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In a recent post I talked about the introduction of Smartdial to WM Professional and described a bit of what it does. In a nutshell, it provides you with a filterable list of calls and contacts. But I thought I should say a little bit more about the “calls
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Here's another new thing in WM6 that I am particularly fond of - smart dial for WM Professional (Pocket PC). Sure, this is old hat to WM Standard (Smartphone) users, but I like the touch experience and am thrilled to have access to this feature now on
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In WM6 we did a bit of work to make it easier to track your call history with a particular person. So, in addition to being able to see your entire call history you can now get individual call history from your contact card. This is a feature I'm particularly
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Drool... After sooo many months of development, it's finally here. Public! We can write about it. We can show it off. Yes!!!!! Over the next few days developers, testers and program managers in the Outlook Mobile team will write about features they worked
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First, please accept my apologies for being away for so long. I took some vacation (okay, a lot of vacation days) and training. Rest of the time was spent frantically catching up. I'll be taking nearly all December off, so happy holidays. I figured I'd
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Question: I have recently moved to the windows mobile platform and am having trouble with Outlook and IMAP. Is there any way for me to configure the root folder fore IMAP in the settings? My IMAP folders are under ~/mail/ of my account and Outlook Mobile
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Question: Why does pocket outlook not contain all the phone number fields that outlook has? Specifically the "Other" and "Other fax" fields are missing in a pocket outlook contact. This means that the phone numbers for many of my contacts (over 200) do
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Question: I am told that I can NOT sync my Treo 650 (unlocked) to my Outlook 2003. I work from home on my laptop. I do not connect to any company server. I have internet DSL connection through my ISP provider which is also my email provider. With that
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Question: I'm using an Imate Jasjar device bearing outlook mobile,, and my question is very simple: I find that it is not possible to me to create more than 5 email accounts in this device. Is there a limitation for account-creation, or am I doing something
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Since a vast majority of questions we get are IMAP related, let me just come out and say it. We have an issue with IMAP :( Basically we do not fully support IMAP namespaces. According to Wes Salmon, our awesome SDET in Messaging, some servers use delimiters
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So I got asked about my favorite device for Messaging. It's a tough one, really. I've used (and enjoyed) HTC "Wizard" series of devices a lot (Qteck 9100, T-Mobile MDA3, XDA2S etc.). For Smartphones I also really liked using HTC "Tornado" devices (Qtek
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This afternoon I picked up my Treo 700 and realized that my Outlook e-mail account did not sync for two days. Two days!!! Turned out that the Hotmail account was the main account in Messaging . Reminded me of an old bug. Messaging can only start sync
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Why do we make it so hard to set IMAP / POP accounts????? Here's how you do it :- PocketPC Launch Messaging (Start -> Messaging) Menu -> Tools -> New Accounts Enter your email address (eg. user@microsoft.com ) Tap Next You can tap Next again
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By default the Messaging application does not sync the sent items folder. Therefore, you may notice that your sent items folder is empty. Here is how you "fix" it :- Pocket PC :- Menu -> Tools -> Manage Folders Select "Sent Items" Press OK Sync
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It is a pain to scroll to the top in Messaging (both in Read Note and the list view). Here is a work-around that works :- In List view :- Hit the right key to switch accounts Hit the left key to go back. You're on top! In the read form :- Hit back (in
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