Category: Hardware

ActiveSync 4.5 for Windows Mobile devices is now out of beta. According to Pocket PC Mauritius, it’s a “minor upgrade.” I agree. It certainly didn’t stop me from getting occasional error messages about an unrecognized USB device when I cradle my phone. The biggest change I’ve noticed so far is a jazzed-up version of the [...]

Fascinating article in the Windows Mobile blog about how hard it is to get a device with a very small keypad to dial a number like 1-800-FLOWERS. It reminds me of my own experience with my previous PDA phone, a Blackberry 7250. (See the article titled “ABC, Not as Easy as 222.”)

All of a sudden, my Verizon XV6700 Pocket PC Phone stopped synchronizing with my PC via the USB cradle. I’d had this problem before (twice, actually), so I figured that after the right combination of PC restarts and phone soft resets all would be well again. But not this time. I ran through the ActiveSync [...]

I’ve got a 2 GB storage card in my Pocket PC phone. A good explanation of can and can’ts, do’s and don’ts, is on the Windows Mobile blog.

One in a series of posts on various things you can do with technology to make yourself more productive … Filter your company’s inbound e-mail. More than 90% of all the world’s e-mail is spam, according to one spam filtering service. If you block all that junk mail before it ever gets to your company’s mail server, [...]

Removable hard disk drives are not new technology, but they may be set to go mainstream. Iomega’s REV drive premiered back in 2005. It never really caught on, perhaps because of its somewhat limited capacity (35 GB native, 90 GB compressed) and Iomega’s suspect reputation in some IT circles. Iomega recently launched its second-generation model, [...]

I was putting together a quote for a client today and saw that Dell computers have some new bundled software options. 1) New computers ordered with Windows XP Professional now include a free upgrade for adding Windows Vista Business next year. Windows XP Home purchasers can get an upgrade to Windows Vista Home Basic for [...]

Small businesses in areas without access to cable or DSL might have a cool new option soon. CRN reports that SonicWALL is set to release a firewall / router that uses high-speed mobile networks for Internet connectivity. What’s unclear at this point is whether the mobile carriers (Verizon and Sprint) have signed on. The carriers’ contracts [...]