HTC Hero's Android 1.5 on Kaiser

Can't say much about this.

Let the pictures tell them :)

 The Home Screen

 The Menu

About Phone

Everyone Connect by Nokia - Preview

So finally the countdown ended few minutes ago and I bet everybody in the world is trying to open the site. Anyway, the point is that Nokia launched 3 new devices with new "Messaging Solutions" - said them. The 'new solutions' they offered are  :

Email

Get personal with everyone. The devices support up to 10 email accounts. Intelligent tab system makes it easy to flip between your different accounts.

Messaging

Keep in touch with friends and family. Multiple chat accounts means you can stay in touch with your loved ones whatever chat client they are using.

Social Networking

Be in sync with all your social networks. Type easy with full QWERTY keyboard and make posts instantly.

The devices launched are :

Nokia C3

Nokia C6

Nokia E5

Okay. Is it worth to wait? Yes if you are the Nokia fans.

Everyone Connect by Nokia - Teaser

I wonder what are Nokia up to with this in page?

Everyone Connect Teaser

My guess is that 'everyone connect' by any means social networking. Since BlackBerry already launched they MyBlackBerry Social Media in here, there is a slight chance that Nokia is on the same track. 

 my.blackberry.com Screenshot

There is also a speculation that the event is used by Nokia to grand launching their OVI Contacts which will act the same way as BlackBerry Messenger does.But who will know?

I'll just stop guessing and let's just wait in less than an hour to know what the Finnish are up to.

HTC TyTN II Review

Launched as the successor of HTC TyTN (Dopod 838 Pro), HTC TyTN II also known as :

• Qtek & HTC TyTN II / P4550
• Orange & HTC TyTN II
• T-Mobile MDA Vario III
• AT&T Tilt (8900, 8915, 8925)
• Vodafone Personal Assistant Compact V
• Vodafone v1615
• SFR v1615
• Swisscom Mobile Assistant XPA v1615
• O2 Xda Stellar
• EMobile Emonster S11HT

You could just click on the link to see the full specifications and the differences between the devices. 

HTC Kaiser or AT&T Tilt or or MDA Vario III) is a very powerful device. While the first TyTN offered only 64 RAM and 128 MB ROM, the TyTN II doubled it to 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM (accessible 145.24MB) which is very adequate. The factory default had it pre-installed with WM 6.0 and already support HSDPA and Wireless 802.11 b/g.

Design

Most of the qwerty equipped PDA phone always thick and bulk so also the TyTN II. The 19 mm thickness is 3 mm thinner than the first TyTN and yes I feel kinda uncomfortable having it in my pocket. But it's really not a big deal considering I even had O2 XDA Exec in my pocket once. The sliding mechanism is nice and solid but the tilting mechanism is not somewhat exciting for me. Slide is good, but tilt? Hmm.. haven't found the use of it until today.

Tilted TyTN II

The QWERTY buttons are also nice. It has good tactile feedback and enough key size for me. 

 English QWERTY Layout

In front side, it has a packed 8 buttons which are : Green Button, Red Buttton (why they always come in these colors anyway?), Start Men, Internet Explorer, Messaging, OK and two softkeys. There is a front camera for video calling in the upper left of the front side.

Front Face

There are also scroll wheels in the upper right side of the body. Along with PTT and OK button. In the lower left side of body there is a Camera button. The back cover is made from semi rubberized material which looks like scratch-resistant to me. Also you could see there is GPS antenna beside the camera.

 GPS Receiver and Camera

Functions

It's a Windows Mobile 6.0 and able to do so many things. Just you name it. Here are TyTN II in actions. (This is using WM 6.5 by TPC Elite, see my other posts to know more about it).

The nice-add-in Weather Widget

Playing "Planet Hulk" AVI Video

iGO GPS Navigation

Yes as you could see in the picture, notice that it's not a screenshot but a shot taken with digital camera, the display is crisp and bright. I am only using 50% of it's brightness. It is very nice isn't it? Too bad its only a QVGA and not VGA.

Another pluses are with the vast amount of ROM it has, I could install tons of games and applications. and not forget to mention that this is one of the first Windows Phone that came with a decent camera 3,15 MP AND Auto Focus! Yay!

Overall, this device is the best 'old' Windows Mobile out there I believe. The 'old' here means that the screen is still using resistive touch screen while the 'new' ones are coming with capacitive touch screen (finger friendly).

Part 3: Screenshots of the New WM

Heh, okay here we go. These are the screen of your new OS :) Enjoy!

The Famous HTC Manilla layout :

The Moto UI layout :

The Titanium Skins :

I personally prefer the HTC Manilla.

All functions and widgets tested working well.

