Check out http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - I've recently published a lot
of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
Mini)

--


--
Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.

Werner Menneisyys Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices] wrote:
> Check out http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - I've recently published a lot
> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
> Mini)
>
> --
>
>
> --
> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.

Thanks and being on a PPC right now I couldn't look at all the pages
so I have quick question.

Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
compatible with version 8.

TIA

"Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> schreef in bericht
news:2475852e-b25d-40ae-8d6a-2de8c081758b@z20g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> Werner Menneisyys Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices] wrote:
>> Check out http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - I've recently published a
>> lot
>> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
>> Mini)
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> --
>> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile
>> Devices
>> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
>> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
>
> Thanks and being on a PPC right now I couldn't look at all the pages
> so I have quick question.
>
> Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
> compatible with version 8.


I use PocketXpdf for that. (Don't know about compatible with version 8).



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At 11 Jun 2009 22:51:42 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:
>
> "Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> schreef in bericht
> news:2475852e-b25d-40ae-8d6a-2de8c081758b@z20g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> > Werner Menneisyys Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices] wrote:
> >> Check out http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - I've recently published
a
> >> lot
> >> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
> >> Mini)
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile
> >> Devices
> >> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
> >> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
> >
> > Thanks and being on a PPC right now I couldn't look at all the pages
> > so I have quick question.
> >
> > Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
> > compatible with version 8.
>
>
> I use PocketXpdf for that. (Don't know about compatible with version 8).


How is that working these days? Last time I tried it (well over a year ago)
it was pretty flakey and crashed trying to openlarge PDFs.

Because of the the scrol'ing, I've all but given up on PDFs on WinMo. I
convert the ones I need to carry around to Word docs using the free online
service at <http://www.pdf-online.com>.

You upload your (unprotected!) .pdf and it returns an .rtf with virtually
all formatting intact. I then convert that .rtf to .docx in Word to bring
the filesize down a bit. (The resulting Word doc is still 5X the size of
the original .pdf, however.)

On 11 June, 13:11, "Werner \"Menneisyys\" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows
- Mobile Devices]" <!ei.maileja@kiitos!> wrote:
> Check outhttp://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/- I've recently published a lot
> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
> Mini)
>
> --
>
> --
> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) athttp://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/- you will definitely like it.

Thanks Werner. Are you working on a review of Opera Mobile beta 9.7 by
any chance? I was wondering if it's worth switching from the best
previous 9.5 (Omnia) versions.

I'll check it at once and publish a mini-review.

--


--
Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.


"tony72" <tony72******.com> wrote in message
news:4efd0ad8-98d6-40dd-88b0-011a9e23b408@d7g2000prl.googlegroups.com...
> On 11 June, 13:11, "Werner \"Menneisyys\" Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows
> - Mobile Devices]" <!ei.maileja@kiitos!> wrote:
>> Check outhttp://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/- I've recently published a lot
>> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for Opera
>> Mini)
>>
>> --
>>
>> --
>> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile
>> Devices
>> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine)
>> athttp://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/- you will definitely like it.
>
> Thanks Werner. Are you working on a review of Opera Mobile beta 9.7 by
> any chance? I was wondering if it's worth switching from the best
> previous 9.5 (Omnia) versions.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> schreef in bericht
news:0YeYl.941$N_3.543@newsfe14.iad...
> At 11 Jun 2009 22:51:42 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:
>>
>> "Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> schreef in bericht
>> news:2475852e-b25d-40ae-8d6a-2de8c081758b@z20g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>> > Werner Menneisyys Ruotsalainen [MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices] wrote:
>> >> Check out http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - I've recently published
> a
>> >> lot
>> >> of articles, reviews and even inventions (e.g., a text copier for
>> >> Opera
>> >> Mini)
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile
>> >> Devices
>> >> Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
>> >> http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.
>> >
>> > Thanks and being on a PPC right now I couldn't look at all the pages
>> > so I have quick question.
>> >
>> > Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
>> > compatible with version 8.
>>
>>
>> I use PocketXpdf for that. (Don't know about compatible with version 8).
>
>
> How is that working these days? Last time I tried it (well over a year
> ago)
> it was pretty flakey and crashed trying to openlarge PDFs.


Well, to be honest I don't use it very often. Yesterday when writing my
reply, I decided to check wether I have the latest version. Checking at
http://pocketxpdf.sourceforge.net/ you can see that version is still at v
0.5 (2006!)


