The forums are burning about a cool free program to unlock an HTC Wizard. Many hacker wanna bees have been hovering around just waiting to unleash the shackles off their Cingular backed 8125, or T-Mobile plugged MDA.

An XDA-Developers.com contributor has developed a wiz-bang software program called lokiwiz that will untether your Cingular HTC Wizard and free it from its SIM-locked shackles.

We don't currently have a locked HTC or MDA phone in our lab, but lokiwiz users are reporting a not-to-shabby -- 80% success rate of unlocking their HTC. This is not too bad considering their is currently no way to do this without locking into a big contract with T-Mobile or Cingular.

If you are still trying to get your hands on one of these phones you're still going to have to pony up a wad of cash without a contract on these phones. The prices still circulating are upwards of $450 without a signed carrier contract.
[via EngadgetMobile]

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Posted by mobilemodo at 04:09 PM | Permalink Posted to Cingular | HTC | Mobile Applications | News | Rumors | T-Mobile

T-Mobile has finally released the MDA (aka HTC Wizard) Smartphone for consumption. Many have been anticipating the release of this phone for months now and T-Mobile has been whetting our appetite by showing previews on their website for the past several weeks; well wait no longer because orders for the T-Mobile MDA are now being accepted for obsessors of this geek party phone.

T-Mobile MDA feature Quick List:
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
TI 200MHz CPU
Sliding QWERTY keyboard
2.8" QVGA 320x240 64K Color LCD Touch Screen
Integrated Bluetooth Class II
Integrated 802.11b wireless
1.3 MP camera
64MB built-in memory w/128MB flash ROM

MDA Mobile Application features:
Windows Mobile 5.0
Mobile Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Windows Media Player 10
MPEG4 videos

The MDA is currently goes list price for $399 with a $50 rebate making it $349 with a T-Mobile service agreement.

If you are not a T-Mobile subscriber, but really love this phone don't fret because you can check out the Cingular 8125 which is basically the same as the MDA HTC Wizard.

Posted by mobilemodo at 11:36 PM | Permalink Posted to HTC

In a fascinating twist to past business decisions, one of the most important players on the Japanese telecommunications’ market, NTT DoCoMo, will market third-generation FOMA mobile handsets designed by Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corp.

According to their agreement, the commercial sale of the handsets, which are made based on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Japanese edition operating systems, will be targeted for launch in the second half of the year.

HTC's mobile handset will be designed to provide wireless mobile solutions for corporate data users and will incorporate synchronization with Windows Server and Exchange Server to offer messaging and other business support.

The model will offer dual-mode WCDMA and GSM/GPRS on a single handset, and offer voice, video and packet communications compatible with Wireless LAN and will feature a QWERTY keyboard. There's no confirmation of what specific model will be used as a basis for this new series.

No date is specified yet (and company officials were not immediately available to comment further), but NTT DoCoMo and HTC aim to launch commercial sales sometime in the second half of 2006.

-via Playfuls

Posted by mobilemodo at 09:12 AM | Permalink Posted to 3G | HTC | News