What can mobile devices do for me?

You are a busy person, traveling about, focussing on your work or having fun. The last thing you need is another quirky gadget that does not do anything for you besides causing trouble. Some people therefor ask themselves why use a mobile device anyway, or what different types of mobile devices are out there?

In the end, you can have different desires that can be solved more easily when using a mobile device:

• You could want to organize your life, to get more grip onto your own life and your environment, by helping you enter, organize and present data your own information;
• You could want to find your way around using a map or explore a city or country using a travelguide.
• You could want to be informed about news, look up information.
• Access company information while on the road.
• You could want to stay in touch with family, friends and colleagues or even the rest of the world.
• You could want to be more productive when you are traveling or waiting.
• You could just want to have more fun when travelling or staying abroad.

But such a device also should fit you personal lifestyle, so you want to make such device look better and more personal.

Applications overview

To organize and compare applications, we have grouped them into their categories. In these application overviews we have tried to make a comparison between the application on the most important features. 

• Handwriting recognition applications 
• e-mail applications
• inbox improvements
• Alternative Mail-clients
• Instant Messaging applications
• Internet Browsing
• PIE extensions
• Internet Browsers
• RSS readers
• Time registration applications
• Project planning applications
• Navigation solutions
• Workout management applications

Device improvements

The Operating System is designed with the average of a broad audience in mind. But you are not an average person, so why should we put up with the defaults set by Microsoft? Some things can be changed by just setting a switch, some by installing small applications.

• Device behaviour/appearance
• Improve the handwriting recognition
• Make your device faster*
• Change the keyboard backlight duration*
• Disable the password activation when your PocketPC is on external power*
• Change the theme of your device
• Hide or show the screen rotation icon*
• Enable cleartype on a mobile device or in Internet Explorer*
• Phone behaviour
• Show the GPRS disconnect button and/or a GPRS connection timer* 
• Silence callers based on appointments and time
• Change the timezone and time automatically*
• Activesync
• Use your device as a memory stick instead through Activesync
• Calendar
• Have other workdays than Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00*
• Inbox
• Mailbox improvements
• Removing the 'Text Message sent' dialog for SMS messages*
• Windows Media player
• use a VGA screen completely when playing fullscreen*
• Internet Explorer
• Functional improvements like tabbed browsing, etc.
• Improve the navigation with the navigation button*
• Let Pocket Internet Explorer identify itself as Internet Explorer 6.0*
• Manage the memory volume of the Pocket Internet Explorer cache*
• Removing the operators' or manufacturers' default homepage*
• Enable cleartype in Internet Explorer*

*Modification based on a registry tweak. Please observe that we do not force you to modify your registry by hand, but we provide a Cabinet file that will do all the hard work for you. Although this reduces risks associated with registry tweaks dramatically, we can never guarantee flawless/correct operation on your specific device.

Manuals

We have the following manuals available to you:

• Connecting your device to the internet
• using  GPRS on a PocketPC Phone edition by using the built-in modem
• using GPRS on another phone using bluetooth
• Finding and connecting to open access points
• using wireless LAN with RADIUS authentication
• Customize your device 
• Installing applications: 
• QMail
• Resetting a device
• Soft Reset 
• Hard Reset
• Protecting your device 
• Securing your data
• Protect your hardware
• Transferring data
• as a USB stick
•  Bluetooth
• Synchronizing through bluetooth 
• Use your Mobile device as a bluetooth modem or Bluetooth access point for your laptop

Administration guide

Windows Mobile devices are becomming like small laptop: they can contain lots of data and have the complete office suite built-in as well.

Business aspects of administrating Windows Mobile

Introducing and maintaining Windows mobile devices is not only a technical challenge, but it is also a organizational one. We do have some help with introducing Windows mobile devices:

• A Business case for Mobile devices

Technical aspects of administrating Windows Mobile

Besides the functional richness of a Windows Mobile device, they are capable of entering company networks and resources. So mobile devices should, when placed in professional contexts, be administered as any computer.

There are several area's where an administrator can make a difference for it's mobile users:

• Securing windows mobile devices from Exchange
• Connecting to a business network
• connecting to your groupware solution
• Security policies
• Optimizing a website for mobile devices
• Functional considerations for mobile application design

Troubleshooting

We have made many troubleshooting guides, helping you to solve problems. We have the following troubleshooting guides to offer you: 

• Activesync troubleshooting
• Version 3.x
• Version 4.x
• Windows Mobile Device Center
• Wireless LAN troubleshooting

Glossary

A

• Activesync

B

• Bluetooth

C

• CAB-files
• Cleartype
• Converged devices

D

• D-Pad  

G

• GPRS 
• GSM Roaming

H

• Hard reset

P

• Placeshifting

R

• Roaming 
• Registry tweaks

S

• Soft reset
• Softkeys

T

• Tap-and-hold your stylus
• Timeshifting

W

• Windows Mobile Device Center