How can I transfer my Phone Contact lists from my HTC Snap to my PC?

Question:
These aren't numbers saved on the SIM card, but in the phone itself. And is there anyway which i can add contact lists to my MSN hotmail and sync it with my HTC snap. Thanks in advance
Answer:
Connect your phone into the computer using USB cable

How do i recover my password (shown as stars) for an internet site on my phone?

Question:
I have the HTC Hero
and each section of the phone is locked by various different passwords

I signed into my Hotmail account on my phone roughly 5months ago and asked the site to 'remember my password', which it has so i have absolutely no problems getting into my account.
(Since i have been using my phone, push email as made it so i never need the PC.. so i have never entered this password into my hotmail via PC)

But because i have never needed to enter this password, i literally cant remember what it is, but i would like to know it.

The password shows up on the account in my phone as stars (as with any password)


Is there a way of retrieving or recovering this password?


p.s My phone has Android technology, so i can download apps from the market .. could there be an app which could help me retrive it?
Answer:
I don't think there is an app that can do that, is it possible to find it out some other way? Source(s): http://www.omgandroid.com

What does free to £200 mean on a pay monthly phone?

Question:
http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/HTC/HD…
Answer:
Click on the "Select" button and it takes you to the charging information. There you'll see that the phone is free to customers who take up an expensive inclusive plan, but if you pay less each month the phone costs more.

The Smartphone Wars

When you think of smartphone wars you think of the battle between the likes of RIM, Microsoft, Google, and Apple in the ad space. Apple has decided to take the fight one step further. They have filed suit against HTC for Android and WinMobile devices. The Windows mobile devices seem to be unimportant part of the suit for Apple. The majority of the suit is patent claims are against HTC for Android devices. Engadget has a very good breakdown of the patent claims on HTC Android devices and Ars Technica has a good write up on this fight.

The is going to be a very interesting fight. Apple is right to sue because they have to protect their patents, but this feels like a vindictive move. I’ve read the Engadget breakdown of the patents and this seems to be an attack on the Android OS rather then HTC and it’s hardware. it makes one wonder why hasn’t Apple named Google instead of HTC in this suit. It seems Apple is trying to send a message that the smartphone market is theirs and stay out. While this is one sided right now we don’t know what patents HTC has that will back up their position.

When this get this sorted out I wonder how the touch screen phone market is going to be like if Apple is victorious. Most phones out there with a touch screen violate these patents also. On the other side I wonder if there will be fallout for full OSes like Windows as part of the patents are for desktop OSes regarding background applications. In the end I don’t think anything will happen in the OS space, but it is interesting thing to consider.

The most common thing people on both “sides” are complaining about is software patent reform. Which I do agree needs to be fixed, but I’m not a patent expert. Most of these patents Apple is suing for are very common in the phone market now. I wonder how long before other phone manufactures are sued by Apple.

In the short term Google’s Nexus One will still go on sale this year and more Andriod devices will hit carriers. It will take years for this to resolved through the courts. Most of theses patent cases get resolved through settlements. Time will tell if there will be a settlement on HTC’s side.

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HTC HD2 breaks free in the T-Mobile USA wilds

HTC’s HD2 is a near perfect combination of physical hardware and silicon that delivers impressive performance on a device that’s surprisingly sleek given the display’s massive 4.3-inch exapanse. Even Microsoft’s much maligned Windows Mobile 6.5 is expertly masked by HTC’s Sense interface. So it’s easy to understand the anticipation felt by the HD2’s first US release, questions of a Windows Phone 7 OS upgrade path notwithstanding. T-Mobile has the release honors and is now showing the HD2 as “coming soon” in its phone inventory. We’ve also got the first “in the wild” shots courtesy of TmoNews showing that big Blockbuster shortcut linked front and center for downloading On Demand movies directly to the device. Still no firm price or date but $199.99 on contract ($449.99 unlocked) sometime around 24 March sounds about right. One more shot with official T-Mobile branding after the break; the rest at the source link below.

Update: Tipster Nigel spotted a “†” footnote to nothing (yet) at the bottom of the page that requires 4 payments of $112.50 (or 20 payments of $22.50). That’s $450, matching the rumored price of the unlocked handset.
Source

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What Next in Smartphones?

Ok I admit, we are all sold to the idea of having a smartphone these days! iPhone, Blackberry, Samsung, HTC and others are rapidly bringing out new devices that run smart applications mainly developed by the three leaders, Apple, RIM, and lately Google. News is out that Sony is also joining the ’smartphone club’ by introducing its own version of phone, operating system and apps of course!

