Windows Mobile Device Center is finally working
Posted by Luca Morandi on March 28, 2008
Yesterday, I plugged my new S620 in my laptop to transfer some music and videos (using the nifty little freeware application WM5Storage). Somehow I forgot to turn on the USB mode, and guess what: my laptop actually recognized the HTC S620! Well, at least after processing the needed drivers for some time.
This was great surprise for me, because I have never been able to sync my smartphone with Vista, and I was so desperate that I made accounts for Google Calendar and Exchange. I have no idea why it suddenly recognizes my phone, maybe it updated itself via internet? This could be a possibility, because I recently ditched Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 from my system, when cleaning up my laptop. And now, while my handset was syncing all it’s information to Outlook 2007, I checked the version of the software and it said “v.6.1″. So it definitely updated itself, but if this solved the problem I will probably never know.
So, now it’s time to compare good old’ Activesync 4.5 to Vista’s WMDC 6.1. The interface is really slick, following the obvious path of Vista and Windows Mobile 6. What surprised me was a big picture of the HTC S620 which showed up in the screen, with the device name beneath the picture. It’s a nice (yet useless) touch, but it does take some time getting used to being greeted by your device every time you sync. 
The options are placed right to the image of your device, unfolding a tree of options when moving your cursor on it. After this, everything is the same as in Activesync. Of course Windows Mobile users that also use Vista will already use the WMDC for quite some time, but I never had the chance to actually use it so that’s why I did a quick comparison from an upgrade view. The only question that remains is if my Touch will be recognized from now on too, but I’ll have to try that out later on.
