In these times of economic uncertainty, everyone wants to keep their spending to a minimum. There are many features in Windows Mobile that can help you save money while maintaining the productivity advantages of a smartphone. Most carriers trying to sell you a phone won’t tell you about these things, and most other “smartphones” aren’t even capable of some of these features. Read on to see what I’m talking about and feel free to post …
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Cringely’s Wrong, Windows Mobile Will Not Die
There are a number of blog posts out there today responding to Cringely’s accusation that Windows Mobile will die. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes agrees. InfoSyncWorld has a little more experience with covering the mobile market, and they tend to disagree with Cringely’s assessment. In regards to personal computers fading from ubiquity to invisibility, Cringely says, “And everyone I respect thinks the new dominant platform will be mobile. So it’s my job to tell you, then, that Windows …
Continue readingNot Running Windows Mobile is a Big Shortcoming
InfoWorld reviews the Palm Treo Pro and gives it very high marks. If you’re partial to Windows Mobile, you’d be hard-pressed to do better than the new Treo Pro from Palm. The BlackBerry, iPhone, and T-Mobile G1 may be the kings of smartphone cool, but if you ask me, they all share one big shortcoming: They don’t run Windows Mobile. The Treo Pro is easily the best smartphone in the Palm line to date. It …
Continue readingManilla TouchFLO 3D Style Windows Media Player Skin
Since HTC’s TouchFLO 3D interface found on the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, and Touch HD uses HTC’s own audio manager software to manage and play music libraries, they’ve left the default Windows Media Player alone in terms of skin customizations. The problem with that is HTC’s audio player is not a very good replacement for Windows Media Player. It doesn’t have library search capabilities, it doesn’t play videos and recorded TV shows synced over from …
Continue readingKnight Rider and the HTC Touch
While we already know that Micheal Knight’s love interest, Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo), carries around a S.E. Xperia X1 for her high tech mobility eye candy, this week on Knight Rider we learn that Micheal (Justing Bruening) uses the HTC Touch. If you saw this week’s episode, you’ll notice that unfortunately he was unable to launch the Touch’s camera application quickly enough to obtain photo identity of the female antagonist who stole the secret briefcase. …
Continue readingWindows Mobile 6.1 SMTP Issues Fixed
Do you have a Windows Mobile 6.1 powered device and use either POP3 or IMAP4 with SMTP? Have you encountered problems sending email or seen the error message below? If the answer to either of the questions above is yes then read on as what you are seeing is actually a bug that affects all WM 6.1 powered handsets! Tracy and Matt’s Blog has documented a bug in Windows Mobile 6.1 where sending e-mail stops …
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