Re: Hardware - Recommended Makes?

There is ALWAYS a new OS just over the horizon! Doesn't mean to say you should wait....
The plan (no idea how well it is executed yet!) is that from WM5 onwards the Microsoft base OS can be upgraded without affecting the upper level drivers and radio stacks and other add-ons from the hardware manufacturers. So (the theory says!) that just because it was not possible to upgrade from PPC2003 to WM5, doesn't mean you wont be able to upgrade from WM5 to WM6 - as the future steps should be much easier.
BUT what the practise will be, I have no idea.

Remember, when Microsoft released WM5 in about April/May 2005, it took until October or November before devices using that OS were available from HP and Dell. So, a new OS "just around the corner" could be 9 to 12 months before a reasonable selection of devices are using it.

"Adam H." <ahairsub4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4504e372$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Sven,

Thanks again for your reply...

Wha!??! That seems like a crazy backwards step. Why on earth would MS remove this feature. Maybe 2003se would be a better os to go with after all. :-(

Agreed, but it was a security issue with syncing over IP. Not so much a home user using WiFi, but the business user sitting at the coffee shop syncing over WiFi, to the unprotected Internet to his home PC which shouldn't have Company styuff on it anyway...but...the Enterprise IT dept wins on security concerns.

Bah! So microsofts solution was to remove the feature, instead of secure it. :-(

That sounds encouraging. Unfortuatnly, I'm a laptop user, and carry the laptop around quite a bit, which means constant plugging in - unplugging of my usb cables. Maybe a powered USB hub would be a better way to go - although it still concerns me that Dell have turned a blind eye to this issue, even after 12 months. :-(

I and my wife use them travelling with laptops as well. No issues. Not meaning to belittle the issue, but if one or two peeoples laptops blow up, it's all over the world. If 1 million don't, that's not news and doesn't warrant a forum post.

True I guess. Still, I'd prefer to be in that 1 million people. ;-)

Erk. If Dell aren't excited by the PDA market, then after sales service/support may be an issue. That is a high priority from my point of view.

I've had good experience with Dells service. They just haven't released anything new in a while and don't appear to be redying anything. The Market seems to be going to converged devices, Phone Editions/Smartphones, and I'm not sure Dell wants to play in that market. Typically it involves getting in bed with a carrier, and that isn't their style.

Yeah - I'm not really wanting to go with the phone market either at present. Here in Australia a new 3G system is due to be released early next year. No use buying a phone now, if it's going to be outdated soon...

HTC? I'm not familiar with that brand. Maybe it's not available here in Australia.

High Tech Computers. A Taiwanese manufacturer that is responsible for 80-90% (guessing) of the devices out there. T-Mobile MDA, Cingular 8125, I-Mate Wizard, and some others, all the same device, all made by HTC. They have recently started to market directly, so it should be interesting. The Dell X50/51 is manufactured by HTC if I'm not mistaken.

Ahh - the old re-badge trick. ;-)

Is it easy to change the OS (ie, can you upgrade to wm5, or downgrade to 2003se on the PDA's?)

No. You cannot downgrade a WM5 device. If you have a WM2003SE device, AND the OEM offerred an upgrade to WM5 (few of these, and typically not great performance), then you could most likely go back. There would potentially be a desire to, incidentally. I have no great issues with my native WM5 devices. I think they are as stable as my fully patched X-50, and have significant benefits (and a few drawbacks). The performance of WM2003 devices that were upgraded though has never been reported as stellar. I have the CD to upgrade my X50, but I have never applied it. Works to good the way it is. I wouldn't buy a 2003SE device today though, unless money was a real object and you got a great deal. WM2003SE is shortly going to be two generations ago, not just last generation.

Really, their's a new OS on the horizon newer than wm5? I've been waiting for 12 months before upgrading already. Maybe I should wait a little longer. ;-)

Cheers

Adam.


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