The Mobile Minute 120

 Lots of goodies in this issue of TMM; make sure to check out the dev section.  Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers; hopefully most of you won’t have too much winter weather to deal with.  Up here in northeast Ohio (we’re visiting family) we have our first taste of winter with several inches of snow to deal with. :-)

Software / Hardware 

• Mobile-review.com has a review of the HTC Prophet (via msmobiles.com)
• CRN has this piece in which RIM denies being concerned about Microsoft’s thrust into the push e-mail space (via msmobiles.com)   ..and yeah, right.. I think that they should be concerned that Nokia is buying Intellisync
• InfoSyncWorld has a review of the T-Mobile SDA II
• MobileRead brings us news that Dell has released a VGA system update for the X51v
• PHONE Magazine has a review of the Nextel i930 (the first Nextel Windows Mobile Smartphone)
• mobilityToday has some exclusive screenshots of the Motorola Q
• Jason Langridge will be hosting a webcast about The Top Ten Myths of Windows Mobile
• Coolsmartphone gives a review of the T-Mobile MDA Vario
• Coolsmartphone also brings us news about Cingular’s forthcoming 8125
• A recording of the ActiveSync troubleshooting webcast on November 21 is now available (via Jason Langridge)
• Chris Pratley talks about OneNote Mobile, part of Office Mobile v.Next
• The Windows Mobile team answers the question “Where’s my RAM?”

 Development

• Marcus Perryman gives Part 1 of a multi-part post on the WM5 Local Authentication Sub System (LASS)
• Peter Foot tells us how to divert Windows Mobile 5.0 system audio to a Bluetooth headset
• Avonelle finds a great utility for Pocket PC: Pocket Console
• Some new MSDN articles:
  • Step by Step: Introduction to the New Native APIs in Windows Mobile
  • Device Debugging and Emulation in Visual Studio 2005
  • Using Visual Studio 2005 to Design User Interfaces and Data for Device Applications
• And an upcoming webcast: Developing Multithreaded Applications with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0
• Chris Tacke talks about simple APIs
• Abhiram Khune has a long post with the steps to get the device emulator to connect to the Internet. (via the VSD team blog)
• The Visual Studio for Devices (VSD) team announces the Virtual Machine Network Driver for Device Emulator
• ActiveSync Server Error Codes from Paul Flaherty (via msmobiles.com)

In Other News . . .

• Cingular is rebranding as AT&T
• Russell Beattie gives his opinion on the new AT&T logo (or should I write “at&t”) logo – and I have to agree with Russ. Here’s my +1.
• Beyond The Tech is is moving away from the blog…and to forums 

 -Nino