04-20-2005, 01:00 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Happy 5th Anniversary to the Pocket PC!
Today, April the 19th, is the 5th anniversary of the Pocket PC's launch - the product we know and (sometimes?) love it five years old. Looking back at the original iPAQ 3650, it's amazing how far the hardware has advanced in some ways, but by the same token it amazes me how similar the devices are. It took almost five years for the Windows Mobile camp to move from QVGA to VGA, which is a bit sad. On the plus side, it's been five years and we've had four operating system releases - so those Windows Mobile coders have been hard at work. :way to go: Windows XP is, what, four years old now? And it's successor, Longhorn, is still more than a year away - so kudos to the Windows Mobile team for continuously releasing new versions of their operating system (now if we could just talk about that connection manager and IMAP glitches...).
Looking back over the last five years, what are your favourite memories of owning a Pocket PC? Anything stand out?
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04-20-2005, 01:18 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 62
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My favorite memories? How about the 800+ soft-resets and countless hard-resets I've done since December 2004. :wink:
Then there was that one time, when I thought I killed my iPAQ with static shock, but I just had to plug in the AC adapter and it was fine!
Seriously, this is my first PPC (switched after 3 years with PalmOS) and I'm looooooving it. My favorite memory of owning a PPC is talking to my iPAQ with Voice Command and having it talk back to me. It's great to see the looks people give you when you do that in public. :P
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04-20-2005, 01:24 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Wow, big day. PPCT anniversary, Oklahoma City bombing anniversary, and new Pope elected. It's just too much! :lol:
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04-20-2005, 01:56 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 866
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Originally Posted by njl2016
My favorite memory of owning a PPC is talking to my iPAQ with Voice Command and having it talk back to me. It's great to see the looks people give you when you do that in public. :P
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Yeah that would be neat!!
My favourite memory is when I first switched. I convinced my dad to swap his Jornada 545 for my Palm V and an MP3 Player!! That was when I was 10. I am 15 now and I have been using PPC ever since, and now have gotten converged with a PPC Phone. It has been a pretty good platform over the years. Palm is just so much more restrictive.
Since my Jornada I have owned 5 PPCs (including my XDA II Mini) and haven't regretted staying with the Pocket PC OS (Windows Mobile). WM2003SE is a nice upgrade over 2003, particularly with rotation support!
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04-20-2005, 01:59 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 9
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Favorite Memories
My favorite PPC memory goes back to 2001 and a fellow grad student who was using about 20 3650s with GPS units for her graduate project on vehicle tracking. I'm not sure if it was so great because I had gadget envy (I didn't even have one PPC at the time) or because of her...
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04-20-2005, 02:03 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 262
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In 2003 makes me realize how good a PPC is 
I bought one.
Happy Birthday PPCT!
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04-20-2005, 02:23 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,632
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Isnt the PPC older than 5 years?
Does the Philips Nino count? I know I had one when I worked for CompanyX....and that was 7 years ago.
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04-20-2005, 02:26 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 866
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No, the Pocket PC was the devices that were release with the Pocket PC 2000 OS running WinCE 3.0. The devices before were pre 3.0 i believe, and called Palm-Size PC or something like that.
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04-20-2005, 02:45 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,043
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Leaving a too-large collection of least favourite moments out of this, as Jason asked only for favourites, will be tough. A lot of the good stuff I've learned has come from the bad experiences. Still, got to try...
The first time I connected part-way with someone else using VoIP was a rush. It was one-sided, using bSquared's thoroughly bogus client for which I'd just plunked down (read; wasted) $50, but it was a thrill almost on par with using a walkie talkie for the first time when I was a kid. Over dialup no less.
Then there was my stepdaughter's first bike ride without training wheels. She took off like the proverbial bat outta hell across the park, not realising I'd taken my hand off the sissy bar of her bike and was busy using my Casio PPC and Casio CF camera to grab it on video. That's 18 seconds of the most precious video I have.
There have been moments of gloating which offered some satisfaction, like when a Palmie is going on about whatever glorious features and then I trump them and do a couple of techno-backflips to deliver the coup de gras. I don't indulge in that any more. Well, not much. Learned to be more accomodating of other people's investments. And to be fair, there have been a couple of times when a Palm user came up with something a PPC can't touch... yet.
I bought my first Casio E-115 before they hit the stores here, through a consulting firm picked out of the yellow pages almost at random. They happened to have a contact at Casio and got me the device by mid-May of 2000. Got me a modem and a CF camera that summer too, then they lost their Casio connection. I loved that E-115. Still miss it a little, but apparently its third owner (it lived with a writer for a while after me, then with an artist) is very happy with it so that's okay.
It'll be interesting to see what another 5 years brings by way of changes to mobile tools. Of course JackAubrey, AKA Craig1959, is thoroughly confident that unless he can open his car and house and buy stuff at vending machines using his PDA the species will die an early death. So sad.
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04-20-2005, 02:45 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,632
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I still count em...because it was still either that or the Palm/Handspring. 
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