Apr 6, 2006 | blog
Interesting – MSNBC is offering a new mobile service specifically for Windows Mobile devices. It kind of surprised me that all the currently available Smartphone and Pocket PC Phone versions are listed on the site. Did I mention – its free?
To sign up, you simply select your device, enter your phone number (which is only used to send you a URL via SMS) and then download the client software (~700k). The service offeres up to the minute news, picture news, news videos, and clips of the Today show. Seems kind of neat.
Check it out here: MSNBC.com Mobile
Via: Pocket PC Thoughts
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?
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 27, 2006 | blog
So the Moto Q may be released in April by Motorola.
Via: Jason Landridge
Update: So CoolSmartphone.com is saying that it’s not coming in April – too bad, this phone is crazy-awesome!
Mar 23, 2006 | blog
Pocket PC Thoughts’ Vincent M. Ferrari has posted a full review of the new T-Mobile MDA on thier site.
