Who is using a Pocket PC?
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
Nowdays a smartphone is the way to go, much more useful than just a PDA.
Matt Newman
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
Personally I have a PalmOne Tungsten e2 that I use as a diary/contact/appointment type device only. I don't use it for anything else (apart from storage and mp3's from time to time). In my work life I am currently involved with a project that developed a solution for the hp IPAQ in VS2003, which has now been ported to the iMate JasJar without too many troubles. The main issue I have come up against with development for PDA devices (utilising VB.NET in VS2003) is how horrible designing screens is. What I am really hoping for is the next version of VB.NET to include true PDA quality screen tools, just like building a windows form, rather than having to calculate control positions manually and render the screens that way. Perhaps I wish for too much... hehe The other issue is the integrated PDA emulator - it's useless... don't use it for testing. Do a debug deploy to a docked (real) PDA device instead. ------------------------------------------------------ Damian - Still too lazy to develop a signature.
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Nowdays a smartphone is the way to go, much more useful than just a PDA.
Matt Newman
A Pocket PC phone is actually more useful for me than a Smartphone, and I've tried both. Microsoft-based phones come in two flavors: Pocket PC (like the T-Mobile Dash) or SmartPhone (smaller form factor, smaller screen that's generally not a touch screen, either). My current phone is the equivalent of the Dash. The larger form-factor can be a turn-off to some people who want a smaller phone, but I generally don't get a *huge* number of calls anyhow, and the screen is better for the kinds of things I do with it, which includes spur of the moment research (looking up prices and info on items I am considering buying, for example!), reading e-books, playing a few games, and occasionally using the phone with a Bluetooth GPS receiver and mapping software. I also use it for text messaging, email, calendar and the occasional candid photo, too :) I have several friends who haven't been able to get into the concept of a phone/pocket pc as a PDA, though. For them, a Smartphone or even a regular cell phone without the bells and whistles are more appropriate. For me, though, I would feel lost without my Pocket PC phone!
Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
I used to develop for the palm platform when they were still the new PDA on the block. Back then it was a great platform to create apps on, the OS wasn't cluttered with unnecessary crap, in fact it had a nice clean API, was innovative, and had a large developer base etc. Somewhere down the line they seemed to have lost the plot. I guess it was due to the fact that palm got bought out by so many different companies i.e. U.S. robotics, 3 com.... to mention a few. Today it's just another PDA with terrible support for developers. I've got a HP rx1940 or something like that . It's a windows mobile 5 device and a pleasure to develop on
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
I have an iPaq 2200, which is amazing, apart from not having a built-in mobile adapter. It's got an SD/MMC slot and a CF2 slot and commercial IR with some universal remote software (oh the fun I have playing with that...). Also if you get some decent sized memory cards and can find some good Media Player software on the net then you've got something that is infinitely better than the iPod. I haven't done any serious development on the iPaq, but from my tinkering the most annoying thing has to be waiting for Visual Studio to deploy the .NET Compact Framework onto the device each time. Also the emulator isn't compatible with Data Execution Prevention feature of XP, so to use it you need to make changes to the boot.ini file to disable it.
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
Hi, I use a HP iPaq RX1950 Pocket PC (299 euro's) basically for testing software and it works fine in combination with Visual Studio. It's nice to see how an application looks and functions on a real Pda.
With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart Interbritt
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A Pocket PC phone is actually more useful for me than a Smartphone, and I've tried both. Microsoft-based phones come in two flavors: Pocket PC (like the T-Mobile Dash) or SmartPhone (smaller form factor, smaller screen that's generally not a touch screen, either). My current phone is the equivalent of the Dash. The larger form-factor can be a turn-off to some people who want a smaller phone, but I generally don't get a *huge* number of calls anyhow, and the screen is better for the kinds of things I do with it, which includes spur of the moment research (looking up prices and info on items I am considering buying, for example!), reading e-books, playing a few games, and occasionally using the phone with a Bluetooth GPS receiver and mapping software. I also use it for text messaging, email, calendar and the occasional candid photo, too :) I have several friends who haven't been able to get into the concept of a phone/pocket pc as a PDA, though. For them, a Smartphone or even a regular cell phone without the bells and whistles are more appropriate. For me, though, I would feel lost without my Pocket PC phone!
Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)
I had a Nokia 6680 but it was a slow and I didn't like it much. I now have a D830 and Palm M505 but the lack of wifi and bluetooth on the Palm is beginning to annoy me. When my mobile contract is up I'm looking to get a new phone that has gps, wifi and bluetooth. Touch screen would be good and I think this time I'll go for Windows rather than Symbian. 11 months to go and counting ;)
Never argue with an imbecile; they bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
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A Pocket PC phone is actually more useful for me than a Smartphone, and I've tried both. Microsoft-based phones come in two flavors: Pocket PC (like the T-Mobile Dash) or SmartPhone (smaller form factor, smaller screen that's generally not a touch screen, either). My current phone is the equivalent of the Dash. The larger form-factor can be a turn-off to some people who want a smaller phone, but I generally don't get a *huge* number of calls anyhow, and the screen is better for the kinds of things I do with it, which includes spur of the moment research (looking up prices and info on items I am considering buying, for example!), reading e-books, playing a few games, and occasionally using the phone with a Bluetooth GPS receiver and mapping software. I also use it for text messaging, email, calendar and the occasional candid photo, too :) I have several friends who haven't been able to get into the concept of a phone/pocket pc as a PDA, though. For them, a Smartphone or even a regular cell phone without the bells and whistles are more appropriate. For me, though, I would feel lost without my Pocket PC phone!
Caffeine - it's what's for breakfast! (and lunch, and dinner, and...)
Right, I forgot about the "smartphone edition" of WinCE. I was speaking more generally, I have a Palm Treo which would be concidered a Pocket PC phone. PPC Phones are often referred to smartphones though.
Matt Newman
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Are you using a Pocket PC? Which one? Experiences? I had a Sony Clie Palm a long while ago but I didn't use it much - just played around and at this stage (in school) I hadn't really a lot of use for it anyway. I am playing around with the thought to buy a new one (this time Pocket PC) and use it as a real PDA - organizer and play around with .NET development and Silverlight once it is ready.
Is that a PC in your pocket...?