Understanding Application Lock on Windows Mobile Standard Devices

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Touch screen or no touch screen. There’s more differences between Windows Mobile Standard and Professional than the touch capability of the screen. Application security is one of the major differences. When you install software on Professional based devices, the most you are asked is if you trust this unsigned application. If you say yes, then [...]

HTC Snap vs Samsung Jack – FIGHT!

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Being a big fan of the Messenger style Windows Mobile devices, I was pretty excited to see HTC return to this market with the Snap (T-Mobile Dash 3g, Verizon Ozone, etc…). While they were away, Samsung really stepped up their game and released a number of devices. HTC typically does a great job on the [...]

How To: Push Email for Windows Mobile

Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) has the ability to push email to your Windows Phone. That’s fantastic news for every WinMo user with Blackberry envy! Of course, there are many corporate users with an Exchange server than can push email but for the rest of us this is great. I actually had my phone set up [...]

A Closer Look – The Samsung Jack Reviewed

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It may not be called BlackJack, but the new Samsung Jack is the third release in the popular BlackJack series of smartphones. The original BlackJack and BlackJack II devices both reached the million plus sales mark. Can Samsung repeat that success with this new phone? If first impressions are any indication, then the new Jack [...]

Taking a Tour of the T-Mobile Dash 3G

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Also known as the HTC Snap, the T-Mobile Dash 3G is HTC’s latest Windows Mobile Standard based device. It’s the first messenger style device since the original Dash was released all those years ago. The Snap features a much faster 528MHz processor, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a Trackball for navigation, 256MB ROM / 192MB RAM, 2.0 [...]

Hard Resetting the Propel Pro Smartphone

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Occasionally something goes wrong and your device becomes unresponsive or perhaps you just purchased a used Propel Pro off eBay and want to wipe it clean before you start configuring it for your personal needs. Regardless of the reason, I’m going to tell you what you need to know to hard reset the device and [...]

Google Reader on a Windows Phone

When it comes to using Google Reader on a Windows Mobile phone you do have some options. For those that don’t know; Google Reader is an RSS reader so that you can keep up with your favourites sites and blogs without having to open each one individually. It is a fantastic service, especially when time [...]

A Couple New Toys for Me

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Recently I was able to get together with our Editor in Chief, Mike Temporale for a quick bite and snag a couple of great phones to play around with; the Samsung Omnia and HTC S740 (THANKS MIKE!!). The Omnia is a slate-style Windows Mobile Professional device running on the Bell Mobility network. I already have [...]

Twikini Updated and Reviewed

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I’ve talked about Twitter clients a fair amount around here, including a review of the beta version of Twikini back in May. Since that post, Twikini has seen a couple of releases and there’s another release coming up really soon that adds support for posting a link to your exact location using Google Maps. In [...]

Microsoft’s MyPhone is Great But…

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Microsoft’s MyPhone service allows you to backup your Windows Mobile device to the cloud in case of loss or accidental deletion. It’s a very simple application that will backup your data once a day at a given time. It only uploads the items that have been added or changed. When you get a new phone, [...]