Playing with Windows Mobile 5.0

I've been playing around with this Windows Mobile 5.0 for these few days. This is because, my Final Year Project requires this Pocket PC. Compared to a typcial Symbian OS, Windows Mobile in this version, it allows touch screen of course, and it provides two types of display orientations. The potrait mode is what we usually seen and some prefer landscape mode and it is a better option when you are reading some article with your pocket pc.

Well at the glance of the interface, the active task are quite straight foward, and it has the upcoming task list too. Symbian active standby provides similar features but I would say that it's not that practical to use as it only display today's event. You have to get into calender to know your upcoming event which is more troublesome. Perhaps we should understand that Symbian powered devices has smaller screen compared to Windows Mobile powered devices. Windows Mobile is almost similar with the real windows that we are using on our desktop. They have similar file structures, which consist of Program Files, Documents folder, Windows folder and so on. I would say that Windows Mobile interface was not so perfect also. It is because at the right top corner, the button would display OK most of the time, and it means apply your setting and exit the setting pane. In real life windows, the top right corner is always our exit button. Hence, for someone who is quick with your finger, you have to slow it down in order not to make a wrong setting. :P

For inputations, WM5 relies on the SIP which I found quite tedious also when you try to typing in a QWERTY keypad with the stylus. As for the handwriting regconition, I have to write the whole alphabet once without lifting the stylus. If not it turns out other characters. For example when we write T, we can write (-) then only (|). We have to think a way to complete it without lifting the stylus.

Anyway is quite interesting also to have the Windows in your palm-sized pocket pc. This is how it looks like when this blog is viewed in a pocket pc. :P


PPC desktop screens.