Windows Mobile 6.0 Things and Stuff
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The Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference (MEDC) is taking place in Vegas next week, and I thought I'd post a little fun here to get things going.
Mel Sampat stopped by to demo some fancy-schmancy stuff in Windows Mobile 6.0. There's more going on now for both devs and users.
One of the nicer things about 6.0, at least from a dev standpoint, is that the .NET CF 2.0 and SQL Server Compact Edition 2.0 both ship in ROM, meaning you can deploy your nice little apps without having to deploy the runtime as well. That made me happy 
In the video, you'll get to see some of what's new with Pocket Outlook, an experimental managed implementation of voice recognition APIs, and more.
It's because of stuff like that (managed voice recognition APIs?)
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Doesn't everything Microsoft ships work?
Great video Rory!
Now I'm wanting to get a new phone.
Curse you!
Excellent stuff, how's the soapbox work going? You've had a couple of months, do all the videos work on mobiles yet?
Also, good video in terms of length/info.
I'm surprised to hear anyone likes the tmobile dash over the treo.
Also, it would be nice to have some basic features fixed/added like adding a phone number that just called you to your contacts without having to memorize it, better call conferencing (my little crappy nokia was a million times better than the conferencing on the 700w), keeping an e-mail marked as read when I then move it to another folder (when viewed in outlook on my desktop it's unread but in the folder), etc.
Hopefully you guys start doing more smaller incremental improvements instead of always big picture let's change the world type stuff.
Can the voice application not run on the s620 smartphone, because of low processor speed? Or was it just installed not installed on that smartphone yet, but could run on it.
Rory + Mel = yay !
Speech to text = OMFG !
Hi Erik:
It just wasn't installed on the Smartphone at that point in the demo, but it works fine all devices. In general you can assume that pretty much anything we do these days is for all Windows Mobile devices -the differences between Pocket PC and Smartphone are going away, to result in a single Windows Mobile platform for developers.
-Mel
Windows Mobile 6 devices aren't available from T-mobile at this time, but they will be available very soon. I've heard the Dash (HTC Excalibur) will be end-user upgradable to Windows Mobile 6 soon. See http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/tmobile-dash-upgradeable-to-windows-mobile-6-237056.php .
-Mel
Unfortunately the source isn't available because the speech libraries themselves aren't publicly available yet. From a programming perspective, the code is very simple - just like using any other managed classes from C# or VB.NET.
Even though we don't have anything that developers can start playing with right now, I assure you that speech is a very important piece of our mobile strategy. Take a look at this story about some cool things we're doing with TellMe (a recent MSFT aquisition):
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/microsofts-tellme-launches-three-new-mobile-search-services/4721/
Developers will see great speech support they can leverage in their mobile applications soon. Thanks for your patience.
-Mel
Thanks for the feedback. I hope the stuff gets public in the future
Come on guys, don't say there might not be support, we NEED it, let's iron it out together - get the speech libraries out there. The ADO.NET Entity Framework is the thing I've been pitching as the best thing in 30 years, because we'll finally really get to code against a solid object model, or at least approach that vision. Get it out, we'll help make it better, put them on CodePlex. Please! [A]
6.0 7.0 and mobile xp will cam soon maybe we'll see that as too far that's going cam.
One thing thats badly designed is that you should be allowed to press D to delete or R to reply to email messages, unfortunatley on Smartphone you need to use numbers. However on pocket PC querty devices you can use letters.
Yes, please release mobile APIs for text-to-speech and voice recognition as soon as possible, even if not at the same time.
MS Voice Command is nice, but could do SO much more!
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