Just updating some of the links I had in my photo gallery for this year so far. Most of the later photos I took was with my D50 and Nikon 18-200 VR lens. Not the best combination for sports but I am happy with the walk about results.

http://www.lowtechplace.com/gallery/

I bought the phone last Saturday. Since then I have been reading about the phone and the software I can install on it. Here is the list of software I have installed on it (for fun).

Advanced Config Tool
Core Player
DiamondCube
Fring (how can I missed this)
G-Alarm
G-meter
ICA Client
JBlend
PHM RegEdit
Tomtom7
VsBenchmark
WM6 Remote Desktop
Sunglobe.cab (display chinese)


More to come.

So I have been hunting around for a HTC Touch Pro. Why TP you may asked? There are others touch screen phone like Touch Diamond, iPhone, Samsung i900, Sony Ericson Xperia1, LG KS20 etc etc.. and I was using a N95, which can do everything I need to do, including casual photographing with the 5 mega pixels camera, Fring everywhere even VOIP over the mobile network. I have also used the Nokia as my modem at home while iiNet decided to play around with my broadband a few weeks ago. No complaint.

There is just something not right. No not the phone, its more like I felt that I need something new to play with. Something I am sure I won't regret (or if I do, I can resale it easily). So I started to read about iphone and Touch Diamond. I have no problem with iphone, but I had a ipod touch, iphone multi touch interface is nothing new to me. In fact I have been using the iTouch last year while I was transiting KLIA for like more then 5 hours just to chat with my friend on Meebo. I quite like the interface, but if I am getting something to kill my boredom, iphone is definately not on my list. That left with Touch Diamond.

One thing that I don't like about the iphone, is that it comes without a proper keypad. And if you use the on screen keyboard more than half of the screen will be blocked by it. That can be quite annoying sometimes. Especially when I want to do some serious typing. I just wish I can see more of what I have typed. So here it is, HTC Diamond with a keypad, the HTC Touch pro.

Coming from a user of Nokia N95, I don't think the TP is bulky at all. In fact, like N95, it hold quite nicely on my hand. The only difference is, with the touch screen interface, I can navigate the features without going through the left, left, up, up, up, call button, left and call button.

The performance is a mixture of disappointment and ok. I was surprised that the TP interface is quite lagging consider it has a considering powerful processor and memory. After a few hours of reading up the forums, I have applied the tweaks and now it is reasonably faster than in stock mode.