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THE POCKETPC (PPC - P/PC) PAGE

What is a pocketpc? A PC that fits in a pocket. Right! A pocketpc is a handheld-sized computer, or PDA (Personal digital assistant), that runs a specific version of the Windows CE operating system. It has many of the capabilities of modern desktop PCs (Wikipedia). Did you know that the name PocketPC is patented by Microsoft? And that PDA is patented by Apple? You can read more about the history of the PocketPC at this page.


PocketPC's come in many flavours. I am very fond of my personal portable machine, that combines a PDA, a mobile phone, a camera and a GPS (satnav!) system. All in one little device! I purchased my machine a couple of weeks ago and rapidly decided to put up some pages for my fellow PocketPC adepts. Not so long ago, I carried my mobile, a camera and my PDA with me when I left the building. In the car I used a satnav GPS system and I thought I was really doing great. Actually, it was great to have all these devices with me. I could always be reached, make phone calls, take a quick picture if I needed one and I could lookup data on my PDA. Things got better! Now I have all these machines neatly combined in one small & practible device. Actually, like most of you, I was quite used to always carry my mobile phone with me. Sometimes I forgot my PDA or I didn't take my camera with me. These days are over. I pick up my phone and I have the other three devices with me automatically. The GPS (satnav) function comes in very handy when there are unforeseen roadworks on my way to a certain location, and the camera, although not a 6 mega pixel, is great for that quick snap. The PDA function is marvellous since I carry important excel and word documents with me. And... I downloaded and installed a nice collection of freeware games & utilities that run neatly on the Windows Mobile OS. I put up a page with some great freeware utilities here.



A semi-official definition
A pocketPC a handheld device that enables users to store and retrieve e-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks, play multimedia files, games, exchange text messages with Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger), browse the Web, and more.. (Wikipedia).

As you may have guessed, I really am fond of my machine. Does that mean that I only carry the one device with me now? Well, no actually. When I have a meeting where I should or would like to take notes or when we have a brainstorming gathering and I would like to jot down phrases and words, I need a machine with a keyboard. I feel the notebook is far too heavy to take to these meetings, so I take my (very) old companion, the Psion 3MX with me. Yes, this machine has a very reasonable build-in keyboard, black&white 480 x 160 screen, runs at a wopping 28 Mhz (NEC V30MX 27.7 MHz) and weights only about 275 grams.


It gets along very well with my new state of the art PDA/GPS/Mobile. They never argue or brag about their qualities and capacities. Machines are smarter than us ;-)