Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

Parrot have announced their MK6000 Car Kit which incorporates A2DP Bluetooth Audio streaming. I was looking for a BT Car Kit when I bought my new car but ended up getting an integrated phone module instead - this unit is seriously tempting ! I'd love...

Nathan has just posted that the next meeting of the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group in the UK is going to take place on 19th October in London. The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 18:00 - 18:30 Arrival 18:30 - 18:35 Introduction...

Orange are running a whole series of events across the UK in the next couple of months around integrated communications. Microsoft are involved in them so if you want to come along and learn more about Windows Mobile it'll be a great opportunity to do...

In the space of 1 day I've had two different customers approach me about a problem they have with Windows Mobile in use in a Line of Business environment. Essentially they want to stop the ‘Cannot Connect’ notification/bubble. The problem is that it is...

I've had a few customers trying to understand the format of the Exchange Activesync logs and how they are constructed. I found out there are two great articles available covering the formats of both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. Exchange 2003 SP2 http...

Each year the IT Regatta takes place (now called Silicon Cup ) which is a sailing event in Cowes where not only do we get to race big yachts but we also raise a huge amount of money for charity! This year we had a whole fleet (well a few) Windows Mobile...

Nearly 3 years ago Microsoft, Nokia and Vodafone started an initiative called the Mobile Top Level Domain. Since then a huge number of partners and what are traditionally competitors have joined this initiative. The Mobile Top Level Domain has now become...

Paul over at Modaco.com has made available the CamerAware application for Windows Mobile that alerts you when you are approaching a 'safety camera'... it uses a GPS and a Windows Mobile device to acheive this so you can use it either with an integrated...

Mike Hall has posted a great blog article about where the codenames for Windows CE come from! Yamazaki is the codename for CE 6.0. The original code names were tree related and then all of a sudden they switched to.... well - I'll let you read the rest...

A couple of days ago we released the updated Beta of Activesync 4.5. You can download it from HERE

The Register has posted an article about research they've performed into future Enterprise Mobile messaging strategies. It makes for very interesting reading.... You can see it HERE

We've just published a case study on Microsoft.com about how Orange Switzerland is providing Direct Push email to their users! You can read it HERE

Before we released our Direct Push solution no one really knew or cared too much what an Adaptation Kit Update (AKU) was. Historically an AKU was used to enable an OEM to deliver a certain device as the core Windows Mobile platform may have required certain...

howardchui.com has a great video and pictures of the HTC S620, P3300 and P3600 devices! My favourite picture is the one of the Q next to the S620! (HTC Excalibur) You can check out the video and pictures HERE

We had an interesting internal discussion around Internet Explorer Mobile and how it handles Pop Up Windows. I thought I'd share it as I simultaneously was approached by a customer who had similar questions/concerns. Pop ups are usually implemented...

I was staggered when I read this report created by Carphone Warehouse and the London School of Economics that states that 51 percent of all 10-year-olds have a mobile phone rising to 91 % of children by the time they hit 12! I knew it was high as I see...

Well Vista RC1 is now available for download (woohoo!) I've been running it for about the past week or so and I have to say it is SOOOO much better than Beta 2! I'm now running it on my production laptop and haven't had a need to slip back to XP... infact...

There's been a lot of debate about whether/if the Treo 750v is going to support HSDPA.... I just spoke with the Head of Palm's Engineering team who confirmed that YES, the Treo is upgradeable to HSDPA. Palm and Vodafone will announce availability...

Wow! This came out of the blue. From the newswire today it looks like Motorola and Symbol have signed a definitive merger agreement. I hadn't seen this one coming but it looks like it makes sense as Motorola has a great legacy in Radio technology in many...

A lof of people who have seen the Palm Treo 750v have wanted the capability to Search from the Today screen like you can on the Treo. A smart developer has actually written something similar which you can download from here: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda...

Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions has now extended its support to include Microsoft Smartphone. Users can now develop Web-based apps for both Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC platforms. Also this week Sybase iAnywhere is unveiling version 6...

Today details of Zune started to emerge :) A press release issued this morning shared some of the capabilities that this multimedia device would have! 30gb device Ability to share music wirelessly over WiFi Play any shared song in full 3 times then if...

14 - 17 November, Barcelona, Spain Microsoft is searching for talented presenters who can talk-the-talk, command the attention of IT professionals and develop a rapport with their audience. Is that you? Take to the Speaker Idol stage, demonstrate your...

The team over at Pocketinfo in the Netherlands have produced an in-depth review of the Treo 750v (including pictures... ;) ) Check out the babelfish translated version HERE

Intermec have published details of their CN3 Device which is running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push technology. The device is designed for a huge array of differing uses as it combines a whole host of different capabilities in a very small rugged...