Happy Independence Day
You know, being a Canadian and an American, there is a bit of cognitive dissonance in celebrating telling the British to shove it 231 years ago. After all, Canada still is a member of the British family - we still have a Governor General to represent the Queen and everything. On the other hand, I'd rather have the American three-tier system of government and the American "land of opportunity" entrepreneurial spirit than anything else, so I guess I'll just have to suck it up and say "Happy Independence Day!" 
Speaking of cognitive dissonance, I find myself torn. I love my new iPhone - it is a great internet device, media device, and phone. On the other hand, I really, REALLY, REALLY miss Exchange ActiveSync - Windows Mobile 5/6 + Exchange 2007 is an awesome combination for mobile mail and calendar. The iPhone currently is lacking for someone who wants all the stuff that is great about iPhone AND to have a corporate life. So in the spirit of the 4th of July, I decided to have a little "iPhone SIM Revolution" tonight and see if I could get my new AT&T SIM from my iPhone working in my Samsung i320 (the original Blackjack - still an all time favorite of mine).
I'm happy to report a roaring success - my i320 is working great, as is my iPhone - all it does is complain about "no SIM" on power up. The cool part is that my iPhone is now an awesome WiFi enabled iPod/Browser/YouTube device - it all works GREAT.
For my own reference in the future, after the break are the settings that it took to get data working on an unlocked Windows Mobile phone for AT&T.
Under Settings/Connections, Add a Proxy connection:
Connects From: The Internet
Connects To: WAP network
Proxy: wireless.cingular.com:80
Type: HTTP
Username: leave blank
Password: leave blank
Under Settings/Connections, Add a GPRS connection:
Connects to: The Internet
Access Point: wap.cingular
User Name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
Primary DNS: 0.0.0.0
Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0
IP address: leave blank
Under Pocket IE Options/Connections:
Automatically detect settings: Leave Unchecked
Select Network: Wap Network
Comments
It occurs to me that if someone wanted, it would not be too difficult to hack a connection between the WS connections on Ex2007 and the iPhone. The tricky part of course would be then getting that to interface with the iPhone's mail and other applications.
However, what occurs to me is that post-leopard, they're going to want the iphone to connect to all that spiffy new groupware they're coming up with, so there may be more opportunity at that point, depending on if the Exchange team decides to get over its ongoing NIH issues and support CalDAV, and stop requiring Active X for the full OWA experience.
If they'd also FULLY publish the friggin' DAV spec, that would help you guys out a lot too.
I love the Mac BU, but damn, sometimes I think they should change the name of that company to "Sybil"
Posted by: John C. Welch | July 5, 2007 7:22 AM
So, when are the posts coming back?
Posted by: vmarks | July 6, 2007 1:06 PM