#windowsmobile — Public Fediverse posts
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Another thing that really surprises me is that the #GPS stuff is driverless on #PocketPC.
I don't really understand why. Cameras, LAN adapters, non BT Keyboards, etc. all require drivers, but not the GPS stuff.
GPS uses the #NMEA standard but i find it hard to believe that support for this was baked into #WinCE.
Whatever the reason its quite convenient!
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Another thing that really surprises me is that the #GPS stuff is driverless on #PocketPC.
I don't really understand why. Cameras, LAN adapters, non BT Keyboards, etc. all require drivers, but not the GPS stuff.
GPS uses the #NMEA standard but i find it hard to believe that support for this was baked into #WinCE.
Whatever the reason its quite convenient!
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Another thing that really surprises me is that the #GPS stuff is driverless on #PocketPC.
I don't really understand why. Cameras, LAN adapters, non BT Keyboards, etc. all require drivers, but not the GPS stuff.
GPS uses the #NMEA standard but i find it hard to believe that support for this was baked into #WinCE.
Whatever the reason its quite convenient!
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Another thing that really surprises me is that the #GPS stuff is driverless on #PocketPC.
I don't really understand why. Cameras, LAN adapters, non BT Keyboards, etc. all require drivers, but not the GPS stuff.
GPS uses the #NMEA standard but i find it hard to believe that support for this was baked into #WinCE.
Whatever the reason its quite convenient!
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Another thing that really surprises me is that the #GPS stuff is driverless on #PocketPC.
I don't really understand why. Cameras, LAN adapters, non BT Keyboards, etc. all require drivers, but not the GPS stuff.
GPS uses the #NMEA standard but i find it hard to believe that support for this was baked into #WinCE.
Whatever the reason its quite convenient!
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Also Garmin & Tomtom have navigational software that works on #PocketPC.
Unfortunately I am still trying to figure out how to configure these. Especially with newer maps which I have downloaded but can't figure out where to put them in the programs file structure & get them to integrate properly.
There is a lot of older software that Is easy enough to find, installs & works great though.
Pharos had the OSTIA software & Microsoft had Streets and Trips.
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Recently I have been toying around with a lot of the old #PocketPC #GPS stuff.
There are a variety of different ways to connect to a GPS. Some connect via the Compact Flash slot, some are SDIO, some Bluetooth and others through a physical serial cable.
You also have to decide on what GPS software that you want to use and then find compatible maps.
I'm still figuring things out and it is quite finicky but when it works it is surprisingly decent!
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Recently I have been toying around with a lot of the old #PocketPC #GPS stuff.
There are a variety of different ways to connect to a GPS. Some connect via the Compact Flash slot, some are SDIO, some Bluetooth and others through a physical serial cable.
You also have to decide on what GPS software that you want to use and then find compatible maps.
I'm still figuring things out and it is quite finicky but when it works it is surprisingly decent!
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Recently I have been toying around with a lot of the old #PocketPC #GPS stuff.
There are a variety of different ways to connect to a GPS. Some connect via the Compact Flash slot, some are SDIO, some Bluetooth and others through a physical serial cable.
You also have to decide on what GPS software that you want to use and then find compatible maps.
I'm still figuring things out and it is quite finicky but when it works it is surprisingly decent!
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Recently I have been toying around with a lot of the old #PocketPC #GPS stuff.
There are a variety of different ways to connect to a GPS. Some connect via the Compact Flash slot, some are SDIO, some Bluetooth and others through a physical serial cable.
You also have to decide on what GPS software that you want to use and then find compatible maps.
I'm still figuring things out and it is quite finicky but when it works it is surprisingly decent!
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Recently I have been toying around with a lot of the old #PocketPC #GPS stuff.
There are a variety of different ways to connect to a GPS. Some connect via the Compact Flash slot, some are SDIO, some Bluetooth and others through a physical serial cable.
You also have to decide on what GPS software that you want to use and then find compatible maps.
I'm still figuring things out and it is quite finicky but when it works it is surprisingly decent!
