TimesToCome Mobile

Until recently you accessed your Gmail account from your phone using POP. So either you were deleting mail off the server you weren’t ready to delete or you had to delete all your emails on the server then again on your phone. IMAP changes that. IMAP keeps your phone and Gmail account in sync.

First switch your Gmail account from POP to IMAP

1) log onto your Gmail account

2) go to settings -> forward and POP/IMAP

3) at the bottom select ‘Enable IMAP

Then Delete the current Gmail setup on your phone and re-set it up:

1) Open the Start menu and select Programs — Messaging — New E-mail Account.

2) Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) in the E-mail Address field.

3) Uncheck the box to get settings automatically from the Internet and select Next.

4) Select Internet e-mail as your email provider in the drop-down menu.

5) Enter your name as you want it to appear in sent emails.

6) Enter a descriptive name for the email account and select Next.

7) Enter imap.gmail.com in the Incoming Mail Server field.

8 ) Select IMAP4 as the Account type from the drop-down menu and select Next.

9) Enter your Gmail username (including ‘@gmail.com’) and password.

10) Select Next.

11) Enter smtp.gmail.com in the Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server field.

12) Make sure that the Outgoing server requires authentication box is checked.

13) Select the Advanced Server Settings link.

14) Make sure that the Require SSL box is checked for both incoming and outgoing emails.

15) Select The Internet as the network connection from the drop-down menu.

16) Select Done and then select Next.

17) Select how often you want your phone to send/receive emails from the drop-down menu.

18 )For more download options, select the Review all download settings link.

19 )Select Finish.

According to the Feds this scam also works on cell phones and can over ride some basic built in cell phone protections.

A telephone provider is warning its customers about an upswing in phone scams by Harris County jail inmates in recent weeks.Comcast, which offers digital phone service, called its telephone customers with a recorded message to warn of the so-called *72 scam.The fraud involves an inmate calling a person collect and tricking the victim into forwarding his phone to another number. The person at the other number then can make hundreds of dollars in long distance calls that are billed to the victim’s phone. [ read more Comcast warns of *72 phone forwarding scam]

We are all looking forward to a hackable phone for which we can write applications. This toolkit allows you to write Java applications for the GPhone.

The Android Developer kit is available for Windows, Linux and OSX. There is also documentation and other useful things at that site.

There are many HTC phones rumored to be arriving with Android in 2008. HTC has really been doing a nice job in the smart phone market lately.

More information can be found at The Open Handset Alliance. There is also a very quiet beginning of a Forum on developing and using Android

And just to make things interesting Google is offering $10 million in prizes to developers

However many developers are reporting problems

It is strongly rumored that Android will be released Fall 2008 on an HTC handset.

You always have your camera phone with you. If you attend local events, use your flash, don’t doctor your photos too much you can sell them for an average of $400. ( Camera phone tips )

Images of the rich and famous:
Heat Magazine
Scoopt

Particular shots:
I SPY

Top Camera Phone Images that Made the News

Any phone that has a camera and email will let you post to your blog via Flickr.  Most blogging software will work.  I’ve used this from my Palm, WM phone and from my iPhone.

You can just as easily blog to your Wordpress blog as to your via Flickr.

First set things up with Flickr->Log on->Go to You->YourAccount->Go to Extending Flickr->Go to Your Blogs->Edit

You can then add a blog [Blogger and Wordpress are painless to set up] Just give it the url and user name and password. You can also adjust the how the layout of the post will appear. Flickr will give you an email address which you can attach pictures and write a post. Any email sent to that address will be posted to your Flickr account and to your blog.

Dashwire offers an excellent free service for your WM phone. It backs up your phone to an online account at Dashwire as you take pictures, receive texts etc.

It provides a Palm like desktop interface that allows you to back up and edit contacts, pictures etc. You can also create a webpage to share your photos and media.

Most interestingly it instantly backs up your texts to your desktop program. You can sit at your computer and receive and respond to texts from the desktop and it will send them from your phone.

I had hoped by the time I wrote this there would be some fixes posted on the forums but I’ve yet so see one.

If you are using a Sprint or Verizon phone and you dial 911 an alarm goes off. On some phones you will hear a very loud alarm on some it is just 3 short beeps.

It also turns out that some phones connect you to 911 as soon as you hit the final ‘1′ with out you pressing send – some wait for a send button.

Sprint and Verizon claim it is ordered by the government specs on 911. ( Sprint is currently in trouble with the feds for not meeting 911 standards so that you can be located when you dial 911 ) However this is not true. The 911 specs require that you notify someone that a 911 call has been made, it does not say you should announce it to the entire neighborhood, nor do they state it must be audible.

. . . Carol, who asked that her last name not be used for fear of making herself or her land a target for vandals, called for help recently when she arrived at some vacant property she owns in east Austin and found her security chain gone.She grabbed her new Casio G’zOne phone from Verizon Wireless, which to her horror made an audible alarm when she called 911.Fearing vandals were still on the property, she hung up and hid, then put her hand over the earpiece and dialed again to muffle the sounds. . . .[read more Verizon customer calls phone alarm 'dangerous']