Windows Phone Thoughts: Keeping Your Identity (and Everything Else) Safe Using Spb Wallet 1.0

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Keeping Your Identity (and Everything Else) Safe Using Spb Wallet 1.0

Posted by Don Tolson in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 AM


Documentation
In a first for any vendor, (I think) Spb has included the documentation for Spb Wallet within each wallet. As a new wallet is created, a folder is created called 'About Spb Wallet' which contains information on various subsections of the application. Most of it reads a bit salesy, but there are kernels of useful information there. You can, of course delete this if you don't want it stored within your wallet and this will save you about 20 kb on the overall wallet size.


Figure 30: Spb Wallet's Help documentation on the PPC.


Figure 31: An example of one of the 'About Spb Wallet' cards on the PPC.

Each of the entries are actually specially-formatted cards which provide an overview of the product's capabilities in each of the areas. Unfortunately, the 'More Information' card suggests looking at 'help' for more information, but I couldn't find any other help anywhere on the PPC version. There is a Help file included with the PC version written in the standard Help explorer format, which means it can't be printed out as a complete reference manual. (But you could print out each of the topics & subtopics).


Figure 32: Spb Wallet's Help documentation on the desktop.

Conclusions
Many of the features in Spb Wallet are also available in other products, with the closest match being FlexWallet from WebIS. But there are a number of features which are unique to Spb's offering. If you are looking for an ewallet application, this is definitely a contender. But there's not enough difference here (yet) to make me want to switch.

Don is an Associate Director with Fujitsu Consulting and leader of its Enterprise Mobility Community. Even with an ewallet, I'm still forgetting passwords. Where are those biometric scanning devices???

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