Apr 4, 2006 | blog
Has anyone had a good GMail experience on Pocket PC? I’ve got it set up and working with the default mail client in Windows Mobile 5. Send and receive work fine, but the weird thing is that as soon as you open a message in WM5 Mail – the message disappears from the list of email.
This is not how it works with other “standard” POP3 mail accounts, why does GMail behave differently? One thing I have not done yet is to search out for a GMail PPC client. Has anyone use one? How do you work with GMail on your PPC?
Apr 4, 2006 | blog
I’ve been putting off posting on the .mobi top level domain. I’m not sure yet… I do agree with Russell Beattie on his points of why its a “good thing”. Having a standard is very useful, as Russ points out, to be able to know that you can go to yoursite.mobi and have a mobile page formated correctly for your device.
It’ll be nice if it all works - sites need to adopt this for it to really become useful, and of course, every site needs to purchase another domain. This is the part that I really have an issue with. Why not simply have your site automatically reconfigure the output based on the resolution or browser string? Guess that makes too much sense.
Mar 30, 2006 | blog
FlexMail 2006 is an email application for Pocket PC devices. WebIS had released previous versions under the name Mail, and I purchased a copy of Mail 2.0 awhile back. Since the new version was released earlier this month, I thought I’d try out the new version and see how it has grown.
Now WebIS has done some substantial work on this product for compatibility with Windows Mobile 5, to support for SSL on both inbound & outbound POP/SMTP mail accounts. Support for IMAP is here as well, though I have no IMAP accounts to try it with. Other new features are support for VGA and square screen devices, integration of SMS messaging on phone devices, and various other small though important inprovements.
My main thing I was looking forward to was manageability of my mail. Since I have 5 separate and distinct email accounts that I use and monitor, I have a need to keep the accounts separate. I was not able to do this in FlexMail. The built-in Messaging application in WM5 has the ability to have separate folder structures for each mail account – FlexMail does not. This simple difference negates all the features of FlexMail for me.
The built-in mail client for WM5 is surprisingly flexible for multiple accounts and this is what I need rather than the ability to view HTML email (though that is nice). Until FlexMail adds this kind of functionality, its getting removed from my MDA until the next version.
Mar 30, 2006 | blog
So now that Dell and other manufacturers are shipping laptops with built-in wireless broadband (EVDO, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA) – who is best, and what are some disadvantages? Below are a few links that I’ve found interesting information on the topic – might be of interest.
Mar 28, 2006 | blog
Acording to RIMarkable, Cingular is bringing BlackBerry Connect to the US market with the Nokia 9300! Good news to all non-BlackBerry device users. RIM actually has a version of BlackBerry Connect for Windows Mobile and Palm. With the lawsuit settled, and the release of BB Connect with the Nokia 9300, there may be other versions of the BB Connect software making it to the US market in the near future.
