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Today I noticed that the Evernote blog had a post up titled, “The Shiny and New Evernote for Windows Mobile” and I was initially quite excited to see it. New features, new views and no more resorting to the mobile web to see existing content — instead, there’s an integrated viewer.

Alas, it turns out to be a huge disappointment. I’m not sure if this is an upgrade so much as a lateral slide…

I’d like to enter the sub-notebook space this fall. I want one of those light-weight and super portable laptops. Sure, I have a great laptop for work, but it is a desktop replacement. Super powerful – and super heavy. Not something I can just toss in a bag and go without planning (and grabbing a power cord!).

I want to be able to quickly hit web pages, email, connect to VPNs and even run Remote Desktop. I can do all these things on my HTC Mogul, but for long sessions that little keyboard goes quickly from convenience to pain in the butt. I want something a bit larger for sustained efforts.

There are some interesting choice these days and that’s what’s giving me pause.

For instance:

Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.

Earlier this week I [finally] received a beta invite to try the skyfire browser beta. There are two betas going right now: one for Symbian and one for Windows Mobile. I’m trying the Windows Mobile variant on my HTC Mogul phone.

While I don’t always love the folks at Sprint (for instance, see this old post) I do have to admit that I sure am happy with how they’ve been supporting my HTC Mogul phone since I bought it last fall. The updates have been coming along at a reasonable rate and each offers new features.

I just finished installing BlueCast and am about to head out for a long bike ride to try it out. I’m quite hopeful this will be the answer to my prayers.

And now you’re wondering what BlueCast might be and what does it do? From the site:

BlueCast streams your podcasts, music, voice notes, game sounds, and other audio content to Bluetooth headsets that support the “hands-free” Bluetooth profile.

Source: Solo Technology

[Priceless] Tutorial: USB DUN with “Wireless Modem” app on HTC Mogul

Not that I advocate running amok with your cell provider’s data plans, of course…

Sprint wants around $35/month for the privilege of using a cell phone as a modem. Heck, I already pay ‘em $60 a month for a pure data plan on a PC Card modem. I stink at rationalizing. Anyways, some might find this an interesting tutorial at an academic level.

Several months ago I wrote an article on Mobile Management and listed out some of the services or apps I’d been using to manage machines from my HTC Mogul phone. At the time, I was definitely a fan of LogMeIn’s service.

In fact, I still am. I don’t use it all the time, but when I need it, it is there — and the price (I’m using the free variant still) is right.

Here’s a dialog that I haven’t seen in a few years:

Cool huh? That’s on my Thinkpad 600E which is running Windows 2000 these days. I had just sat my Windows Mobile phone down next to it. Turns out they both had active IR ports.

Technology almost 10 years between them and it worked! I was easily able to shoot a few files back and forth.

This might give me some ideas about longer battery life for the phone too… do I really need the IR port active all the time?