Windows Phone Thoughts: 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?