How to Remotely Control your Windows Mobile Phone from Desktop

Mar. 26th, 2008 | by Dave Drager |

Windows Mobile 6 is my mobile OS of choice (sorry Blackberry fans, I really hate the closed-source nature of the Blackberry!). I keep all of my contacts synced to it via ActiveSync and basically keep my life organized with it. Via Twitter I heard someone talking about My Mobiler… so I had to check it out, and I was pleasantly surprised!

Remotely Control Windows Mobile Phone from Desktop

So why would one want to control their Windows Mobile phone from their desktop?

  • Too lazy pick up your phone to make a call
  • Writing long sentences on that tiny keypad is annoying
  • The need to take screenshots for posts such as these
  • Just want to impress the ladies… ok maybe the last one is a stretch.

The list goes on and on. My Mobiler does all this and more for you. It is an application that installs on your Windows Mobile phone and lets you control it from your desktop. The mouse works like a touch on the touchscreen and the keyboard works as an input device. It works via ActiveSync or by IP address to give you multiple options of connecting, giving you the ability for wireless free (wifi) access to your phone.

In addition to raw control of your device, it also allows you to take screenshots of your phone, as well as create a video recordings of your mobile screen. Copy and Paste works as it does on your desktop. A file browser is also included within the program, which makes it easy to upload files to your phone.

I would recommend this program to anyone who has a Windows Mobile device.

(By) Dave is an IT Manager by day and technology consultant by night. He is interested in all things internet but is specifically interested in system administration, network security, history, and backpacking. He lives near Philadelphia with his family. See his blog @ www.systembash.com.

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    Comment by ajay
    2008-03-27 00:28:55

    it’s really a nice post to contro windows mobile phone from the windows machine
    is there any thing that can control windows mobile from a machine that running a linux operating system

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    Comment by Dave Drager
    2008-03-27 04:51:16

    Ajay,

    Check out PocketVNC. Using this VNC Server on your Windows Mobile device will allow control from any system with VNC Viewer (which is just about anything!)

    http://www.pocketvnc.com/projects/pocketvnc/index.php

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    Comment by Matt Ellsworth
    2008-03-27 08:06:31

    Nice idea. I never thought of this. Thats really cool!

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    Comment by Brainiac
    2008-03-27 19:58:58

    Thanks for the tip. Loved it !

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    Comment by Sonny Gill
    2008-03-28 09:21:09

    Wow - that’s awesome. Definitely going to try it out today.

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    Comment by Pedantic Vocabularist
    2008-05-20 23:06:27

    You mean the Blackberry is a “closed platform.” Windows Mobile is also “closed source,” in the sense that you have to sign an NDA and fork over money to see the source code. But it is, like most Microsoft products, an “open platform” which is intended to allow third parties to build innovative applications on top of it. Blackberry is closed platform, and iPhone is mostly-closed-platform.

    Many journalists don’t understand this distinction, and blithely go around writing about how such-and-such-an-innovation was “only possible because of the open-source revolution.” Where did they Photoshop came from? Fully sprung from the brain of Steve Jobs?

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