The phone itself is good, if not the best in terms of performance. Having followed the desktop Windows concept of registry files the Windows Mobile platform allows for immense fine tuning, tweaking and customizations, not to mention the powerful hardware base of the Raphael ( HTC Touch Pro ) which makes it a swiss army knife. After having played around with it for a few weeks and literally killing it with hyper apps (apps that modify a lot registry values and internals and are resource hungry) I am in a position to recommend some applications what one must have on their WinMobile / HTC Touch.
1. QuickMark QR-Code reader: If you ever used the Nokia N95, you’ll know what a QR code is. Its yet another form of visual encoding for various types of data. You could very well create your own online at KAYWA. Basically the phone’s camera turns into a code reader and can distinguish ebtween plain text, contact info and web url’s. So when you want to download apps directly to the phone or want to save some contact info or URL for later use, just scan it off the PC monitor or paper.
2. Advanced Configuration Utility: This is a equivalent to TweakUI for Windows desktop OS. Everything can be fine tuned and customized using this utility. Pretty much anything that CAN be configured WILL get configured with this tool. Careful what you change though because some tweaks may come back to bite you after a soft reset.
3. TF3D Config Tool: Originally developed for the Diamond it scales well to Raphael as well. Contains minor TouchFLO3D tweaks and most important of all, theme selector, a feature that is inherently absent in the Touch Pro. Wonder why HTC wouldn’t let people have their way.
Attention networking lovers:Make the best out of your WinMobile/HTC Touch with these network related utilities
4. HTC Network Plugin: If you’re on WiFi most of the time and would like to extend file sharing capability to the phone as well, this is the tool for you. It easily picks up machines on the home network and lets you transfer files with ease. Try not streaming anything from the PC using this because the data transfer quality isn’t the best. You might also want to turn up WiFi performance on the phone to make good use of it.
5. PocketTV: Although the WinMobile platform ships with Windows Media Player, it only plays MPEG4 (Doh!). if you’re used to downloading videos, its likely that they are going to be MPEG1. This nifty little app bridges the gap and features real-time output filtering (like turning video to b/w, sepia etc.)
6. Fring: The well featured IM client now also boasts of add-ons for facebook and twitter. If you have a look at my twitter page you’ll see updates from fring. It even supports SIP and voice calling for Gtalk.
It would be nice if HTC released a customization tool for the TouchFLO3D.
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