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August 19th, 2008

Why HTC doesn’t do industry standard connectors

I have always wondered why HTC doesn’t include industry-standard connectors into its devices - while every other PPC/WMS manufacturer managed to at least include a standard headphone jack, HTC’s QTek 8500 (a music phone!!!) missed even this basic commodity.

The reason is the funky little thing shown below - a “docking station” that plugs into HTC’s proprietary port and provides a variety of industry standard ports.

Price: 20$. Guranteed sale.

Quot erad demonstrandum…

August 19th, 2008

AT&T Motorola Q9h gets Windows Mobile 6.1

While most PocketPC’s have already received their scheduled WM 6.1 updates, many popular Windows Mobile Smartphones are still on the “waiting list”. The AT&T edition of the Motorola Q9h now received its update from Motorola - the link below allows you to download it directly:

https://rsddownload.motorola.com/download/AT&T_Q9h_01.09.28R_Standalone_Update.exe

Even though the update is said to install fine on non-AT&T Q9h’s, users at The Boy Genius’s report a variety of annoying issues with their devices. As said - buyer beware…

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