Mark Arteaga

When the iPhone pricing was first announced by Rogers the lowest cost you could get was $60/mth for 150minutes of talk time and 400MB (yes that's MB) of data with a minimum commitment of 3 years.  Oh and if you go over your talk time it's 0.35/minute and if you go over your data it's 0.50/MB.  Compare that to AT&T which offers the same phone for $70/mth, unlimited data and 450minutes.

With outrage from Canadian consumers (for some reason everyone wants an iPhone but me :) Rogers decided to give $30/mth for 6GB of data until August 31.  The best part about it is it's available on *all* smart phones including Windows Mobile.

The only thing I like about the iPhone is the effect it's having data prices in Canada.  I went from $100/mth for 1GB to $50/mth for 500MB to $30/mth for 6GB of data all within a span of 2.5mths.

So if you have a data plan with Rogers be sure to call them up and get this deal even if you don't have an iPhone. 

From my recent DevTeach and EnergizeIT sessions I got a lot of interest in WCF Store and Forward feature in .NET CF 3.5 and I promised to put together a white paper on the topic. 

I just finished an article on Exchanging Data using Windows Mobile, Windows Communication Foundation, .NET Compact Framework and Exchange 2007 and posted it on our Community site.  It basically goes through some of the technical details with getting WCF and Exchange working using two sample applications, a Dispatch Sample and a Photo Sharing Sample.

Looking to deploy Windows Mobile?  Want $10,000 worth of software and devices to deploy Windows Mobile within your organization?  Microsoft Canada is having a "Mobile Business Makeover Contest" to help organization deploy Windows Mobile by giving Windows Mobile devices, Exchange, Office worth approximately $10,000.

If you are a Canadian company and interested go here to get more details and to sign up!

If you develop Windows Mobile applications then you definitely want to keep the Windows Mobile Developer Center url handy as it will cover things from developing games to mobile web to developing enterprise applications.  Don't forget to check out the community section where you will get a list of all Microsoft and non-Microsoft resources.

In a previous post I talked about some cool UIs available on Windows Mobile.  Check out details by the Windows Mobile team on the Shadow Homescreen available on the T-Mobile Shadow device running Windows Mobile.

Here is a screen shot.

The image doesn't do it justice IMO so check out this video.