Windows Mobile 2005

nulusios · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: Windows Mobile 2005

So what do you guys wait before posting something about Windows Mobile 2005?

It's a major update to an OS that IS the core of what most of us use AND includes changes bound to affect GPS software and GPS usage. WM2k5 includes some kind of GPS drivers IN it and as I can understand it allows for some kind of sharing (a la GPSGate).

So... we are waiting.

Darren · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

Indeed but there is little point in regurgitating the screenshots and spec posted on every other PDA site. When we get a WM2005 unit we'll post about it but until then it's just hot air.
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lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject:

Exactly. As we commented before the built in GPS support doesn't mean that the application vendors will actually use it - quite the contrary is currently the case.
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nulusios · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

if these new drivers are something like GPSGate then I presume they WILL be used by many (TomTom take note with your proprietary drivers) and it will mean a unified way to read GPS data which can only be "A Good Thing"(tm) ...I mean how "smart" is it to read NMEA (or SiRF) data? It's nothing THAT special (again, unlike what TomTom wants us to believe). Why not leave it to the OS? Come on...

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject:

it's an interesting topic. This mostly revolves around support costs. by locking down you reduce support costs and make advanced users furious...
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SimonCatlin · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject:

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