Windows Mobile podcast

msmobiles.com Podcast 125 (25.1 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: latest news about Windows Mobile phones:

— push email from Microsoft is being rolled out for all Windows Mobile 5.0 phones

— Motorola Q coming next month

— Windows Vista delayed

— Treo 700w with free goodies

— GPS phones

— debacle with Orange SPV M600

— BlackBerry with UMTS coming and still no small phones with UMTS powered by Windows Mobile

— why Xda Atom can have A2DP but HTC made phones have no A2DP

— CTIA coming next month (April 2006) - another conference (in USA!) where new announcements about Windows Mobile phones are expected!

msmobiles.com Podcast 124 (31.8 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: answers to questions asked through voice mailbox + overall impressions from CeBIT 2006 + latest news about Windows Mobile phones.

— HTC Hermes - discussed: memory card slot, processor, HSDPA support

— Xda Atom - stability, camera upgrade

— problems with A2DP in ROM upgrades with push email from HTC (for HTC made phones)

— Sling Box and Sling Media

— E-TEN G500 and Mio A701 - Pocket PC phones with built-in GPS

— other stories about Windows Mobile phones

msmobiles.com Podcast 123 (13.8 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: recording of a presentation that was in printed in leaflets as “Windows Mobile” presentation. More information about Microsoft at CeBIT 2006 follows below - from Microsoft.

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Fast communication and highly complex business processes place a great strain on your most important resource, your employees. Are they ready to translate your visions into goals and strategically implement them? Innovative technologies and solutions of Microsoft offer you an easy way to improve your business opportunities by increasing employee efficiency and company productivity. Start with Microsoft at CeBIT 2006 - we make companies „ready for success“.

At the Microsoft stand in Hall 4, you will find a host of experts of every department ready to engage in personal discussions, field direct questions and offer specific responses. With the future-oriented operating system, Windows Vista, or the new office and communications software, Microsoft Office 2007, you will experience new software that allows you to do work both creatively and effectively. In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the new Visual Studio 2005, or Microsoft Windows Server products.

And that’s not all: successful solutions for every area and type of business await you. With the reference company Contoso as an example, we will be illustrating real-life business processes for all sizes of business. We will demonstrate how mobile business applications make it easy to work on the go, inform you about important security initiatives, and present additional interesting highlights.

Get one-on-one contact with Microsoft at CeBIT 2006. We will tailor our advice to your specific needs to activate the untapped potential of your company and employees with Microsoft products, solutions and services.

Welcome to Microsoft at CeBIT 2006. We are ready for you!

msmobiles.com Podcast 122 (45.9 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: interview with Clare Fan from GIGABYTE Communications from Taiwan - recorded during CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. More information about GIGABYTE Communications below!

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GIGA-BYTE Communications, Inc. (GBC) provides handheld devices which enable communications, entertainment, learning, and personal information management technologies. Through innovative ideas and technology, we aim to make products that empower user interaction with the world, and which stimulate and inspire human minds.
Our flexible business model is to seek balance among these three models–Own Brand Manufacturing (OBM), Independent Design House (IDH) and Original Design Manufacturing (ODM). We design and market products in local pilot markets under our own brand name, and we tailor our or clients’ product designs to meet custom requirements for our IDH and ODM clients in the global market.

Our experienced product team consists of scientists, art designers, and content producers. Our management team harnesses and focuses the creativity of our product team through well-organized, industry-proven processes and insists on building products with quality disciplines.

Gigabyte Communications Inc. was founded in February 2004, and is wholly owned by GIGA-BYTE Technology Co. Ltd (GBT). Our headquarters are located in Hsin-Tien, Taipei County, Taiwan.

msmobiles.com Podcast 121 (65.9 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: interview with John Chin and Justine Liu from Mitac International Corporation from Taiwan. Recorded at CeBIT 2006.

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MiTAC’s three core businesses are：

1. Personal Computer products, including desktop computers and digital home products,

2. Server products, including workstations, servers, and storage equipment,

3. Mobile Communications products, including handheld computers (including products with wireless
communications and multimedia capabilities), handheld GPS devices, Smart Phones, wireless networking cards (802.11 and Bluetooth), as well as technical support and service for the above products.

msmobiles.com Podcast 120 (9.18 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: little chit-chat with employee of RIM Blackberry from USA - recorded during CeBIT 2006 at the stand of RIM there - about: running BlackBerry software in Windows Mobile devices and comparison between push email from Microsoft and from RIM.

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Research In Motion Limited is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data.

RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

msmobiles.com Podcast 119 (25.2 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: interview with Wayne Ma - president of E-TEN corporation. Recorded during CeBIT 2006.

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Founded in 1985, E-TEN built the first Chinese language input system for DOS based computers, thereby introducing the personal computer revolution to the Chinese language using world. The E-TEN system went on to become a foundation of the internationally recognized Big5 Chinese character coding standard. If Big5 sounds like a familiar term to you, it’s no surprise. Most PC users have seen references to the Big5 standard in their web browsers and word processors because the Big5 standard was eventually adopted by MicrosoftR for their Chinese language WindowsR operating system and is readily encountered as one of the most common character encoding standards on the Internet.

Building upon its major presence in Chinese software, E-TEN began developing its expertise in the hardware market that Taiwan is so famous for. With a background in software and data management, information appliances (IAs) and personal digital assistants (PDAs) were a natural market to pursue. By the middle of the 90’s E-TEN was the undisputed leader of the Chinese language based PDA/IA market.

The key to this success was the E-TENR real time stock trading IA which premiered in 1997. This outstanding product conquered the local market to such a degree that E-TEN has saturated this market with 85% penetration.

Now, with the birth of the E-TEN P600R Cellular PocketPC, E-TEN is sharing the fruits of its technological genius with the western world. E-TEN welcomes all interested foreign parties to please contact us to discuss your ODM, OEM requirements for the Pocket PC.

msmobiles.com Podcast 118 (39.5 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: audio recording of Microsoft Press Conference at CeBIT 2006. It is mostly in German and English part starts at 40 minutes and 16 seconds - feel free to fast forward to this place if you dont’ know German.

In this press conference Microsoft talks about Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Email Push and also about Windows Mobile and newly introduced Microsoft Origami aka Ultra Mobile PC. At the end of thsi press confrerence a questions (several of them in English) were asked.

This press conference was the place/time where Microsoft for the first time in history publicly unveiled Microsoft Origami Project, which is basically the same as Ultra Mobile PC.

msmobiles.com Podcast 117 (53.2 MB, format: MP3)

In this episode: answering questions about Windows Mobiles phones asked by listeners through phone-in through Skype or throgh fixed lines in UK or USA + preview of CeBIT 2006 + some latest news about Windows Mobile phones and about Microsoft Origami project.

Some of the topics:

— calling over Skype from Palm Treo 700w smartphone - with example of listeners calling us

— HSDPA versus CDMA EVDO

— troubleshooting problems of using Skype in Pocket PC

— why there is no 802.11g in HP hw6900 series?

— Webby

— DVB-H for Pocket PC

— other stories about Windows Mobile phones