I had originally ordered this device back at the beginning of November. What I found most intriguing when I was looking for a new device was that this device was small, light, and had a GPS on-board. I put in my pre-order and expected it to be in my doorstep the week before Christmas. No such luck. As product release dates slipped, so did my hope of getting my hands on this powerful little device.
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First Look: HTC S730
I received my HTC S730 from Mobileplanet.com a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been using it now to replace my T-Mobile Wing. Here’s a quick rundown on what it does and my experience with it so far. I’m pretty particular about what I expect from my mobile devices. The closest I’ve been to a perfect device was with my T-Mobile Dash. Let’s take a look at how the S730 stacks up. Size The size of
Continue readingSoft Reset Utility for Windows Mobile 6
I reboot my T-Mobile Wing pretty regularly to make sure that I have the most memory available to me. One of the shortcomings of the Wing is that the pagepool size is so large that it leaves very little memory for running programs. Instead of having to do the standard “hold the power button for it to go into shutdown”, I wrote a simple app that performs the soft reset. If you are looking for
Continue readingT-Mobile Wing and Pagepool Memory Modification
I recently acquired a T-Mobile Wing since my wife needed a smartphone and wound up with my old T-Mobile Dash. I love the Wing with the Pocket PC layout and Windows Mobile 6 with Office Mobile Professional. The only thing I noticed and also have read online was that T-Mobile released it with a configuration of 12MB reserved for the pagepool memory. This left in most cases less than 10-15MB available for the pagepool and
Continue readingConfiguring the T-Mobile Dash to work with Bluetooth GPS & Windows Mobile 6
I have been traveling quite a bit in the last couple of months. I don’t normally travel with any type of GPS which means that if I am traveling to a city that I am not familiar with, it can make it difficult to find places to eat or other venues without a little driving around. Windows Mobile 6 ships with the Live Search application which allows you to track your location with GPS. You
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