Mobile Devices

T-Mobile Customer Support at It’s Best

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

This morning, my Nexus One stopped receiving emails. When I tried to refresh my Exchange inbox on the phone, I got a “cannot connect” error. Powering down and rebooting did not help. Any attempt to browse the web would just bring up the page shown below.
I called the T-Mobile Customer Support number while at a restaurant waiting for my [...]



Top 10 Android Issues – For Future Nexus One Owners

Jan 19th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

My Nexus One was listed on eBay twice, but I cancelled the auction each time. That’s the kind of love-hate relationship I have with my phone. I finally decided to keep it and love it, but I cannot stop browsing the issues on the Android site so that I can at least hate it a [...]



Bye-Bye Nexus One

Jan 12th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Open Source, Smartphone

I guess it was too good to be true. A phone that does everything that I want and need and could possibly ask for and is not an iPhone? Not the Nexus One. Or at least, not yet. Mine went on eBay today, and I hope that I will be at least able to get [...]



Google’s Nexus One for (potential) Windows Mobile converts

Jan 10th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

If you, like myself, resisted all the peer pressure out there for joining the iPhone crowd, and instead held on to that funky Windows Mobile device, this may be of interest to you.
Microsoft had an opportunity with Windows Mobile 6.5 to set the first step of the many needed for maintaining the gap between its [...]



Why it is worth waiting for the Google Nexus One

Dec 27th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

Time has come to replace my T-Mobile Shadow. I am no longer under contract, and the phone is no longer cutting-edge technology. My wife needs a new phone as well. The Verizon Droid has been creating some buzz for a while, so I started looking into what I’d be able to get for my money right [...]



Samsung Blackjack 2 and T-Mobile

Jul 29th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

A user of my TripsnMiles mileage tracker software for Windows Mobile reported display issues on a Blackjack II phone running Windows Mobile 6.1. I was curious to see the problem myself and bought a used phone on Ebay. My application turned out to run just fine on it, so I could have re-sold the phone. [...]



Open Letter: S/Mime Support on the Apple iPhone (or the lack thereof)

Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

Dear Mr. Jobs,
Over the past year, my colleages at work have been relentless about showing off their new iPhones, the cool features that it has, the slick user interface, and the awesome design of the device itself.
Initially, their attempts of making me feel inferior about owning a Windows Mobile device were unsuccessful. There were too [...]



Windows Live Messenger popping up on Windows Mobile

Apr 25th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

It is unclear when and how it started, but for about a week or two I had been annoyed by Windows Live Messenger popping up on my Windows Mobile 6 phone every time I unlocked it. While all I had to do is press the Cancel button to make it go away, such a small [...]



Free mileage tracker with desktop import for Windows Mobile 6 Smartphones

Apr 12th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Free Software, Mobile Devices, SQL Server, Smartphone

It is finally ready – the new and improved TripsNMiles, pod consulting’s free mileage tracker for the Windows Mobile platform.



Wifi on Boston Commuter Rail

Jan 27th, 2008 | By Christian Donner | Category: Business, Information Technology, Mobile Devices

The Globe reports that the MBTA is making Wifi mobile internet access available on one of its commuter rail lines. The Boston commuter rail infrastructure is so derelict – it is stunning that Wifi was a priority. Here are the top 3 things that should have been addressed instead:

Speed up slower trains
Some trains are much [...]