The Mobile Minute 117

I've been busy lately (and doing a bit of traveling (MSP, ORD, and now SEA[1]) in support of my busy-ing activities)  hence the lack of updates, but I'm all caught up with updates (now just to catch up on my design docs after being allocated elsewhere for two weeks..heh. almost there).     I still have a gajillion and one blog entries showing in FeedDemon, but I managed to get through my Mobility, Mobile Developers, and Avanade Bloggers groups (priorities!).  Celltrack (on my blog web page) doesn't seem to be picking things up quite correctly, but I'm in Seattle this week (for some design review meetings).   Oh yeah, I pulled the trigger on a K-Jam (there go my H1 EBs).. so I should be seeing that next week some time. :-)

Software / Hardware 

• Mike C from the Windows Mobile team answers the question that I've been getting a lot recently "Why can't I upgrade my device to WM5?"
• Neil C discovers that HP is shipping some OpenNETCF assemblies with their hw6500 devices
• i-mate K-Jam owners: a blog just for you
• A supposed photo the HTC Prophet from msmobiles.com  - doesn't look like a photo to me...
• Motorola's new HC700 device   - hmm.. I helped write an app last year for a Moto device that looked a lot like this one..
• Engadget brings us HTC Wizard vs HTC Apache  (guaranteed to be more interesting than AVP)
• A review of the Sprint PPC-6700 (HTC Apache) at pocketnow.com  (via pocketpcthoughts.com)
• Coolsmartphone.com has some info on the Samsung i300 - yes, this is the WM5 Smartphone with a 3GB hd.

 Development

• Check out the new Mobile Developer Wiki on channel 9  - it's early, so content is a bit sparse, but keep an eye on this.
• Managed shared source library for Bluetooth on Windows Mobile (via Windows Mobile Team)
• Robert Levy from the WM team talks about two-state icons in WM5 and provides a link with more insight.
• He also talks about persistent storage and the registry
• State and Notification Broker 101 (lite) (via Windows Mobile team)
• A good intro to the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook namespace
• Yes, Virginia, System.Threading is ... threaded
• The .NET CF team talks about .NET CF 2.0 CAB files  Some good stuff here; I would encourage a read even if (especially if) you have the skinny on .NET CF 1.0 CAB files
• David Kline has a two part series on monitoring app performance on .NET CF.  Part 1  Part 2    A must read for serious .NET CF developers
• Neil talks about Design By Contract in SDF 2.0
• More Windows Mobile webcasts (via msmobiles.com)
• Interesting bit from the WinCE Networking Team: RIL Proxy Logging

In Other News . . .

• OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI) formally begins operations today (October 18, 2005)  (remember, keep your friends close and your enemies closer) ;-)
• Check out the updated version of Virtual Earth Mobile (source code, too)
• The state of Missouri has allocated funds to monitor traffic flow by mobile device triangulation  (via Engadget.com)  - lovely, just lovely.
• GPSPassion.com has a comparison guide of GPS receivers

-Nino

[1]Interesting to note that www.world-airport-codes.com is now using Google Maps...