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• Samsung Release Windows Mobile SDK

  Posted: 03 Mar 2009 at 16:14 by Peter Foot

  Samsung's Mobile Innovator program has released an SDK for Samsung specific APIs on their Windows Mobile devices. Although this is a native code SDK all the functions I looked at were very P/Invoke friendly. For example once you've installed the device-side cab you can query the luminance sensor using:- [ DllImport("SamsungMobileSDK_1.dll")] private static extern int SmiLightSensorGetIlluminance(out uint illuminance); The exact features available vary depending on the

• Microsoft Tag

  Posted: 08 Jan 2009 at 14:47 by Peter Foot

  Microsoft have released a new beta product for Windows Mobile (and also iPhone) called Microsoft Tag http://www.microsoft.com/tag This allows scanning of 2d barcodes with the device camera which can open specific URLs etc. The client software varies slightly depending on the capabilities of your device, on my Samsung Blackjack it offers realtime scanning - you just have to position the code roughly in a rectangular frame on the screen. On a HTC Touch device it invokes the camera capture dialog w

• Interesting email from HTC support

  Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 13:57

  I was quite surprised at an email I got from HTC Support today in regards to a specific device update:- "Hello, There will be no Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade for any HTC Touch device. Please do not reply to this email as this email address is not monitored for replies. Best regards, Carolin HTC

• Live Mesh for Windows Mobile

  Posted: 31 Oct 2008 at 16:32

  The Windows Mobile client for Live Mesh is now available. You can download it from your device from http://m.mesh.com I've just installed it onto my phone and have been taking a look. On the desktop the Mesh client is quite tightly integrated into the explorer shell - it adds an extra pane alon