HTC EVO Main features:

• 4.3-inch screen
• Android 2.1
• HTC Sense
• 1 GHz Snapdragon processor
• 1500 mAh battery
• Wi-Fi capable
• 3G/4G mobile hotspot capability
• Dual cameras (first time a second front camera for social )
• 8 megapixel and 1.3 megapixel front facing camera
• networking and chatting
• GPS Navigation
• Stereo Bluetooth wireless technology
• microSD Card Slot (upto 32 GB)
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• Micro USB
• Proximity and motion sensors
• Digital Compass
• Unique kickstand for easy media viewing
• Mobile HDTV experience
• Output pictures, slides and video in HDMI
• Social networking with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr….
• Live video sharing
• Google mobile services
• Access to android market
• FM tuner

Latest News:

Latest update: Sprint to launch HTC EVO on June 4 2010

Suggested Reading:

HTC EVO 4G: Better Than the Nexus One?

Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G: 5 Killer Features – PCWorld

Sprint’s HTC Evo, the First Ever 4G Phone: Meet the New Terrific …

7 reasons to choose the Sprint HTC EVO 4G over the Nexus One …

The Vietnamese website TAOVIET has published a series of photograph and a video with all the new details. They have even teardown the hardware and shown everything inside out. The best revelation of all is that this phone uses the same processor APL0398 being used by the iPad, so you can imagine the performance of this machine. The other interesting feature is that the new design is screw less.

At this very same moment I also came to know about the EVO a 4G phone from HTC with Sprint. I looks awesome.

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It is a meaningful phone OS and almost most of the things that I or you could wish from the Smartphone we carry today.

Xbox on the phone has finally arrived!

Tiles that are different not 4X4 or 4X6

Until last year the Smartphone were only meant for business and corporate world. But now the market has dramatically changed with more and more people going for Smartphone and especially the teenagers. With the social networking, Web 2.0 and availability of internet Smartphone are no more a luxury but a necessity for anyone who is hooked on to the internet. Recently I met a school going son of my friend and he was carrying a android and is online all the time on various social networks.

Windows Phone 7 is a huge leap in the Microsoft strategy that will bring it in direct competition with Apple and Google. Right now Microsoft is publicly previewing Windows Phone 7 for the first time at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This OS for the windows phones will be available for consumption sometime later this year.

With the Microsoft coming into this field armored with phone 7 surely it seems to give hard time to iphone and google as this will bring all these feature to already strong business friendly windows mobile. I have extensively used windows mobile loaded HTC phones and I am a great fan of these as these really are true business phones unlike iphone or androids. With the Phone 7 coming laced with all those feature it is going to be a kill for sure. The key are where Microsoft needs to think is how to develop an application market before the launch of the OS where anyone can create and post the apps to be used by others. This will make it a perfect replacement of PC that you can carry in your pocket.

I spent some time on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and here are my first impressions:

