Thanks to Ric Anderson @ MS for these resources:

Windows Mobile Reference Index

Microsoft Enterprise Platform Group and Partner Support Line

Australia: 02 4221 9780 OR freecall 1800 027 128; New Zealand: Freecall 0800 450888

• For certified partners and Enterprise IT
• SBS set up issues
• End User help
• Connectivity issues
• Not linked into PSS support calls
• Wireless Data Services answering the calls
• Reporting and issue consolidation back to MS

Windows Mobile Homepage

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/windowsmobile
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/default.mspx

• Local device availability (Australian site)
• White Papers
• Case Studies
• Developer Links

Case Studies

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/business/success/default.mspx

Partner Resources

Windows Mobile Competency Partner certification
https://partner.microsoft.com/msppmobility
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/partners/logon/login.mspx

Partner collateral, logo's and reference information
http://www.windowsmobilepartnershop.com

Application certification (Mobile2Market)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/partners/mobile2market/smartphoneapps/default.aspx

Developer sites

Local Microsoft Developer resource page
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/msdn/tools/msdnflash.aspx

Windows Mobile elearning Training Application Development
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=112167

Windows Mobile elearning Training IT Pro
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=112394

Deploying and maintaining mobile applications
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a5a43ea-dd75-425b-b05c-1aa3a0e55420&DisplayLang=en

.NET Compact Framework and the Mobile Client Software Factory

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27fc4663-8661-4760-9993-cde5d27d5fc9&DisplayLang=en

MS Developers Conference 2006 DVD
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27fc4663-8661-4760-9993-cde5d27d5fc9&DisplayLang=en

BLOGS

• Technology information and tips
• jkruse, dglover and jeffa36 includes local MS information
• Local UMPC info on UberTablet

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/
http://blogs.technet.com/vik/
http://littlesandpit.blogspot.com/2006/10/direct-push-guide.html
http://jankity.spaces.live.com/
http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36/
http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/
http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/default.aspx
http://UberTablet.blogspot.com
http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2006/12/tip-installing-communicator-mobile.html
http://www.mogadget.com/

VISTA with Windows Mobile Device Centre

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx

• Think ActiveSync for Vista
• NOTE if folks are having trouble syncing after upgrading to Vista check that the Proxy settings are disable on the device in
  start/settings/connections(tab)/connections/proxy

3rd party retail applications

Handango UK – Voice Command 1.6
http://tinyurl.com/3ye4dv

iMate supported software and services
http://www.clubimate.com/

Trend Micro trial software (mobile virus protection)
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/mobile/tmms/evaluate/overview.htm

Over the last few weeks Vodafone have released the "Vodafone 1210" - A Vodafone branded Windows Mobile Smartphone originally manufactured by ASUS. The beauty of this thing is the price - $599 retail for a full MS phone in NZ. The only real lacking feature is no camera. But it is fully 3G. It is also only Win Mobile 5 but not 6. No mater I think this great value for money and going on my shopping list! There is quite a bit of info on this in NZ already mainly on geekzone. So here are a few links to find out further:

Vodafone NZ Product Page | Geek Zone Review | Geek Zone rant on locking (and unlocking) the phone | Forum Discussion on the 1210

It's good to see another asian manufacturer developing Windows Mobile phones, especially Windows Mobile 6 ones. Asus are traditional mobo manufactor but are now branching into phones with Windows Mobile 6. Definitely one to watch in this area!

Blink.nu has some screenshots and info on Windows Mobile 6. I've been reading about this for a bit on leaked sites and my MVP information. Looks very interesting indeed. Good to see CF and SQL Mobile will now be bundled.

"Yamazaki" or as it's better known: Windows CE 6.0 has been released to market. Windows CE 6.0 will be the base platform for the next version of Windows Mobile. Press information is here, and from Mike Hall's Blog the following is some basic info on new features:

1. Operating System architecture.
   • CE 6.0 now supports upto 32k processes with 2GB virtual memory per process (CE 5.0 supported a maximum of 32 processes with 32MB Virtual Memory per process)
   • Operating system processes moved to kernel space (GWES, Device driver manager, file system manager are all in kernel space - improves performance)
   • New Kernel mode and user mode driver model (CE 5.0 only supported user mode drivers) - kernel mode drivers for performance, user mode drivers for stability - plus you can now have multiple instances of the user mode driver manager (hey, you have upto 32k processes!)
   • Strict partitioning of user mode and kernel mode (no SetKMode!)
2. Tools - The CE 6.0 development tools are integrated with Visual Studio 2005 - this gives you one tool to configure, build, download, debug, and test the operating system and the same tool to write your native (Win32, MFC, ATL, WTL, STL) or managed (C#/VB) applications.

3. Technologies - more information on supported operating system technologies will be made available at launch.

I can across this list on pocketpcadddict.com that contains instructions on hared reseting a huge of amount of current windows/pcoket PC based devices. Very useful... I was looking for details on how to reset my (borrowed) KJAM.