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Tarmacsurfer
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PostPosted: 21:15 - 03 Feb 2006    Post subject: Random PDA/geek question. Reply with quote
I'm just starting to experiment with the world of PDAs, aquired a Mitac "Mio 338" to play with, currently marked as running "Pocket PC 2002 premium" (which I gather is "Windows Mobile 2002" by another name?). Is it possible to install Windows Mobile 2003 onto any PDA running PPC2002 (comments I've been finding around the web seem to think so), and more importantly, where the hell does one find a copy of WM2003, none of my usual sources or sites seem to have it as available.

Any advice appreciated, this mobile computing malarkey is dashed confusing. Give me a straight forward network setup any day, at least most software is only known by one name Confused
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PostPosted: 21:19 - 03 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
No point in going from 2002 to 2003. If any, I would suggest getting Windows Mobile 5 and using ActiveSync 4.

If you were running a Dell Axim I could get you a copy, but as you are not, I can't.
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PostPosted: 21:32 - 03 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was assuming there were some differences between 2002/2003, seeing quite a few seperate driver versions (been looking for an SDIO wifi card, most seem to state WM2003 required).
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PostPosted: 20:14 - 04 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
m99dws wrote:
No point in going from 2002 to 2003. If any, I would suggest getting Windows Mobile 5 and using ActiveSync 4.

From my personal experience I wouldn't recommend WM5 to anyone (yet) - the majority of software written for WM2003 won't run on it and it was very slow generally until I installed an updated ROM released by T-Mobile recently. Activesync 4 is a bit of a pig too. You can't sync over a network anymore and it's taken much hard resetting and un/reinstalling of Activesync before it would let me sync with two computers properly... very annoying Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: 20:41 - 04 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I want to get 2003 for my Ipaq5450 so I can use Skype on it. Can't find it anywhere though.

If anyone has any fun games or anything, could you please let me know what they are? I'm trying to find something to pass time on my night shifts.

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PostPosted: 11:03 - 05 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
impaler wrote:
m99dws wrote:
No point in going from 2002 to 2003. If any, I would suggest getting Windows Mobile 5 and using ActiveSync 4.

From my personal experience I wouldn't recommend WM5 to anyone (yet) - the majority of software written for WM2003 won't run on it and it was very slow generally until I installed an updated ROM released by T-Mobile recently. Activesync 4 is a bit of a pig too. You can't sync over a network anymore and it's taken much hard resetting and un/reinstalling of Activesync before it would let me sync with two computers properly... very annoying Evil or Very Mad


Sync over the network was removed at the request of a majority of its users for increased security reasons.
Have had no issues with WM5 on an X50/51's so far, although I would probably stick with the default OS of an X30.

There is a rollback from the WM5 ROM to 2003 if required.
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PostPosted: 15:03 - 06 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dude you should have got either a mda vario or mda pro!
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Tarmacsurfer
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PostPosted: 16:51 - 06 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
woo wrote:
Dude you should have got either a mda vario or mda pro!

Mio = Free...

Just a question of learning enough to make it do what I want (WiFi control handset for media/music and a number of X10 units in the lighting circuit).
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