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"CE 5.0 Windows Mobile 2005 (Magneto, Beta 1 est Feb 16th 2005, RTM est 13th
April 2005, P/PC & SmartPhone release) "

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Rick,

Different Chris here, sorry for jumping in.

I was rummaging around on IRC last night and from a conversation there I
have been led to believe that the WM Platform release will have had a
significant level of work carried out on it. Charting in Excel and the
ability to store the charts back in Word (Windows Object Linking and
Embedding - OLE).
Pocket PowerPoint will be making a come back as 'PowerPoint Mobile' (I would
guess this to just be a view only rehash of the CE Core PowerPoint viewer.)

Pocket IE will have Full screen support, security zone support and be more
security minded.

There will be an updated UI.

A New 'My Pictures' style image viewer

Windows Media Player 10 - with plug-in support (Think ActiveX control
codec's; 1 player any format - now that would be great). Streaming
improvements. Improved mobile synchronisation in the sync manager to the
host.

The new Smartphone will apparently have a broader VoIP focus too. I got the
impression that with a new WiFi / WPA support in WM2005. The Smartphone /
Phone edition release (if there will be one - I don't know) will be able to
proxy the phone dialling onto a VoIP service provider (Perhaps a SIP
provider if we're lucky). So if you are in a WiFi hot spot you can use the
VoIP service combined with standard Internet access. Then when out of range
switch back to Cellular / G3 / GPRS ad-hoc.

Now if all that pans out to be accurate, heck even if some of that is
accurate! With the core improvements made in Macallan (CE5) - DirectX 3D.
UPnP NLA. Bluetooth, WiFi, Hardware support at the core level. BSP and IDE
modularisation. This is going to be a great release.

Now if only someone would release a WM2005 HVGA Clamshell.
:'-(

Jornada / MobilePro 1000 series anyone?
:-)

Chris Tilley
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"rick cameron" <rick.cameron@decisionscrystal.com> wrote in message
news:ukXlJYu8EHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Not much more, unfortunately!
>
> Chris - have you seen any public info on what's new in Magneto? Any idea
> whether the standard apps (PIM, Word, Excel) will be updated
> significantly?
>
> Cheers
>
> - rick
>
> "Chris De Herrera" <chris@cewindows.net> wrote in message
> news:uk2hLGu8EHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> "CE 5.0 Windows Mobile 2005 (Magneto, Beta 1 est Feb 16th 2005, RTM est
>> 13th April 2005, P/PC & SmartPhone release) "
>>
>> From http://www.hpcfactor.com/support/windowsce/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris De Herrera
>> http://www.cewindows.net
>> http://www.tabletpctalk.com
>> http://www.pocketpctalk.com
>> http://www.mobilitytalk.com
>>
>
>