The Mobile Minute 109

 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