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Windows Mobile 5.0 (yep, took MS 5 tries)05/12/2005 08:37 PM
. Because they can do whatever they want with their
own APIs, they've added a bunch of nifty features that we won't see in
the design-by-committee J2ME APIs for a while: displaying status of playing
MP3s in your app, simple calling of people in your contact list, simple
access to a local database, APIs for talking wireless (bluetooth, wifi),
USB, ActiveSync, etc. in the .Net Compact Framework. The demos of
the MDA IV (a.k.a. UTC Universal) and Samsung MP3 phone were cool, especially
the jogging application that tracked your statistics by talking to a bluetooth
GPS receiver; that's something we'll unfortunately never see on a Linux-based
phone because there aren't any GPS navigation applications for it AFAIK.
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