I got Ubuntu installed. It was pretty painless. The installer is very easy to use and quick. Now I need to figure out which app to use to manage my iPod. There are a number of choices. I want one that works with pdocasts and syncs them properly to my iPod so they keep bookmarks. After that i need to get my T-Mobile MDA to sync with Evolution. If I can get those two things working, I think I'll be able to stick with it this time.

 Since most carriers aren't shipping updates for daylight saving time for Windows Mobile phones, the "edgeblog" has put together a cab file which will update your mobile device. Thanks!

Link to edgeblog » Daylight Saving Time - Windows Mobile Fix

Today it finally arrived, after a lot of hassle. I'll post more about it after I've used it for a little while.

I finally received my call from T-Mobile on Friday regarding them sending me the wrong phone. They said they would get the MDA ordered that day and I should have it Monday or Tuesday. I have to send back the SDA within 14 days, so I'll be sending that today. I think I am going to have to call them again though because I got a text message confirming that my MDA had been ordered, but it looks like they charged me the "non-upgrade" price. This has really been a pain! I will say though, that every time I deal with someone from T-Mobile on the phone, they are very pleasant and seem like they are genuinely trying to help me.

Well, my Cingular 2125 sold on eBay. I got a good price for it. I tried to get the T-Mobile MDA from a T-Mobile store, but they were sold out. I tried to use the "My T-Mobile" site to upgrade my phone to the MDA, but they didn't even offer it. I checked almost every day to see if it would appear and today it finally did. I ordered it right away and it said I should have it in about 7 days!

A few months ago I went to the .NET Rocks! Roadshow event here in Phoenix. It was a great show and I ended up winning "some really cool PDA/Phone device from Cingular". Apparently, Cingular hadn't even finalized what the device would be so the winners were told we would find something out around the end of December. It was suggested that the device might be an iPAQ 67xx.

Well, December turned into February and the iPaq turned into the Cingular 2125. I decided to unlock it so I could try it out with my T-Mobile account. It worked great, but I was really looking forward to a pocket PC Phone with a QWERTY keyboard. So, I decided to sell it on eBay.

After I sell it I will be buying a T-Mobile MDA. I tried one out at the local T-Mobile store and it is a lot smaller than I expected and the slide-out keyboard seems to work pretty nice.

So, if you are looking for an unlocked Cingular 2125, head on over to my auction and bid!

I was all excited to try out the new Compact Framework 2.0 stuff with Visual Studio 2005. I wrote a little web browser app and tried to deploy it to my Pocket PC and got a nice error:

The current version of ActiveSync is not supported. Install the latest version from www.microsoft.com.

The latest version of ActiveSync I can find is 3.8, which is what I have installed. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Am I screwed because I had the Beta 2 bits installed on this machine at one time?

If you have a PDA and a laptop, or you sync with multiple PCs, this cable is great. It will handle syncing and will also charge your PDA right from the power supplied by the USB port. I ordered one on the 6th and received it the 8th. I'm pretty happy with Meritline.com. The cable was only $15 including shipping and they shipped it the same day I ordered it.

Finally, someone got to play with one of these things! I will be very interested to see how it does. $499 isn't too bad of a price, hopefully the carriers will offer some discounts or rebates too.

So, I'd really like to get a bluetooth enabled wireless phone so I can check email, surf the web, etc. while away from home or the office. I currently have AT&T wireless and I think I would switch to another provider in order to get some kind of deal on a phone. But which company to switch to? So far, it seems like the only option in the Phoenix area is T-Mobile. I don't see any bluetooth phones being offered by Verizon, Alltell or Sprint. T-Mobile has two phones with bluetooth, the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson T610. The 3650 is about a year and a half old and the T610 is about a year old! What's going on? Where's all the technology we have been promised? The T610 seems like a pretty decent phone, but I'd really like something in a clamshell format. There's no way I would subject myself to the 3650's retro, bizarro keypad! Of course, if HP would just release the iPAQ 6300 series Windows Mobile Phone, I would be all set!