We’ve seen Windows Mobile Standard get quite a significant upgrade in version 6.1, while Windows Mobile Pro only gained a few minor enhancements. The leaked Windows Mobile 7 screenshots seem to indicate the new OS will be primarily based on Windows Mobile Standard. Fans of Windows Mobile Pro’s flexibility and power may have some concerns about this. As seen in this post 4 years ago, we know that Microsoft had been working on a Today …
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Why We Love the Windows Mobile Start Menu
The Windows Mobile Start menu gets a lot of flack sometimes. It’s always up there in the top left corner of your screen taking up space. There’s even speculation of it being removed from Windows Mobile 7, at least in its Windows Mobile Professional/Pocket PC form. If this is true, I believe it will be a very unwise decision and I’ll tell you why. Read on… Originally published on Pocketnow on May 23, 2008. More …
Continue readingBig Design Challenges for Windows Mobile
There have been rumors that Microsoft is planning to fold all of the various current versions of Windows Mobile into one in the future. The advantage to this would be that developers only have to create programs for one platform, users would only have to learn one platform, and it would increase the level of consistency in Windows Mobile thus also increasing the sense of intuitiveness across a variety of Windows Mobile devices. The problem …
Continue readingHow to Design a Killer GPS Navigation Program
GPS Navigation programs for Windows Mobile and Pocket PCs have been around for a long time. Since the turn of the century, Windows CE has been the preferred platform for voice-guided GPS Navigation applications. You would think the developers of these essential programs would have gotten it right by now. Unfortunately, this is not so, and most GPS Navigation programs are actually removing and breaking more features than they fix. Click here to see how …
Continue readingThe Mobile Web Must Live On!
Today, the Mobile Gadgeteer has written about how Mowser has ended it’s services. I guess Mowser was a website transcoding service that automatically reformatted websites for easier reading on small screened mobile devices. I never heard of Mowser, but had been using Skweezer, MobileLeap, and Live Search to do that kind of thing on Pocket Internet Explorer. One of Mowser’s founders posted a blog entry saying that the mobile web will never be popular. I …
Continue readingChronicles of a Windows Mobile User Gone Blackberry: Part 2
I’ve been getting to know the Blackberry 8820 for a few days now. In part 1, I covered my very early initial first impression as well as some tests with the GPS program. Today I’d like to talk about the thing that it’s widely regarded to do best; E-mail. Click on to read the rest of this article. Originally published on Pocketnow on April 14, 2008. More Thought articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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