Category: Windows Mobile + PPC

After installing Windows 7 on my HP tablet, I lost the ability to use my mobile phone as a modem. Getting the average AT&T Wireless support rep to understand my problem and give me the information I needed was not going to happen. Fortunately, I found this post: Tethering Moto Q 9H with AT&T – […]

I was fully prepared to wait an hour or more in line, and even to return on another day if necessary, to get an iPhone. The timing was right. My wife’s phone had just died and it was out of warranty. We were at the end of our contract with Verizon Wireless, and we were […]

Problem: The SSL certificate for mail.myclient.com expired. The certificate had been purchased from GoDaddy and was installed on the server by a former network admin. No one had any idea whose GoDaddy account had been used originally, and GoDaddy couldn’t tell us for security reasons. So there was no easy way to renew the certificate. […]

This is not a very interesting issue for the “masses.” I’m posting this in the hope that someone else will find it later and be spared some time troubleshooting. Here was the scenario: Server: SBS 2003 Standard SP1, Exchange 2003 SP2 Don and Jorge have WM5 phones Don had absolutely no problem synchronizing his phone […]

Lots of folks keep asking me about the iPhone. I still advise against it for anyone using Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, at least until there are proven solutions that make it just as good as Windows Mobile and Blackberry for full wireless synchronization of e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Here’s another review that covers all the […]

As a review I mentioned recently points out, getting an iPhone to work with Exchange is … well, let’s just say there’s a reason that part is not included in Apple’s snazzy iPhone commercials. Chris Rue illustrates this point as well (literally). So I’m not going to be recommending iPhones to my clients. But sooner […]

In the market for a mobile phone? PC Magazine has several articles to help guide your decision. I recommend consulting multiple reviews before making a decision, but these will at least provide some context and they’re aimed at a relatively non-technical audience. Smartphones for global travel First crop of Windows Mobile 6 phones Mobile phones […]

I recently switched to a VoIP service (much more on that later) that can send me my voicemail as e-mail. Cool. But when I try to open them on my Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC, all I get is this error: “Cannot play back the audio stream: the audio format is not supported.” A fuller explanation […]

Suppose Joe leaves the company and is replaced by Jane. Joe had a company-owned Pocket PC that Jane will now use. What do you do? You wouldn’t think this would be so much of a challenge, but the steps are actually hidden pretty well. The answer was posted at Experts Exchange. Scroll all the way […]

Things had been looking up for my Exchange mailbox rebuild, but they got really bad again the first time my Pocket PC tried a wireless sync. All of my contacts, which had just been imported back into Exchange from the .pst file I’d created, were seen as new entries by my phone. So it synched for […]