The Mobile Minute 124

It's Wednesday already?  How'd that happen?!?!

Hrm... tried Office 12 Beta1 on my home box (sans VM)  ...it looks pretty and stuff, but I couldn't get Outlook to create a new mail message without crashing no matter how I tried.  [sigh] it's Beta; back to Office11. I'll whip up a WinXP VM and try it there.

Software / Hardware 

• I first saw the DualCor cPC on Ben’s blog  – very interesting device
• Skype now has a beta for Pocket PCs with slower CPUs; check out the download
• Don Sorcinelli has a good “Which Windows Mobile device should I buy?” article at Pocket PC Magazine.
• Diane Dumas has a ‘first look’ at WM5 devices on the market  – note that she only discusses devices available from mobile carriers and ‘major’ OEMs in the US
• the::unwired has a good article (w/pics) of the HTC Prophet (the true successor to the HTC Magician (aka i-mate JAM)).

 Development

• Alex Yakhnin post a list of SQL Mobile downloads
• David Kline posts a table of contents for his nine-part series on monitoring .NET CF app performance - bookmark this.
• Also check out David’s ‘Best of 2005’ post for a lot of good links
• From Microsoft Indonesia, a good article on what’s new in VS2005 for native developers
• .NET CF 2.0 Tutorials (via Neil Cowburn) - spiffy

In Other News . . .

• Some humor at Intel (via TinyScreenfuls)
• Visto smacks Microsoft upside the head with a lawsuit over Microsoft DirectPush Technology (then jumps in bed with NTP). Read.
• A news.com piece ponders if US carriers (i.e. non-GSM carriers Sprint and Verizon) will switch to GSM  My take – maybe, but it will a long time (at least five years, maybe ten). Verizon, particularly, has a very large subscriber base (>49M) and to change all of them over to GSM phones will take significant effort (and cost) - and don’t forget plenty of complaining by consumers.

Now playing: Kings of Leon - King Of The Rodeo