Is Microsoft or Everlink planning any bug-fix for the current issues of the
red-E phone?
The most annoing bug is the USB charging feature: not only it diapeared, but
the phone discharged istead when connected via USB.

I am developing an application for a smartphone using the microsoft
smartphone emulator. Is there a way to get the current location of the phone
in the emulator? Something like gps location or radio telemetry? Thanks
-RR

Please pull me up on any errors
I currently write mobile Java applications but I now need to create a version of one of them for the MS/Orange Smartphone (the app is quite simple so I'm optomistic :-) ). I am assuming that the current Smartphone - the E200 - contains the .net CLR ...

I'm having problems with the ColorKey transparency support in .Net
Compact Framework for Smartphone 2003.
I don't have as yet a device to test on and am therefore only
developing   on the emulator. The same code (with the same GFX) works

As I am developing an application for Smartphone 2003 using a GPS
receiver which is connected by bluetooth to the device I am wondering
about the used (virtual?) COM port on the smartphone.
Do you have any information about that?

I am looking for some VB.NET code to pickup Joystick movements on
Smartphone 2003 - anyone any pointers?

Does anybody kown if Smartphone 2003 support "menu extensibility"? I know PocketPC
support it. I just try to create a registry key "Software\Microsoft\PimApps\PimExtensions\Contacts\AddIns\MicrosoftDialer" and key value is "DLL\dialer.dll" and "Menu\Dial Contact". But I cannot ...

Please, I need to make a speech server, and I wanna use RTC Client
API.
I try to find out how to reproduce a sound file and send it with RTP
using the RTC Client. Is this possible and how can I do it?

I am trying to install evc4 onto our build machine, that only builds
Smartphone 2002/2003 products from the command line.
Unfortunately it fails to install the platform manager and so cancels the
rest of the installation. I have tried running acmboot.exe which seems to

I've a question regarding calling privileged APIs. According to the MS
article "A Practical Guide to the Smartphone Application Security and Code
Signing Model for Developers" I have to sign an application to use these
privileged APIs, for example to read the IMEI from the device.

I'm working through a graduate class doing development on the Smartphone
2003 and ran into a lab (designed for PPC) asking to connect to a SQL Server
CE database.  If I'm not mistaken, this isn't available on Smartphones; any
confirmations?

i need to send mms in c#,how do i do it ?
thanks

Assuming I want to get some XML that describes all the info from the Contact
currently selected in the Contact application, how should I do ?
First, is there a way to ask the Contacts application what is the currently
selected contact ? Is that doable ?

does it support RTC/SIP? I would like to write a program using RTC API.

I am beginning to develop an application for PocketPc 2003 (VB.NET 2003) and
up to now I have not met big problems.
At the moment I am still using the Emulator and not a physical device, the
problem that I encounter is that I'm not able to copy files between the