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What's on your Windows Mobile device ?

Here's a question for all of the Windows Mobile users out there... Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC and Smartphone) ship with a number of built in applications (Internet Explorer, Media Player, Office applications etc...), what (if anything) have you installed/added to your device - and have you customized your device through custom themes/ringtones, and if yes, what tools did you use to customize the device.

The reason for asking is that we asked this question to a number of people in the office, and not surprisingly just about everyone that lives in the Windows Mobile/Windows CE team had added applications to their device (RSS readers, GPS navigation applications etc...) and had customized their devices with new themes/ringtones - when we asked the same question to people that lived in other teams fewer had added applications/themes to their device but were heavy users of the built in applications.

- Mike

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  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2006
    On my Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone I've added an RSS Reader, a Wordpad application, a new Calculator and 2 custom applications I've developed with Visual Studio 2005 (one of them is useful to post on my blog when I'm out of office).
    Will be cool if Microsoft will release readers for its major Office products such as Word and Excel. Seems a bit strange that I have a Windows Mobile Smartphone and I can't read a Word or Excel document natively.

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2006
    On my pocket pc phone I've added:

    A bible reader from olive tree software
    Skype
    A password manager (eWallet)
    AvantGo
    A depth of field calculator for my digital slr (Olympus E-1)

    I installed some alternative desktop display products, but uninstalled them.

    I also wrote a program for solving SuDoku in VS and installed that, but have since got rid of it.

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2006
    Here you go:

    - PocketInformant
    - PocketBreeze
    - PocketWeather
    - AvantGo

    Patrick

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2006
    A bible reader from olive tree software
    Skype
    Sudoku
    Magic Button
    Adobe Reader
    Chess
    Bejeweled
    Pocket Streets

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    January 04, 2006
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    January 04, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2006
    NewsBreak RSS Reader
    Skype
    SOTI Pocket Controller
    SmartFeed (podcatcher)
    Diarist (blogging tool)
    SmartVideo
    Spb Time
    Spb Imageer
    BirdSoft All-In Hold'em

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2006
    On my Qtek 9100:

    Resco Explorer 2005
    Resco Explorer 2005 Registry Add-In
    Mapopolis Navigator
    VisualGPSce
    Microsoft Reader
    Cambridge vxUtil
    Pocket PuTTY
    Ilium Software eWallet
    Spb Pocket Plus
    DopplerMobile
    Photo-blogging app I wrote
    Recipe management app I wrote (uses SQL Mobile)
    Weather app I wrote
    Several games

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2006
    · PocketSlides
    · Microsoft Reader
    · Acrobat PDF reader
    · Pocket Controller Professional
    · Flexwallet
    · Some games

    oh, and the wallpapers are usually made by me, from desktop ones. No ringtones (just PPC, not phone)

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2006
    BetaPlayer (product name recently changed to something else)
    Mapopolis
    Pocket Streets
    PocketTV
    Virtual Earth Mobile
    Weather Bits

    plus a couple of apps which I wrote.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2006
    I mainly use my device for GIS apps development and testing with GPS, so there is not much software on it, besides my own :-)

    ESRI ArcPad
    AutoMapa - http://automapa.com
    Different GpsInfo applications
    Minimo - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2006
    I am a heavy user of the built in applications. But I am working on an application for my personal use to enter my expenses without the need of the pen. It uses the SQL CE Server to store the data and to synchronize it with an SQL database on my desktop. So I guess, the only application I have added is the SQL CE Server (Version 2.5 right now).

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2006
    It would be nice that Microsoft would put a list on their website that describes what's in the different packages (Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2003 SE, ...). I am looking for more then 2 hours to find if DirectShow is supported in the core set of Pocket PC 2003 and/or Pocket PC 2003 SE. It is just impossible to find...

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