Yes we are in a new era of cellphone technologybut whats next?! Are we going to stop right here and keep on improving the smartphones as they exist or we will jump onto a new form of technology platform which may embed artificial intelligence features. Data mining into the cellphone users behavior is the favorite passtime for today’s marketers, mapping our behaviors. Can these internet based smartphones soon provide us with greater usability and more flexible productivity? I think we all can expect something revolutionary in the near future.

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Droid Eris 2.1 Leaked

Few weeks ago I mentioned how some of the Droid Eris users were getting Android 2.1 OS update. Some of us began to wonder if the OTA update was finally being delivered to the Droid Eris users. But that wasn’t the case. With Android 2.1 OS OTA around the corner we come across leaked 2.1 OS update. Yesterday an HTC employee in China supposedly posted the ROM on XDA, what he posted was a valid 2.1 OS.

You can follow these directions to get your very own Android 2.1 OS. Follow these simple direction.

You can always go back to the original source for help XDA-Developers

Motorola Droid users you’re in for a surprise too. Phandroid has mentioned that:

Over at DroidLife, Kellex had to do a factory reset on his Droid and used the “fresh start” as an opportunity to test out the Motorola Droid 2.1 Update that had been leaked and posted a few days ago.

You can follow those links and get yourself started on it too.

-=VERY IMPORTANT=-

I highly recommend that you back up everything from your device before performing any of these steps.

A lot of you have been asking if you update your Droid Eris on your own, will you still be able to get the VZWs (Big Red) official Android 2.1 OS push?

The answer is no. If you loaded this IMG file you should not receive the OTA update when Verizon pushes it. Your phone will show that it is already up to date. Unless they change something major you will have to revert back to 1.5 and then wait for the OTA. But with this IMG you should be able to receive any future fixes from Big Red just not the 2.1.

I was going to give this a shot but I think I’ll wait for the official release by VZW. If the Big Red takes forever with the  official push then I’ll just update it myself.

VIA | XDA Forum, Thekrtek, Phandroid

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Searching your Desire by using written gestures

Google have announced that it’ll soon be possible to search your Android phone by using written gestures.

The article posted on Google Mobile’s Blog described how spoken queries aren’t always appropriate when out and about for example, so the “Gesture Search” app available for Android 2.0 + should solve this problem if you don’t fancy typing with the keyboard of course…

Gesture Search - fad or useful? You decide.

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Apple May Own the Tech, but Cisco Still Owns "iPhone."

What's in a name? That which we call a "rose," by any other name would have as many buttons.

Kinda sucks when other people take your shit, huh, Apple? Cisco could have told you that, and did back in 2007 when you stole the name of their trademarked product. In a way, you set the precedent for how the cell phone arms race was going to go when you pulled a fast one on former partner Cisco. The only thing funnier than this coming around to bite you in the ass with HTC is the fact that The Slippery Brick page, where I first caught wind of this story, that was posted back in 2007, now looks like this:

Highlighted in red, for your amusement, actual irony.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Apple is extremely innovative and they did certainly set the precedent for the modern technological shift, but unless the 20 component patents can be found to be identical in the system used in the Nexus One, this suits going bye-bye faster than the Cisco trademark suit. It would like HP suing Dell for infringing on a particular PC set-up. However, these charges and allegations are a major slap in the face to Google, which if the suit does in fact go through would lose them the right to sell their first step into the tactile US market (every single other product they distribute, save merchandise, is virtual). This would be detrimental to the procession of Google’s plan to take over the world. If that happens we’ll just have to wait for the fiber optics network that gets everyone speeding around the Intertubes one-hundred times faster than we’re currently doing, even on broadband speeds, then connect our paltry iPads to Google’s infrastructure. If Google doesn’t release their own net-tablet by then, of course, operating on Chrome OS.

Here’s the thing, if I am going to be totally frank on the subject of patent infringement: I don’t want Apple to win this lawsuit. As Cracked columnist, Robert Evans, points out here, Apple is super proprietary, and insists that they need to sell devices with certain amounts of GB for memory, when if they’d just install a USB port, the memory would be limitless. How do I know they’re shitting me when they don’t put one in? Because my shitty two-year-old cell phone has a USB port – a USB mini, which last I checked is just as good as any standard-sized USB 2.0.  This is a capitalistic country, and at that, a technologically advanced country, so to create a monopoly on the next wave of tech is not only a bad idea, it also happens to be unlawful here. This is why I think that Steve Jobs is going to either see this through court and  possibly (probably?) fail, or maybe try and getting HTC into a settlement, because I’d sort of  surprised if Apple takes the cake on this one.

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