An updated version of the CNetX Flash Format utility is now available for download. With this utility you can format storage cards inserted in your Pocket PC.
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Dinesh Hospeti is is working on a network client for Pocket PCs called PE Net Explorer.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:56 PM |
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An information hub for Pocket PC development / eMbedded Visual Basic - www.deVBuzz.com Even though this site is targeted at developers, there is a lot of Pocket PC information here that might be of interest to you.
posted by Frank McPherson 5:21 PM |
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SQL procedures in the CDB database?? One of the problems with Pocket Access is that you cannot synchronize SQL queries that you write in Access down to the device. This article shows a way to sync queries, but you need to write a program to take advantage of it.
posted by Frank McPherson 4:52 PM |
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iPAQ guts on the web. (Hum to the tune Dead Skunks on the Road.)
posted by Frank McPherson 12:30 PM |
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Unwired-I.Net - Arne's Unwired Internet Diary Arne has posted pictures from CeBIT, which include pics of the Siemens MultiMobile and Stinger phones.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:27 PM |
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Dale and Jason saw the iKIT CDMA expansion pack for the iPAQ at CTIA, and are geeked up about it. Two of Jason's PocketPC columns from CTIA are posted, and I believe at least one more is on the way.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:25 PM |
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HP Jornada PC Companions - HP Jornada 700 Series - Comparison Now this is interesting. This comparison suggests that the 710 won't be sold in the US. The main difference from the 720 is that the 710 won't have a built-in modem, nor come with a cradle.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:39 PM |
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Service Pack 1 for the Pocket PC Now available for download. Note: This service pack takes up 950K of RAM storage space. You should only install it if you are experiencing the problems explained in this knowledgebase article.
posted by Frank McPherson 10:51 PM |
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SemperAptus.com - Homepage for the Internet Connected I thought for sure Dan Hanttula would have some information about the new HPs since he seems to have connections with them, but his sight has nothing. In fact, it looks like his sight has been updated in a while. He is probably suffering from post-writing-the-book syndrom.
posted by Frank McPherson 10:16 PM |
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HP Jornada PC Companions - Home How clueless is HP? They are making announcements at CeBIT this week regarding new Jornadas and their web site dedicated to them doesn't have a shred of information. Their German subsidiary does have a page up with a bit of information, but not much in the way of details. I've read a fair amount of information about these new devices, and all of it is conflicting. I have yet to find anything official from HP about the price of the 525 and the information I have seen has prices ranging from $350 to $425. Then there is the 710, which I thought was supposed to be a lower cost handheld, but the price I see puts it at the 720 level for price, which makes some sense since it seems to have the same specs.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:57 PM |
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Pen Computing's Conrad Blickenstorfer reported to Brighthand that the screen on the Jornada 525 appears to be brighter than the 545's. It seems that the by "lower cost screen" they meant 256 colors. Conrad also reports that the 525 does come with a lid, but he seems to think that you could attach one of the color lids that you can buy from HP Shopping.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:36 PM |
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Smaller.com is covering all the cell phone announcements at CeBIT. All of them are GPRS phones.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:20 PM |
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Dale has played with the new HP 525, and he reports that it does not have a flip-top cover and a 256 color depth screen. Though the processor is the same, Dale says the 525 runs faster. It sounds like some interesting trade-offs were made, the question is, will it sell? So far I haven't seen an official price though speculation is around $350.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:02 PM |
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HP Press Release: HP Introduces Mobile Products, Solutions to Transform Daily Life and Business at CeBIT 2001 This is the official HP Press Release relating to all of their announcements today. Brighthand links to this article with text suggesting that the new color Pocket PC will be less than $400, but this press release says nothing about price.
posted by Frank McPherson 7:15 PM |
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BrightHand "It simply does not convey solidity." Is solidity a word? By goosh it is! Learn something new every day.
posted by Frank McPherson 7:11 PM |
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Mobile Devices: Events The Pocket PC Pastor didn't take as good a picture.
