While we wait for the T-Mobile Touch Pro2 to get its Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM upgrade (hopefully January 6th), it looks like HTC already has it and has plastered it up on a billboard right next to the Hawaiian Tropic Zone on 7th Avenue and 49th Street. You can tell it’s Windows Mobile 6.5 by the white Windows logo in the Start menu. Unfortunately, HTC’s marketing doesn’t tell you what phone this is… A friend …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
How to Sync Zune Pass Music to Your Phone
The new Zune desktop software, Zune HD, and Zune Pass service are pretty fantastic, but do you really need to buy a Zune to take advantage of the excellent $15/month unlimited music subscription (that includes 10 non-protected songs that you can keep each month)? You’ve already got a Windows Phone that can play music. Who wants to carry around another device? Thanks to the Zune Pass’s Digital Rights Management, and Windows Media Player Mobile’s DRM …
Continue readingHave You Heard of GeoCasting?
Michael Gannotti of SocialMedia Talk makes a guest appearance on the Windows Team Blog in order to show us how to Geocast with Windows Mobile. Follow this link to see his video presentation in combination with a Bing-driven real-time map. As he drives, you can see his location moving along the map. The software used is called LiveMedia GPS by IncaX. You can record or live broadcast your Geocasts in public or private modes, and …
Continue readingWill Windows Phones Sync with Outlook in the Future?
There’s a little line in this “known issues” page about the Microsoft Office 2010 beta that should strike a bit of a nerve for anyone who syncs their Windows Phones with Outlook. Here it is: The WMDC will not be upgraded to work on 64-bit Windows when 64-bit Outlook 2010 is installed. Now, to be fair, that is the Office 2010 Beta known issues page, so there is a chance that maybe once Outlook 2010 …
Continue readingThe 12 Year Bug
Have all your friends’ birthdays disappeared from your Calendar? Maybe they suddenly decided to change their recurrence pattern to every 12 years instead of every 1 year. Or maybe they’ve changed to recur every 144 months. Either way, this bug is a great way to get you in trouble for forgetting some one’s birthday. My dependency on Outlook syncing birthdays with my Windows Phone has always been essential for planning enough time to buy birthday …
Continue readingNew Bing Maps for Mobile Now Available
A brand new Bing Maps for Windows Mobile is now available and it’s totally different from what you’re used to. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? We’re not sure yet, but if you want to take it for a spin, point your Windows Phone to m.bing.com and click the links to download. In the meantime check out some of these screenshots from the new design. Originally published on Pocketnow on December 2, …
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