Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile!

Yesterday AT&T (formerly Cingular) launched the Tilt device which is a variant of the HTC Kaiser device! The AT&T Tilt features a 2.8-inch color screen that slides back to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, then tilts up to position the screen perfectly...

With Halloween next week our Windows Mobile Owners Circle is offering free Halloween Wallpapers and Ringtones to help you celebrate this scary day!

Today at CTIA Wireless we announced System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. This is something I've been desperate to share broadly so it's great too see we've finally announced it! My webcast tonight covered this in some detail. So what is System Center...

Today in London HTC announced an array of new devices . The first device was the Enterprise focused HTC P6500 device. This device has a 3.5” screen, 3 mega pixel camera with auto focus and barcode and fingerprint scanning capabilities. It also comes amply...

The Pantech Duo has finally been launched by AT&T in the US! Interestingly what you see above is not two separate phones but the SAME phone. It has both a slide out QWERTY and a 12 key phone keyboard! Not only that but it also HSDPA !!! There is lots...

A number of customers and colleagues I've been talking with recently really like some of the pure touchscreen devices and don't want a hardware QWERTY keyboard but they DO want the ability to enter text via the touchscreen quickly. A colleague pointed...

Over the weekend I completed my Home project with one of the coolest products Microsoft has done for a long while (IMHO) - Windows Home Server. After I almost lost the family digital photo album when my hard drive crashed on my PC I begun looking for...

Ah... I remember the early days of the Psion Organiser.... writing applications on that device was my earliest experience of Mobile devices! Today Psion Teklogix launched their new IKON device. This rugged device has a 3.7 inch VGA display with built...

I discovered a very cool contest that Samsung has launched. The Samsung Innovation Quest is a contest to find cool/exciting applications for Mobile devices. There are two entries in the contest - Professional and Academic. The Professional contest is...

Hand Held Products have just announced their Dolphin 7850 device which has been designed predominantly for retail and warehousing applications and has the typical pistol grip mounting to make scanning simpler. I really like the tilted screen on the device...

I've had a few customers recently experiencing problems where they have Calendar synchronisation issues normally resulting in errors 85010014. In talking with our support teams and some of my colleagues it seems these symptoms and scenarios all seem...

Sprint in the US have just launched the HTC Touch device. As well as Windows Mobile 6 Sprint have added some unique content and capabilities: Sprint Music Store, powered by Groove Mobile, which allows users to browse and wirelessly download full-length...

AT&T have just made available the software upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 for their 8525 device. Remember when you upgrade your device it will kill ALL data on it! You can get access to it HERE

My previous favourite geek T-shirt was the 'Will Work for Bandwidth' T-Shirt..... it's now been superceded by this fabulous Wi-Fi Detector Shirt! Why bother searching for Wi-Fi hotspots when your T-Shirt can show you the presence of any 802.11b or 802...

Rick Claus over in our Canadian Subsidiary is always giving me a hard time about there not being enough Windows Mobile devices in Canada! Well it's great to see that Telus Mobility in Canada has launched both the HTC Touch and the HTC S640 . We all know...

Co-Pilot Live version 7 has just won the PDA Essentials Best SatNav Software award! I've been a big fan of their solution for a long time as it's enabled me to find my way in the US, UK and Europe for the last few years! They've also got some great corporate...

Stephen Fry is a comedian/writer/actor/film director and many more things.... He is also a total Geek when it comes to Technology! He owned the second ever Mac and claims to have not ever been able to stop himself buying the latest Smartphones! (a man...

Ewan forwarded me this which seemed like a fascinating piece of work that Microsoft Research were investigating. Essentially they are looking at ways to ease the pairing process between devices. MSR-TR-2007-123 The Martini Synch Darko Kirovski; Mike Sinclair;...

Yesterday we announced the updated Live Search client for Windows Mobile devices and it will be available for download later today! The updated Live Search for Windows Mobile ® 5.0 and 6.0 now includes voice input (beta version), gas prices, and hours...

One of the confusing areas for anyone is what 'unlimited' data tarrifs really mean. I'm in the industry and it's confusing for me let alone any consumer or corporate who wants to minimise their risk and exposure to massive data bills through the use of...

We just launched our very cool new Windows Mobile site. It's very different to our usual websites but check it out HERE

I've been busy today putting the final touches to my webcast tomorrow evening (UK time) I've had a number of people ask for details on registration and also whether the webcast will be available afterwards.... The details are below: Microsoft Webcast...

On Tuesday Motorola announced they integrating GPS into the very popular Symbol/Motorola MC70 device (over a quarter of a million people already use the MC70!) You can get more details on the MC70 device HERE

At the HTC Launch on Monday lots of people were drooling over the HTC Shift device! This is a great video from the folks at UMPCPortal that shows the HTC Shift device in action. You can also access the Higher Quality Version on their website HERE

Palm have just released the upgrade for both the Treo 750v and the generic Treo 750. Previously only the Vodafone Treo 750v upgrade was available. The upgrade will take your device from Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Mobile 6 Professional. It's definitely...