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Jason Dunn
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Joined: 30 Jun 2003
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Location: Calgary, CANADA

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:00 am    Post subject: Mobile Forum Access Now Open Everyone! Reply with quote

If you've visited any of the three mobile sites in the past few days for Pocket PC Thoughts, Smartphone Thoughts, or Digital Media Thoughts, you'll have noticed something new: a small "Sponsored by" graphic featuring the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded logos. Our mobile forums are now open to everyone, subscriber or not. This is something I'm tremendously excited about! Very Happy This means people won't need to log in to read the content, and every article, post, and forum thread is fully consumable on their mobile device. This is something I've always wanted to enable, but given the amount of work Fabrizio did in optimizing the templates it was never an option to just give it away, so we kept it as a subscriber feature. Now that it has a commercial sponsor, everyone can take advantage of this. A very big thank you to the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded team for sponsoring our mobile site! :way to go:

So what if you're a subscriber who signed up just for the mobile forums? My hope is that you'll still see value in being a subscriber - the other features (ad blocking, media storage, email blasts, subscriber badge, and the warm fuzzy feeling you get by knowing you're supporting our work here) will continue to be subscribers only. Wink I'm also going to be kicking off a new round of contests, including a new monthly giveaway sponsored by Pocket PC Techs where we'll be giving away several special accessory bundles every single month to subscribers! (and people who send me postcards) We're also looking at developing new subscriber features including full-text RSS feeds, and we have a simple (but useful) piece of software developed in conjunction with Two Peaks just for subscribers - you'll hear more about that next week.

Lastly, in the next 90 days or so we'll be merging the subscriber benefits from Pocket PC Thoughts and Digital Media Thoughts into one - meaning being a subscriber at any one site gives you an all-access pass. And that also means for those of you who've been waiting for Smartphone Thoughts subscriber benefits to be activated, this is when it will finally happen! We'll be tweaking a few of the benefits in the new configuration, such as getting one $20 Vaja coupon per year, not one per site (I have to pay for these after all). Overall though this change will give you even more value in being a subscriber.

Enjoy those mobile forums!
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Smartphone Ponderer


Joined: 06 Dec 2004
Posts: 90
Location: Sweden

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome Very Happy Thanks Jason for this great site. Im gonna subscribe as soon as it launches Very Happy What other benefits would there be fore subscribers?
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Mike Temporale
Managing Editor


Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 8577
Location: Toronto, Canada

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's great news Jason. I know a lot of people here have been waiting for this to happen. Very Happy
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Jerry Raia
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Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 4532
Location: Los Angeles

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Outstanding!
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Smartphone Oracle


Joined: 07 Jul 2003
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Location: Philadelphia

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice!
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Smartphone Theorist


Joined: 07 Jul 2003
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Location: Golden, BC, Canada

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sweeeeet! :way to go:
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