2005 Mobile & Embedded DevCon Keynote is About to Begin

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.medc2005.com' target='_blank'>http://www.medc2005.com</a><br /><br /></div>Bill Gates keynote at this years MEDC is being offered as live webcast and it's about to begin. If you're sitting in front of your computer, you can tune in <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx">here,</a> and we can all chat about what we see right here on Smartphone Thoughts. 8)

[Mike Temporale]

Wow... Windows Mobile 5 supports speech recognition. Nice!

[Mike Temporale]

Damn, that Samsung i300 is one hot phone. I hope it comes to North America.... 8)

[prismejon]

Is his SmartPhone running WM5? I sure hope my iMate SP3i will have an update.

[Mike Temporale]

Is his SmartPhone running WM5? I sure hope my iMate SP3i will have an update.

his?? Are you refering to Bill? He hasn't even touched a phone yet.

They have WM5 running on the HTC Universal, and the Samsung i300. Otherwise, they haven't displayed another phone running the OS, yet. :-( And there's no mention of updates. I don't expect that they will cover that. It's really up to the operator/manufacturer.

[Mike Temporale]

Neil Enns, Mike Hall, and Seth are all showing some really cool demos in VS2005. 8)

Neil built a Smartphone app that uses SQL Mobile, and .NET CF2 using the camera API, integrates with Outlook appointments

Seth built a neat little Pocket PC multi player game using VS2005

Mike Hall built a XP embedded kiosk and displayed the really cool hibernate once and resume many feature.

[prismejon]

Is his SmartPhone running WM5? I sure hope my iMate SP3i will have an update.

his?? Are you refering to Bill? He hasn't even touched a phone yet.


I was refering to Neil's demo, with the restaurant app. I love those new .NET CF 2.0 and VS 2005 features :D

[Mike Temporale]

I was refering to Neil's demo, with the restaurant app. I love those new .NET CF 2.0 and VS 2005 features :D

oh, I see and I agree! 8)

[Mike Temporale]

Now that the fun is over, here's some of the highlights that I quickly scribbled down during the event. 40 different device makers, 68 mobile operators in 48 countries are now sporting Windows Mobile
A great deal of attention was spent on Media - format, rights, Playlists, star ratings - all working in a seamless fashion with the desktop.
Updated Word (now supports tables) and Excel (ability to create and view charts on the mobile device)
Included PowerPoint viewer
Contact photo is taken from Outlook's contact and synced [This is something I was calling for over a year ago!]
USB 2.0
Persisting Data
Easy updates for operators
Backwards compatible

[David McNamee]

Some other tidbits that came out for developers:

Camera API that works across all devices GPS API Picture picker API State Notifications Bluetooth support Code-less landscape support COM interop
We're going to see some awesome apps built for WinMo5!

[Mr.Phil]

Is his SmartPhone running WM5? I sure hope my iMate SP3i will have an update.

his?? Are you refering to Bill? He hasn't even touched a phone yet.

They have WM5 running on the HTC Universal, and the Samsung i300. Otherwise, they haven't displayed another phone running the OS, yet. :-( And there's no mention of updates. I don't expect that they will cover that. It's really up to the operator/manufacturer.

I wouldn't hold your breath for updates. As I seem to recall the WM5 memory footprint is pretty big, probably bigger than most existing smartphones can handle. I would guess we are looking at a jump similar to between Smartphone 2002 (ce 3.0) and 2003(ce 4.2)

[Kris Kumar]

Thanks Mike for posting the commentary. :-) I can now wait till the weekend to watch the video. ;-)

[Mike Temporale]

I can now wait till the weekend to watch the video. ;-)

It's a great presentation. However, I think Bill did a ok job. It's clear the other presenters had much more rehearsal time, energy, and enthusiasm.