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https://mas.to/@Judeau/116460336169650952
Success!
The old WinXP laptop was able to pull the driver off of the disk!
Now to get them installed & working.
The files look a bit strange & I can't make out exactly which .cab file that I need so I just went ahead & sent everything over to the #PocketPC using the magic of wireless #IrDA.
Once I can verify that the files are good & working, I will put them up on #Archive.
I don't believe the 1.4 #WindowsCE drivers exist anywhere online.
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Did you know there is a Bejeweled Valentine Edition? The red rectangles are replaced by hearts, and you can write a message that will appear after some moves.
I found this version on the W2krepo and thought it's quite cute (if not with a grain of dorky)! :BlobHajMlem:
#WindowsMobile #Astraware #Games #PDA #PuzzleGames #RetroComputing #RetroGaming
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HP iPAQ hw910
(2005)Vienas iš stipriausių ir populiariausių to meto Windows Mobile telefonų-PDA hibridų. Tai buvo kišeninis kompiuteris su telefonu skirtas verslo vartotojams, kuriame dar integruotas GPS, Wi-Fi ir su QWERTY klaviatūra.
3,0 colio TFT jutiklinis ekranas (65K spalvų), Intel PXA270 procesorius, 64MB RAM + 128MB ROM, atmintis plečiama miniSD, 1,3MP kamera su video įrašymu, Windows Mobile 5.0 Phone Edition, GSM 900/1800/1900 + UMTS 2100 (3G), Wi-Fi 802.11b, Bluetooth 2.0, integruotas GPS, infraraudonieji spinduliai, 1200–1500 mAh nuimama Li-Ion baterija (iki 4–5 val. pokalbių, ~150–200 val. budėjimo), dydis 119×71×21 mm, svoris 190 g.
#HPiPAQ #hw6910 #WindowsMobile #PocketPC #RetroTech #QWERTY #TechHistory #VintagePDA #1EYEReview
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Installing programs on Windows Mobile 2003 definitely has its quirks. It installs to the device's storage (RAM) which is only about 10 MB of its 32 MB on my low-end HP rz1710. Adjusting it means less RAM for programs. And once it's done installing, it removes the .CAB file without asking. This makes it so you pretty much need a third-party program to change its install location to SD card and stop removing .CABs haha :BlobhajSadReach:
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After screenshotting, archiving & keeping metadata on my curated Palm OS apps project, I'm giving #WindowsMobile #PocketPC some love with its first 10 games I added on my list (not all of them shown in the screenshots).
#Archival #Astraware #RetroComputing #Gaming #RetroGaming #PDA
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Does anyone know how to get a #PocketPC #PDA to mount and sync with #Linux?
Any information that I find is like 15 - 20 years old. It clearly used to be possible.
Simply plugging it in and lsusb in the terminal gives some pleasantly unexpected results even though it's not mounted or accessible for file transfers.
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In the meantime, if you wanted to emulate Windows Mobile so bad while archive.org continues to piss me off with slow bandwidths, please dm me.
(OneDrive link will be also dropped 2 days later if i couldn't upload it on time)
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#funfact: Starting with PPC 2002, Windows Mobile started to have a version for phones with keypads. Initially called "Microsoft Smartphone", this later renamed to "Windows Mobile Standard" by the 6.0 release.
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It's just crazy for me how obsessed Zuckerberg has become.
Many companies have obsessed about technologies in the past.
#Microsoft was obsessed with touchscreen-friendly #UIs when #Windows8 came out as well as the #WindowsMobile operating system. They were able to realise that people didn't like it, so they moved on. Where #Nokia got obsessed with the #WindowsMobile idea and never moved to #Android, resulting in their death.
#Blackberry was the first company to release a "smartphone" at that time. They knew people wanted to email and communicate more efficiently on their phones, and phones were no longer just for calling. So they released the full qwerty-keyboard. But they got stuck with it and didn't realise the strengths and flexibility of touchscreen-keyboards and the screen real estate that you lose with hardware keyboards. So their phones died out.
