The death of the PDA has been somewhat exaggerated it seems. Despite a slump in demand between 2002 and 2004, sales are once more picking up.
According to the latest figures from research company Gartner, worldwide PDA shipments totalled 3.6 million units in the second quarter of 2005. That translates to a 32 percent increase on [...]

By default, Pocket PCs save Notes, Word, Excel, and other documents to the “My Documents” folder in main memory. In most Pocket PCs this is located in RAM, but in the new Windows Mobile 5 devices it will be in “Persistent Storage” (flash ROM). If you prefer to store your documents on a storage card, [...]

Sprint is today launching the Sprint PCS Vision Smart Device PPC-6700, the first converged handheld device in the US with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 software direclty from an operator.
The PPC-6700 operates on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network, providing the device with access to CDMA 1xRTT and CDMA 1x EV-DO, plus Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth [...]

I happened to activate a new xv6600 with the unlimited data plan. Whenever I would open the browser or check email, the connection would default to the 1x connection, which as you know, is as slow as molases. After spending about an hour on the phone with the customer service then support staff. They asked [...]

There are some things in life that makes me feel like I’ve paid for only a portion of my money’s worth. Crippled phones is one of those things.
Carriers want you to user their services, carriers “lock” phones so you can’t use them on a competitor’s network. Sometimes carriers disable other features as [...]

GPS2GoogleEarth is a program for Pocket PC that reads data from GPS receiver and saves them to files in KML format used by Google Earth application, so that later one can read such files into Google Earth and observe the route that given person traveled.
This is one of many many applications for Windows Mobile, [...]

Nokia Corp. is moving into the rapidly expanding wireless e-mail market with a software package that will compete against technology from both Research In Motion Ltd. and Microsoft Corp.
Nokia said yesterday it wants to take advantage of its position as the world’s largest maker of mobile phones to make wireless data service more cost-effective and [...]

To add a new calendar item immediately, press and hold down the Calendar button. To do the same with a new contact, simply press and hold the Contacts button.

The Pocket PC has a run command similar to the Start menu command on most Windows operating systems. To access it, hold down the action button on the Pocket PC and tap on the clock area in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Red dots will appear, then let go of the action [...]

Feeling a little daring today? Well, here are some secret menus you may want to explore with your Nokia 6230.