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Someone just pointed out this feature I didn't know existed in Windows Mobile. When you have a contact highlighted you can press the d-pad Left and Right keys to change communication methods for the person (work, home, mobile, txt, email etc). Watch really close when pressing Left/Right, and you'll see the tiny "w" turn to "m", "h", "e" etc.

I suppose this is most useful for alternating default phone numbers - when you press Talk, the selected number is dialed. Previously I used to just open the contact and select the number I wanted to call from the card view. My coworker thinks this is much faster. Agree?

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  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    CMON' Thats existed in just about every cell phone since I've first owned one 13 years ago.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    Hi, Nice ! Didn't know thanks for the information. I really like also the "Automatic" mode ! Very useful to not be disturb during metting. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    While I've been using it since I had my WM 6 phone, I had to dig to find it.  It is not very intuitive.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    Well, i think Microsoft must create full listing of features for WM, or we must have studiousness to search for secret ways to do things.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    Nice! I didn't realize you could do that either. Now if only you could produce a Terminal Services client for my T-Mobile wing...I'd be overjoyed =).

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    I've been using this since I got my first WM phone. I find it very useful, especially when a certain contact only wants to be contacted a particular way under normal circumstances.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    That's something my old Nokia did so I guess I just took it for granted that WM would do that as well.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    I totally agree that better documentation should be produced.  I mean, how hard is it to actually contact the programmers and be like "yo... give me a list of all the features you worked on." I know I can probably spit out every feature of any program I've ever programmed by heart. I mean: c'mon... "the guy" posting on the Windows Mobile Team blog didn't even know the feature existed.  Doesn't that say anything? "Hi, i'm the 'Microsoft Corporation AT Command Interpreter,' and I have five hits on google.  One is the blog of this guy called Matt Brown complaining about how absolutely no documentation exists for me."

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    Oh... and... the classic: "Howdy, ya'll. I'm Internet Explorer for PocketPC.  Although a lot of javascript functions aren't supported by me, the only way you'll be able to find them is to incessantly test them.  The guys who ported me from IE4 just decided not to document any of their changes. And as that advertisement says 'uhhhWEEEEEEEEEEE!'"

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    BTW: This also works with the smart-dialler.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    BTW: This also works with the smart-dialler.

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
    I like this feature, but already knew about it. What I do like is how when sending text messages you can just type the name of the recipient in, rather than browse the address book for their number. The phone recognises who you want to send it to itself from your name entry. I only wish this would work on MMS too, rather than just SMS messages.

  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
    Still can't scroll down the list by dragging on mobile 5.

  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
    i do not know how to become a member in this site so please give required information for that.

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2007
    How about this one: While using the T9 predictive text type smart dialer thingy you can use the 1 key as a wildcard. So if you want to match the whole name "John Smith" you'd type 564617... Very useful. Cheers Matt

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2007
    Great Tip! - Left / Right D-Pad navigation also works with menus - check it out - instead of using 'More...'.

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2007
    Is there anyway to configure the wildcard key when typing within the smart dialer? By default it looks like the 1 key is used, but on my Excalibur the 1 key also maps to "w" key so when I press the "w" key I get a list of all contacts instead of just contacts that start with "w".

  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2007
    The AKU 0.2 for WM 6.0 seems to require Platform Builder for Windows Mobile 6.0.(According to release notes). We currently have PB for WM 5.0. Is there a PB for WM6.0 over which the AKU needs to be installed.  ? Will the AKU work properly if installed over PB WM5.0. ? (I noticed that the tools are not working this way.)

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2007
    I upgraded XV6700 from WM5 to WM6, and the PDF reader is included in the image (Adobe Reader 2.0 LE). It works quite well. The unofficial WM6 upgrade is available (http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=7671)

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2007
    y does pda wing has the handango inhand for selections of softwares for downloads, yet i havent found that is supported? limited windows live capability is not what i expected when i tried to go to msn chatrooms and board games. anyone gots something new as far as supported software to enable games and other chatrooms?

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2007
    How do you do it on a device like the HTC P3300? It hasn't got a left/right button =[

  • Anonymous
    December 10, 2007
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