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Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on January 31, 2008, 3:56 pm
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That's why I went with Windows Mobile, rather than something else. I can
write code to fix almost any of those limitations, or at least any that I
thought I was likely to run into. When you get the phone-of-the-day from a
carrier, it's always going to have things that you just can't hope to fix
(like my last one that would not go silent, no matter what, without playing
some sort of tone in the process -- pretty stupid when you want silence).
I use LogMeIn, too. It's pretty helpful, even if you can only see a
fraction of the screen or not be able to read what you can see ;-)
Paul T.
> At 31 Jan 2008 09:07:21 -0700 Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
>> Most people, I think, aren't yet ready to
>> call their WM device a real substitute for their PC.
>
>
> Not from lack of trying! At least me, anyway. My goal in using WM-based
> devices has ALWAYS been laptop substitution, but the designers seem to try
> and foil that plan wherever possible, whether it's a File Explorer that
> can't rename extensions, a Media Player than can't edit or create
> playlists, lack of USB Mass Storage support, no native printing ability,
> the removal of sync-over-WiFi/VPN, or a turn-of-the-century-level IE4-
> compliant browser. ;-)
>
> Thankfully, 3rd-party support has allowed WinMo devices to attain a quasi
> mini-computer status, despite the OS' agenda to remain a peripheral- a "PC
> Companion."
>
> On a recent trip to Mexico, I left the laptop at home, and found my WinMo
> phone an acceptable substitute (a usual)- I could use the web (Opera
> Mini,)
> retrieve e-mail and keep up with usenet (Messaging, QMail), play media
> (WMP
> and TCPMP), view and edit office docs (Office Mobile), and remote into my
> home PC (I used LogMeIn rather than RDS for simplicity) to fetch any files
> I'd forgotten to bring, or access any websites that Opera Mini or IEM
> couldn't render. I was even able to use VoIP (WM6's native VoIP client,
> Skype, Fring), to get around the ridiculous $1.49/min roaming charges my
> cellular carrier charges in Mexico, and printed a few on-line coupons with
> my trusty Sipix A6 Infrared printer ($20 at Geeks.com, but only partially
> compatible with WM5/6.)
>
> I'm not really picking on MS here- compared to, say, a Blackberry or (even
> worse) the iPhone, the _need_ for a tethered PC is certainly minimal, but
> in these days of 600MHz CPUs, 128MB of RAM and 8+GB of storage (using
> flash
> memory cards) I really wish MS would move beyond the "it's just a
> peripheral" mindset and realize these ARE (or at least could be) "mini-
> laptops." My WinMo phone easily outspecs my first Win98 laptop (an old
> Toshiba 120MHz, 64MB RAM, 1GB hard disk) yet is less capable by design,
> rather than ability.
>
>
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