My pal Ben Higginbotham of Technology Evangelist has called me out publicly on our debate about email on the iPhone. I say the iPhone sucks at email, he says it the bestest (yes, I'm oversimplifying. A lot.). I've been meaning to comment over at TE (you should consider doing it yourself, it's an interesting post), but instead am just going to do a full WMExperts Smackdown here. I...
The oft-rumored, pratically fabled Google Mobile Phone isn't what many thought it would be. The rumors were all over the map, so much so I avoided writing about it because it was difficult to ascertain even a tiny clue about what was going on. Well, now we know. Google isn't making the hardware. They're making the software. They're going to compete directly with Windows Mobile, on...
Join us in reading Hobbes' epic How-To install guide, the definitive one for how to get the stuff you want on your Windows Mobile device. It's geared to the new user, but even an old-hat like myself has learned a thing or two from this monster guide. If you're like me, you have a friend or family member who's always hitting you up for help with their Windows Mobile smartphone. My new...
An update to Office Mobile, which will finally add full support for the latest file formats from the desktop version of office, is coming soon. It was actually available briefly, due to a little mixup: On his blog, Langridge discussed the upcoming release of Office Mobile 6.1 which was perfectly acceptable, except he said that it was currently available and provided a working link....
PCWorld has just posted a general overview of the basic issues that face somebody interested in buying a Smartphone. For those of us in the mobile world, there's no new information here, but it's a nice one-stop article for new people who don't know the difference between UMTS and IMAP (mixed categories.. shudder): There is no single greatest handset for all users, but with a little...
Seeking Alpha's Sramana Mitra puts into words something like what I've had in the back of my mind for quite awhile now: it's possible that the iPhone could actually help WM. I'm not on board with her "the iPhone is actually laptop competition" argument, though. But consider this: In a relatively small lakeside town in Minnesota, Excelsior, a new bar/restaurant opened up in December...
Over at the Backstage at MED Blog I see this post about Silverlight - which looks to be a browser plug-in that allows you to view Windows Media over the web, much like the ubiquitous flash plug-in. What's great about Silverlight, though, it that it's heavily cross-platform, supporting IE, Firefox, Safari, and - here's the exciting part, Windows Mobile. Why so exciting? Well, it...
Now, somewhere in the back of my mind I'd always thought "Windows CE is gone, fool, it's been replaced by Windows Mobile" whenever I saw a reference to CE. Thanks be to Mikehall, whose blog is a treasure trove of Windows CE knowledge. Turns out that Windows CE is just a set of building blocks with which you can create an OS, like Windows Mobile. A very common question that...
Microsoft has a new(ish) site extolling the virtues of Windows Mobile, the theme is Work Wherever. Now yesterday I wasn't so keen on admitting that I can work whenever and wherever, but this stuff is funny enough to make it worth it. Go take a look, be sure not to miss the outtakes. In my other life at TreoCentral I noted that Palm has a new "check out what you can do" site called...
Here's a awkward question for fans of the full-featured PocketPC Edition of Windows Mobile 5: "How long until the differences between the two versions of the OS are negligible?" We know that we can expect a more full-featured version of Pocket Office on the Smartphone Edition soon (Hello editing!). Now, according to Tech[dot]Blog, we can expect Voice Command as well. Another little...
Mobile-review has a great, er, review of the upcoming version of Windows Mobile, currently codenamed Crossbow. As they say, don't expect a revolution just yet - that'll come with the next version, Photon. In any case, there's some notables in there you'll want to check out. Here's the spoiler, though: you get more eye candy, better button support, built-in VOIP, and better...
Now that Cingular has unveiled the Blackjack, reports are starting to trickle in. PhoneScoop (among many others, see below) has published a preview/review of the Blackjack, aka the SGH-i607, aka YATQKWMS (Yet Another Thin Qwerty Keyboard Windows Mobile Smartphone), and overall they seem pretty happy with it. The standard by which all these devices are compared still seems to be 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...