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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, Android

Yesterday we got the height and width, today it’s the full wireframe model with scale measurements. While we can’t confirm the authenticity, several details including that arcing base certainly dovetail nicely with the images found in the original FCC filing. It’s also a near-perfect match to that early reference design seen kicking around the Googleplex courtesy of Andy Rubin. While not obvious before, we can clearly see that the arc belongs to the handset’s rigid, non-sliding “chin” with lots of logos from HTC, T-Mobile, and Google fighting for visibility.

Notably, the right-most image contains measurements which can be applied to the rest of scale model as well. This confirms the 115 x 55-mm height and width shown by the FCC yesterday as well as a new, approximate, 16.35-mm depth after applying the calipers. That would make it fatter (as expected) than the 12.3-mm iPhone but skinnier (and a hair wider) than the 18.1-mm HTC Touch Pro and 17-mm Xperia X1. Not bad. at this time let’s get to it boys, else there won’t be much left to announce in September.

[Via Android Community]

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Filed under: Handsets, Apple

In what appears to be an increasingly common problem, hairline cracks are beginning to form on Apple’s new iPhone 3G. While most of the cracks are reportedly affecting the white model, this is likely due to the increased visibility of the dark fracture on the white case as opposed to any differences in materials between the white and black units. At the moment, the issue seems largely cosmetic and doesn’t appear to interfere with the operation of the phone. at this time bust out the magnifying glass and let us know if you’re seeing the same.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Filed under: Software, HTC, Windows Mobile

As slick as TouchFLO 3D looks on the Touch Diamond (especially on that VGA display), users don’t have much capability to fiddle with the way it looks and acts out of the box, and for the anal among us, that can be a very big hassle. A member of German forum PPC-Welt is Makewhat he can to ease the pain, though, releasing a “Diamond TF3D Config” utility for changing the order and visibility of tabs and modifying the way the Dat. is displayed on the home screen. Not a very big deal by any means, but it’s a step in the right direction — and let’s be honest, it’s something dead simple that HTC should’ve had the forethought to include up front.

[Via the::unwired]

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