Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

Email is great but Instant Messaging is a fantastic way of getting answers really quickly from colleagues and partners! Until we release our Live Communication Server Mobile Client the best way to do this is using Pocket MSN. The new version comes with...

On our Exchange Unplugged Tour - I've had lots of questions from customers about what they have to do to get Push Email with Windows Mobile 5 devices. I have to re-iterate that you need two components: 1) Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 2) Windows...

I do love this device - for those of you who haven't had a chance or touch one of these... Mobile TechReview has an excellent review of the I-Mate K-Jam on their web site. Check it out at: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/i-mate_K-JAM.htm

We are now half way through the Exchange Unplugged Tour so far we've been to London, London, Coventry on Monday (and were greated with snow!), Manchester Tuesday at the Lowry Theatre and now we are in Southampton at the Mayflower theatre! We've got...

Late last week Vodafone announced their support for Windows Mobile with a standard tarrif for email access as well as future support the 'Push' capability natively within Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2. For those customers not using Exchange they also...

I got reminded by a customer that I haven't updated the - what devices am I carrying post for the past couple of months - so it's about time I updated it! Last post I was desperate to get my hands on an HTC Wizard and an i300 - my wishes were granted...

As part of our Exchange 5.5 Unplugged Tour - I thought it'd be fun to show some of the devices that were around in 1997 (when Exchange 5.5 launched) - our first devices didn't really start appearing till 1999 so I've just picked a couple of those. They...

Now that Office 12 Beta 1 has been announced I can share the great news that one of the components that it has is a 2-way Sync for OneNote. If you've never used OneNote it's a must have application for note taking - whether you have a Tablet PC or...

This whitepaper http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/features/mobility/e2k3sp2.mspx has just been released detailing the benefits of Service Pack 2 and Windows Mobile 5 Included in the document are the following • Introduction...

Myself, Ewan Dalton, Allister Frost, Eileen Brown, Brett Johnson and a few other folks are on the road with the Exchange 5.5 Unplugged tour right now! Our mission - help customers migrate from Exchange 5.5 to 2003! We've started a parallel blog...

One of things we've massively improved in Windows Mobile 5 is it's support for Bluetooth Car kits. The support implemented allows both handsfree and headset profiles as well as supporting phonebook transfer to a variety of Car Manufacturers Bluetooth...

If you didn't make it to Paul Flaherty's webcast on Monday - it's been recorded so you can access it via this link https://www119.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=MB9CF5

I've been blogging for 4 months now... (scarily) I get anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 people reading my blog! (depending on content) I've found it a great way to communicate with customers and partners! I'm always bumping into people (in the strangest...

The XBOX 360 is launched today in the US - I'm excited about hopefully getting mine soon (if Amazon.co.uk are good to me) I was on Instant Messenger with a colleague who was in a queue to buy one in San Francisco - I'm hoping he gets one!!! I'll obviously...

David Ciccone has posted a great article with Screenshots of the Motorola Q. The device will be available in the US first but check out the full article at: http://mobilitytoday.com/news/005639/motorola_q_memory

I've had the question from a number of people: "Jason - I bought a Windows Mobile 5 device - XXXXX - it says I have 64MB on the box however when I go into Control Panel - I only have 50MB left...." Mike Calligaro over on the Windows Mobile team...

One of our partners has just released their product CE-Star 2.8 it enables your Windows Mobile 5 device to view and write Chinese and Japanese in all applications. http://www.mobem.com/

Monday 21st November my colleague Paul Flaherty will be hosting a web cast on troubleshooting Exchange Activesync. He will be covering off some of the most common support issues around Exchange Activesync and techniques and tips for delving deeper into...

http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=6e782662-5f2a-4161-a64a-7f63644e1f0a The Windows Live Mobile Search Beta is now available..... What it is Windows Live Search beta for mobile devices lets you use your Web-enabled mobile device...

I'm pleased to share that Activesync 4.1 has been released to the Web today. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/downloads/activesync41.mspx It resolves a number of issues with Activesync 4.0 where synchronisation would not work if you used personal...

http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4557.html There's a posting over at MS Mobiles which is a bit confusing - it states that customers can now get an MCP in Mobility. This is unfortunately incorrect as what the team at MS Mobiles are referring to is the...

I am a very sad game-a-holic! I've pretty much had every console and computer gaming device. From ZX81 to Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum through the Amiga to a PC. I then had a Super-NES, Sega MegaDrive, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 and XBOX! I love XBOX...

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=ousiv&storyID=2005-11-16T153314Z_01_HO654872_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-INTELLISYNC-NOKIA-DC.XML Interesting development in the mobile email market in that Nokia is buying Intellisync for $430...

Another great day today although I haven't managed to make (m)any sessions due to the fact I had an 8am chalk talk! (yawn!) The chalk talk was on Mobile Technology in the Enterprise - myself and Byron Hynes presented it. Essentially it's really a Q&A...

I've had a question asked by Mohammed on when will Windows Mobile support the A2DP profile natively. If you aren't familiar - A2DP is the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile which provides support for streaming either mono or stereo audio over Bluetooth...