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Originally Posted by Dominick_7
Wow. This looks awesome Michael. I don't have Vista, but if I get it this is definitely something I will consider doing. Just curious, did you choose the term Smartphone for aesthetic reasons or is that something one can't change or can? I don't know much about this since I'm still using Active Synch 4.1, and am scare of the other versions. How do you personally like Vista compared to the previous IEs and this new Synch software vs Active Synch?
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If you are referring to the name under the ICON picture, it's something you can change and are actually prompted to type in when doing an initial device setup. By default it chooses the name on your account and then puts "Smartphone" after it, which is the generic term Microsoft uses in reference to any phone that's a Pocket PC or Smartphone. Just for the purpose of working on the original screen shots, I didn't change the name under it, but if you look in the last picture above, you will see what I changed to.
Vista is good, but still needs tweaking and programs/drivers to be updated. Many of my "important" apps don't work, and I am forced to either Dual Boot (which I am currently doing) or have my laptop with Windows XP (which it has). Currently there is no IPSEC VPN software available for Vista, and Safenet's Beta was supposed to be released today, but I haven't heard anything about it, nor could I find the beta. Windows CE CAB Manager, which I use to construct cab files for this device also needs to be updated to work with Vista, so I have it installed on my laptop so I can open/edit/create cab files.
Currently I am still awaiting my copies of Vista to arrive, and am using the 30 day trial on the final release of Vista Ultimate. I have been running the betas of Vista in some form or another, but the final code of Vista is very stable.
As far as Windows Mobile Device Center, it's just like ActiveSync with a pretty interface and "better" layout. It allows you to do some interesting syncing and device connectivity that ActiveSync wasn't that great on, but all in all it works the same as ActiveSync. I, as well as my discussions with tsatryan, there is a syncing issue with the i730. It doesn't always sync on the first connection, and sometimes you have to "try again" to get it to sync. But this happens about every 20 dockings, and once connected, I haven't had any issues.