06-25-2003, 09:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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MSN Mobile - No Canadians Allowed?
One of the new "features" in Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC is the addition of a Pocket MSN icon. This launches Pocket Internet Explorer and takes you to the MSN Mobile site, which technically isn't exactly new. I connected my iPAQ 2215 to my WiFi network using a Socket Wireless card, and the zero config was nice - it detected the network, then it prompted me for the WEP key in a nice pop-up window, and I was on. Nice!
Here's what's not so nice: after I logged into MSN Mobile with my Passport account, I decided to check out the weather. It prompted me for my postal code (that's the Canadian version of a zip code), which I thought was strange considering that information is part of my Passport profile. I started to enter it in, then to my amazement, it stopped me after FIVE digita! Canadian postal codes are six digits long (T3L 2M9, etc.), so I am unable to check the weather, or do anything that requires my postal code. Bad Microsoft, bad! It's also cheesy that the Passport sign-in screen isn't optimized for the Pocket PC screen - big honkin' horizontal scroll bars. Doen't anyone at Microsoft actually use a Pocket PC to check their own services? :roll:
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06-25-2003, 09:16 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 54
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Re: MSN Mobile - No Canadians Allowed?
Yeah, not from Canada but I hate that too.
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
It's also cheesy that the Passport sign-in screen isn't optimized for the Pocket PC screen - big honkin' horizontal scroll bars.
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Big scroll bars are good! It means you don't have to scroll too much. It's the small ones that I hate!
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06-25-2003, 09:25 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I remember a few months ago I sent an email to MS asking them if there was a way to get Canadian weather etc. from the MSN Mobile site using my Passport. After a few days I received an email from MS confirming that the information is not available to Canadian users!
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06-25-2003, 09:26 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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I think I read something the other day about Sympatico, and MSN joining forces here in Canada later in the year. Perhaps then we will be recognized......
Dave
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06-25-2003, 09:33 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 31
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Luckily I go to school in Windsor, so I just type in Detroit's Zip code for the weather.
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06-25-2003, 09:37 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by Wingnut
Luckily I go to school in Windsor, so I just type in Detroit's Zip code for the weather.
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So no problem.
Live in Toronto type Niagara Falls, NY
Montreal - Burlington, VT
Calagry - Hmmmm.......??????
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Cheers!
David
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06-25-2003, 10:10 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Worse than that Jason......www.pocketpc.com doesn't have a mobile version...for shame!!!!!!!!!!!
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06-25-2003, 10:39 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Same for UK post codes too!
David
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06-25-2003, 11:38 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Pocket MSN isn't done yet...nor have any carriers rolled out the backend requirements for the service so far.
In the meantime...are you guys using a US version of Windows Mobile 2003? Are they even localized at all? (I'm not sure)
For Canadians, it should go to http://mobile.msn.ca/pocketpc/.
For Brits, it should go to http://pocketpc.msn.co.uk/.
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06-26-2003, 12:49 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 217
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Originally Posted by Trade Wind
Pocket MSN isn't done yet...nor have any carriers rolled out the backend requirements for the service so far.
In the meantime...are you guys using a US version of Windows Mobile 2003? Are they even localized at all? (I'm not sure)
For Canadians, it should go to http://mobile.msn.ca/pocketpc/.
For Brits, it should go to http://pocketpc.msn.co.uk/. |
It doesn't matter if you go to the Canadian site. It asks for a Postal Code which is the right term, but it only accepts 5 charachter input and our Postal Code system uses 6! Someone didn't QA the mobile site properly. :devilboy:
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