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Just bought a Motorola SmartPhone...

...running Windows Mobile 2002 (thanks to Scoble for the link to Amazon's page for the phone, complete with a $150 rebate). It was time for a new phone for my wife, and since I can also use the phone to test out SmartPhone development, this one made a lot of sense. And given the rebate, the price was right. Unfortunately, Windows Mobile 2002 does not appear to support .NET, but hopefully Motorola will eventually support an upgrade to WM 2003, which does. If not, well, I've used the eMbedded tools before...

The only bummer is that it won't arrive in time for me to take it with me to PDC. What fun is it getting a new toy (ahem...a new phone for your wife) if you can't show it off? :-)

Anybody else have a SmartPhone in their future? Let me know via the comments...

[Listening to: Dam Would Break - Toad the Wet Sprocket - Coil (04:05)]

8 Comments

  • So, are you giving up on the T-Mobile phone, or will you carry both<g>?

  • Oh, I thought that "for my wife" part was with a wink<g>. Like, "I am getting a brand new, quad xeon server for my wife<wink><wink>"...

  • No wink...it's really for my wife, though as I said, I won't be above taking it with me if I'm going somewhere where my phone won't work. And I don't know about you, but if I tried to use the "for my wife" dodge with a quad-proc server, I think I'd be in the doghouse for about a year. ;-)

  • Mitac will probably be the only SmartPhone that I'm going to actively persue, aside from the P900 (which is a lock). SmartPhone 2003 and Nvidia chipset for the 1.3 mpixel camera and display?! hopefully the rumors of no bluetooth will be wrong, but there is a USB hookup for it.



  • The USB hookup effectively turns it into a wireless modem by connecting it to a notebook or desktop PC.

  • I got a smart phone and it hosed my outlook settings. installed an older version of outlook, corrupted my pst file. really, it ruined my life...other than that it's great.

  • I got mine yesterday. I plugged my T-Mobile Sim into it and it came right up. I even got support from T-Mobile on setting it up and they sent me a SIM Update.

  • I got it in tax free shope in Amstrdom when I was going to my Homeland Iran. I have problem with my sim card here. It loses network and can't find it untill I switch it off and trun it on again. seems I realy have Micro Soft product. Dose anyone knows How to MASTER RESET?

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