Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The Most Innovative Use For Your Pocket PC?
Posted by Jon Westfall in "THOUGHT" @ 05:00 AM
"I had an interesting experience with a cool Windows Mobile app last night. I was invited for dinner to someone's house for the first time. While driving to their house, I remembered good etiquette and decided to pick up a small gift...Someone once gave my family an indoor plant, and I thought that was a very thoughtful gesture. So I drove up to a Fred Meyer store and started looking in the plants department. I found some great looking plants but then began to wonder if it really is an appropriate gift. Some people spend way too much time growing things around their house while others simply neglect plants. If only I could peek at this family's backyard or landscaping, I might be able to guess whether they're "plant people". Oh, and do they even have a yard? What kind of house is it – an apartment, condo, townhouse or something larger? While pondering all this, I suddenly remembered having Virtual Earth Mobile installed on my Pocket PC. So I quickly loaded it up and entered my host's address (from an email invitation). In a few seconds I had a direct bird's eye view of their home and neighborhood. "
Mel Sampat wrote the above entry in the Windows Mobile Team Blog earlier this year, giving a great example of using a cool program for an innovative and unexpected use (After all, Virtual Earth Mobile probably wasn't designed to allow you to give better gifts!). It got me wondering just what kinds of innovative, outside-the-box ideas our community has had and executed on a Windows Mobile device. What have you done that has stretched your Pocket PC (or its applications) beyond their original purposes, and has it worked?
Mel Sampat wrote the above entry in the Windows Mobile Team Blog earlier this year, giving a great example of using a cool program for an innovative and unexpected use (After all, Virtual Earth Mobile probably wasn't designed to allow you to give better gifts!). It got me wondering just what kinds of innovative, outside-the-box ideas our community has had and executed on a Windows Mobile device. What have you done that has stretched your Pocket PC (or its applications) beyond their original purposes, and has it worked?