The Mobile Minute 121

I had some lovely post-Thanksgiving food poisoning and now I’ve picked up the flu (and who know’s what else) – nothing like feeling completely miserable when you have a lot of work to do (and yes, I’m still blogging and working because it helps keep my mind off of how craptacular I feel, although TMM may not be daily this week).

Software / Hardware 

• Check out John Chino’s i730 Smartphone Wireless & Mobility blog (via Jim Karpen’s web guide)
• Resco has updated their awesome Explorer to v5.30 with such things as a Recycle Bin, easier button navigation, and square screen support amongst other things. (via MobileRead) – I run this on my PPC and absolutely love it – it blows away the built-in Windows Mobile Explorer and goes far above the extensions that Spb Pocket Plus adds to WM Explorer.
• PocketPCThoughts brings us news that 2GB miniSD cards are now available in Taiwan for ~ US$160.00.
• Also from PocketPCthoughts – a new version of Microsoft Reader is now available.
• Over at pocketnow.com, Stephen Skarlatos states that ‘Microsoft Windows OS distribution model does not work’  Interesting essay.  Your thoughts?
• PocketPCItalia brings us a review of the HTC Galaxy (via msmobiles.com) – note: this devices does _not_ have telephony capability
• LG brings us the PM80, a Pocket PC capable of receiving a T-DMB broadcast (..now, I just need to be in Korea)

 Development

• Microsoft has released a whitepaper on Exchange 2003 SP2 & Windows Mobile 5.0 (via Jason Langridge)
• David Kline talks about the nifty new UserControl control in .NET CF 2.0

In Other News . . .

• Winodows Mobile Developers: tell Microsoft what you think and maybe you’ll win a US$100 Amazon.com gift card

-Nino