Coolsmartphone.com discovered that HTC have released a hot fix for the HTC Touch Dual.
It fixes the problem where for some strange reason icons vanish and words overlap.
I’ve spoken to a few people that have had this issue so if you are seeing this problem – you can download the fix from HERE
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve delivered a number of System Center Mobile Device Manager sessions at our Technet London and Manchester events.
I’ve uploaded the presentation to Slideshare.net where you can view and download it.
Following up on my post about LED Alerts – Fernando contacted me to remind folks that if the device is a Professional device you can actually tell it to flash the led directly from the OS, under Sounds & Notifications when an email comes in for example.
Thanks Fernando 
I had a customer recently ask me for a way of having the LED only flash on a device when new email came in (the customer was migrating from Blackberry which does this)
Well I spotted this solution called LED Alerts over on Smartphone Thoughts which provides the ability to set custom notifications using the LED in the device.
For devices such as the Samsung Blackjack 2 you can even use different colours for different alerts!
The solution LED Alerts also provides:
Activate external LED based on specific event
Control 7 different LED colors on BlackJack II*
Ability to assign different LED to each event*
Activate LED for missed calls
Activate LED for new Voice Mail
Activate LED for New EMail Message
Activate LED for New SMS Message
Activate LED for New MMS Message
Activate LED for Missed Reminders
Manages Simultaneous Active LEDs
User Selectable Active LED Duration
You can download a free 7 day trial HERE
Jason Dunn over at Pocket PC Thoughts found this great article on VGA vs QVGA screens on Mobil Yazilar Blog
The article has some fantastic screenshots of devices with VGA and QVGA screens. What most people don’t realise is that the increase in pixels isn’t just increased resolution but also clarity of the text and images.
You can see all the photos (much more than the one I’ve posted here) at the original article HERE
You can read the Pocket PC Thoughts article (and lots of comments) HERE
With a new addition to the family coming later this year I was hunting around the Internet this weekend for a new desk as I’ll be moving my study around in the house!
Lo and behold I find possibly the coolest desk EVER!
Check out Han Solo in Carbonite underneath the desk!!
The guys over at Coolsmartphone discovered that the Samsung i640 is now available on Vodafone UK.
It’s not yet appeared on the business site but if you are a personal customer you can get more details HERE
When you visit our Windows Mobile Developer Center you will probably notice that we’ve done a complete overhaul of the site. For years, the Developer Center has been responsible for delivering you content on Smart Device Development which most often included articles on building apps with the .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server CE/Mobile/Everywhere/Compact.
The new Developer Center will give you rich access to a whole host of content including Applications for Smart Devices, Mobile Web, Mobile Games and Rich Internet Applications!
This content will include articles as well as links to blogs and other resources. (Thanks guys for including my blog )
So if you have a few spare minutes check out the all new Windows Mobile Developer Center
I was feeling all pleased with myself when I got my 8GB MicroSD card – it looks like a 12GB MicroSD card is just around the corner – $179
You can get more details HERE
I’ve been using a Touch Dual for the past few weeks and it’s a great device! The problem I have found is that if you use the T9 input then when you press 1 you get a ‘C’ not an ‘A’ – I have sent a few strange messages
Thankfully Paul over at Modaco has written a fix for this!
You can download it from HERE