>
> Because of the the scrol'ing, I've all but given up on PDFs on WinMo. I
> convert the ones I need to carry around to Word docs using the free online
> service at <http://www.pdf-online.com>.


You mean there's no scrolling involved with Word? Yes I can remember having
some crashes too, but that goes for many other WM applications apparently. I
was about to give up on WM2003SE, but then I could aswell dispose my mobile
device, because there are no updates to be expected. And I won't because it
was expensive.


>
> You upload your (unprotected!) .pdf and it returns an .rtf with virtually
> all formatting intact. I then convert that .rtf to .docx in Word to bring
> the filesize down a bit. (The resulting Word doc is still 5X the size of
> the original .pdf, however.)


That's another advantage :-))


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"Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.invalid> wrote in message
news:OjS0wZ56JHA.1716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> > Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
>>> > compatible with version 8.
>>>
>>>
>>> I use PocketXpdf for that. (Don't know about compatible with version 8).
>>
>>
>> How is that working these days? Last time I tried it (well over a year
>> ago)
>> it was pretty flakey and crashed trying to openlarge PDFs.
>
>
> Well, to be honest I don't use it very often. Yesterday when writing my
> reply, I decided to check wether I have the latest version. Checking at
> http://pocketxpdf.sourceforge.net/ you can see that version is still at v
> 0.5 (2006!)
>

Hmmm... That's the one I have. To answer Roger's question, I don't think
Adobe 8 format existed in 2006, so unless the guys who made PocketXPDF were
psychic...



>> Because of the the scrol'ing, I've all but given up on PDFs on WinMo. I
>> convert the ones I need to carry around to Word docs using the free
>> online
>> service at <http://www.pdf-online.com>.
>
>
> You mean there's no scrolling involved with Word?

Not horizontal, since Word will wrap text to the screen. I don't mind
vertical scrolling- that's like turning a page. But horizontal scrolling to
read each and every line of text? That's a deal-breaker.

Obviously for diagrams/charts/images etc. that can be a problem, but then
you're still no worse off than you were with the original PDF.

> Yes I can remember having some crashes too, but that goes for many other
> WM applications apparently.

My point was Xpdf crashed on files that Adobe Reader for PPC didn't.
Therefore there was little/no advantage to using it over the "real" Adobe
product.

In addition, installing Adobe Reader for PPC on your PC added a plug-in to
Activesync to "tag" PDFs and reformat them for the small screen-
unfortunately that process was hit and miss, and only worked for documents
you synced from PC to PPC- not for anything you might download directly on
the device, or receive as an email attachment.

> I was about to give up on WM2003SE, but then I could aswell dispose my
> mobile device, because there are no updates to be expected. And I won't
> because it was expensive.

In many ways, WM2003SE is still the best Windows Mobile OS in terms of speed
and memory usage. Very few of its flaws can't be solved with third-party
software, and very few native features of newer versions of WinMo can't be
added the same way. I've grudingly moved on to WM6, since the hardware
features I want are only available on newer devices, but I still have my old
WM2003 Dell Axim X5 as a backup.


>> You upload your (unprotected!) .pdf and it returns an .rtf with virtually
>> all formatting intact. I then convert that .rtf to .docx in Word to
>> bring
>> the filesize down a bit. (The resulting Word doc is still 5X the size of
>> the original .pdf, however.)
>
>
> That's another advantage :-))

It would be, if I didn't have to scroll back and forth to read each and
every line of text in a PDF. Using a PDF on WinMo is like watching a tennis
match! Of course, converting large PDFs to Word is no picnic either-
besides the giant file sizes produced eating storage space, the newer
versions of Word take AGES to open large Word docs. Some take up to a
couple of minutes just to open! For reference PDFs I need to carry around,
I convert to Word then break the word docs into smaller more PPC-managable
sizes. One 280k doc I opened took about a minute to load. PPC2003, using
Pocket word docs, is MUCH faster.

