With unlimited data packages going the route of the woolly mammoth, Windows Phone owners are leaning on Wifi connections more and more. AT&T hopes to help New York City customers this summer by providing free Wifi services at twenty six locations in twenty New York City parks. The Mayor's Office has signed a five year initiative to provide this free service (non-AT&T customers...
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This one will cause a lot of envy amongst those with non-developer/ChevronWP7 unlocked phones. Developer CodeJoker has gone ahead and done the obvious: create a shortcut to the device WiFi settings. It's exactly what you think it would be--you tap the icon and you're at your configuration to turn WiFi on or off with a few less steps than the current setup. You simple install the XAP...
Following successful test launches in NYC, Charlotte, NC and Chicago earlier in 2010, AT&T announced today that it plans to deploy more Wi-Fi Hotzones in certain major markets around the country. The first initiative will be to expand its current NYC coverage in Times Square, Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the next few days. This is just in time for the New Year’...
One complaint we've seen in regards to Windows Phone 7 is when people have tried to set up Wi-Fi on their secured home network. In short, there is no easy easy way to grab your MAC address for configurations that require it. Luckily in this case, the Samsung Focus is different from the others by having a diagnostic screen that reveals this info. The directions are easy enough, as...
[This will make your blood boil for some of you. Please try to keep your rage in check in the comments, kthx!]Paul Thurrott, who is now safely in Germany playing with his Windows Phone 7 developer device, has found yet another limitation (see the earlier write up on embedded calendars).Evidently, Windows Phone 7 cannot see ergo connect to hidden wireless networks, the kind where you don...
Every once in awhile we here at WMExperts come across a truly remarkable piece of software: simple, elegant, useful and preferably free.WiFi Remote Access by Julian Manici meets all of these criteria.In short, you install the software on your Windows phone (with WiFi, ahem), pick a password and when ready, hit "Enable". You'll now be shown your device's IP address which you simply...
We promise we'll go all out on the HTC HD2 once it's more widely available in the United States. Really. We will. (And because you'll ask: Yes, it's coming to the U.S. early next year. No, we don't know exactly when or on which carrier.) In the meantime, here's what's going on: Our pal Matt Miller from Nokia Experts has the HD2 in hand and is giving it a thorough run-through in his...
There is no question that mobile technology has taken off over the last couple of years. The evolution of wireless technologies and the devices that use them have gone hand in hand. As cellular signals improve, less and less people rely on more traditional connectivity technologies like Wi-Fi. There are those of us however, that live on 802.11 based networks. If you’ve spent any time...
Not a whole lot to say here that's not in the headline, but the "Mega 100 series" appears to have been outed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. We do know from the submission that it's a phone, and there's 802.11 b/g on board. And rumor has it that the Mega is a follow-up to the Touch 3G. But you know how those rumors go.Wi-Fi Alliance pdf [via BGR and cellpassion]
Have you ever been on the road with work or on vacation and wished you could tap into the internet with your laptop, but don't have anyway of doing it? With this in mind, how cool would it be to be able to turn your WM phone into a WiFi router anywhere you are to access the internet? Sound a little far fetched? Well, that is exactly what WMWifiRouter does! WMWifiRouter has a large...
Behold, Motorola's White Whale, otherwise known as a Q9h with WiFi. We know these things exist, albeit in very rare numbers, and a treat when we see one in the wild. This one comes to us from EverythingQ member racingxtsy, who says the phone was bought on Craigslist. What we've got here is what for all intents and purposes on the outside appears to be a "stock" unlocked Q9h with AT&...
Are the days of WiFi chewing through our batteries like a beaver through soft wood over? ZDNet seems to think so, based on an interview with truphone's CEO James Tagg. Now Tagg obviously has an interest in convincing people that WiFi on their phone is a good thing, since he's running a VOIP company. Nevertheless, his claim that, with WM6: "A lot of work [has been done] with the...
I adore the Windows Mobile Team Blog. How great is it that the developers themselves not only post blog entries about the OS, but post open, honest, and funny blog postings about the os? While other divisions might just talk about the inability to use ActiveSync over WiFi with a curt “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature,” here we get Mike Calligaro actually explaining why, when, and how...