jkOnTheRun video- HTC Advantage in action
Download or watch video here (M4V format, 33.6 MB 21 minutes) or (WMV format, 14.4 MB, 21 minutes)
I have been getting a lot of questions from folks about the HTC Advantage and after thinking about it I decided the best way to answer them and give viewers a taste of what using the Advantage is like was to shoot a video. This was recorded using the remote control software that Kevin Tofel found and told us about a while back, My Mobiler. The screen capture was done using Camtasia Studio on the Lenovo ThinkPad x61. It was shot to give a near 1:1 look at the Advantage screen so you get a very close feel for what the screen looks like. (NOTE: the iTunes version is half-size, WMV is full size VGA). There is a low-res small YouTube version for the bandwidth challenged.
In the video you will see what is pre-installed on the Advantage, a
few programs that I have installed and a look at web browsing. If you
come away with an idea of what it feels like to use the Advantage then
my mission is accomplished. Enjoy the show!
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Boy, that humongous clock is sure eating up your today screen space.
Ditch it ;) and check out SPB Diary. Great piece of software.
Posted by: cr0ft | August 16, 2007 at 05:56 AM
That's not the today screen....
Posted by: Mitch Rusk | August 16, 2007 at 11:01 AM
I just looked at it. Grrrr... you didn't cycle through the Views options with Opera. Grrr!
Otherwise, sheesh, this thing is the same price as a top-end Everun!!
Posted by: Mike Cane | August 16, 2007 at 11:43 AM
JK, I enjoyed your video. I am assuming that for all programs out there PI, SPB ,etc its the standard WM 6 versions and they just adjust to the new screen size??. I am planning in buying the device, but my Comapny uses Good Link for the mobile e-mail and I am assuming it will work the same as installing PI or SPB it will fit to screen.
Posted by: David | August 16, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Thanks David. Any program written to Microsoft standards should adjust to any screen resolution and handle rotation too. I haven't run into any programs yet that don't work fine.
Posted by: James Kendrick | August 16, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Mike, the price should be irrelevant to you since you haven't bought a mobile device since they weighed 30 lbs.
Posted by: James Kendrick | August 16, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Previously posted on the wrong story...
In the past the RSS (Newsbreak) reader on my WM device (HTC Mogul) has been able to download and play your videos in Pocket Player. However, this post downloaded but would not play. I checked your site and there has been a switch from MP4 to MPV. Nothing I have will play the MPV. I see there is a WMV version, but what is the feed URL to have it download the WMV automatically?
Posted by: Aaron Arnold | August 16, 2007 at 01:14 PM
James,
This thing continues to impress me, except for the price of course, way too over priced. Here's a question: Do you think that that the UMPCs should of been Machines like this with Windows Mobile on it, to create the real companion to your computer? The UMPCs would of been thiner and smaller.
By watching your videos, it just seems more and more Windows Mobile is really nice on a 5 inch screen. Much better experience then a 3.5 inch screen.
Posted by: Michael Venini | August 16, 2007 at 02:26 PM
James,
This thing continues to impress me, except for the price of course, way too over priced. Here's a question: Do you think that that the UMPCs should of been Machines like this with Windows Mobile on it, to create the real companion to your computer? The UMPCs would of been thiner and smaller.
By watching your videos, it just seems more and more Windows Mobile is really nice on a 5 inch screen. Much better experience then a 3.5 inch screen.
Posted by: Michael Venini | August 16, 2007 at 02:27 PM
>>>Mike, the price should be irrelevant to you since you haven't bought a mobile device since they weighed 30 lbs.
Liar! I have that LifeDrive!
What you meant is I haven't bought anything $1K+! So true.
Posted by: Mike Cane | August 16, 2007 at 04:53 PM
Appreciate the video and your showing us the HTC Advantage. The one negative I see is that, other than Opera, you have the same crippled Office apps that have been around since darn near Windows CE 1.0 and you've so been there and done that years ago. We seem so close to having a full-blown Windoze computer that will run in that form factor, why go back to Windows Mobile? James, could you really go back to using this as your mobile machine?
Posted by: Tax Man | August 16, 2007 at 05:08 PM
Tax Man, no I couldn't. My work requires a Tablet PC for note taking and this won't do. that not what I use it for. It is a great PDA that is more than good enough to take for those trips where I don't need the Tablet. It is great for that.
Posted by: James Kendrick | August 16, 2007 at 09:04 PM
I must agree with the earlier posts, at this price why not just get the Everun? Size wise it seems to be somewhat pocketable, like the Everun, same price as Everun, but Everun is a full PC. Just seems to be too late for a device like this to be bought by anyone. IF it was in the 500 range I could see getting this as a companion
Posted by: scott | August 16, 2007 at 11:26 PM
James,
If you still have the HTC Advantage, can you tell me more about the web browswer. Specifically, does either Opera or Pocket IE work on websites that use flash? Does it work on youtube for example? Does the browser load websites slower than connection speed should dictate on other computers? I seem to remember Windows Mobile being pretty slow to load sites. Also, is it true that the wireless card won't work with WPA encription on the router?
Posted by: Tax Man | September 03, 2007 at 04:00 PM
Tax Man, no flash, unfortunately. I find the site load times to be sufficient, not as fast as a PC for example but pretty quick. I use WPA2 on my router and it works fine.
Posted by: James Kendrick | September 03, 2007 at 04:30 PM