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> schreef in bericht
news:uSLMkG66JHA.5180@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> "Linea Recta" <mccm.vos@abc.invalid> wrote in message
> news:OjS0wZ56JHA.1716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> > Is there a new Adobe PDF reader for mobile yet? I need something
>>>> > compatible with version 8.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I use PocketXpdf for that. (Don't know about compatible with version
>>>> 8).
>>>
>>>
>>> How is that working these days? Last time I tried it (well over a year
>>> ago)
>>> it was pretty flakey and crashed trying to openlarge PDFs.
>>
>>
>> Well, to be honest I don't use it very often. Yesterday when writing my
>> reply, I decided to check wether I have the latest version. Checking at
>> http://pocketxpdf.sourceforge.net/ you can see that version is still at v
>> 0.5 (2006!)
>>
>
> Hmmm... That's the one I have. To answer Roger's question, I don't think
> Adobe 8 format existed in 2006, so unless the guys who made PocketXPDF
> were psychic...
>
>
>
>>> Because of the the scrol'ing, I've all but given up on PDFs on WinMo. I
>>> convert the ones I need to carry around to Word docs using the free
>>> online
>>> service at <http://www.pdf-online.com>.
>>
>>
>> You mean there's no scrolling involved with Word?
>
> Not horizontal, since Word will wrap text to the screen. I don't mind
> vertical scrolling- that's like turning a page. But horizontal scrolling
> to read each and every line of text? That's a deal-breaker.
>
> Obviously for diagrams/charts/images etc. that can be a problem, but then
> you're still no worse off than you were with the original PDF.
>
>> Yes I can remember having some crashes too, but that goes for many other
>> WM applications apparently.
>
> My point was Xpdf crashed on files that Adobe Reader for PPC didn't.
> Therefore there was little/no advantage to using it over the "real" Adobe
> product.


I didn't realize that there was an Adobe Reader for PPC. Just had a quick
look at their site, but clicking on a menu item "mobile" resulted in a very
noisy animation and no trace of a Reader for PPC. This puts me off, having
little time at the moment. And it's not free I suppose?


>
> In addition, installing Adobe Reader for PPC on your PC added a plug-in to
> Activesync to "tag" PDFs and reformat them for the small screen-
> unfortunately that process was hit and miss, and only worked for documents
> you synced from PC to PPC- not for anything you might download directly on
> the device, or receive as an email attachment.


Just checking in my Activesync (4.2), but I didn't see .pdf under
conversion. On the PC I have installed Acrobat 8.1.3.


>
>> I was about to give up on WM2003SE, but then I could aswell dispose my
>> mobile device, because there are no updates to be expected. And I won't
>> because it was expensive.
>
> In many ways, WM2003SE is still the best Windows Mobile OS in terms of
> speed and memory usage. Very few of its flaws can't be solved with
> third-party software, and very few native features of newer versions of
> WinMo can't be added the same way. I've grudingly moved on to WM6, since
> the hardware features I want are only available on newer devices, but I
> still have my old WM2003 Dell Axim X5 as a backup.


Gosh, so my hopes on improvements in new WM versions appear to be illusive.
Added to that the fact that nowadays many WM applications only run on WM 5
or 6.



>
>
>>> You upload your (unprotected!) .pdf and it returns an .rtf with
>>> virtually
>>> all formatting intact. I then convert that .rtf to .docx in Word to
>>> bring
>>> the filesize down a bit. (The resulting Word doc is still 5X the size
>>> of
>>> the original .pdf, however.)
>>
>>
>> That's another advantage :-))
>
> It would be, if I didn't have to scroll back and forth to read each and
> every line of text in a PDF. Using a PDF on WinMo is like watching a
> tennis match! Of course, converting large PDFs to Word is no picnic
> either- besides the giant file sizes produced eating storage space, the
> newer versions of Word take AGES to open large Word docs. Some take up to
> a couple of minutes just to open! For reference PDFs I need to carry
> around, I convert to Word then break the word docs into smaller more
> PPC-managable sizes. One 280k doc I opened took about a minute to load.
> PPC2003, using Pocket word docs, is MUCH faster.


The only applications on my PPC that run satisfactory are the car navigation
programs.
I have been struggling with e-mail... Web browsing is also disapointing.
Most current pages are not displayed in a useful manner.

Then, last but not least: when I tried to implement WM password protection,
it seems I'm not even allowed to make up my own password! I'm speechless...

I understand that mobile devices have their limitations, but all
above-mentioned constraints are needless.


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At 13 Jun 2009 19:39:12 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:

> I didn't realize that there was an Adobe Reader for PPC. Just had a quick
> look at their site, but clicking on a menu item "mobile" resulted in a
very
> noisy animation and no trace of a Reader for PPC. This puts me off,
having
> little time at the moment. And it's not free I suppose?


