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The blogosphere is alive today with news of the HTC Touch smartphone. I'm an unashamed fan of Windows Mobile but I won't be buying myself one of these. Why not? Because I don't believe that touchscreens are a killer feature for mobile phones. Touchscreens have been with us for some time now (I had a Windows Mobile touchscreen ...

 Avoid Boxing,use generics... See here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/effectivecspart1.asp#item3 Also if the method has a IDisposable, then clean it up after... (the GC will get rid of it, but we don't want the GC to do it if we can)

I recently downloaded Live Search Mobile onto my smartphone. One of the best features about it is that they have categorised local amenities so that if you want to to find (say) your nearest restaurant it really is very easy to do. The high-level categories are:ActivitiesGovernment and CommunityHealth and FitnessHotels and ...

4 years ago to the day Leigh Geary, a man with a mission, to make sure EVERY ONE GETS A Smartphone... Good lad I like your aggenda :) Well done to him for sticking to it. I mean this guy holds down a job, a hot wife and planned a wedding all whilst giveing us info on the latest Windows Mobile stuff... O and his need for BEER ;) GOOD WORK ...

<RANT>  This is a question I get allot, especially here at Conchango since we started providing all staff with the Vodafone v1210 as our standard phones... "Where is me Messenger?" to which I say they (insert telco) took it out... The usual response is "well my old one had it" - or my ...

(If you want a quick fix - scroll to the bottom. Otherwise enjoy)  After what happened with me and an MSBuild error last night I did seriously think about jacking it all in and move to Australia to become a sheep farmer... I have been busy the last few days putting the finishing touches to an application for a client and it was all ...

One of the reasons why I first bought a Windows Mobile device was the MSN Messenger application. It's an application that gets people attention I find... Anyway it's getting a little old now; it hasn't been updated much since it was first released. Worse than that with some carriers it's not even on the ROM, Vodafone being one! Now ...