The Windows Mobile Device team is having an online chat today at 6pm EST. Add it to your Outlook calendar or go to the chat room Originally published on Pocketnow on February 26, 2004. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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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
FutureCom’s NETA 940 Tablet
Here’s a new Windows CE.NET based web tablet for mobile computing. It’s got an 8.4″ screen, WiFi support, Transmeta™ TM5600 processor 500MHz, 128Mb RAM, PCMCIA type II, USB ports, Firewire, Ethernet port, 56K modem and IrDA. Since it runs on Windows CE.NET it’s also got Internet Explorer 5.5, however it sounds like Windows CE doesn’t come with slimmed down versions of PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook anymore. It only includes Word, along with PowerPoint and …
Continue readingNew MicroNav pointing device could offer better tactile navigation
Interlink Electronics has developed an interesting new type of pointing device designed for use in portable consumer electronics such as phones, PDAs, etc. The MicroNav technology seems to offer a similar interface to the mini-joysticks found on many laptop computers, but this should give you smoother control in a smaller footprint. This might be quite nice if PDA manufactures could implement it in an area on the side of the PDA where my thumb would …
Continue readingECTACO English->Dutch Talking Partner Dictionary
“The new EnglishDutch dictionary can pronounce the English words. It is an extensive language resource. It features a searchable database of 400,000 words and phrases. Each entry is completed with part of speech information and provides several lexical meanings for all polysemantic words. The new software is a combination of ease-of-use and flexibility.” Originally published on Pocketnow on February 18, 2004. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingFirst Pocket PC with built in GPS coming soon to Taiwan
MiTAC just announced the Mio 168, which is a Pocket PC with a built-in GPS receiver. I’m not so sure about having built-in GPS if it can’t get a fix in my pocket. What do you think? Is this better than a separate Bluetooth GPS reciever? Originally published on Pocketnow on February 18, 2004. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingREAL pictures of the Motorola MPx220 smartphone have surfaced.
MSMobiles has found some real photos of the upcoming Motorola MPx220 smartphone. The phone will have a built in camera, Bluetooth, external color display, and the Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 operating system. Originally published on Pocketnow on February 17, 2004. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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