It's free, and available here:

<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html>

> > In addition, installing Adobe Reader for PPC on your PC added a plug-in
to
> > Activesync to "tag" PDFs and reformat them for the small screen-
> > unfortunately that process was hit and miss, and only worked for
documents
> > you synced from PC to PPC- not for anything you might download directly
on
> > the device, or receive as an email attachment.
>
>
> Just checking in my Activesync (4.2), but I didn't see .pdf under
> conversion. On the PC I have installed Acrobat 8.1.3.


You need to install the PPC installer (at the lin above) on your PC for the
converter to install, and then Reader installs on the device at next sync.


> > In many ways, WM2003SE is still the best Windows Mobile OS in terms of
> > speed and memory usage. Very few of its flaws can't be solved with
> > third-party software, and very few native features of newer versions of
> > WinMo can't be added the same way. I've grudingly moved on to WM6,
since
> > the hardware features I want are only available on newer devices, but I
> > still have my old WM2003 Dell Axim X5 as a backup.
>
>
> Gosh, so my hopes on improvements in new WM versions appear to be illusive.

> Added to that the fact that nowadays many WM applications only run on WM
5
> or 6.


True- I don't mind WM 5/6- I just didn't like the switch from battery-
backed RAM to flash memory for on-device storage. While it's nice that
your data survives if the battery runs dead, flash is MUCH slower, so file
reads/writes take much longer. My 400MHz WM2003 device is much snappier
than my 400MHz WM6 phone.


> The only applications on my PPC that run satisfactory are the car
navigation
> programs.
> I have been struggling with e-mail... Web browsing is also disapointing.
> Most current pages are not displayed in a useful manner.

Yeah, I use QMail in conjunction with the built-in messaging app for email
(and for NNTP) and Opera Mini for most browsing, but Opera Mini requires a
Java VM, which most WM5/6 phones include, but most WM2003 devices do not.


> Then, last but not least: when I tried to implement WM password protection,

> it seems I'm not even allowed to make up my own password! I'm speechless...


I remember...

> I understand that mobile devices have their limitations, but all
> above-mentioned constraints are needless.

Still beats the alternatives; I always joke WinMo is the worst mobile OS
out there, except for all the others! ;)

"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> schreef in bericht
news:SrYYl.748$9Z.188@newsfe08.iad...
> At 13 Jun 2009 19:39:12 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:
>
>> I didn't realize that there was an Adobe Reader for PPC. Just had a quick
>> look at their site, but clicking on a menu item "mobile" resulted in a
> very
>> noisy animation and no trace of a Reader for PPC. This puts me off,
> having
>> little time at the moment. And it's not free I suppose?
>
>
> It's free, and available here:
>
> <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html>


Thanks very much. I installed it to my SD card and my first impression is
very good. It's fast and it hasn't even crashed yet. :-)


>
>> > In addition, installing Adobe Reader for PPC on your PC added a plug-in
> to
>> > Activesync to "tag" PDFs and reformat them for the small screen-
>> > unfortunately that process was hit and miss, and only worked for
> documents
>> > you synced from PC to PPC- not for anything you might download directly
> on
>> > the device, or receive as an email attachment.
>>
>>
>> Just checking in my Activesync (4.2), but I didn't see .pdf under
>> conversion. On the PC I have installed Acrobat 8.1.3.
>
>
> You need to install the PPC installer (at the lin above) on your PC for
> the
> converter to install, and then Reader installs on the device at next sync.


That all seems to work OK. It seems conversion (or tagging as it is called)
does take a lot of time, but I suppose this is also due to the fact that I
have ActiveSync through Bluetooth connection... Apparently there are many
different .pdf sub-formats. (a little like the .avi story if you know what I
mean).



>
>> > In many ways, WM2003SE is still the best Windows Mobile OS in terms of
>> > speed and memory usage. Very few of its flaws can't be solved with
>> > third-party software, and very few native features of newer versions of
>> > WinMo can't be added the same way. I've grudingly moved on to WM6,
> since
>> > the hardware features I want are only available on newer devices, but I
>> > still have my old WM2003 Dell Axim X5 as a backup.
>>
>>
>> Gosh, so my hopes on improvements in new WM versions appear to be
>> illusive.
>
>> Added to that the fact that nowadays many WM applications only run on WM
> 5
>> or 6.
>
>
> True- I don't mind WM 5/6- I just didn't like the switch from battery-
> backed RAM to flash memory for on-device storage. While it's nice that
> your data survives if the battery runs dead,


Nice? That's a "nice" understatement :-))



> flash is MUCH slower, so file
> reads/writes take much longer. My 400MHz WM2003 device is much snappier
> than my 400MHz WM6 phone.
>
>
>> The only applications on my PPC that run satisfactory are the car
> navigation
>> programs.
>> I have been struggling with e-mail... Web browsing is also disapointing.
>> Most current pages are not displayed in a useful manner.
>
> Yeah, I use QMail in conjunction with the built-in messaging app for email
> (and for NNTP) and Opera Mini for most browsing, but Opera Mini requires a
> Java VM, which most WM5/6 phones include, but most WM2003 devices do not.


