TomTom application coming to Android, Android navigation to step up to the next level

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Exciting news for Android fans longing for quality navigation: TomTom executives have indicated that it will not be long before a TomTom app for Android becomes available.

"We cannot ignore such a successful platform as Android. HTC is an important partner of ours and Android is becoming increasingly important too."

This is good news for the Android navigation market. Not only will this encourage the competition to produce better software, having a TomTom app is in itself an awesome deal. TomTom is still considered the pinnacle of navigation software and using my HTC Hero with TomTom will definitely convince me to leave my old N95 at home when navigating to, say, inner city Berlin.

Via: Pocket-lint

HTC Sense UI now available on iPhone, smile

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Some genius from RedmondPie has made HTC's Sense UI available to jailbroken iPhones. Now I think this is truly awesome. Not just because the HTC Sense UI is great as it is, it actually allows iPhone owners to be something they hadn't been until now: Free. Of course the jailbroken part has something to do with that freedom. But still, being able to customize your iPhone homescreen is pretty cool I'd say. Either way, one can of course skip the cumbersome part of jailbreaking one's phone by getting an Android in the first place, but not so many people out there are that lucky, that they can switch contracts right away. Check out the UI in action here:



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HTC Hero hacked; rooting now made possible by XDA Developers

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The HTC Hero, which only just came out, has been rooted by the folks at XDA Developers. This allows users full control over their Android device. One of the things that can be done when rooting the device, is tethering. Something most telephone companies won't be pleased with.

Blackberry and MyTouch 3G compared, sort of

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Aaron Baker is giving a view on the Mytouch 3G from a Blackberry owner's perspective. Main conclusion is that the Mytouch 3G is an awesome phone that would be worth having, even over the Blackberry, but that it lacks a physical keyboard and thus breaks the deal. It would be interesting to see what Aaron Baker has to say about the HTC Hero, as that phone has now become pretty famous for its super easy to use virtual keyboard.

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HTC Hero reviewed by Phonedog

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I really love this phone, and even though many sites have severe issues with it, some take a different view. I personally believe that both hardware and software may have to do with the Hero's lag, and I believe the software part to be resolved soon by firmware updates. In any case, head to Phonedog for a bit more optimistic approach to HTC's Hero.

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