Over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog they have started a discussion about One Handed Navigation ... It was very timely as I was about to post a similar article as now we have Push Email lots of customers have been asking me for a scroll wheel like a Blackberry...

Whilst I was on Vacation my Blog celebrated it's first birthday..... it started on August 10th 2005. Since that day I've been amazed by the great feedback I always get from people as well as just how many people read it.. in that single year over 3 million...

After returning from vacation I just installed the latest and greatest Vista and Office 2007 builds!!! Wow! The difference compared to Beta 2 is like Night and Day! With my appetite for Dogfood... I'm also on Exchange 2007. Everything seems to be working...

Today TomTom released details of their TomTom Navigator 6 release. TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 will be available from September 2006. It is available as a stand alone software product or bundled together with a mobile phone or PDA through retailers. TomTom NAVIGATOR...

One of the activities our Product Planning team often use in brainstorming is to consider what features you would invest resource into around the analogy of having $100 to spend on features and allocating those to certain areas.... well the Windows Mobile...

Our Windows Marketplace site has just been updated not only to support digital downloads but it now also includes Windows Mobile applications! You can head straight over to the Windows Mobile applications via this link http://www.windowsmarketplace...

Just after I post how great Slingbox is... they release an update to the Mobile Player! http://www.slingmedia.com/us/support/ppc-beta-dl.p... SlingPlayer Mobile for Pocket PC v. 1.1 BETA What’s New in SlingPlayer Mobile for Pocket PC v 1.1 BETA Enhanced...

This device looks remarkably like the Samsung i320..... however it is a Pocket PC Phone Edition device rather than Smartphone. The i320 is 111 x 59 x 11.5 mm Whilst the Ubiquio 501 is 122 x 65 x 13.5 mm So it's a little bigger plus has a touch...

Details of both the SPJAS and JASJAM have now officially appeared on i-mate's web site. The SPJAS is the HTC Breeze 3G Windows Mobile Smartphone, the JASJAM is the HTC Hermes 3G Pocket PC Phone Edition device. The SPJAS details are available at: http...

One of our partners SportsDo has released version 2.0 of their Sports products for Windows Mobile. Using GPS technology , SportsDo can track your sporting activity directly on your Windows Mobile device. SportsDo has many features including tracking your...

I have to admit - the Slingbox is one of the most useful gadgets I've purchased in a long while. It allows you to access your home TV content either through the integrated Freeview tuner or as I do - access Sky. The latest PC software which is v1.3 even...

Following my post yesterday around Bluetooth Hannes Preishuber posted a comment which I had to share the picture of. Our Windows Automotive team is working with car manufacturers to provide Windows capabilities in many vehicles ! One such manufacturer...

One of the posts I made a while back I still get lots of questions about and that is in relation to Bluetooth Car Kit support of Windows Mobile. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2005/11/23/496368.aspx ) The challenge is that differing car kits...

Our SMS team recently released an update to the Device Management Feature Pack which provides support for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC devices. It seems some people are struggling to find this download on Microsoft.com so I've listed the direct download...

One of my colleagues Brian Holt just published a new productivity broadcast ("prodcast") about Windows Mobile 5.0. You can listen to it in either WMA or MP3 format over the internet, or download the file and play on your Windows Mobile device! The 21...

This powertoy has been published to microsoft.com. The Device Security Manager helps developers test various security policies for Windows Mobile devices. It is designed as a desktop application that ships with a preset list of “security configurations...

With the huge number of new devices coming to market with differing screen sizes this website and webcast series is incredibly useful for developers who are looking to ensure their applications work on any device! http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile...

There is a great article over at Computing's site talking about how Tesco.com are using Windows Mobile devices to deliver an enhanced customer experience. I've worked with Tesco for a number of years now. Initially they had a handheld delivery scheduling...

Steve Butcher of Avanade has posted a great review of the T-Mobile MDA Vario II. I've got quite a few friends who have purchased the original MDA Vario from T-Mobile mainly because of the great Web 'n' Walk Tarrif that T-Mobile offers which provides unlimited...

The Mobile Line of Business Accelerator showcases a mobile application written in Visual C# using Visual Studio 2005. This .NET Compact Framework 2.0 application performs different functions based upon specific user roles. In this application, there are...

I posted yesterday about the MCP exams we are creating for Windows Mobile Want to become a Windows Mobile Certified Professional- Well Loke Uei has just posted more details on the exam and how to sign up for the Beta exam itself! http://blogs.msdn.com...

I discovered this while reading Steve Claytons blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/default.aspx) Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service. ...

This is a cool idea - it's an application that monitors what SIM card is in your device and if it isn't the SIM card it expects then it sends an SMS message to a pre-defined number. So if someone were to steal your phone and place their SIM card in...

We've just released preliminary details of the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 - Application Development certified professional exam. This exam is currently in development. It is expected to be released in its beta version in August 2006. To get a...

With Windows Mobile offering excellent access to email I started to think about how long I've used email for and how I use it... I've had an email address since 1989. My first email account was on our Texas Instruments MSG system which was a mainframe...