I have been evaluating QMail some time ago. I had to install a quite old
version for WM2003SE. At first sight it looked great, but it seemed
unreliable. It often crashed hopelessly, had to reset with resulting data
loss. I believe this was when I tried the news reader. Finally I got fed up
and removed the app.

I havn't tried Opera or other browser alternatives yet.



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At 14 Jun 2009 17:08:23 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:

> > True- I don't mind WM 5/6- I just didn't like the switch from battery-
> > backed RAM to flash memory for on-device storage. While it's nice that
> > your data survives if the battery runs dead,
>
>
> Nice? That's a "nice" understatement :-))
Life's full of tradeoffs- I charge my devices nightly, so I never had any
data losses from flat batteries, and made regular backups just in case.
While the flash memory used in WM5/6 solves the dead battery data loss
problem, it does it at the expense of speed. So, for me, it "solved" a
problem I didn't have while creating a new one.

Note that if you have WM2003SE PE, you can use Jbed for Java. With non-PE
versions, it's not possible - there, you need to rely on the much inferior
IBM J9 or TAO.

--


--
Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.


"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
news:SrYYl.748$9Z.188@newsfe08.iad...
> At 13 Jun 2009 19:39:12 +0200 Linea Recta wrote:
>
>> I didn't realize that there was an Adobe Reader for PPC. Just had a quick
>> look at their site, but clicking on a menu item "mobile" resulted in a
> very
>> noisy animation and no trace of a Reader for PPC. This puts me off,
> having
>> little time at the moment. And it's not free I suppose?
>
>
> It's free, and available here:
>
> <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforppc.html>
>
>> > In addition, installing Adobe Reader for PPC on your PC added a plug-in
> to
>> > Activesync to "tag" PDFs and reformat them for the small screen-
>> > unfortunately that process was hit and miss, and only worked for
> documents
>> > you synced from PC to PPC- not for anything you might download directly
> on
>> > the device, or receive as an email attachment.
>>
>>
>> Just checking in my Activesync (4.2), but I didn't see .pdf under
>> conversion. On the PC I have installed Acrobat 8.1.3.
>
>
> You need to install the PPC installer (at the lin above) on your PC for
> the
> converter to install, and then Reader installs on the device at next sync.
>
>
>> > In many ways, WM2003SE is still the best Windows Mobile OS in terms of
>> > speed and memory usage. Very few of its flaws can't be solved with
>> > third-party software, and very few native features of newer versions of
>> > WinMo can't be added the same way. I've grudingly moved on to WM6,
> since
>> > the hardware features I want are only available on newer devices, but I
>> > still have my old WM2003 Dell Axim X5 as a backup.
>>
>>
>> Gosh, so my hopes on improvements in new WM versions appear to be
>> illusive.
>
>> Added to that the fact that nowadays many WM applications only run on WM
> 5
>> or 6.
>
>
> True- I don't mind WM 5/6- I just didn't like the switch from battery-
> backed RAM to flash memory for on-device storage. While it's nice that
> your data survives if the battery runs dead, flash is MUCH slower, so file
> reads/writes take much longer. My 400MHz WM2003 device is much snappier
> than my 400MHz WM6 phone.
>
>
>> The only applications on my PPC that run satisfactory are the car
> navigation
>> programs.
>> I have been struggling with e-mail... Web browsing is also disapointing.
>> Most current pages are not displayed in a useful manner.
>
> Yeah, I use QMail in conjunction with the built-in messaging app for email
> (and for NNTP) and Opera Mini for most browsing, but Opera Mini requires a
> Java VM, which most WM5/6 phones include, but most WM2003 devices do not.
>
>
>> Then, last but not least: when I tried to implement WM password
>> protection,
>
>> it seems I'm not even allowed to make up my own password! I'm
>> speechless...
>
>
> I remember...
>
>> I understand that mobile devices have their limitations, but all
>> above-mentioned constraints are needless.
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> Still beats the alternatives; I always joke WinMo is the worst mobile OS
> out there, except for all the others! ;)
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