Windows Mobile woes
So I’ve been playing with my PDA for a couple of days now, and the general reaction is … a hell of a tool with a massive potential that somehow doesn’t get realised.
Now the hardware is great, despite a battery life that could do with improving, the problem has to be with the operating system - in this case Windows Mobile 5.0
The challenge is immense - limited processing power, memory, difficult user interface, high expectations of the users who are used to full PCs, but I still want … more.
It’s the little things; the browser is very, very basic, no command line leaves you guessing why things aren’t working, and it just doesn’t quite feel finished.
I suppose it’s still early days yet, and I’m keen to keep on trying, to work with the thing and try to improve sites I build to work better on mobile devices.
Postscript - found a natty utility which is sorting all my problems - http://www.cam.com/vxutil.html
http://loox-linux.sourceforge.net/
‘lo. thought I’d see what was going on around this way, found you had a blog! nice to hear how things are going, especially seeing as all my mail to soup still vanishes into a mysterious black hole somewhere..
ho hum. hope everything is still going OK down t’mill, I gather you have a pretty big team these days.
Comment by mat — October 9, 2006 @ 7:19 pm