Earlier this year, I picked up a T-Mobile MDA with Windows Mobile 5.0 – finally allowing me to consolidate phone and PDA hardware after using Palm OS devices since 1998 or so. I originally wanted to write about it then, but life got away from me.
One of the only problems I had been having with the device prior to the OS upgrade is that every so often it would lose network connection and take forever to reconnect – usually making me do a soft-reboot after which everything was fine, but irritating. Supposedly, the new OS takes care of this issue.
So, this past weekend I updated my ROM – from v1.8.10.104 to v2.26.10.2 (I think – I also see 2.26.10.105 in some places). This effectively wiped everything out and allowed me to start over. So, I’ll catalogue a few things at this point.
I had a number of apps installed and wanted to move things around a bit, mostly getting as much as I could off of the main memory space and on to the storage card. So far I’ll be loading the essentials:
eWallet – Password storage (encrypted)
Voice Command – Hands-free functionality
Sudoku Master – yea, yea…
Other general notes: With the ‘full’ keyboard, messaging is SO much easier. I’ve never been a huge text message user, but the first day of Tech Ed this year I realized how much I was going to be using this option and called T-Mobile to upgrade to a messaging plan. They were very helpful in allowing me to upgrade and absorb all the messages I had already used (aka – gone over my limit).
more later…