Ever heard of Swype? It’s a new type of virtual keyboard for mobile phones which allows you to key in text by just sliding through the keypads without typing the words manually. It provides a faster and easier way of text input with very accurate word predictions. However, it is currently available for the new Samsung Omnia II.

Luckily, the folks at MoDaCo successfully extracted the software out of the Omnia II and released to the phone modding community. All you need to do is head over to the forum and download the cab file to install into your Windows Mobile phone. Do take note that it only available for WVGA resolutions currently though. Some folks already tried on HTC Touch Pro II and HD 2 and it works flawlessly. I’ve tried on my Touch HD and it works as well! The word prediction works very well and it will auto save the words that you manually key in for future “swiping” use. How cool is that?

Considering that this could lead to some legal issues (Swype is not launched for any other phones yet!), the link might not stay up for long. So hurry up and grab it! It might not improve the speed of typing but it is very interesting to input text by swiping it. Do share with me how’s the experience of using Swype ok?

Have you ever browse to any websites on your phone, and found that you cannot load the site due to the incompatibility of your phone’s web browser? Websites that used a lot of flash plugins especially like youtube.com normally cannot be loaded via a normal phone web browser due to the flash / java version not supported by the browsers.

Try out Skyfire today. Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that allows you to experience the internet on your phone exactly like on your PC. Now, you can use the full web from your mobile phone with unprecedented speed and simplicity – without the typical restrictions and limitations that current ‘mobile web’ efforts offer. This means you can open up websites like youtube, myspace, facebook just the same like what you see on your PC. Why? This is because Skyfire supports almost all plugins that these websites requires. Isn’t that fun?

Some may argue that new versions of Opera browser works like Skyfre too. But in my own experience, Opera will go very sluggish once flash components are loaded, which is a no no for me.

How to get Skyfire?

Currently Skyfire is still under open BETA versions and only available for people who lives in US only. However, there are tricks for you to get a hold on it for those outside of US.

First, you need to sign up for open BETA and register. You will need to key in your email and your US mobile phone number. Don’t worry though, I’ve tried keying in all sorts of number just to fill the column and it actually works! Then select the type of phone that you have.

Once you successfully registered, you will receive an email with the details just like below.

Select Download to PC and you will be redirected to another page.

Key in your password same as the one you registered and submit. You will be taken to a page with the download link.

Download the file to your PC and transfer it to your mobile phone. You can install the application just by clicking on the file in your phone. There you have it, Skyfire on your phone!

This method only works for PDA phone. For symbian phones, I guess you will have to try it yourselves since I’m not sure whether u can download it into your phone and install it. But I guess the steps are just the same though~ :lol:

The sad part is, Skyfire does not support VGA screen phones yet. So if you are using phones like HTC Touch Diamond, forget about getting it now because once you launch the application, you’ll only see the browser appears in half of your screen.  :cry:

Have you been using Skyfire? Tell us about your experience will ya?

The long awaiting HTC Touch Diamond is already launched in Malaysia few weeks ago. To those who can’t afford to purchase this new PDA phone, or maybe you want to test out how the interface really looks like, you can try installing this theme to your PDA phone. Frankly speaking, this theme can actually amaze the people around you!  :lol:

Let me present to you, the copycat version of HTC Touch Diamond TouchFlo 3D theme~ This is how it looks like on your PDA phone.

Of course, this theme is not as perfect as the original TouchFlo 3D on the Touch Diamond. There’s only 5 tabs available for the bottom bar and the 3D animations is not exactly the same as the original ones. Still, it looks really cool on your phone. Mind you that the time on the first screen won’t flip as the original ones  :lol:

How to install this theme?

1. Download and install SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 into your PDA.
2. Download and install the HTC Touch Diamond theme.
3. Soft reset your phone and enjoy!

Make sure you watch the video on how SPB Mobile Shell works in SPB website as there are a lot of functions that you can use with this theme. For example, if you move your stylus or finger on the screen, the screen will actually flips to another screen with different views.

The theme comes in black by default. You need to download the color theme here. Follow the instructions given and you’ll be able to change the color to the ones you like!

Enjoy!

Credits to iPmart-forum