Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

I saw this story as one of my customers keeps claiming he could beat me on Suretype vs T9 or a Windows Mobile QWERTY.... A 13 year old girl won the National Texting Championship in America a after texting Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious without any...

Normally when I trackback on other sites reviews they are predominantly Windows Mobile sites. This review is actually from my-symbian.com and talks about the Nokia N95 compared to the HTC P330 device. Both devices have inbuilt Satellite navigation and...

On Monday we've got a press day around Windows Mobile. I'm due to give a presentation on both Windows Mobile 6 as well as an application showcase. I want to show case the coolest/greatest Windows Mobile applications that exist! So far I've got a short...

We've been releasing a number of documents and whitepapers that cover the enhancements in Windows Mobile 6. The Windows Mobile 6 Product Reference Guide however is the one place where all the enhancements are documented in detail. The document is big...

Orange today announced the SPV E650 Windows Mobile device which is the first Windows Mobile 6 device in Market! The E650 is the HTC Vox Smartphone device. I've been using one of these for the past few months and it's a great device which produces...

If you aren't an Orange customer you can still get your hands on the HTC Vox device as the S710. This is the first Windows Mobile 6 device available and there are 251 available on Expansys UK site (well there were when I blogged this!) You can order one...

HTC have released their plans to provide FREE upgrades to Windows Mobile 6 for their messaging focussed devices. This includes the the HTC Advantage, the HTC TyTN, the HTC S620 and the HTC P4350 as well as the HTC P3300. The updates will be released starting...

Over the past few weeks I've been attending a number of presentations and events. I often joke that Powerpoint is Microsoft's most demonstrated product and often it is used too much. We are fortunate in Microsoft to have some great speaker coaches to...

I've had a few customers recently getting their HTC S710 devices (the HTC Vox) and they are very confused that they cannot create new documents on the device but they can open and edit existing documents or attachments. On a Windows Mobile 6 Professional...

My final post on this... A quick bit of humour to cheer up those Blackberry users in the US impacted by today's outage... NOC NOC Who's there? ......

Yesterday BT in the UK launched BT Office Anywhere. This offering provides Unlimited Hour Long calls to UK landlines using Mobile VOIP and a data plan for utilising Microsoft Direct Push Email. The solution uses the HTC S620 Windows Mobile device with...

Through the week I've been thinking about the iPhone. I was in the Windows Mobile team when we launched the first Windows Mobile Smartphone many years ago... When I look at the iPhone I'm really intrigued - what they are doing is interesting from a design...

In an interesting move Research in Motion (RIM) have announced a new software application suite that enables Windows Mobile users to get the Blackberry experience. The new BlackBerry application will appear as an icon on the screen in the same manner...

Following my earlier blog post this morning - Business and trade press including Bloomberg, WNBC and PC Advisor have reported all day on the disruption caused to millions of BlackBerry users when a system failure disabled push email for eleven hours last...

Ahead of next week's Mobile Developer Conference Loke, Mike, James and Rob Tiffany have been having some fun showcasing the worst practices of presentations... It's hilarious! :)

One of the questions I often get is a method of synchronising the Notes inside Exchange. I personally don't use Notes as I use OneNote Mobile 2007 but it seems many people do. (Plus OneNote Mobile doesn't support sync over the air) Adam contacted me about...

RIM has finally released their official statement on why the entire North American Blackberry Network went down. The outage was triggered by "the introduction of a new, non-critical system routine" designed to optimize the cache, or temporary memory,...

Orange have just released the AKU3 download for Windows Mobile 5.0 for their popular Orange M3100 device. One of the great features this update offers is Internet Sharing! Check out my blog post on that You can read more details about the update and download...

This year the Gumball Rally is again being sponsored by ALK and also HTC. Each driver will be using a T-Mobile MDA Compact for finding their way across Europe and several thousand miles in just 7 days! You can check out how the Photo Gallery as well as...

Last week I spent some time talking with one of my colleagues who has just joined Microsoft. He is blind and I was really interested to know how he used his Windows Mobile device. The secret to his success of using his device seemed to be a solution from...

HTC have released an update for their P3600 device which enables the GPS on the device.... quite why you would ship a piece of hardware with GPS without software support is beyond my comprehension but that's irrelevant now... The update can be downloaded...

I recently found this interesting press release from M:Metrics which outlines Internet Web usage from Mobile devices. What's really interesting is that it highlights some really key differences between Web Browsing usage in the US and UK. In both countries...

Those kind people at CNetX have released a utility to allow you to UnZip files on your Pocket PC (Professional) device for FREE :) You can download it from HERE

If you are attending the Gartner Wireless conference in London next week make sure you stop by and say Hello! We (Microsoft) are sponsoring the conference and we'll be there for the whole event. The event details are here :

I've been exchanging email with the folks at SlingMedia for a while about why there isn't a Slingplayer Mobile Client available in the UK.... Strangely the US Version works perfectly (as long as you can convince a US Colleague to buy it for you) Well...