The Mobile Minute 110

 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