Brighthand's Overview of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition

[Jason Dunn]

http://brighthand.com/article/Overv..._Mobile_2003_SE

Ed Hardy over at Brighthand has done something I haven't had time to do yet: publish an overview of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. It's a great article and a worthwhile read. Get to it!

[Jason Dunn]

http://brighthand.com/article/Overv..._Mobile_2003_SE

Ed Hardy over at Brighthand has done something I haven't had time to do yet: publish an overview of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. It's a great article and a worthwhile read. Get to it!

[pdaisdead(2)]

"Microsoft has not made the myriad of other changes to the operating system people have been hoping for, like the ability to easily shut down running applications" ROFL!!!!!!!!

Maybe they spent all their time trying to figure out how to get alarms to work!!

There's hope though:

"Those hoping for these improvements will have to set their sights on the next versions of the operating system which is expected to be called Windows Mobile 2005".

Man......way to stay competitive MS!

[luiskim]

something i've been wondering for a while now... if i install WM2003SE (once it's released) on my iPAq2210... that does mean i'm gonna be able to use VGA resolution? or do i have to buy a PPC with a VGA screen?

[Fishie]

Originally Posted by LuisKim

something i've been wondering for a while now... if i install WM2003SE (once it's released) on my iPAq2210... that does mean i'm gonna be able to use VGA resolution? or do i have to buy a PPC with a VGA screen?

Im pretty sure that if you want VGA you need a VGA screen.

[NeilE]

You definitely need a VGA screen. All devices that have a 2003SE upgrade available will be able to take advantage of the portrait/landscape rotate, but for VGA you need a device like the Toshiba.

[Ed@Brighthand]

Originally Posted by LuisKim

something i've been wondering for a while now... if i install WM2003SE (once it's released) on my iPAq2210... that does mean i'm gonna be able to use VGA resolution? or do i have to buy a PPC with a VGA screen?

You aren't the first person to ask this question and so I actually covered it in my overview of WM 2003 SE. While you can change the resolution of a traditional CRT, there's no practical way to do this with an LCD.

Some technologies like ClearText try to simulate a higher resolution through sub-pixeling, but I think that just makes fonts look blurry.

The good news is I'm expecting several VGA models to hit the market in the coming months, including the ASUS MyPAL A730 we already know about. I have my fingers crossed one of them will be a clamshell model with a decent keyboard. If so, I'll have found my next Pocket PC.

[Scott R]

Posted this at Brighthand and repeating it here...

These improvements are nice, and I'm hoping that HP offers an upgrade for my h4155 (and sooner rather than later), but it amazes me how MS still doesn't "get it" in terms of usability. Not only did they not fix some of the usability problems that have plagued the PPC OS since the beginning such as:
1) Having a tiny round "OK" button in the top right while having normal/better sized and placed rectangular "Cancel" buttons.
2) No built-in task switching or ability to kill tasks.

Fortunately, the first one could be fixed by developers simply ignoring MS' screwed up usability guidelines, and the second one can be fixed by installing one of several utilities (I use the freeware PocketNav).

Now, they've introduced a new usability problem: You have to go into the Settings panel to swtich between portrait and landscape mode? You've gotta be kidding me. I don't see why some developer shouldn't be able to develop a small hack to put an icon on the title bar to handle this, though. Hopefully, that will happen soon. But how could they not think of this? Unbelievable!

I'm not surprised that there isn't more meat behind the other new features, though I would have liked to have seen PIE get multi-window support. I suppose I'll have to keep using the freeware ftxPBrowser for that.

Scott

[thunderck]

Come-on HP post my 2215 update..quickly...quickly move it along

[bridgecrosser]

The only thing that really excites me about 2003 SE is what Pocket Informant is going to do with it (Thanks, Alex). Sony has been doing most of what SE will do for quite a while. I guess I have another long wait (2005) before I replace my iPAQ h5450. I guess I really expected more this time from the folks at Microsoft Windows Mobile Team.

[joelevi]

Originally Posted by Scott R

... though I would have liked to have seen PIE get multi-window support. I suppose I'll have to keep using the freeware ftxPBrowser for that.

Scott

Scott, we can't even get tabbed browsing in MSIE on the desktop, let alone on the Pocket PC! :evil:

Have they fixed the "WM2003 Startup" problem that so many 3rd party developers have tackled?

Have they added ctrl-b, ctrl-i, ctrl-u shortcuts in Pocket Word?

Have they enhanced the ability to open web popup windows in the current PIE window?

Have they fixed the WM2003 alarms problem?

(crossing fingers)