Coolsmartphone.com discovered that HTC have released a hot fix for the HTC Touch Dual. It fixes the problem where for some strange reason icons vanish and words overlap.  I've spoken to a few people that have had this issue so if you are seeing this...

| View | Upload your own Over the last couple of weeks I've delivered a number of System Center Mobile Device Manager sessions at our Technet London and Manchester events. I've uploaded the presentation to Slideshare.net where you can view and download...

Following up on my post about LED Alerts - Fernando contacted me to remind folks that if the device is a Professional device you can actually tell it to flash the led directly from the OS, under Sounds & Notifications when an email comes in for example...

I had a customer recently ask me for a way of having the LED only flash on a device when new email came in (the customer was migrating from Blackberry which does this) Well I spotted this solution called LED Alerts over on Smartphone Thoughts which provides...

Jason Dunn over at Pocket PC Thoughts found this great article on VGA vs QVGA screens on Mobil Yazilar Blog The article has some fantastic screenshots of devices with VGA and QVGA screens.  What most people don't realise is that the increase in pixels...

With a new addition to the family coming later this year I was hunting around the Internet this weekend for a new desk as I'll be moving my study around in the house! Lo and behold I find possibly the coolest desk EVER! Check out Han Solo in Carbonite...

The guys over at Coolsmartphone discovered that the Samsung i640 is now available on Vodafone UK. It's not yet appeared on the business site but if you are a personal customer you can get more details HERE

When you visit our Windows Mobile Developer Center you will probably notice that we’ve done a complete overhaul of the site.  For years, the Developer Center has been responsible for delivering you content on Smart Device Development which...

I was feeling all pleased with myself when I got my 8GB MicroSD card - it looks like a 12GB MicroSD card is just around the corner - $179 You can get more details HERE

  I've been using a Touch Dual for the past few weeks and it's a great device!  The problem I have found is that if you use the T9 input  then when you press 1 you get a 'C' not an 'A' - I have sent a few strange messages :) Thankfully...

I just spotted on the Expansys Blog an absolute bargain!  The Atom Life is uber powerful with a 624Mhz Processor and 64MB RAM but 1GB Flash ROM! It supports HSDPA and has built in Wifi! The bargain is that they are listed at 199 UK Pounds SIM Free...

BGR is covering the details of another RIM Blackberry Outage affecting about 80% of North America users.  It looks like it's just come back up again but the outage started at 3am US time.  In reading a lot of the reports it looks like it was...

Our development teams are currently looking at what profiles people use most frequently on their Mobile device and it sparked some interesting internal discussions which I thought I'd open up to a much broader audience! Which 3 profiles do you use most...

According to the Unwired - Zumobi just got updated with some new features.  I haven't had a chance to check out the enhancements but Arne is always reliable for this information :) Zumobi if you haven't seen it is a cool interface for Windows Mobile...

AT&T have just released an upgrade to the Tilt Device (HTC TyTN II or Kaiser) The upgrade provides a number of fixes/enhancements: Enhanced Bluetooth performance. Enables DTMF tones for the slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Improves overall device performance...

This has been rumored for some time but Orange officially announced that they will range the HTC Shift device. The HTC Shift combines both Vista with a Mobile interface giving you a combined device in a single form factor. It has a 30GB drive integrated...

I've blogged many times about the challenges of background noise with mobile devices.  It's one of my personal hates when people join conference calls from really noisy environments and don't mute their phone.... My personal favourite solution to...

If you want a simple way to set a personalised ringtone to an incoming call then Gill over at Spoontools has written a FREE application called Spoon Ring. With a couple of clicks—you can set a different ringtone to your friends, family, co-workers...

If you haven't been before UC08 is a conference for Unified Communications in the UK.  It used to be called IP07 and IP06 but has changed name to UC08 this year!  The conference takes place on the 9th and 10th of April this year and our UC and...

Ever been stuck in a boring meeting just hoping for a reason to escape?  Well Call Jockey might be the solution you have been looking for! Call Jockey allows you to fake and incoming call at a predefined time.  You can even choose who the call...

Over the years I've owned a number of power extender devices but I've never really used them because more often than not they have always been a big heavy slab of battery.  A few weeks ago I bought one of these Power Monkey devices originally because...

Matt Miller has written an excellent overview of the updated HTC Advantage which now sports 16GB of Flash Memory (instead of a Hard Drive) as well as an improved Keyboard and updated VueFLO.  The new keyboard which is incredibly flat has a vibrate...

After five years leading Microsoft’s Mobile business, our current leader Pieter Knook will be transferring this responsibility to Andy Lees who will assume the position of Senior Vice President, Mobile Communications Business.  After 17 years...

Keni Barwick is a really smart Windows Mobile Developer who up till recently was working for one of our partners.  Between jobs he took the time to (re)start his blog. The first thing he has done is to create a test application for Merge Replication...

Following on from today's New York Times article it seems Palm is going all out trying to maximise on the recent RIM outage. The diagram on their site (below) did make me smile: