Mar 26, 2007 | blog
I’m sitting at Starbucks having a Venti Mocha Frappuccino, yes a quad-shot, and working online with my MDA based mobile kit. I know I keep threatening to post a picture of what I use as my micro-mobile kit – I promise to try and get that posted befor my trip next week.
On other topics, I’ve been working the Avatar Consultants site over the weekend and have Joomla live on the site now. There is quite a bit of work to go before it’s fully up to speed, but the base platform is up and running. More later.
Also, I’ve got a small lead on a consulting gig with a small company in the northern suburbs of MPLS here – may be a good launchpad for AC, or it may amount to nothing either. We’ll see.
As I use my “micro-mobile” kit, I am getting more and more enamored by it – small, light and addresses about 85% or better of what I need to do online. It was a great move last year to move everything to web-based services. Working very well when mobile!
Well, more updates later! 🙂
Feb 22, 2007 | blog
According to the logon screen for my hosted GMail services, Google now has support for BlackBerry devices. If this supports push email from the GMail account it’ll be pretty cool.
Can’t wait for Google to come out with something like this for Windows Mobile. With Windows Mobile 6 supporting push email from Windows Live and Yahoo, it shouldn’t be too long for Google to come up with a push method for GMail. (I Hope).
Feb 19, 2007 | blog
Ah, now this’ll be a great feature for all WM6 based devices. The ability of a free Hotmail account to push mail directly to your device is a great feature. Now if they can retro-fit that back into WM5, I think everyone would be happy. After all, WM5 has had the ability to perform this service with Exchange email systems since it shipped.
At least your next WM phone will have the capability!
Via: Being a new PM at Microsoft – Push Email with Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Mobile 6.0
Feb 1, 2007 | blog
So I’m at the Microsoft Vista Launch event in Minneapolis today and I’m reminded just how powerful mobile technology is. It’s been a very productive morning already, and that was before the keynote started about an hour ago.
I’m on my second blog post, have checked my 5 email accounts, managed some comment spam, managed email spam, read several RSS feeds, and have taken a number of notes. Not to mention registrer for at least 3 Zune give aways. All this was accomplished with mobile technology.
With my T-Mobile MDA & it’s wireless EDGE Internet access (yes its fast enough, I get > 128kbs), Bluetooth keyboard, Bluetooth mouse, I can literally accomplish everything I need when traveling. The Opera browser is key to some sites working well, but even PIE does an admerable job in getting many things done.
At the conference, almost all of the vendor prize registrations were done with PPC based bar code scanners, with wireless connections. The one’s that weren’t were the old-style business card bucket technology. 🙂
But seriously, there is a line for the public internet terminals, and I (along with several others) have either their PPC, Palm, or UMPC out and in use during the keynote. Very, very productive.
And fun!
Technorati tags: GPRS+EDGE, Zune, T-Mobile+MDA
Jan 25, 2007 | blog
Some question why I stick with T-Mobile when there are so many other choices. Many mobile service providers have better phone selections or provide faster mobile data services.
One of the reasons is that the service I get from their support teams is unmatched. The other big reason is the very competitive pricing compared to the other national carriers. 3G will come along in due time – I have no desire (or the pocketbook) to pay bleeding-edge prices for mobile data. I’ve also got the phone that I had been waiting nearly 5 years for.
Though, 2007 seems like it will be a great year for T-Mobile again as they have the wireless spectrum to roll out 3G services. They are also focusing on bringing the best phones in price/performance to their lineup. Their work on getting the BlackBerry Pearl, and the Windows Mobile based Dash are examples of this. Affordable phones that fit the needs of their customers, not just the 1% that want’s the latest phone to hit the FCC website.
My T-Mobile MDA will be a year old in March, though I have been using one since Oct. 2005. It has been everything that I’d ever wanted in a phone since PDAs started morphing into the phone category. And with T-Mobile’s continued effort in customer satisfaction, I’ll remain a Tmo customer with their upcoming network upgrades and phone selection.
Via: Wireless Week – T-Mobile Ranks Highest in Customer Service. Again.
