Where Are All the Flipping Smartphones?

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When you look around at the type of mobile phone that the average person is using you’ll notice that the majority of phones are flip based. I’m talking about the average person like your mother, Aunt, Cousin, Grandparents, etc… Not the techno-geeks or early adapters. Just the average Joe and their phone. They’re typically cheap [...]

Exploring the New Bell Experience on Windows Mobile

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There’s no shortage of manufacturers that are tweaking and extending Windows Mobile these days. The latest addition to the group is Bell Mobility – one of Canada’s big 3 carriers. Bell announced that they would be releasing a new interface, referred to as the “Bell Experience” on their upcoming Windows Mobile phone. The phone in [...]

Microsoft’s SMTP Patch could Delete your Email Accounts

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A number of news sites have been reporting about Microsoft releasing a patch that fixes an issue with sending email on your Windows Mobile 6.1 device. The patch is available from the Outlook Mobile team web site and claims to fix the problem. I’m sure it might do that, but there are a number of [...]

Custom In-Car Mounting System from ProClip Reviewed

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I don’t think I need to sit here and tell any of you that driving and using your electronic devices is a bad idea. Your attention should be focused on the road and the other cars around you on the road. Trying to dig your phone out of your pocket, or trying to hold it [...]

Why is Sync Still so Hard with Windows Mobile?

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The fundamental idea behind a personal digital assistant (PDA) is to have all your appointments, contacts, tasks, and reminders with you while you’re not sitting in front of your computer in the office. I’ve been using Microsoft’s mobile platform since the iPAQ 3600 series way back in 2000 (I think?). There’s been one thing that [...]

Laws to Prevent Cell Phone Use While Driving are a Bad Idea

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A number of local governments across North America and around the world are looking at laws or have already passed laws that prevent the use of cellular devices while operating a motor vehicle. There is a lot of people drive on the roads today who are far too focused on their phone conversation and not [...]

A Fresh New Look At Mobile Jaw – Kind Of

Back when I was first building Mobile Jaw, I had picked another CMS as the backend system to power the site. I also had a site design made up that was specific to that CMS. Due to a number of short-comings in that system, I switched over to WordPress. That switch resulted in many long [...]