If you fire up the Marketplace client on your Windows phone this morning (in Oz) you should get the updated Marketplace client pushed to you. You’ll be asked to install an update. What is this bringing to customers on the phone? Two core things in Australia: World View: this allow Marketplace users to...

Paul had posted a comment on the Snap from a previous post , in his post he asked how to setup the Snap to use MMS on the 3 network. “I am having fun with my HTC Snap (thanks BTW). I have tried to load a new ROM on it as I dont use telstra and all the Telstra setting stop me from using Three properly...

As we get to the end of 2009 I want to provide you a guide on getting started with Marketplace, and from this we (the WMOz team) plan in the new year to provide a series of reviews of applications available in Marketplace. For this first post I’ll focus on getting started from your phone, making sure...

If you’re looking for a local (Oz) review of the HTC Touch Pro 2 then head over to Technology at Play – a local forum run by a Windows Mobile MVP, based in Brisbane. To read the review head to: http://www.technologyatplay.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22587#post22587 – written by the moderator it provides...

If you’ve purchased an HTC TouchPro2 via the open channel market in Australia then you can get the official update to Windows Mobile 6.5 for this phone. Click on this link http://www.htc.com/au/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=790&news_id=393 and follow the instructions that HTC provide. Q:How do I know...

If you’ve purchased an HTC Snap in Australia in the last few months you can now get the official Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade from HTC - http://www.htc.com/au/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=262&act=sd&cat=all Before you apply the ROM update I’d encourage you to install the MyPhone client ( http...

Our friends in WA decided that their trial of Day Light Saving was just that, and back in May the referendum decided not to implement it permanently, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/16/2572628.htm?section=australia . There is now a patch available to bring a Windows Mobile device in line with...

The HTC Snap has been out for a while now through Telstra. The default configuration is set to take advantage of the new flat rate data plans – know as Microsoft Mobile Enterprise Solution (MMES) http://www.telstraenterprise.com/productsservices/mobility/officemobility/Pages/MicrosoftMobileEnterpriseSolution...

In an earlier post ( Windows Marketplace for Mobile – Open for Developer registration ) I touched on two services that were announced in February in conjunction with Windows Mobile 6.5. One being Windows Marketplace for Mobile and the second My Phone. My Phone is a cloud based service, with a client...

If you have registered as a developer for Windows Marketplace for Mobile then you should check out the new forum @ msdn:  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/mktplace/ The Marketplace for Mobile team posted this “Welcome” announcement: “Welcome to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile developer...

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone – Windows Mobile 6 and above . Here are some of the call out’s of what you can do from the Facebook client on Windows Mobile; Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them...

In our posting last week Daylight Savings - Readying you WM phone we planned to provide an update once we’d tested some of the WM6.1 devices in market. We’ve run through a bunch of WM6.1 phones, and our guidance still remains the same – all Windows Mobile 5.0, 6 and 6.1 phones need to have the March...

Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile , Daylight Savings We posted last week about readying your phone for Day Light Savings , but we wanted to re-iterate what is needed. For all Windows Mobile 5.0, 6 and 6.1 phones we recommend you apply the March 2008 patch, containing the latest Australian Day-light Savings...

For many of us in Australia we heading to the end of Daylight Savings, and in many states the end of DLS changed last year, here is the latest summary information as published on http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml Year State Start DLS End DLS...

Hi Well here goes my first entry. The Windows Mobile Australia gang was sitting around a meeting table discussing the need for getting some useful information up on a blog in order to spread information that would be beneficial and interesting to you - the owner of a Windows Mobile device :) I talk to...