Friday, October 27, 2006
Windows Mobile "Crossbow" Preview!
Posted by Rocco Augusto in "NEWS" @ 01:07 PM
http://www.gpspassion.com/fr/articles.asp?id=60&page=2
"These days there is quite a bit of confusion between Smartphones and PDAPhones, but when Smartphones first came out at the tail end of 2002 with the Orange SPV / Qtek 1010 they were the first phones running on a Windows/WinCE platform. At the time WinCE was used mostly on PocketPCs that came all the way from the fist Windows CE 1.0 devices launched in 1997. A lot of "convergence" has happened since, with PocketPCs having had GPS and GSM/CDMA modules grafted on and Smartphones acquiring more power and the higher resolution screens of the PocketPCs. Today, the main differences are the touchscreen that remains a PDA exclusive and a more limited number of applications running on Smartphones, notably Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and GPS related."
This screenshot is a thing of beauty! I honestly was starting to wonder if we would ever see Office Mobile and Voice Command make their presence felt on the Smartphone. It appears that the powers that be inside of Microsoft have heard our cries and for that I am grateful. The good news is that Crossbow will be released to manufacturers at the end of this year so we should start to see new devices with the Crossbow platform around the second half of 2007! :D
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