1. What makes the Pocket PC Great for Business?
Chris De Herrera Webmaster, CEWindows.NET Microsoft MVP – Mobile Devices
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2. Leading the Industry
Microsoft has been a leader in implementing new features for Windows CE and the Pocket PC
Hardware
System Architecture
Communications
Software
Community
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3. Hardware Microsoft supports: Added PC Card support in version 1.0
lead the industry in implementing CompactFlash peripherals
Lead the industry in supporting Multimedia Cards and Secure Digital cards
High Resolution Color displays
Voice Recorder
Stereo headphone jack
Buttons - Joystick for Navigation & Games, Jog Wheel
Camera support – HP camera, Nexicam iPAQ Sleeve
Speed – The Pocket PC is still one of the fastest PDAs available
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4. System Architecture Multitasking
Memory Management – automatic, compressed storage, and memory protection
Modular OS architecture supporting DLLs, and NDIS drivers
Multiple CPUs are supported - Arm based: Strong ARM, XScale are supported
GUI - Click & Hold, Auto Save of Documents, Today, Menus with Icons
Support for Microsoft’s Compact .NET Framework
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5. Communications Support for PPP dialup communications
Support for networks, 10MB, 100MB ethernet, b, Proxim
Cell Phones - CDMA, 1xrRTT, GSM, GPRS
Virtual Private Networks
Terminal Services Client, MSN Messenger
Integrated Communications in devices – Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition, Smart Phone 2002
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6. Software Web Browser supporting HTML 3.2, Mazingo
Macromedia Flash 5 – available at philly.pocketpcsummit.com
PIMs: AgendaFusion, Pocket Informant
Video - Windows Media Player, Pocket TV, Pocket Divx
Utilities – VXutil
Includes handwriting recognition technology from Paragraph called Transcriber
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7. Community
Developers - Ilium Software, DeveloperOne, Conduits, JimmySoftware, ZioSoft
Microsoft - Derek Brown recognized the value of community, Beth Goza and the whole marketing and development team.
Websites – Pocket PC Thoughts, Pocket PC Passion, PocketNow, Dave’s Compaq iPAQ, Brighthand and Microsoft’s Mobile Devices Website.
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8. What makes the Pocket PC Great for Business? Question and Answers
Chris De Herrera Webmaster, CEWindows.NET Microsoft MVP – Mobile Devices
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9. What makes the Pocket PC Great for Business?
Chris De Herrera Webmaster, CEWindows.NET Microsoft MVP – Mobile Devices
4/15/2019