I recently saw the announcement that Hotmail now supports POP access. Awesome news, as logging into the web version is a pain on a mobile phone. I grabbed my phone, and gave it a go:
After entering my Hotmail information, I got a nasty surprise:
Windows Mobile is smart enough to recognize the "Hotmail.com" extension and redirect you to their web interface. How helpful!
So, you are forced to do what you often have to do when someone walls you off with BS: you have to lie to them.
Here we have gotten extra sneaky and renamed Hotmail to hotmail2 - don't...
I had dinner with a few friends a while ago, where they proceeded to show off their newly upgraded phones. They finally sold me on upgrading to Windows Mobile 6.1. It is a fantastic upgrade, and if it is available to you, I strongly urge you to get it.
To do the upgrade, I followed the link to information in this great post by Keith Elder.
He is right when he says it is an intimidating number of steps, but they are all very straightforward, and there is little chance of error if you follow through them all.
The Windows 6.1 Upgrade has...