Jason Langridge’s Mr Mobile Blog

Modaco just spotted that Expansys have listed an extended battery for the HTC Touch Diamond.  The new Cover and Battery come in a single pack for £41.

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Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine have just announced the preliminary nominees for the 2008 Best Software Awards.  If you have other applications and software you think should be included they will accept suggestions from now until July 16. Nominations may come and go from this listing until July 21, when the nominations will be frozen. (These dates should be accurate, but subject to change).

Head on over to their site to see the nominees

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Chris Craft is helping new Windows Mobile developers by publishing a new Windows Mobile application every single day! It’s day 25 of 30 and he’s already published some great applications such as Weather, SMS Logger, Speedometer and even a flashlight.

He is providing the source code and applications!

You can view the list of applications HERE!

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Our teams are producing some fantastic documentation for Mobile Device Manager and have just added 4 Integration guides giving guidance on how to integrate Mobile Device Manager with Firewalls, Sharepoint, Exchange and Office Communication Server (OCS).  The links to the documents are provided below:

Configuring External and Internal Firewalls in Mobile Device Manager

Describes how to configure external and internal firewalls to permit MDM to function.

Integrating Mobile Device Manager with Existing Web Sites or SharePoint Server

Helps you integrate MDM with existing Web sites or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server portals for Windows Mobile 6.1 access.

Integrating Mobile Device Manager with Microsoft Exchange Server

Helps you address the decisions and activities that are critical to successfully integrate MDM and Microsoft Exchange Server.

Integrating Mobile Device Manager with Office Communications Server

Helps you address the decisions and activities that are critical to successfully integrate MDM with Microsoft Office Communications

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I’ve been reflecting on Nokia’s move to buy out Symbian earlier this week.  If you missed the news Nokia plans to purchase the remaining 52 percent of Britain’s Symbian Ltd. for $410 million and to establish the Symbian Foundation.

The Symbian Foundation will provide the software for free combining three different versions of the Symbian software into one open platform.

This development is really interesting as it brings a whole new phase of competition with LiMo Foundation and Google also providing their software for free.

In the short term this won’t have much of an impact as Nokia was already a majority shareholder in Symbian and is at least a year away from devices using this version of their platform.  In the longer term it will probably generate challenges to developers and solutions providers with potential fragmentation of the platform.

What this does demonstrate though is the importance of Software AND Services to the mobile industry. 

Interesting times ahead!

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If you have a Vodafone V1615 device then they have just released the upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1 on their Help/Support site!

You can download the upgrade from HERE

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Don down in Australia has just setup the Australian Windows Mobile Blog (or OZ BLOG)

It’s light on content right now but I’d keep up to date with it as these guys are very passionate about Windows Mobile and obviously spend way too much time in the Sun (as evidenced in the Smackdown video below)

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The HTC Touch Diamond continues to gather momentum now with Vodafone listing the device on the Business Shop.

Interesting swipe at the iPhone in the Summary of the device…

"The Diamond surpasses the iPhone in all aspects, the key differentiator is the inherent flexibility of the Diamond"

The device will come loaded with Vodafone Sat Nav – more details HERE

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Prior to and during Tech-Ed US 2008 a series of 5 webcasts was recorded to help developers start to develop for Windows Mobile.

The series is now available on-demand so if you missed them first time round – now you have no excuse

· Developing Applications for Windows Mobile Devices

· Developing Your First Real Windows Mobile 6 Application

· Using Device Capabilities & Device Functionality

· Mobile Data Strategies & Synchronization Using SQL Server Compact, XML, & LINQ

· Windows Mobile Development – Live from TechEd Orlando

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This year I’ve got the great honour of running the Tech-Ed EMEA Windows Mobile Track!  This is the first time Windows Mobile has had it’s own track at Tech-Ed so I want to make sure it is the best track at the whole conference!

To do that I need your help…….

What sessions do you want to see being run at Tech-Ed EMEA for Windows Mobile? 

• Windows Mobile 6.1…?
• Security…?
• Development…?
• System Center Mobile Device Manager…?
• Deployment….?
• etc……………….

So feel free to post a comment or email me directly with your ideas!

I’m also looking for GREAT speakers to present too – so email me if you want to participate!

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