Saturday, August 30, 2008

Access your desktop PC from your Pocket PC! (Part I)

1. should your WM5+ device lack it, you can download the excellent WM6 RDP client, RDM, from either HERE (linked from THIS thread), HERE or HERE (linked from THIS post in THIS thread). It works wonderfully on all WM5+ Pocket PC’s and Pocket PC phones (Windows Mobile 6 Pro / Classic devices). Note that there’s a thread at MoDaCo explaining using it on Smartphones (Windows Mobile 6 Standard devices). Also see for example THIS for a discussion of it.

2. I’ve published two, very thorough reviews in the meantime, both on SHAPE Services’ two remote desktop access applications.

The first is TSMobiles: Terminal Service Client for Mobiles, a Java-based RDP client. It works pretty well on Windows Mobile, both Pocket PC’s and MS Smartphones, under (the latest, 3.1 version of) Jbed, the best MIDlet manager for Windows Mobile. (Incidentally, this also shows what’s Java is capable of – this MIDlet is REALLY nice and fast, even with the Windows Mobile standards!)

The second is RDM+, which uses a proprietary protocol (NOT RDP, unlike the above-mentioned TSMobiles). It’s highly recommended if you, for example, need MS Smartphone compliance and/or file transfer and/or moderate costs but still a file transfer-capable access method.

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