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Mobile Devices: Events Jason! You've been caught in the act. I wonder if customs is starting to look at you strange with all the trips to the US you have been making lately? :)
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pocketPCpassion Dales has links to yesterday's Pocket PC-related press releases from CTIA. Most interesting of these is news that Socket demonstrated printing from a Pocket PC using Bluetooth and an Epson Stylus 777 printer.
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OmniSky: Products and Services: HP Jornada: Home Real soon now I will be surfing the wireless web. One of these Ministrel modems is in route via FedEx. I am looking forward to getting this guy connected to my HP Jornada Pocket PC.
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Yahoo - Socket Demonstrates Pocket PC Bluetooth Solution on Sprint PCS Wireless Network Using DENSO Bluetooth Phone We are getting closer and closer to realizing the promise of Bluetooth. The question now is, how fast will Bluetooth-capable phones hit the market, and how soon will Socket get their card out? I wonder which Pocket PC was used for this demo?
posted by Frank McPherson 11:26 PM |
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Krakow on the M505 "Now, I feel it’s my responsibility to discuss the quality of the color screen. If you’re thinking color screen like the one on a PocketPC, Handspring Prism or even the dearly departed Palm IIIc — forget it! It’s more like the color screens on a Color Game Boy"
posted by Frank McPherson 11:19 PM |
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Microsoft targets smart phones and pagers in latest deals The MSN pager will be $100. I wonder how much the service will cost?
posted by Frank McPherson 9:06 PM |
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Microsoft snags J.D. Edwards for Pocket PC - Tech News - CNET.com "Microsoft will announce that J.D. Edwards will market its corporate software programs exclusively for Microsoft's Pocket PC handheld computer platform, rather than for rivals like Palm, Dow Jones News reported."
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Presenter.com "Creating PowerPoint presentations for Pocket PC-enabled devices is fast and inexpensive. Mobile professionals simply upload their PowerPoint slides to their account on the Presenter, Inc. Web site (www.presenter.com) where they get converted and can then be downloaded to their Pocket PC for personal or shared viewing."
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infoSync : HP Jornada 525 pictures blooper Nothing earth shattering here. Everything looks the same except for a different color of the case. There is no way a photograph is going to tell anyone how good the screen looks.
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Microsoft Makes Headway with Mobile Deals These announcements aren't particularly important to Pocket PC users, but interesting nonetheless. Apparently Microsoft has signed a deal with Motorola for a version of their 2-way pager tied with MSN, just like AOL and Yahoo have down with RIM. Personally, I think the RIM pager is better. There are also deals with Mitsubishi for using Mobile Explorer and Stinger, and mention of the HP Jornada 525.
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Yesterday Microsoft announced Hailstorm. It is basically the storage of data on centralized Microsoft servers. To store your information on those servers one will have to pay a subscription fee. So the question to Pocket PC users will be, do you want to store your Pocket Outlook data on Microsoft's servers? (Assuming that a server sync product is made available to enable Pocket PCs to support Hailstorm.) I personally don't have a problem with Microsoft trying to sell this service, and I might even consider it. What everyone I think needs to pay attention to is whether you can use their products without Hailstorm if you choose to. For Pocket PC users that means still being able to sync data with Outlook on a desktop computer or sync with a server. If Microsoft forces us down the server path then many (including myself) may strongly consider using other products.
Obviuosly, those who think Microsoft's Internet security is shoddy at best will think that this is a dumb idea.
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BrightHand says the HP Jornada 525 will be silver like the iPAQ and cost $359, only $10 more than the monochrome iPAQ. Now, will that put pressure on Compaq to bring the price of the 3150 down?
