[IraqiGeek]

Will Microsoft allow Phone Edition devices to share their 3G (HSDPA/UMTS) internet connection over WiFi? Sort of allowing the phone to act as a small access point.

[IraqiGeek]

Will Microsoft allow Phone Edition devices to share their 3G (HSDPA/UMTS) internet connection over WiFi? Sort of allowing the phone to act as a small access point.

[GaryK]

I have a HTC Universal and I rarely dock it to sync. My syncing is done wireless. This is fine for Outlook, but my files don't get synced. There should be a way to sync files using the phone connection. I keep forgetting to dock on a regular basis.

[Gerard]

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned VoIP. I'll second that. Microsoft Research China darn near perfected VoIP connections with video working even over dialup (although admittedly in a very jerky way), years ago. If this or something based on it were implemented in ROM, I think it'd be far more widely used. As it sits, to talk with someone using Portrait they have to have it installed as well. Better would be to integrate whatever needs integrating into PC versions of MSN Messenger, making calls from WM devices to PCs a breeze.

Portrait needs only an IP address or an MSN/Hotmail/Live email address. Just write one in and make a call, and at the other end, provided the recipient has the program running, they get a ringing tone and invitation on screen to accept the call. Free world-wide calling with video... oh, right, cellular and other telcom providers are probably breathing down Microsoft's neck, asking that they not provide this more broadly. Is that it? Pathetic, if so, because all that's needed is a connection, any sort.

Otherwise I'd like to see more text scaling possible, system-wide, without potentially damaging any program's interface or settings dialogues. With so many different screen resolutions under the WM banner, some programs really suffer, with dialogue boxes being truncated or outright made to disappear while others work just fine. There ought to be a settings applet or something, where either the system would automagically accomodate calls from individual programs to scale text correctly and per user taste (and eyesight capability), or the user could custom-tweak the font scaling and related dialogue boxes/menus to suit on a per-program basis. As things are, this is an unaddressed issue and makes for a bit of a messy and difficult user experience.

[mja8105]

My 2 issues are:

• why is it so hard to find the % battery left. three tiny bars are irrelevant

• why do birthdays show up as multiple entries when synchronized with outlook? it seems like if i call a contact that i have a birthday listed, their birthday gets duplicated as an appointment/event

[ianl]

My 2c worth:

please ensure SDHC (ie. cards>2Gb) support is so embedded in ROM updates such that manufacturers/developers *cannot* extricate this capability from their devices and release without it.

The advent of SDHC is a really big development, and one which is widely desirable, but device manufacturers are very reluctant to include it, even in new devices, for their own murky marketing reasons. This topic is not even discussed by most of them.

[Don Tolson]

My pet peeves...

a) SDHC card support, please!!!!!

b) Outlook Tasks -- how come the display of 'active tasks' no longer works? Used to be, when the Today screen said '6 Active Tasks', you could tap on it, and configure the next screen to show the six currently active tasks. Under WM6, the definition of 'active' between the two screens is different.

c) Support for Call Display from the cell providers -- currently, names of incoming callers are only shown if the caller is contained within the Outlook Contacts db. Cell service providers provide Call Display for any incoming number (except those protected) on other phones. Why can't this be supported on WMobile Phone app?

[buss]

ActiveSync! It worked well for me with my XP machine, but when I migrated to Vista at home syncing became a nightmare. I am not sure where the problem lies, is the PPC or the Vista OS. But, hey as a consumer it is all Microsoft. When a producted is released within a family of products they should work together. Quite honestly, I think that this should be an obvious issue for MS to address, but since the release of Vista the problem has not be corrected.

(Thanks for the opportunity to pose these questions, looking forward to seeing the results)

[JesterMania]

Why does ActiveSync constantly timeout when downloading e-mails over a wired connection? I once attempted to download approximately 200 e-mails to my device and after 30-50 or so, ActiveSync times out. If this is a limitation, why is it that I can download a few thousand e-mails from my Exchange inbox to an Outlook .pst file all in one shot without any problems using the exact same connection on the exact same server?

[wallaceff]

I used PhoneAlarm to change my profiles (why wasn't this included when my very first Nokia 5110 could do this??). My Nokia could also display the information of the Cell tower id (usually a reference to the suberb etc). I use PhoneAlarm to change my profile depending on my location (eg. when at home, picks up some of the tower/SIM data 'xxxx' so changes my ringing volume etc, same for work).
There doesn't seem a way to improve this with WM so that I get "Melbourne" displayed? Any attempted hacks result in registry overload and no incoming SMS's.
In short, why can't I get the Cell Tower ID name easily when this is something thats been around for 10 years or so? I want this so that I can better automatically change my profiles on my phone.

[tjl129]

How about some sort of over the air sync option for the consumer. I hate having to sign up for a hosted exchange mailbox in order to to take full advantage of my mobile device and push email. With windows home server being released that could even provide the platform to build this functionality onto.