We’ve all been hearing rumors about Windows Mobile 7. You’ve probably seen the leaked screenshots, and I go over some of them here. We don’t really know if those represent the Standard/Smartphone version or the Professional/Pocket PC version of the operating system, or if there are even going to be multiple versions of Windows Mobile 7. Most of the screen shots indicate a move towards the Windows Mobile Standard style interface. You can even see …
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Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard & Professional
INTRODUCTION The latest Windows Mobile upgrade brings minor, but very welcome additions to the platform. In this article, we’ll cover both the Standard (non-touchscreen) and Professional (touchscreen) editions and show you what’s to love about the Windows Mobile 6.1 update. Now, you’ll notice this is not a full version upgrade, but just a ".1" upgrade so you know you can’t expect a full overhaul. It really feels like just a quick update intended to fill …
Continue readingUsing The Pause Feature To Dial Extensions In Windows Mobile
Ed Hansberry of PocketPCThoughts has posted a nice undocumented tip about Windows Mobile 6, where you can add pauses in the saved phone numbers of your contacts. This will let you call people who’s phone numbers include extensions by simply using Microsoft Voice Command or speed dialing. Unfortunately this excellent feature does not play nice with Outlook 2007 as you’ll see in his post. I actually saw the “Insert Pause” and “Insert Wait” commands recently, …
Continue readingVideo: Microsoft’s Sync In-Car Computer (Part 3)
In the previous two videos on this “Sync” series we talked about the touch-screen version of the in-car computer on Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles as well as it’s Bluetooth capabilities. That version of the system also includes a voice activated GPS Navigation system that is not as well integrated as it should be. Today we’ll look at the version of Microsoft’s Sync in-car computer that does not use a touch screen and is actually …
Continue readingHow to Design Mobile Software Like a Pro: Rule #2
Rule #1 was Design with Consistency. Rule #2 is Enable Keyboard Shortcuts. The great majority of Windows Mobile devices have hardware buttons and keyboards/keypads. Beginning with Windows Mobile 5, the operating system was designed to take advantage of hardware buttons for increased user interaction efficiency and usability. Windows Mobile has two hardware keys that are assigned to the left and right bottom bar menus/functions also known as soft keys. This makes it very easy to …
Continue readingWindows Mobile Continues to Gain Market Share
According to Reuters: Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, has predicted its Windows Mobile license sales will reach 20 million in its fiscal year ending in June, nearly doubling its sales from a year earlier. … “(Gaining market share) is going to happen, in our view, as a platform play. The way for us to be successful in that is to get big numbers and a bigger percentage of that pie,” said Bach. Analysts estimate …
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