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Category: Smartphone

Windows Mobile Smartphone

  • Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

    Microsoft’s Coding4Fun site has an interesting coding project item titled…

    Control Windows Media Center using a Windows Mobile 5 Device

    It has examples using both Visual Basic.NET as well as Visual C# to remote control a Windows Media Center PC.

  • T-Mobile Dash (Smartphone) with Windows Mobile 6

    T-Mobile Dash with Windows Mobile 6I have a short term project (more on this after it is completed sometime in July) that requires a Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone (Standard Edition). So, I walked over to the local T-Mobile store during lunch and bought the last remaining Dash in the store. In fact, at first the person handling my potential purchase said they were all out. Fortunately, another sales person heard our conversation and found an Dash box for me to purchase.

    If you want to read about what the upgrade process from Windows Mobile 5 to 6 is like, I suggest heading over to my old friend Frank McPherson‘s site (PocketPCHow2.com) and reading his blog entry titled:

    Upgrading to Windows Mobile 6

    He used a Windows Vista PC for his upgrade while I used a Windows XP PC. However, I am very glad I read his blog entry before attempting my own upgrade. He has some very useful information about the quirks of the upgrade process.

    First comment about the Dash with Windows Mobile 6: Wow! Having been totally unimpressed with Windows Mobile 6 Beta running on a Pocket PC last year, I am 180 degrees in the other opinion direction on the combo of the Dash and WM6. Having moved from a T-Mobile SDA WM5 Smartphone that I’ve used for a little over a year (and being reasonably satisfied with it), the experience of having a nice usable QWERTY thumb keyboard with the WM6 apps is just great. Setting up email was a breeze with a QWERTY keyboard to enter email addresses, mail server names, and other textual oddities that are a pain on a DTMF-layout numeric keypad.

    More on the Dash with Windows Mobile 6 over the next few days. Stay tuned…

  • T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade

    I’m thinking about buying a T-Mobile Dash to replace my current SDA Smartphone (I really don’t like that Standard Edition name :-). So, I thought I would jot down where the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade is found in a place I could find it quickly: Here 🙂

    T-Mobile Windows Mobile Upgrade Page

    Note that the upgrade for the T-Mobile MDA (Pocket PC Phone Edition) on the same page is not for Windows Mobile 6. That is a feature pack upgrade for Windows Mobile 5 on the MDA.

  • MobileViews ActiveSync QuickFAQ

    I revived another MobileViews QuickFAQ this evening. This time it is…

    MobileViews ActiveSync QuickFAQ

    Its first paragraph says it all: I hate ActiveSync problems. I bet you do too. This QuickFAQs page is here to help you with your ActiveSync problems so I don’t have to hear about them. &B-) FYI: Windows Vista Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) information coming soon…

  • MobileViews Excel Mobile Quick FAQs

    One of the more popular Quick FAQs pages on the old MobileViews.com site was the one for Pocket Excel/Excel Mobile. I went back into my archives to start bringing back the MobileViews Quick FAQs section. You can find a list of Excel functions and other useful information about Pocket Excel (Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition and older) and Excel Mobile (Windows Mobile 5 and newer) linked below as well as in the sidebar:
    Excel Mobile Quick FAQs

    Let me know if you find these Quick FAQs useful again.

  • Microsoft SyncToy + Windows Mobile = No Luck

    Microsoft SyncToyMicrosoft updated their SyncToy PowerToy to version 1.4 last November. But, I only got around to trying it this evening. SyncToy’s function is to synchronize files in two different folders. One obvious use is to sync files from a digital camera’s storage card to a PC’s hard disk. Another, one would think (at least I did),would be to sync from a Smartphone’s or Pocket PC’s. Unfortunately, SyncToy can’t see beyond the Mobile Devices folder of a synced Windows Mobile device during the Folder Pairing process. So, you can’t use it with a Pocket PC or Smartphone synced with the PC. Too bad. Perhaps, the company that wrote SyncToy and the company that designed Windows Mobile should talk to each other. Oh wait, never mind…