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Category: Mobile Devices

  • Windows Mobile Gets No Respect: iPhone Gets Credit for Touchscreen Revolution

    Information Week trumpets…

    iPhone: Catalyst For Touchscreen Revolution

    Never mind that Windows CE/Windows Mobile devices have been continuously providing touch screen devices since 1996. And, of course, the Apple Newton essentially defined the concept of PDA in 1993.

    But, hey, I’ll give credit where credit is due. Apple did the touch screen right. I know that I much prefer to use my iPod touch for a variety of information retrieval tasks (web browsing, reading email, etc.). But, I still prefer to use my Dash smartphone for writing email, creating a calendar event, or entering contact information.

  • ActiveSync Error Code 1: Oh That is Sooooo Helpful


    Using ActiveSync is such an unpleasant experience that I’ve found myself syncing less and less frequently over the past year. The fact that my iPod touch can now handle much of what I used to do on a Pocket PC or WiMo Smartphone and do it much better and sync without pain to iTunes on my Mac doesn’t help ActiveSync’s poor image.

    Recently, I had to uninstall and reinstall ActiveSync to get it working again on my PC. I deleted all the partnerships during this process to make sure I had a clean slate. I finally got around to syncing my old (but reliable!) K-Jam. The screenshot above is the error message ActiveSync provided me (“Code 1” is such a helpful message). It basically told me that it could not sync every single calendar event from Outlook. Huh? I tried a couple of things but finally resorted to rebooting. This fixed (I used the word loosely) the problem and K-Jam seemed to sync ok. I’m still looking through my data to make sure I don’t have dozens of duplicate calendar events or contacts. I’m sure the dreaded multiple birthday problem will be caused by this latest ActiveSync weirdness.

  • Evernote Notes Limits


    I didn’t look down far enough when I noted Evernote’s bandwidth limits the other day. It also has limits on the number of notes with separate counts for audio, inknotes, and images (photos). The limits seem pretty generous for the free account. So, I’m not going to worry about it. I wonder what their for-fee service will be like though.

  • Bloomberg App for iPhone Very Nice

    The Bloomberg app for the iPhone 3G is much nicer and has more functionality than I expected. Thumbs up for this app.

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  • Staying Away from Windows Live for Windows Mobile

    There is no way I am going to install the just released…

    Just Released: Windows Live for Windows Mobile

    Why? The first listed so-called feature: Synchronize Live contacts with your contacts on the device. My Hotmail/Live Mail contacts list is a mish-mash of MSN (Live) Messenger contacts and other contributors I can’t remember. I do not want it accidentally polluting my less than pristine but still useful contacts list on my WiMo smartphone that has been maintained in various forms for nearly 20 years (starting with the MS-DOS based HP 95LX). And, looking at the rest of the feature list…

    # Synchronize your Live email (msn, hotmail, live)
    # View graphics, web links and contact photos in emails
    # Respond to emails with voice recordings
    # Upload photos to your Windows Live Spaces

    …I don’t see anything particularly compelling to me.

  • USA Today for iPhone

    Yet another major website created a site optimized for the iPhone. This time it is USA Today at…

    iphone.usatoday.com

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