The Mobile Minute 106

Since last night (Thursday), my smartphone has, literally, been my conduit to the world; I had to drive up to my mother’s to take care of things this weekend and have no connectivity other than a less than 100% GPRS signal.  A bit trying on the patience for someone who is used to broadband, but by re-ordering the way I do some work and working hard to be patient, it works alright – kind of like the ‘olden days’ <g>.   I’ve picked up some new gizmos lately (after I sold a bunch of gizmos) – three cheers for eBay – I’ve got some posts coming on those, too.

Software / Hardware 

• Podcast interview with Roger Capriotti on WM5 and the MSFP (via Mike Hall)
• The Register has a review of the Orange SPV M500 (HTC Magician)
• msmobiles.com links to a review of the Orange SPV C550 (HTC Robbie)   ..seems that (based on the article), the HTC Robbie is a member of the HTC Hurricane “family”
• msmobiles.com also brings us yet another HP iPAQ hw6515 review

 Development

• Mike C gives us Part 2 of More Persistent Storage Stuff  and insight on moving your Temporary Internet Files for pIE
• David Kline tells us how to stop on first chance exceptions with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and with Visual Studio 2005
• Neil C gives us a link to Oracle 10g Lite  – You can use ADO.NET (.NET CF) with Oracle 9i Lite, but it must be v5.0.2.8 or later (v5.0.2.10 preferred)
• Daniel talks a bit about the new Microsoft.WindowsMobile namespace that becomes available in Windows Mobile 5.0 (be sure to check out the other links in his entry..)
• Sample code for the MSDN Webcast: Creating Custom Controls for Managed Code with Design-time Support in Visual Studio 2005 (via Visual Studio for Devices team)
• IBM Forms for Mobile Devices (via IBM alphaWorks)   ..er..interesting

 -Nino