sobk
05-11-2003, 03:43 PM
Apparantly this is going to be out in Q3 2003 (Jul-Sep?), running Pocket PC 2002.
From what I've read the I700 is much better than the present generation of PPCPE's such as the O2 XDA, but rumours seem to suggest that Pocket PC 2003 might be out in June, I'm assuming that Pocket PC 2003 phone edition won't be available until a while after otherwise Samsung wouldn't be releasing a PPC 2002 device in July? Or do they intend to give an upgrade path to flash PPCPE 2003 onto the I700?
The Microsoft chat on PPCPE 2003 says it will be out this year (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/trans/mobility/mob0128.asp).
I'd love to see the I700 in the UK, but I doubt O2 would carry it as they're got such buy in to the XDA, Orange already have the Smartphone SPV, Vodafone, T-Mobile UK perhaps?
PPCPE 2003 is definately the device for me, I need to be able for the computers at work to send me notifications (SMS to mobile phones - don't have repeating alerts, just beeping once isn't enough to wake me up, SMS to PPCPE does with the right 3rd party software :D ) and then be able to dial in to fix if required, Pocket PC 2003 is too good to think about going for Blackberry (though I did give it a try), and the 2 device route would mean I'd have to carry two devices with me everywhere I went, and every time I got a notification I'd have have to spend time linking them via bluetooh as you couldn't leave bluetooth on as it would run the batteries down too quick! I'd rather keep the time spent on doing work during my personal time to a minimum!
That ipaq 56xx PPCPE running 2003 would have been perfect :| I700 seems the next best thing :)
From what I've read the I700 is much better than the present generation of PPCPE's such as the O2 XDA, but rumours seem to suggest that Pocket PC 2003 might be out in June, I'm assuming that Pocket PC 2003 phone edition won't be available until a while after otherwise Samsung wouldn't be releasing a PPC 2002 device in July? Or do they intend to give an upgrade path to flash PPCPE 2003 onto the I700?
The Microsoft chat on PPCPE 2003 says it will be out this year (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/trans/mobility/mob0128.asp).
I'd love to see the I700 in the UK, but I doubt O2 would carry it as they're got such buy in to the XDA, Orange already have the Smartphone SPV, Vodafone, T-Mobile UK perhaps?
PPCPE 2003 is definately the device for me, I need to be able for the computers at work to send me notifications (SMS to mobile phones - don't have repeating alerts, just beeping once isn't enough to wake me up, SMS to PPCPE does with the right 3rd party software :D ) and then be able to dial in to fix if required, Pocket PC 2003 is too good to think about going for Blackberry (though I did give it a try), and the 2 device route would mean I'd have to carry two devices with me everywhere I went, and every time I got a notification I'd have have to spend time linking them via bluetooh as you couldn't leave bluetooth on as it would run the batteries down too quick! I'd rather keep the time spent on doing work during my personal time to a minimum!
That ipaq 56xx PPCPE running 2003 would have been perfect :| I700 seems the next best thing :)