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The Mobile Minute 111

Filed under: .NET Compact Framework, Mobility, The Mobile Minute, Windows Mobile

PostedSunday, August 28, 2005 3:27 PM by Nino

..yet another TMM without any banter. Silence is not such a bad thing. . .

Software / Hardware

The Samsung i300 (think 3GB microdrive) has gotten its FCC blessing (via Engadget)
Some bits on the Mio A701, a nice PPC Phone device. InfoSyncWorld msmobiles.com and yes, even Rory.
Expansys (love ‘em or hate ‘em) has the HTC Universal for pre-order under thei-mate JASJAR branding

Development

Marcus talks about merge replication and complex filters.
Rick Strahl blogs about debugging ASP.NET Mobile Forms output (via mobileizedsoftware.com)
Peter Foot gives us instructions on how to manually run the WM5.0 SDK script

In Other News . . .

Mozilla has released v0.008 of Minimo (what kind of version number is that?)

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The Mobile Minute 110

Filed under: .NET Compact Framework, Mobility, The Mobile Minute, Windows Mobile

PostedTuesday, August 23, 2005 8:50 PM by Nino

Expansys now has the Qtek 9100 available for pre-order. Keep an eye on Mad Monkey Boy’s Gadgets. I hadn't heard of the place until recently, but a few of my co-workers swear by it.

Software / Hardware

Motorola has a review of the Motorola Q (via SmartphoneThoughts.com)
msmobiles.com has a review of Opera Mini
More viewpoints on the RIM vs MSFT battle (via PocketPCThoughts.com)
The Exchange team posts about the OMA 2003 logon process
More HTC Windows Mobile 5.0 device news:
- JasonLan answers questions on the HTC Universal , and more questions answered here.
- QTek 9100 availability: here (via msmobiles.com)
- Pocket-PC Club (.nl) has a nifty preview on the new Qtek devices. Here’s the Babelfish version (via SmartphoneThoughts.com)

Development

yet another post from the Windows Mobile team on memory in Windows Mobile 5.0 (RAM vs ROM)
JasonLan talks about the DirectPush feature in E2K3 + DMFP with Windows Mobile 5.0 (and check out the whitepaper on Microsoft’s own deployment). Also check out the webcasts and videos at the bottom of the post.
Chris Tacke posts a beta version of his upcoming MSDN article on Deploying CF 2.0 applications
Peter Foot blogs about InTheHand.ServiceProcess
The Windows CE Networking team blogs about Bluetooth Virtual COM ports

In Other News . . .

markab.it has a nifty page for benchmarking your connection speed. Go to http://www.markab.it/meter/html/login_eng.asp (on your desktop) and register, then go to the same URL on your device and login (or be smart about it and manually add a favorite to pIE so you don’t have to type). I got 29.1 kbps on my GPRS connection. hoo boy! (via PocketPCTHoughts.com)
Cingular is now offering a push e-mail solution based on Good Technology’s GoodLink
Intel Plans Windows Vista Support for Handhelds (via PocketPCThoughts.com)
Check out this nifty USB 2.0 to IDE Cable (v2) (via Engadget)
Google launches Google Talk, an IM service (and client) that allows one to communicate via text and voice. More info. Oh yeah, it’s based on Jabber

-Nino

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The Mobile Minute 109

Filed under: .NET Compact Framework, Mobility, The Mobile Minute, Windows Mobile

PostedThursday, August 18, 2005 2:10 PM by Nino

Hopefully my negative travel karma is now gone – I had some travel troubles in my journeys to and from Seattle and Chicago last week. Somehow (still pondering this one) I’m a better person because of it. Seattle was great - I got finally got to meet some Avanade folks I've been talking to for a few years (EricBl and Matt (who came over from the UK)) as well as get to meet the rest of the folks on the team. We got a lot done in our design meetings too. Then Chicago on Friday - again, met more folks I have only corresponded with. I'll have to say that that meeting went much smoother than I was anticipating. So much good stuff going on these days. Wow. :-)