Have fun! :)

Part 2: ROM Upgrading in HTC TyTN II - Flashing ROM

Okay, this one is very easy.

Whenever you want to install a new cooked ROM, you should know and understand their requirements. But just like I said in the first part, I really want to make things simpler for you.

The TPCElite ROM, need HardSPL 3.3.4 and RadioROM 1.70.18.02 . So download them all and tell me if you done with it.

Already? Okay. So we will do the upgrade SPL first :

1. Sync your device
2. Go to the HardSPL 3.3.4 folder and double click the KaiserCustomRUU.exe
3. Watch and pray.
4. Done? Okay.

It should boot normally to your 'whatever' version of WM you have.

Then, we shall proceed to upgrading the ROM (finally). The steps are much alike the same from now on :

1. Sync your device
2. Go to the ROM's folder and double click the KaiserCustomRUU.exe
3. Watch and pray this one will might take more than 10 minutes.
4. After it completes, mine was taking around 10 minutes to start. But it will be much faster after the first boot.
5. Done? Okay now you have a new WM 6.5! But we're not finished yet.

The last part is the RadioROM. Yes it will be used since we have already download it. Basically the RadioROM is providing a 'driver' like for the new OS to recognize the sound driver, camera driver, radio driver and since the TPCElite Team said they ROM need the 1.70.18.02 version of Radio, we'll just obey them and install it now then.

The steps are (yes, this is a copy paste instructions. Sorry for that)

1. Sync your device
2. Go to the RadioROM folder and double click the KaiserCustomRUU.exe
3. Watch and pray.
4. Done? Okay.

After done with everything, boot to your new OS, check and test everything. If no problem occured then we are finished. Congratulations!

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible if you bricked your phone using this guide. Well, I encounter nothing dangerous with this guide so I just thought I'd like to share. But once again, DWYOR.

Part 1: ROM Upgrading in HTC TyTN II - Hard SPL

Well, it's been quite a time for me since the last time using the Pocket PC Phone (will be Windows Phone later). I finally choose HTC Kaiser from many options of Windows Phone out there. Actually I prefer XDA Flame, but when I held it in my hand, I immediately changed mind because it is too big for me. HTC Kaiser really has very nice built. Yes it is rather tick, but not thicker than the first Tytn / HTC Hermes and has good sliding mechanism.

It arrived at my hands still in default-outdated-wm 6.0 so the first thing in my mind was flashing and upgrading. So yesterday I browsed the famous xdadevelopers forum and spinned my head because there are so many ROMs for this HTC Kaiser and I read almost all of them (only WM6.5 and WM6.1 part) so I could choose carefully.

If you were reading the same thread as me, you might encounter the same dizziness as I so I would like to help you with this post (I hope this could simplify the things) :

1. First, to upgrade ROM, you need a HardSPL. Get it here. (Sorry it is in Rapidshare. It's not mine though.)
2. Extract the file and copy these JumpSPL1.56-KAIS.exe, JumpSPL1.93-KAIS.exe and JumpSPL1.94-KAIS.exe to the phone memory (NOT in the Storage Card!)
3. Sync your phone.
4. Open the file explorer and run the JumpSPL1.56-KAIS.exe, if it's not working, reboot and run the JumpSPL1.93-KAIS.exe or the last one JumpSPL1.94-KAIS.exe.
5. After your phone showed a three colour screen, unplug the USB and wait for 30 seconds.
6. Uncheck the "Allow USB Connection in ActiveSync"
7. Plug the USB and wait for the upgrade process (it usually takes less than 1 minutes).
8. Your phone should boot normally. 

To ensure that the HardSPL already been installed in your device, press power button + camera and then reset with stylus. Hold it until the screen shows the same screen as before. Only if you had noticed it earlier, there are .HARD in the numbers shown right now (previously mine was .0000). This means that we are indeed successful and can move on to next step.

Before we begin upgrading / changing the ROM, please read this threads to decide which one you'd like to use :

• Official ROM from HTC and AT&T
• Unofficial ROM

Confuse eh? Okay just choose the one I picked. This one is called TPCElite ROM and had a quite impressive display if you read in the thread.

The one I downloaded have Titanium, Manila and also "Moto" layout for the Today screen. Just see the screenshot in the thread link or in this part 3.

After you agree with me, download the ROM here :

• TPC V11 Mega Edition loaded with Manilla, Moto Home and TPCHome (Titanium) HERE or HERE (mirror)
• TPC V11 Mega Edition Manilla Only HERE or HERE (mirror)
• TPC cHome Style without widgets HERE
  

All the links above are not mine btw so I'm not taking any credits for it. Say thanks in the thread if you'd like to.

Okay. Let's move on to the part 2.