HTC Touch Pro due this Sunday?

Anthony:

Sounds like, release had been pushed back to November.

Bob

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"anthonyx26" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Is this phone still due in SPCS stores this Sunday (10/19...the release date
I read in recent articles)? Sounds like an odd launch day for a phone.

- anthonyx26

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"Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "anthonyx26" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Is this phone still due in SPCS stores this Sunday (10/19...the release
date
> I read in recent articles)? Sounds like an odd launch day for a phone.
>
> - anthonyx26
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> Anthony:
>
> Sounds like, release had been pushed back to November.
>
> Bob

Yep. Today I heard November 2nd from someone that is desperately waiting
for the Touch Pro.

I'm waiting too ;-)

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"Roger 2008" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Yep. Today I heard November 2nd from someone that is desperately waiting
for the Touch Pro.

"Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm waiting too ;-)
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> "Roger 2008" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Yep. Today I heard November 2nd from someone that is desperately waiting
> for the Touch Pro.


I am waiting for the PRO too especially after seeing a Touch Diamond
yesterday.

The Touch Diamond from
http://www.htc.com/us/product.aspx?id=60040
is 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 11.35 mm (T)

And the Touch PRO from
http://www.htc.com/us/product.aspx?id=65526:
is 102 mm (L) X 51 mm (W) X 18.05 mm (T)

My Mogul is:
4.3"(h) x 2.3"(w) x 0.7"(d)
uisng
http://www.metric-conversions.org/cg...2&from=16&to=7

..7 inches equals 17.78 mm.

So that means the PRO will be .27 mm thiner then my Mogul.

"Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm waiting too ;-)

Did you know some Rotate Screen commands are missing from the Diamond?

I searched the internet today and I found this:
"Restore screen rotation on HTC Diamond"

While the Diamond is no doubt a very attractive and functional device, HTC
has in some ways taken away functionality which Windows Mobile users have
taken for granted for many years now. An example of one of these is memory
card expansion, but a more interesting example is the ability to rotate the
screen, the option for which has been there since WM2003SE.

When HTC was asked about this they claimed they had designed the product to
be used single handed, and that this was impossible in landscape mode. A
more likely explanation however is that they could only design their
TouchFlo3D UI to work in portrait mode, and that the design challenge would
have redoubled if they were to support landscape mode too.

However, this being Windows Mobile, there is no end to the efforts of the
community to fix what the OEM has managed to mess up. Intrepid Diamond users
over at XDA-Developers.com have managed to come up with the correct registry
keys to restore the screen rotation control panel, meaning any app can now
be viewed both in portrait and landscape mode. Any app that is except the
TouchFlo UI, which reverts the device to portrait mode when the Home button
is pressed.

The entries which need to be changed with a registry editor are:

HKeyLocalMachine/System/GDI/Rotation change the "HideOrientationUI"
from 1 to 0

and

HKeyLocalMachine/System/GDI/Rotation change the "LandscapeFixed"
from 1 to 0

Unfortunately you still have to go to the control panel to affect this
change every time you need to rotate the screen - the accelerometer only
work in certain apps, but I am sure the happy people at XDA-Developers wont
rest until automatic screen rotation in every application is possible.

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=216

Roger:

Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.

Bob

Bob Wang said:
> Roger:
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.
>
> Bob
I think it was the Diamond and landscape mode. Not the Pro.

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> Bob Wang said:
> > Roger:
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> > Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.
> >
> > Bob
>
> I think it was the Diamond and landscape mode. Not the Pro.

We only have to wait until Sunday to see if the setting for "Orientation"
has been removed from Settings->System->Screen on the Pro too.

"Sprint Launches HTC Touch Pro"
posted Friday, 8:20 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Friday, 8:36 AM
Updated: specified first retail date and retailer

Beginning this coming Sunday, Sprint customers will be able to purchase the
HTC Touch Pro from select national retailers, including Best Buy. It will be
available via all Sprint sales channels starting November 2. The HTC Touch
Pro will cost $299.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement, after a $100
mail-in-rebate and a $25-or-higher data add-on or Everything plan with data.
The HTC Touch Pro is similar to the Touch Diamond, but adds a slide-out
QWERTY keyboard.

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=3540

"Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Roger:
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.
>
> Bob

Best Buy has the Pro and someone there said it only goes into Landscape mode
when you use the keyboard.

The Pro looks better than I thought it would and Best Buy also had an
unlocked Diamond for use on GSM for $699.

Thanks, Roger.
I'm looking forward to playing with a new toy :-)
Bob

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"Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Roger:
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.
>
> Bob

Best Buy has the Pro and someone there said it only goes into Landscape mode
when you use the keyboard.

The Pro looks better than I thought it would and Best Buy also had an
unlocked Diamond for use on GSM for $699.

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> "Bob Wang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Roger:
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up on the Touch Pro and landscape mode.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Best Buy has the Pro and someone there said it only goes into
> Landscape mode when you use the keyboard.
>

I bought a Touch Pro at Best buy on the 24th. It is true that the screen
will only switch to landscape mode when the keyboard is slid out, for
most applications. There are a few that I have seen that will rotate
based on the orientation of the phone using the G-Sensor input: Photo
viewer, Sprint TV, Opera. The keyboard will always override the G-
Sensor, meaning that the screen will always be landscape if the keyboard
is open, otherwise the G-Sensor controls the screen orientation.

Thanks, Mike.

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"Roger 2008" <[email protected]> wrote in
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I bought a Touch Pro at Best buy on the 24th. It is true that the screen
will only switch to landscape mode when the keyboard is slid out, for
most applications. There are a few that I have seen that will rotate
based on the orientation of the phone using the G-Sensor input: Photo
viewer, Sprint TV, Opera. The keyboard will always override the G-
Sensor, meaning that the screen will always be landscape if the keyboard
is open, otherwise the G-Sensor controls the screen orientation.