Steve also says that HP will be announcing a Type I CompactFlash digital camera at CeBIT. Hmmm... interesting.
posted by Frank McPherson 6:14 PM |
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Archived MobileViews Commentaries Fellow MVP Todd Ogasawara has started a weblog, and it appears ready for Avantgo as well.
posted by Frank McPherson 5:48 PM |
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If you travel a lot with your Pocket PC you may know how frustrating it can be to schedule appointments across time zones. Dale found this Pocket Calendar plugin that makes it easier to fix appointments so that they are correct for the time zone in which the appointment will occur. It's not as easy as simply specifying in the appointment slip the time zone, but from the description it sounds like this plugin will do the trick.
posted by Frank McPherson 1:39 PM |
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pocketPCpassion has two bits of news relating to updates for Pocket PCs. First is the PC Card fix for those iPAQS running ROM 1.28 and 1.69. This fix addresses problems people have had getting CompactFlash modem cards to work with their iPAQs. I believe the update replaces the PCMCIA.DLL file on the device. The file name for this Softpaq is SP16775.EXE, and information about this patch came out last Friday.
What is news is another patch to update the USB and serial drivers on iPAQs running ROM 1.28, and the file name is SP16776.EXE. It sounds like this patch provides USB part of the 1.69 Flash ROM upgrade, which was the main reason for the upgrade in the first place.
You will notice that both of these upgrades do not Flash your device. Rather, the follow the traditional method of updating Windows CE by copying over existing ROM files in RAM. (This is a feature called shadow RAM.) Since the USB & serial drivers may have been the main cause of the problems that existed when flashing iPAQs to Version 1.69, my guess is that when Compaq re-releases the 1.69 Flash update you will be required to install this driver first.
Finally, Dale also points to information about Service Pack 1 for Pocket PCs, which is provided by a Microsoft Knowledgebase article. I suspect these contain the Microsoft updates that are part of Compaq's 1.69 Flash ROM, and previously not available for other Pocket PCs. Since you don't flash other devices keep in mind that installing this service pack will use internal storage space. So far I haven't found the actual service pack files. In the past those have been provided by the hardware OEMs.
posted by Frank McPherson 1:23 PM |
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HP to unveil a less pricey handheld - Tech News - CNET.com The CeBIT conference is this week, and HP will be making some news officially announcing the price for the new Jornada 525 Pocket PC. Supposedly HP will be lowering the price because they are changing the screen technology. If memory serves me right, Compaq also announced that they will be changing their screen technology. Could Compaq come out with a cheaper color iPAQ?
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Yahoo - Iomega PocketZip Drive Compatible With New Compaq iPAQ Dual PC Card Expansion Pack Ever since the Clik! drives were first announced Handheld and Pocket PC users have wished that they could use these drives with their devices. It now appears that some users will have this wish realized provided that they buy the $199 dual PC Card sleeve. The problem has been due to the fact that while the PocketZip drive is a Type II card, it requires Type III rails. I believe this means that when you put the PocketZip drive in the sleeve you will not be able to use any other card.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:52 PM |
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Q266119 - Money for the Pocket PC: Unresolved Items Remain After Synchronization "After you synchronize Microsoft Money 2000 or Microsoft Money 2001 with Microsoft Money for the Pocket PC, Microsoft ActiveSync may indicate that unresolved items remain to be synchronized. This symptom continues to occur after you click Resolve items."
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PocketMoney for PalmOS One of the things not mentioned on the page describing the alpha version of PocketMoney for Pocket PCs is whether it will sync with Quick or MS Money. As you can see on this page describing the Palm OS version, that version includes Macintosh and Windows conduits for uploading and downloading Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) and Tab Delimited Format (TDF) data. If the Pocket PC version of this program provides with interchange of data with Quicken and MS Money then this will be a very popular program amongst Pocket PC users.
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PocketMoney for Windows CE PocketMoney is the very first money management program that I every used on a handheld. Back in '94 it ran on the Newton OS, and I used it as my main money mangement program when I used my Newton. In '99 it was ported to the Palm OS, and now it is being ported to Pocket PC. Even though Catamount hired Jarosoft to write this program, I think it is very good news that another long time handheld developer is now supporting the Pocket PC.
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