Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Pocket PC Update: So-So
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 09:12 PM
"Microsoft's operating system for handhelds is getting a face-lift and a new name. The upgrade, based on Windows Pocket PC 2002, will be branded as Windows Mobile 2003 (a name of future Smartphone OS upgrades also). The latest PDA upgrade is by no means a must-have, but it does deliver assorted tweaks and may also be available as an easy download for some Pocket PC 2002 devices. We tried Windows Mobile out on Hewlett-Packard's new IPaq H2210, as well as on a wireless-enabled Toshiba E755 with its OS upgraded.
In using the E755, we found it easier to set up a Wi-Fi connection with Windows Mobile than with Pocket PC 2002, though the process still wasn't quite as simple as on Palm's Tungsten C (see our review). Pocket Internet Explorer adds support for XHTML, CSS, HTML 4.0, Jscript 5.5, and other Web standards, which lets you access more Web content. The upgrade rendered popular Web sites legible on the Toshiba's small screen."
Ouch - talk about a painfully cursory look at Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. Then again, this might be indicitave of what most users pick it up for the first time - on the surface, not much is different than 2002. But hey, they never mentioned the photo app! :lol: You'd think they'd try to dig a little deeper...
[This is our first post since fixing the email blast feature. We think. If you turned that feature off in your account, you should not receive this via email and should only see it on the home page. If you do receive this via email, and you don't want to in the future, please return to the Pocket PC Thoughts home page and click on CUSTOMIZE in the upper-right corner, then turn off the email blast function.]
In using the E755, we found it easier to set up a Wi-Fi connection with Windows Mobile than with Pocket PC 2002, though the process still wasn't quite as simple as on Palm's Tungsten C (see our review). Pocket Internet Explorer adds support for XHTML, CSS, HTML 4.0, Jscript 5.5, and other Web standards, which lets you access more Web content. The upgrade rendered popular Web sites legible on the Toshiba's small screen."
Ouch - talk about a painfully cursory look at Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC. Then again, this might be indicitave of what most users pick it up for the first time - on the surface, not much is different than 2002. But hey, they never mentioned the photo app! :lol: You'd think they'd try to dig a little deeper...
[This is our first post since fixing the email blast feature. We think. If you turned that feature off in your account, you should not receive this via email and should only see it on the home page. If you do receive this via email, and you don't want to in the future, please return to the Pocket PC Thoughts home page and click on CUSTOMIZE in the upper-right corner, then turn off the email blast function.]
