Jun 5

Written by: Mike Temporale
Thursday, June 5, 2008 8:02am

Windows Mobile 6 introduced this concept of data roaming when it comes to email. Basically it warns you that you are about to send/receive email and since you are roaming, it may cost you more for that data. Why they didn’t connect this alert to your carriers settings I will never understand. Anyway, the alert is a handy feature when you are actually roaming. For whatever reason, my phone thinks I’m roaming all the time. I know I’m not and my monthly bill reflects that. As such, I find this warning very very annoying. Thankfully Microsoft thought of this and has provided an option that allows you to turn this warning off. The problem I’m having is that I can’t turn this warning off unless I set the account to automatically send/receive email on a given schedule. If the account is set to manual, then I’m stuck with this warning message. :-S

Great feature Microsoft, but to really make this work, take it out of Outlook Mobile and put it into the carrier settings. That way I have one spot to go and disable the warning instead of changing the setting for each of my email accounts. It also allows you to have a different setting for different connections. Perhaps I have a second account that’s cheaper on roaming data, so I don’t want to see the warning when I’m on that network, but I do if I’m on the other network. That seems to make the most sense to me.

 

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