The HTC TyTn is a great Pocket PC Professional Edition device. Mine was upgraded to Windows Mobile 6 last year and has been working great. I noticed one oddity about it that finally turned to bite me yesterday though. I noticed that the only video recording format supported is MP4. This didn’t bother me until I tried to bring video recording I made of the line formed outside of a local Apple store yesterday. Nothing I had on a Windows PC or Mac could bring the MP4 file in and edit it. I tried Windows Mobile Maker, VLC Player (which can transcode files), iSquint, and iMovie. All of them complained about the files audio track. I finally ended up uploading the raw MP4 file to YouTube. YouTube was able to deal with it. But, I wish I had be able to put a title on it and maybe splice in a shorter second video file I made.
Day: July 12, 2008
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Upgraded my iPod touch to 2.0
I updated my iPod touch to 2.0 this morning. The process (which cost $9.95 + applicable taxes) was relatively smooth though it took a long time because of the steps to restore the touch to factory conditions before flashing it to 2.0. This was all automated, however. So, the process was not painful except for watching all this happen. The update file was a 222.6MB download.You can see from the screencap above that I’ve already added a few of the free apps from the iTunes App Store. BTW, the screen capture procedure (press and hold Home button, then press the Power/Sleep button procedure courtesy of Gizmodo) works on the iPod touch as well as the iPhone 3G.
All my media files (podcasts, etc.) were wiped out during the upgrade process. But, various settings like my WiFi and mail setting were preserved. So, I was back in the wireless LAN as soon the upgrade finished. Moving media back to the iPod touch took a while. So, make sure you have 30 to 60 free for the process of buying/performing the upgrade.