Having used Windows Mobile devices since 1997 when the Handheld PCs running Windows CE (still the core engine underneath the Windows Mobile shell) had been out for just a few months, I sometimes forget that things that seem obvious to Windows Mobile enthusiasts may not be obvious to other people. So, I’ll pontificate talk about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader D.S. has an interesting question. I usually post interesting questions because I think the question and my response might be of general interest. This time, however, I’m posting it because I think the question needs a better response than I can provide. D.S. asks… We are in the midst of setting up a system […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader Z.M. asks: Two products I have seen, the Cisco/Linksys WIP330, and the Y5 World handset use Windows CE/Mobile for the OS and browser, but they do not have the full UI suite you see on Windows Mobile mobile phones. They both use what looks like the same 3rd-party UI kit for a telephony UI. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader J.V. asks: Would a BlackBerry with Ev-DO technology (such as the 7703e) be usable in Japan? Would a BlackBerrys on GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks be usable in Japan? Most of the world does not use CDMA/EVDO. Most of the world tends to be GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo invented W-CDMA used by both FOMA used […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader D.K. says: I’ve been reading your blog and site for some time, and am one of the myriad people who greatly appreciate the lengths you’ve gone through to help us plebieans disseminate the complexities of what’s now the WM platform.After being cursed with the imate sp5 (and wm5 for smartphones – what a crock), […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the beginning of Windows CE/Windows Mobile-time, it seems like people have had problems configuring Messaging (formerly known as Inbox) for their POP3 or IMAP4 and SMTP email servers. Reader D.B. recently wrote me email asking about this issue. D.B. writes: I recently got the Cingular Treo 750- my fiorst experience with Windows mobile. I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A friend had a question about installing Ubuntu Linux on a Mac running Parallels Desktop for Mac since reviewed it earlier this year. I thought it might be of general interest. So, I’m posting a response here. He asked… I picked up a MacBook Core 2 Duo with 120 GB Hard Drive and 2 GB of RAM. Its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader Phil Smith (in a comment to a previous blog item) asks: My wife has an HP IPAQ 1910 PDA, running the older version of ActiveSync that allows backups and restores. The battery died and it lost everything. Can you tell me what is the latest version of ActiveSync that includes backups and restores. Also, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader P.L. asks: I just purchased a Treo 700W from Verizon. Excel Mobile will not let me save updates to most of the Excel files that I have synced to the handheld. It gives me a window that says unsupported content and formatting will be lost if I save the workbook and then it will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader OdL asks: As a simple programmer of our laboratory, i’ve made a handy PDA application for our fieldworkers so they can: retrieve projectinformation from our database walk through a wizzerd to fill in information make a CAD-drawing, saved as WMF print report including the drawing “on the spot” (HP Deskjet 450, IRDa) transmit information & […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reader R.L. asks: came across your Blog and similarly O’Reilly articles. Wonder if you could help please. Looking for a PDA Application (Mobile Windows) that has the potential to push and pull data to and from a Web Server based Database. Effectively allowing such aspects as ‘Search’ (via some nice GUI tools) that then checks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guy Williams posted the following question on my O’Reilly Windows DevCenter blog. My response includes a bunch of llinks which might be a bit much for the blog response box there. So, I’m posting a reply here. I just bought a Treo 700wx from Sprint. I cannot get ActiveSync to recognize the phone (when the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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