Category: Windows Mobile + PPC

Executive summary: I stupidly deleted my Exchange mailbox before noting or backing up some things that you can’t export to a .pst file. Skip to Part Five if you want to go directly to “lessons learned.” Part One: The problem I’d been having the strangest problem with my e-mail — OK, probably not THE strangest […]

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.

I took calculus when I was still in high school, and I did pretty well on the math SAT, but there is one kind of calculation I simply can’t do: the restaurant tip. For some reason my mind just goes blank. Even when it’s something simple like “triple the tax,” I choke. You have no […]

Sometimes you feel like a sync, sometimes you don’t. At completely unpredictable but far too frequent intervals, cradling my Pocket PC phone does not result in an ActiveSync connection but rather in a pop-up message emanating from my system tray: USB Device Not RecognizedOne of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and […]

Data Call Failure Error Code : 37 Miscellaneous Erroneously Mobile IP Set Up Occurred. I have a number of “issues” with this error message, which popped up on my screen a few days ago. There’s no time stamp on the error message, so I have no idea what I was doing at the time the […]

I’m on my second day of using my new XV6700. The good news is that the calendar synchronization problem seems to have solved itself, and I’m definitely seeing the “wow factor” when I show the phone to other people. The wireless e-mail push function is working great — except for my e-mail processing rules, which […]

… and the other one is linking to Alanis. OK, now that the bad pun-slash-pop-culture-reference is out of the way, I’ll tell you about my latest toy productivity enhancement tool. After literally weeks of exhausting (and pretty close to exhaustive) research, I finally chose a new mobile device: the Verizon Wireless XV6700. I’m quite sure […]