Web Information Solutions Announces Full Support of Windows Mobile 6

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://webis.net/Press/WM6.php' target='_blank'>http://webis.net/Press/WM6.php</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Web Information Solutions, Inc., is announcing its full support for Windows Mobile 6 today. Web Information Solutions’ products include the award-winning and top-tier Pocket Informant 2007 Rev 3, FlexMail 2007 Rev 2, FlexWallet 2006, and VoiceMinder 1.6 all have been adapted to work especially well on Windows Mobile 6 devices - as well as current Windows Mobile 2003 and 5 devices. Furthermore, WebIS is announcing that its upcoming FlexMail 2007 Rev 2 release will not only bring some of Windows Mobile 6 Messaging features to Windows Mobile 2003 and 5 users such as full HTML email support and keyboard shortcuts, but will massively improve upon the Windows Mobile 6 messaging with full folder search, a refreshed interface, full two way IMAP IDLE support, a new Account template feature for common email ISPs and much more. In addition its upcoming Pocket Informant 2007 Rev 3 release will also include a new Today plugin, Contacts Search improvements that go beyond Windows Mobile 6, Timed Category Filters, and many redesigned user interface features to match and work with Windows Mobile 6."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-2007feb-piwm6.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />WebIS, the makers of fine software applications like Pocket Informant and Flex Wallet, are announcing full support for Windows Mobile 6. Wish there were more details about the Smartphone related updates in this press release.

[CUShane]

I find it interesting that they claimed this so early. The WM6 SDK hasn't been released by Microsoft yet and Microsoft's not even claiming that WM6 has gone gold yet, so things can still change. That being said, Microsoft has also said that basically everything that works on WM5 will work on WM6. I guess I should just claim WM6 compatibility now too. :?

[Kris Kumar]

Some developers I am sure have early access to the SDK Betas.

It is true that Microsoft claims compatibility between versions but not all customers would know that, so this is a good way to get some marketing buzz going.

The cool thing is that WebIS is trying to bring some WM6 look n feel and functionality to the WM5 Smartphone.

[Mike Temporale]

The WM6 SDK hasn't been released by Microsoft yet and Microsoft's not even claiming that WM6 has gone gold yet, so things can still change.

Actually, they are both officially released now. Yesterday was the big WinMo6 announcement day. It's actually been done for a number of months, just announced yesterday.

[Birdsoft]

According to MSDN the SDK isnt officially available until March 1st. What am I missing??

I would assume Alex had access to earlier versions or at least an early test device to claim this, though it sounds like we should all be able to as well. I guess the 320x320 screen size will add a little work once a device appears that might actually have it but most of the original work for WM% will make this fairly trivial for most applications.

I wonder if he shared it with SBSH so "Pocket Informant for Smartphones" can actually claim this too. Its rather strange showing the PPC version, sorry the "Professional" version, of PI in the release for this "Standard" site. :)

The cool thing is that WebIS is trying to bring some WM6 look n feel and functionality to the WM5 Smartphone

Huh?

[Mike Temporale]

Sorry, you're right about the SDK. There was so many announcements yesterday that I thought I saw one about it. Must have been mistaken. :?

[Kris Kumar]

sorry I didnt post it but I have downloaded the WM6 SDK, yesterday. I will post link once I get home.

[Jerry Raia]

Announcing is one thing, delivering is another.

[amitregev]

There aren't too many changes with the new WM6 SDK so the majority of the applications will work on the new OS right away without applying any changes to them.

But there is always a chance that there will be a few minor updates needed in the code to get everything working as it should. From our experience I can tell that all of our applications both for Pocket PC and Smartphone worked correctly on the new WM6 OS apart from PocketBreeze and Facade.

We located a small modification we had to implement with SBSH Facade to get it working correctly with WM6 and we also located two problems we had with PocketBreeze that were just fixed with our latest public beta build from a few days ago which will soon also be officially released as SBSH PocketBreeze 5.2.

Since in our case the modifications to get everything working as it should with WM6 were rather small we decided not to release any announcement about our applications compatibility with the new OS, but instead we will simply include a notice about the WM6 support of our applications with our upcoming new updates of our applications as they come in the next few weeks from now.

I'm guessing that PI for Pocket PC had to go through some more modifications to get everything compatible with the new OS version hence the announcement on the compatibility with the new OS version :)

[Jerry Raia]

Thanks Amit! :)

[Kris Kumar]

sorry I didnt post it but I have downloaded the WM6 SDK, yesterday. I will post link once I get home.

This article explains why I haven't been able to find the SDK, even though I had downloaded it on Feb 12th.

Where are the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs? (http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2007/02/14/where-are-the-windows-mobile-6-sdks.aspx)

[Jerry Raia]

Where are the Windows Mobile 6 SDKs?</a>

Be patient Kris, they will be released when the final non beta version of Vista is released. :lol: