 12" will set it to 768MHz. And FYI, 18 = 998MHz.
v3
- Add overclock
- Add auto-apply at startup
v2
- Add speed control by slider
- Enable/disable autoscaling
v1
- Initial version (only read cpu speed & stress cpu)

Download it

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Is The Death Grip Standard On Phones? Lets Test It

July 17, 2010 | By WenWP

The world we live in seems to have been turned today with the accusation by Mr Jobs that all phones seem to have a problem with you hold it “Wrong”, so I will give this a try on my HTC HD2.

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Windows 7 Boot Screen

July 13, 2010 | By WenWP

There is a new line of boot screens are designed after Windows 7, and here is one of the new splash screens. The theme is made where all good things come from –XDA- and it is simple and more pleasant way to experience your device to the max.

There is not much to say about the start screen, but here is what the developer had to say about it:

instructions:
1 : Copy the splash screens to your storage card
2 : Replace the “welcomehead.png” or “welcomehead.192.png” with my PNGs
3 : Perfume a soft reset
4 : Feel Fresh…

Nuff said. Download it

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