Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

For those of you focussed in the Education space - This looks like a great conference in London on 14th/15th October. http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hl2005/ We (Microsoft) are sponsoring the event and there are some great speakers lined up -...

We have a big event Friday for UK customers which is the Mobile Opportunity - are you missing it? It's currently sold out so hope to see hundreds of people there!!! It should be a great event! Drop me a comment if you are planning to attend! ...

I've had the question asked by a number of customers recently - what do you get if you have a WM 5.0 device with SP2, or a WM 2003 device with SP2 etc... The Matrix below might help explain! Feature Requires WM 5.0 Requires...

http://www.t-mobile.de/presse/1,1807,13266-_,00.html T-Mobile Germany have announced availability from 1st September (Thursday!) of the HTC Universal device. It will be known as the T-Mobile MDA Pro (not IV like was rumoured) See all my other posts...

Whilst searching Ebay today I noticed that there are lots of illegal copies of Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrades for sale. One example is http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Windows-mobile-2005-rom-upgrade-XDA2-XDAII_W0QQitemZ6427207884QQcategoryZ32242QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem...

Last week at our Modaco event (sponsored by ourselves and Orange) someone stole the grand prize which was a brand new Orange C550 Mobile Phone! Everyone was pretty embarassed and dissapointed especially considering it was a community event where everyone...

The iMate JAM is a wonderful device and has been hugely successful in Europe! http://www.clubimate.com/t-DETAILS_JAM.aspx Interestingly in trying to discover what the new JASJAR acronym meant - I found out what the JAM meant :) Considering that...

I'm intrigued - what does JASJAR mean? Someone posted on my previous link that it means "The Perfect One"? Anyone have some inside track on this?

An interesting article appeared on the FT today regarding the worldwide growth in Mobile Phones. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0487c882-154c-11da-8085-00000e2511c8.html 21% growth!

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=125518

The HTC Tornado has been spotted on the FCC site by the folks over at Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000367055805/ This device has been spotted as the QTEK 8310 and many mobile operators are also looking at it. It has Windows Mobile...

When I'm working with customers all of them have differing views on the potential risk that certain features and functions of mobile devices may pose. The challenge is that most manufacturers of Smart devices such as Smartphones and Pocket PC's want to...

Scanning Expansys today I noticed that they have listed the HTC Universal as the iMATE JASJAR! http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=119353 So what does JasJar mean??? Answers on a postcard please :)

I was in London today for a series of meetings and venturing onto the Tube for the first time since the London Bombings I couldn't help but notice the number of people carrying Ipods and Phones. I then had a press interview with a gentlemen who reminded...

Completely off topic from Mobile but it's 10 years since we launched Windows 95! Remember that Start Me Up campaign with the Rolling Stones track???

HP just recently updated their site to state that it looks like the HP 47xx upgrade has moved out to Spring 2006 but the hx 2000 upgrade should be here shortly..... It's a real shame as the 47xx will be an amazing device with Windows Mobile 5l0 thanks...

I'm always staggered and disturbed that so few people know about our Device Management Feature Pack for SMS (probably because it's buried on Microsoft.com). Essentially this feature pack provides mobile device management of Windows CE (3.0 and later)...

I participated last week in a series of press briefings around some research that we (Microsoft) did with Martec International to investigate the growth of mobile solutions in Retail. Whilst in 2004, only 28% of the UKs leading retailers had adopted...

One device that I'm desperate to get hold of is the HTC Wizard. One of my colleagues had one of these recently and despite offering various body parts I couldn't tempt him to give me it. It seems one UK supplier is offering it for sale and available...

One of the key areas of interest for customers at the moment is the Direct Push capabilities we are introducing shortly with Exchange 2003. I've had lots of questions from customers and wanted to disolve some of the confusion around this as well as...

There are a huge number of benefits that Windows Mobile 5.0 brings to customers, partners, operators and developers. For Enterprises there are some huge benefits which I hope to highlight over the coming blog posts..... The first one I'd like to cover...

A couple of questions: Has the voice quality improved over the blue angel? what is the bluetooth range? is there voice dialing over bluetooth? The voice quality I've found is excellent - hard to compare against the Blue Angel but my personal view is...

Pictures have emerged over at PocketPC Club and Cool Smartphone ( www.coolsmartphone.com ) of the HTC Wizard alongside the QTEK 8300 and 8310 devices. All run Windows Mobile 5.0. It's the next generation of the HTC Magician known in the real world...

For those of you who've used MSN Mobile recently you may have spotted a new option appear - BETA Services. Our MSN team has launched a Beta release of MSN Spaces (Blogging) and MSN Search (which seems unfortunately to be limited to US) Here...

Anyone reading this going to the Modaco event being held at our London Offices tomorrow? http://www.modaco.com/index.php?act=portal Make sure you say Hi! Myself and my colleague David Goon (Developer God) will be at the event representing Microsoft...