WiFi on the Pocket PC

Having proved to myself that the OpenZone service works pretty well it was an easy choice, when I had to order a new battery for my laptop, to sneak in an order for a Compact Flash WiFi card for the Axim. I got it from Technomatic, mainly because they were the only people who had Toshiba batteries in stock, and went for the D-Link Air Wireless card (DCF-660W).

It all arrived the next day and the installation couldn't have been much simpler. Plug the card in, install the drivers via the PC and accept the defaults in the setup program. Within minutes I was able to check email, browse the web, chat via MSN Messenger, etc. It all works very well. The only problem I have had is that when I delete a message from my IMAP mail store using the mail client on the PPC, it doesn't really get deleted. It seems to go, but then when you reconnect to the server it's back again - hmmm. Having had a read around it seems that this is a well-known problem which is supposed to be corrected in Windows Mobile 2003 (rather than the 2002 version shipped with my Axim), so guess what was ordered yesterday ?

Another interesting thing I came across today was a weblogging client for the Pocket PC, called Pocket SharpMT. It looks very nice but it needs the .Net compact framework to be installed on the handheld. Since that it built into Windows Mobile 2003 I think I'll wait until I have installed that before I try it out.