[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] SPV?

[Brian Hall]

>Great to see the new beta on the site- any news on progress with the
>spv?

We now know why it doesn't work, and what needs to be done. However it
requires cooperation with Orange, and we need to find out how much $ and
time that will take to decide if it is reasonable for us to do. The issue
is that Orange locks the devices from talking to software that is not
"signed" (ie, has been digitally signed with a certificate they have
issued). Obviously Microsoft jumped that hoop with ActiveSync on the PC.
Another route is to "unlock" the phone, but we haven't yet seen a way that
is 100% reliable to do, nor is easy for a lay person to do. We doubt that
Orange would be excited to tell customers how to unlock their phones,
otherwise they wouldn't have bothered to do it in the first place.

At this point, it is possible that we could find that there is no cost
effective way for us to support the SPV (ie, that we would never sell
enough copies to cover the engineering and signing costs). We will continue
to research it, and hopefully we will find a way.

Brian

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