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Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, and Smartphone

Q&A: Windows Mobile Pocket PC Web Database Interaction
Reader R.L. asks: came across your Blog and similarly O’Reilly articles. Wonder if you
could help please. Looking for a PDA Application (Mobile Windows) that
has the potential to push and pull data to and from a Web Server based
Database. Effectively allowing such aspects as ‘Search’ (via some nice
GUI tools) that then checks Server (assuming WIFI and/or GPRS enabled)
and brings relevant data about that ‘Object’ to the PDA App screen.
Hope you can help; much appreciated.

You are going to have to build it yourself. Here are a couple of Windows Mobile database tools that might do the trick for you.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition

Syware’s suite of mobile development products

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October 12, 2006
Bye Bye ActiveSync, Hello Windows Mobile Device Center
Bye bye, ActiveSync! Hello, Windows Mobile Device Center (at least for Vista). If you plan on using a Windows Mobile based Pocket PC or Smartphone with Windows Vista, you will need to learn a new and more unmemorable name for the software that syncs with mobile devices. You can find the download for it at…
Microsoft Â® Windows Mobile Â® Device Center Beta 3 for Windows Vistaâ„¢ (x86)
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October 10, 2006
Microsoft Explains Why X Doesn’t Exit Windows Mobile Applications
You wouldn’t think a simple X in the upper right hand corner of a Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PC/Phone Edition would cause so much heated discussion. But, it does. The reason? A Windows Mobile Pocket PC somewhat resembles its older and larger sibling: Microsoft Windows. In all its various versions (from 1.0 to Vista), clicking the X in the upper right hand corner causes the application to close (most of them, anyway).

This doesn’t happen on a Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Clicking the X on a Pocket PC simply leaves the application running in the background and brings the previous application placed in the background to the foreground (makes it visible). Mike Calligaro, of the Microsoft Windows Mobile Team, explains the rationale behind this design choice in his blog entry…

The Emperor Has No Close
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October 9, 2006
Upgrading a Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Ed. Pocket PC to Media Player 10 Mobile
Zack Whittaker over at MSBlog.org asks how to upgrade a Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition Pocket PC to Media Player 10 Mobile. And, the answer is:Â Not from Microsoft. Windows Mobile devices are more like applicances than computers. The large ROM-based applications like Media Player must be burned-in rather than simply installed on top of whatever is there. These firmware based applications are updated by the device manufacturer (not Microsoft). It tends differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. My Dell Axim X50v device, for example, got its Media Player 10 Mobile upgrade with the large AKU2 upgrade Dell made available last year. HP and other firms provided similar upgrades.
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October 8, 2006
HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion
HP’s web site shows their soon-to-be-released GPS, WiFi (802.11b and 802.11g!), Bluetooth, music/photo/video playing, Windows Mobile 5 powered handheld device with a 3.5″ LCD screen (bigger than the Zune’s) with a price of $599.99.

HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion

So, whatever happened to the $500 GPS-enabled UMPC anyway? In any case, CNET has a video review of this new GPS-enabled iPAQ available at the link below.

HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion

Too bad it doesn’t have a QWERTY keyboard of some kind…
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October 5, 2006
Engadget: How-To: Use your EV-DO Pocket PC phone for internet access
Engadget has a step-by-step illustrated tutorial showing how to use a Verizon Wireless Pocket PC Phone Edition (Windows Mobile 5) XV6700 as mobile modem for a notebook. You can find the article at…

How-To: Use your EV-DO Pocket PC phone for internet access
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October 3, 2006