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From the team that brings you Contacts, Email, Text Messaging, Calendar, and Tasks in Windows Mobile. All postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights.

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Using Hotmail with Windows Mobile
Today we’re going to talk about using your Hotmail or Windows Live account with Outlook Mobile. What does sync’ing with Windows Live support? Email (Your choice of push email or scheduled sync) Contact sync Uploading photos to your Live Spaces Live Messenger Read More...
Outlook Mobile FAQ
Comming to the page soon will be our most frequently asked questions and either answers or links to documentation, forums, and tools that can help you out! Read More...
Using Gmail with Outlook Mobile
In this post I discuss some of the most common issues that arise when trying to use Gmail on your Windows Mobile phone. IMAP vs. POP There are two 'languages' (or protocols) that the phone can use to communicate with the Gmail servers.  These protocols Read More...
Warning: the following contains explicit SSL
(or, Messaging: Port Probing Demystified) The "Require SSL" checkbox in the account configuration wizard for POP3/IMAP accounts is an often misunderstood feature.  It's somewhat ironic, then, that the intent of the checkbox is actually Read More...
Smartdial: Combining Calls and Contacts
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 Read More...
Windows Mobile Professional: Smartdial
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 Read More...
Call History Per Contact
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 Read More...
WM6 - Messaging
I have a few seconds, so figured I'll show off some (not all) Messaging featuers. Some of these features require Exchange12 to work and will not work with previous versions of the Exchange Server. All of these screenshots were taken on HTC Dash running Read More...
WM 6.0 is on wikipedia + some new Messaging friendly devices...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile . I've always been a huge fan of Wikipedia. But really got me excited is the new Moto Q q9 . It looks awesome! Check out the QWERTY keyboard. I've been going around without my laptop for a while. I think it's Read More...
Windows Mobile 6 is here...!!!
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 Read More...
We are back...!
Well, at least I am back. I'll start going through questions I received through the blog, but it'll take some time. I'll also start posting again. Thanks for your patience. Read More...
Some cool devices for the Holidays...
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 Read More...
Dash...
Check out this baby! The new Smartphone from T-Mobile :- It's a wide-screen Smartphone with a Qwerty keyboard that's been getting really good reviews. Check out this at brighthand: http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=12467 . Sadly, I haven't Read More...
QnA: Can I save mails on a storage card?
Question: I have a T-mobile SDA. There is a limitation of base memory size on the phone. I would like to move my outlook folder to default on the micro SDA card rather than on the main memory of the phone. I sync with my corporate email and I get a error Read More...
QnA: "Move"ing messages across accounts
Question: Hi Guys: I'm using an Exchange account for my primary email but store items on an entirely different IMAP account [an 11G PST would be no good :) ] Desktop-wise I've got these two accounts set up and can easily move emails back and forth between Read More...
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