Software / Hardware

Jason Landridge gives his review of the HTC Universal and Orange now has it on their site
Check out this webcast on Windows Mobile Enterprise Features
InfoSyncWorld brings us the skinny on some forthcoming Samsung Windows Mobile Smartphones
More HTC device rumors:
- HTC Faraday to replace the HTC Typhoon (SMT5600, specifically) in late October
- HTC Wizard is coming October 24th
- Mobile-review gets hands-on with the Qtel 8310 (HTC Tornado) (check out the pics of the HTC Tornado vs the HTC Hurricane)

Development

Webcast: Windows Mobile Platform Security Drilldown for the Enterprise (Level 300) – some great stuff (and really germane to what I’m doing these days)
I was searching MSDN Library for info on WinCE’s CredentialManager when I came across this nifty WM 5.0 SKU Matrix
David Kline talks about adding a non-modal splash screen to your .NET CF app
Thom Robbins gives us the video and the deck for his Effective Testing Power Session
The OpenNETCF.org folks have whipped up the OpenNETCF.Rss library. Alex Y gives us a guided tour.
JasonLan talks about the two-factor authentication debate on mobile devices

In Other News . . .

If you missed it.. the rumors came true: Sprint and Nextel have merged and formed “Sprint Nextel Corporation”
Gary Krakow of MSNBC talks about “Why cell phone service here sucks” I don’t always agree with Gary, but I’m with him on this one. Preach on.
Starting in November, Pocket PC magazine will become Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine
Ben is doing some interesting things after he learned that .NET CF 2.0 has support for System.IO.Ports.Serial
Active Directory has a user object attribute of ‘drink’. [sigh]

-Nino

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The Mobile Minute 108

Filed under: .NET Compact Framework, Mobility, The Mobile Minute, Windows Mobile

PostedMonday, August 08, 2005 9:23 PM by Nino

So I decided not to blog much from O’ahu – not such a bad thing, eh? (..and I got sick of updating all of my feeds over my GPRS connection). I’m in Seattle for most of this week for project meetings and taking part of this evening to catch up a bit on blogging..and e-mail.

Software / Hardware

Mike Calligaro from the Windows Mobile team blogs about the power profiles (On/Off/Sleep, etc) and the differences between PPC and SP
Socket has launched a smaller-than-usual SDIO Wi-Fi card (via msmobiles.com)
i-mate has released a limited edition JAM – nifty charcoal color, 128MB RAM (ouch on the battery life), CA A/V, Skype on-board and more (via Pocket PC Thoughts)
Intel has formally announced that the PXA26x series of ARM processors has come to an end. (via Pocket PC Thoughts)
HTC Apache pictures from the::unwired
HTC Galaxy from the::unwired
The purported Treo 670 – Engadget has more pics I’m still debating the reality of this coming to market.. (and if there’s a GSM version – please whack that damn tree trunk antenna).

Development

OpenNETCF.org has released v1.4 of their excellent Smart Device Framework Go get it!!!
Here’s a utility that will allow you to get some information back out of a CAB file (via Marcus Perryman)
In The Hand has released WindowsMobile In The Hand to provide a matching set of APIs for previous [to WM5] versions of Windows Mobile
Marcus Perryman blogs about setting up a device emulator under VS2005

In Other News . . .

Microsoft has released SyncToy v1 Beta for WinXP Omar blogs about it, too
Neil clears up any confusion about OpenNETCF.org and its offerings

-Nino

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T&E humor

Filed under: Musings

PostedSunday, August 07, 2005 8:05 AM by Nino

I’m working through my work Inbox (rather full from my week on holiday) on my way Salt Lake City (final destination Seattle) this morning and I was entering in my travel time for today into our time and expense application. The current version of this app, 4.0, was re-written in .NET and is pretty sweet (compared to the old VBx-derived version). The part about it I love best is entering time on a weekend:

WeekendHours

This always gives me a chuckle (as well as wishing I could click ‘No’)

-Nino

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