Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

One of the coolest apps I've seen in a long while has been released to give access to MSN Virtual Earth. You can use it as a client to access MSN Virtual Earth ! It's pretty amazing seeing the satellite images on your device and works well over WiFi...

i-mate have released details of the K-JAM device! Check them out at http://www.imate.com/DETAILS_KJAM.htm

The majority of questions I've had about the Wizard device is - what bluetooth stack does it use? It's using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack. The other great news is that it appears the stack now works really well with the BMW Bluetooth Car Kit as...

Expansys have released details of the iMate SP5 and SP5m devices. These are both Windows Mobile 5 devices with the 'm' signifying that the device has Music Buttons... (and will store more than 100 tracks ;) ) The 'm' version is the device on the left...

It's here at last - after all the speculation - Apple finally announced the Motorola ROKR phone... http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/ I may be missing something here but - I'm underwhelmed by this announcement. The ROKR is missing the great...

A had a call from a customer last week that was trying to create an SD Card that they could give to their field people which contained a series of applications they could install on their Pocket PC Phone device they carried. My colleague Marcus Perryman...

The next great device it seems that will hit the Market is the iMate K-JAM also known as the HTC Wizard and under various different names for each Mobile Operator iteration. Comparing the K-JAM to it's predecessor the revolutionary iMate JAM brings...

A great day today! A package arrived with my HTC Wizard today! I haven't had much time to tinker with it today but I wanted to post my first thoughts. 1. Wow! This device is amazing - it is slightly thicker than the iMate JAM but is still pocketable...

I had a comment on my previous post relating to the fact they suspected that Activesync used about 20MB of data per month and Blackberry only used 3MB. The Blackberry numbers are correct but the Activesync numbers are waaaayyyy out! Let me explain......

Sprint have announced the PPC-6700 which is the HTC Apache device! http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=8280 Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced the launch of the Sprint PCS Vision SM Smart Device (PPC-6700), the first PDA/phone-combination...

Day 2 with my Wizard and I wanted to respond to some of the questions I've had on email. Firstly - what device do I have... well it's a QTEK 9100 device - one of the very early devices. 2nd - Can I load skype - will do - not had a chance yet ...

On my Universal I've been trying a number of RSS Readers to keep myself up to date with what's happening in the world of Mobile. My previous favourite RSS reader was Newsbreak however I was having a few issues with it on Windows Mobile 5 so I decided...

Many customers I talk with want to extend Group Policy to their Windows Mobile devices... right now this isn't supported in Windows Mobile however at our Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference I met up with the folks at Full Armor who provide a product...

My colleagues over at their Windows Mobile 4 Partners have highlighted a great solution one of our partners Infomill is now making available to Gas Engineers! Infomill, another great UK partner for Windows Mobile, has teamed up with Corgi to offer...

At our Technet Event on Friday - I had many customers asking from Government organisations attend that were interested in deplouing Mobile Solutions. Most government organisations look to CESG for guidance on what approved solutions can/can't be deployed...

For those of you wanting to get hold of an I-Mate K-Jam - they are now on Expansys and they have (when I last checked) 395 left. http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=125518

The folks over at Mobile Review have done a fantastic review of the HTC Tornado... http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-tornado-en.shtml

MsMobiles.com published an article today ( http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4232.html ) claiming that myself and Mike Hall had our blogs censored removing articles linking to msmobiles.com. I'd like to be really clear that: 1) Our blogs are not censored...

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles yesterday Jim Alchin announced a great offer where developers could get an iMate JasJar for $149! It would also be worth the flight over considering the JasJar retails at Expansys...

The guys over at Cool Smartphone spotted that the Universal is going to be available from O2. It looks like O2 are also going make available the Sp3i as the Xphone II. The O2 XDA Exec also appeared in Stuff magazine this month so the sightings...

I've been using this tool for some time now to keep my devices, cameras and memory cards up to data and to sync data between the various PC's in my house. It's finally been released to the Web. Definately worth a look if you need to synchronise information...

I've been using this service for a while now and it's incredibly useful and accurate. Essentially it will convert a voicemail to an email message or send you a text. I've found it really useful as I always struggle to transcribe voicemails - this service...

The Slides from last weeks Professional Developers Conference in the US are now available for download from: http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx So if you weren't lucky enough to go - you can download all the presentations :)

Last week was a great week as we saw the first Windows Mobile 5.0 devices reach customers. In Europe the iMate JasJar become readily available and it looks like Expansys sold out the device (even at the near £700 price). In the US the PPC 6700 became...

There are some rumours circulating that Nokia will release a Push Email solution for their devices to rival the Exchange SP2 and Blackberry solutions... http://geekswithblogs.net/wallabyfan/archive/2005/09/08/53162.aspx