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Posted by David on January 11, 2007, 7:29 am
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Hi
Some of this might help although it is really server side but I guess the
location might give you something to start from:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/04/03/424028.aspx
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David @ Solsletta
"Nightdrive" wrote:
> I've had WM2003, WM2003SE, WM5.0 Smartphone edition, and despite being
> an ex-Network Support technician, and a current developer using MS
> technologies, including Windows Mobile (in other words, I know a
> reasonable amount about PCs, Smartphones, and Pocket PCs), I have
> absolutely no idea how all the data connections stuff hangs together in
> Windows Mobile. There appears to some kind of conceptual model which
> I'm guessing only the phone hardware engineers and one MS person
> understands.
>
> While trying to set up GPRS/MMS/WAP, the settings seem to be in several
> different screens, some settings seem to be hardcoded ('The Internet'
> and 'Work' for example - which I have yet to see an explanation of what
> these mean), and some seem to be dependent on other settings without
> there being anything in the UI to indicate this - e.g. I believe you
> can't do MMS without having a GPRS connection set up. Is that obvious
> ANYWHERE in the setup screens? No!
>
> Here's the locations I've found so far which has something to do with
> data connections.
>
> Start - Settings - Connections - GPRS (why is MMS, WAP etc set up in a
> screen called GPRS?)
> Start - Settings - Connections - Proxy (which seems to duplicate most
> settings in the GPRS screens, but with additional options such as port
> number)
> Start - Messaging - MMS - Options - Account options - MMS - Edit - MMSC
> Settings - Edit
> Start - Internet Explorer - Menu - Options - Connections - Select
> network (the options here bear no relation to any connection settings I
> have input to the phone
> I certainly don't remember this many screens on my Nokia!
>
> I'd really REALLY like to know... Does anyone who isn't a phone
> communication stack engineer understand how all these settings tie
> together?
> If so, can you draw me a nice diagram so the mental model used to
> design the UI can be understood by the rest of us.
>
> p.s. I could also have named this post "never let hardware engineers
> design UI"
>
> I'd be interested in comments
>
>
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