• It is a complete break from whatever Microsoft had in the past for mobiles. It is a fresh out-of-box thinking. It is not an AVATAR but a all new from scratch as it seems that Microsoft is going to kill the Windows mobile in coming time. It seems Windows Mobile is all dead now!
• The interface is all new. It is like a concept of tiles/grids. The font is nice and big. Something very different from all phones in the market today. The design is much similar to the Zune HD. You can easily zoom, pan, and flip from screen to screen.
• Never lose your contacts even if you lose the phone. Phone & also provides ability to sync and backup all your contacts with multiple clouds like Windows Live, Exchange, MyPhone.
• Sync rest of the things directly to your PC by connecting your phone to the PC. You can easily synch all your audios, videos.
• The phone is seamlessly connected to get the latest updates for weather etc. The people hub is a nice place where you can see all the information gathered from facebook, Windows Live, twitter. But it certainly needs a hookup with other social apps too. It uses a concept of Live Tiles, if you want to be on the top of updates from someone special make him/her a tile on your screen. You will get all the updates on a real-time and that too seamlessly. You can also create a tile to your own profile and post to it directly from your phone screen.
• Like ipod in iphone, now zune will be for the phone!
• Using the hub you can share all your photos and videos with social networks. The latest photos uploaded by all of your contacts will also be loaded seamlessly on the hub.
• You can scroll, zoom the photos with a touch.
• Xbox on the phone has finally arrived! There is a tile named Xbox on the phone. This s a huge paradigm shift and a new standard in the industry where such state of the art games can be played on your phone. Let’s wait and watch what is on the plate!
• As usual you can browse with internet explorer and outlook is there for your emails.
• The best feature of Windows phone I like is the support for OneNote, my favorite mobile and desktop application. It is the best application in the market that makes your office work so easy to manage and handle. For sure it is there and you can try it.
• Bings Maps will come as a default map option.
• If you want to search search with Bing!
• Purchase and download apps at Marketplace hub.
• Connect to Microsoft Office, SharePoint Workspace, and OneNote using the Office hub. This will be wonderful application for all Corporate/Business users.
• Possible Hardware requirements: (Source intomobile)
  • Core requirements:
    Processor: ARM v6+, L2 Cache, VFP, Open GL ES 2.0 graphics HW (QCOM 8k, Nvidia AP15/16* and TI 3430 all meet spec)
    Memory: 256MB+ DRAM, 1G+ Flash (at least 512MB fast flash – 5MB/s unbuffered read @4K block size)
    Display: WVGA (800×480) or FWVGA (854×480) 3.5″ or greater diagonal
    Touch: Multi-touch required
    Battery: Sufficient to meet Days of Use LTK requirements.
    Controls: Start, Back, Send and End are required (soft controls allowed as long as they are always present).
  • Peripherals:
    Camera: 3MP+, flash optional, 2nd camera optional (VGA resolution sufficient)
    GPS: aGPS required
    Sensors required: Light Sensor, Compass (3 axis, 5 degrees, 100 Hz sample rate), Accelerometer (3 axis, 2mg resolution, 100 Hz sample rate)
    USB: High speed required, 20 MB/s transfer rate.
    BlueTooth: BT2.1 required, must run MSFT BT stack, CSR BlueCore6 or later recommended.
    Wi-Fi: 802.11B/G required, must run MSFT Native Wi-Fi stack, Atheros 6002 or Broadcomm 4325 recommended.
    Connectors: Micro USB and 3.5mm Audio required.
  • Options:
    FM tuner: If tuner HW is present it will be detected and supported by the Media application.
    Haptics
    SD Card (Micro SD recommended)
    DPAD, qwerty or 12/20 key keyboards all optional

At Mobile World Congress 2010, in Barcelona, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said “In a crowded market filled with phones that look the same and do the same things, I challenged the team to deliver a different kind of mobile experience….Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turning point toward phones that truly reflect the speed of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people and all kinds of seamless experiences,”.

Let’s wait and watch if Microsoft can do something different here and change the feedback into implementation and come out with a winning OS.

Finally I got a very nice app that was just 0.99$ and seemed to be brilliant. I wrote to the app company with some questions and they were very quick to respond back. I finally moved ahead and bought this app and in just few moments the app was on my iphone. It was very quick and easy to install and start.

I was in my office and I entered a rough address of the hotel where I was staying. It was quick in finding the exact location from the cloud and suggested me a route. This app is known by the name of MotionX gps drive by Fullpower. It has a wonderful features and usability.  I have been using this app for almost 1 month and it rocks. I never had any issues using the application and the response time is also wonderful. Following are some of the key features:

• MotionX uses Familiar search: Just type and search, find anything, anywhere and then just follow the directions while Driving or Walking.
• Optimized Compass for situational awareness If you don’t have a 3GS yet, the compass also works with GPS motion sensing on the iPhone 3G.
• Pre-Load the maps by simulating the route before starting.
• Automatically stores the recent and most used destinations. You can also save your favorite destinations
• Landscape View helps while driving
• Swipe between Position, Navigation, and List screens for easier access while navigating
• Connected Service The app downloads the Navteq maps on the fly and also uses online search instead of stored points of interest. MotionX has a decent online search—the first in this class that I’ve seen powered by Microsoft’s Bing.
• Fully Integrated with iPhone
  • Address book integration: Find an entry in your iPhone contacts list, and MotionX will get you there.
  • iPod integration: Access playlists and listen to your music, audiobooks, and podcasts while using MotionX.
  • Phone integration: Place a phone call directly from search results.

MotionX even comes with a full free 30 day Live Voice Guidance package. which can be extended at a monthly charge of 3$. Live Voice Guidance gives access to:

• Live over-the-air maps and routing.
• MotionX 3D geospatial maps.
• Cached routes and maps for optimal performance.
• Simulation mode: See how to get there you before you go.
• Voice guidance, fully integrated with the iPod. Just drive and go.

Some screen shots:

I also found a very nice quick start guide that is of a great help. So do refer to it.

Source: MotionX by Fullpower

It also comes with a wonderful tutorial and manual.

Awaited Features:

• Live traffic view
• In case of traffic congestion option to choose multiple routes.
• Voice activated commands

In order to buy this app just go to the itunes store and search for gps and you will find this app as the most famous and most downloaded gps app in the store. You can also follow this link to iTunes store

Also read a wonderful review from gizmodo.