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Hello World Windows Phone 7 Series ! Is been a very long wait … but worth it !

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721 days
by in Mobile thoughts, Tech thoughts

Yes, finally Microsoft took the curtains out of the much awaited, much anticipated next version of the Windows Mobile Phone platform and its been named as Windows Phone 7 Series.

There is nothing new that I would be writing here mentioning the plus points / minus points about the platform and Engadget has done a wonderful job of keeping everyone informed of the unveiling of the new platform.

Windows Phone 7 Series

Hands on & impressions – Video

 

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I personally can not wait but to try out the new Windows Phone OS in my hands.

Looks like Microsoft has done it again. Well done guys !

How to resolve GMT – BST time zone issue in Windows Mobile

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1036 days
by in Mobile thoughts

Are you having issues in active syncing your Windows Mobile phone with your PC, especially with regards to the daylight savings time?  Then this might just be what you are looking for.

Due to a bug in the Windows Mobile phone and the Manila software (TouchFlo 3D), the daylight savings time does not get reflected in the mobile system and thus it always shows the Winter time (i.e., the GMT rather than BST) for us in the UK.

Microsoft has provided a solution to this problem and the solution is present here on Microsoft’s website.

** Do not worry about what Microsoft says on their site, as in this is for year 2008. The fix will resolve your problem for this year as well.

How to apply the solution?

  1. Download the WMDST2008-1.CAB from the above link.
  2. Transfer it to the Mobile and execute the same on your device.
  3. Soft reset the device (it would anyways automatically do that)
  4. Use the time sync software (Example SP Timesync) to sync the time as per your time zone.

If this does not resolve the problem ..

Check the Regional settings to ensure that you are in the correct region.

Change the time zone (i.e., for me I changed from GMT – London to GMT + 1 – Paris) and soft reset.

Use the time sync software to sync the time with the updated time zone.

Reset back to your current time zone (i.e., GMT – London) and it should show you the correct time zone.

 

But, there are still limitation of this solution.. 

If you ever go back to change the time via Manila (i.e., by clicking on the time on the Manila clock), you would have to repeat the process over and again.  So avoid doing that … !

Always use the Windows Native clock to change the time or to set / unset your alarms.

 

Hope this helps. 

Please comment on my post with your experience. Your experience will help me learn more.  Many thanks

Continuing on my convergence thoughts ..

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1043 days
by in Strategy thoughts, Tech thoughts

Last month I wrote an article on the emerging technologies & their influence on the traditional telecom services provider here.

I have been doing some more reading on this front and one of the most interesting article (research paper) I came across was from IBM on “The changing face of Telecommunications”. There is a PDF file you can download and read during your leisure time to get to know more about their thinking.

The paper concentrates on the aspect of the growing influence of the non-traditional telecom service providers such as Skype and the ever growing size of the people using Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut etc to get in touch with each other.

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The white paper also shows the stats taken from Alexa about how the usage of social media & social networking sites have grown in last few years. The bi-year comparison clearly shows how the sites such as Facebook, Myspace & Orkut are growing in the user base.

The IBM research pretty much sums up what I expect to happen in the field of Internet & Telecommunications in coming years.

Unless the traditional Telco’s such as British Telecom, Vodafone, Telefonica etc., starts welcoming the changes and act accordingly to provide a open & free options for their users to interact between themselves, I guess the day is not far when companies like Skype will take them over and be the preferred telecom providers.

Video guide for accessing Vodafone Live! on Touch HD

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1048 days
by in Mobile thoughts

Guys,

Have managed to create a small video and show you how its done. Probably would help you even better..

You can see the text version of the instructions on my previous entry here.

** Note – The Windows media player gives error because I am connected to the PC and it has issues accessing the Contract WAP network while in active sync with PC.  Take the cable off and try again, it should work !

Device- HTC Touch HD
ROM – Miri’s Windows Mobile 6.5 (XDA-Developers forum here!)
Video taken using – MyMobiler

Final guide to accessing Vodafone Live! on HTC Touch HD

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1057 days
by in Mobile thoughts

touchhd I posted earlier about how to access the Mobile TV on HTC Touch HD on my blog here. But later I found out that method as an inadequate one to continue in normal usage.  So I did some more R&D at home around this and found the perfect method of doing so !

So here you go now.

My HTC Touch HD has, L26 v9.0 WWE ROM and you need following software before proceeding further.

  • AdvancedConfig – for doing the configuration changes on Internet Explorer User agent
  • PHM registry editor – for making the changes to rtsp default player

Vodafone Live! runs primarily on S60 based devices and I had an excellent experience of it running on my earlier Nokia N95. So you need to try and ‘fool’ the system at Vodafone to assume your phone as a N95 instead of Internet Explorer running on a Windows Mobile phone. To do so, you need to change the ‘mobile’ user agent string of your Internet Explore browser to the one used for N95.  Use the following steps to change the user agent string.

  1. Run AdvancedConfig
  2. Expand Internet Explorer option
  3. Click on User Agent custom base
  4. Change the value as follows

    Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413

Once you are done with this, to ensure that the change has worked, Open the internet explorer browser and go to the website http://www.useragentstring.com. Your browser should recognize your device as N95 using Mozilla Safari browser.

If this happens, then you have passed the first step!

Now go to Start –> Settings –> Connections –> Connections –> Advanced –> Select networks

Select “Contract WAP” as the default network and you are good to go.

Just to test if this works.. try accessing http://live.vodafone.co.uk via your Internet Explorer browser (in a Mobile mode, not Desktop mode) and see if it works for you.

It worked for me and I hope it would work for you.

However, I had one issue with HTC Streaming Media that the rtsp link would not play. Hence I had to go and change the default RTSP player to WMPlayer.exe by modifying the registry.

If you too are having similar issue, then open PHM registry editor and access the key HKCRrtspShellOpenCommand.  Change the default value from StreamingPlayer.exe to WMPlayer.exe “%1” and you should be able to view the streaming from your Windows Media player.

Try the above steps and let me know how it goes…

Thanks

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