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Windows Live Chat on Windows Mobile

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Ima­gine: you are out hav­ing a pleas­ant din­ner with your parents-in-law. One thing leads to another, and you start play­ing with your new toy: Win­dows Mobile 6.0 and my new Palm Treo 750.

Minutes before leav­ing the house, I had down­loaded and installed the Win­dows Live cli­ent for Win­dows Mobile into my Treo, and had yet to log in to the service.

Over din­ner, when the con­ver­sa­tion turned to some­thing where I could merely “nod”, I un-pocketed by Treo 750 and signed in.

 

 

 

Appear­ing on my “Today” screen was my Win­dows Live login details: Windows Live / Windows Mobile pic 1
Ooh, Mes­sen­ger sign in. Tap here to sign in, let’s sign in and see who is online. pc_capture2
I nod politely pc_capture3
At 6:10pm on a Fri­day, Sydney time only my European friends tend to be online. In this instance, Paul Foster fel­low enthu­si­ast from the UK is online, so I start up a quick chat.

The Con­tacts are exactly the same as your desktop and web list. No mat­ter where I am, with my trusty Treo I can chat with them.

Windows Live / Windows Mobile pic 4
Yes, in our chat we refer to each other as “dude” as it sounds cool.

Notice the little “Voice clip” option at the bot­tom left? By click­ing on this, I was able to send a quick “G’day” to Paul.

Windows Live / Windows Mobile pic 5

A voice clip? Yes, just like the desktop ver­sion of Win­dows Live Mes­sen­ger on your PC.

 

Windows Live / Windows Mobile pic 6

 

I demon­strated this to my parents-in-law to show them I was a worthy hus­band for their daugh­ter. Thank­fully, they were impressed.

Oh, and thanks to Paul Foster for his assistance.

Written by Nick Hodge

October 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm