A couple of weeks ago I purchased the eGlass BookReader from Handango, partly because of the problem with WMDC that I spoke about in
my last post. The reader was pretty poor, particularly in its reading experience of PDF books. In reflow mode, you have to change back to scaled view before you can advance to the next page in the document, which makes for a tedious reading experience. In the end, I ditched the eGlass reader out of frustration.
I got an email from Handango asking for a review, and as the product had been particularly useless, I decided it was worth the time warning others not to waste their money. The rules for reviews on Handango are quite restrictive, but I made sure I stayed within the guidelines and only mentioned I was unhappy with the product because of the clumsy paging-turning support in the PDF reader. For the record, I gave the product the lowest review of 1 star.
Suspiciously, my review has yet to appear, and I've received no feedback or confirmation from Handango. Here is the
page for the product, which miraculously contains no reviews at all.
It seems my sensored review
is not an isolated case.
Another one here.
And another.
I had the frustrating experience of having a new WM6 device (
HTC Touch) developing a problem synching to a new Vista machine. The Touch was in its third week of a synch relationship with Vista, so it could be hoped that honeymoon bliss was still lingering in sufficient proportions to prevent a dreaded 0x8503001c error. The only change to the system has been to do a sync over Bluetooth, and that seems to have toasted WMDC somehow.
I tried deleting and re-creating the partnership (which didn't work), and taking off synch items, which produced the result of a successful sync with Mobile One Note and nothing else.
After trying the partnership delete, I tried an uninstall/ reinstall of WMDC 6.1, again with no success.
The next tactic I tried was creating a new PST file for Outlook and importing everything from the old file to the new one with no success.
The next tactic, which did work, was to unistall WMDC 6.1 and install WMDC 6.0. Amazingly, this fixed the problem.
Its a shame that WMDC seems to have all the same problems of ActiveSync, and yet has less features. I hope WMDC 6.2 will see a return of the file conversion functionality that was part of ActiveSync - at the moment I need to print PDFs to a third-party reader application because the file conversion that adds reflow support to a PDF file doesn't work with WMDC. Nick mentions the other side of this problem
in this post.
If the Mobile Device team want to deliver on their sales pitch that they are
the best platform for business and productivity and fight off the combined competition from the iPhone and Google, WMDC needs to be rock-solid.