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 DHC Image Htcfans.com is a news site and forum for users of the Windows Mobile devices made by Taiwan's HTC the company that makes almost all the WM phones and PDA's sold by carriers under their own names like the T-Mobile SDA and Cingular 3125. The Htcfans forum is a Simple Machines Forum so it's mobile friendly. The digg through htcfans.com site (lets just call it DTH) ( d.htcfans.com) is similar to Diggriver showing about 15KB of digg front page headlines and descriptions. (bottom image) The difference is that clicking a headline takes you to the Dugg site through Skweezer's transcoder. There is no landing page - the description is right on the main page under the title/link to the Dugg site. You can see in the screenshot how much more scrolling is required to scan all the Diggs than with Diggpad on a typical phone screen. This is less of a problem on most Windows Mobile devices which have QVGA screens and page-down controls.

Update: 25-Apr-2009 - Site is badly broken. All links lead to the Skweezer.com homepage and excerpts are full of garbage characters and bits ot JavaScript code.

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