Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? Neil Enns is a lead program manager on the team that develops the SmartPhone and PocketPC software. This is a great chance for us to finally get a look at Microsoft's new SmartPhone. More on the cell phone industry and Microsoft's part in it will come over the next few weeks. en Thu, 23 May 2013 02:11:58 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 02:11:58 GMT Rev9 Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?

posted by phillprice

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posted by lars

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201697700000000 Fri, 14 May 2004 22:16:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201697700000000 lars Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?
However, you may get a SmartPhone if you like gadgets, or really need PDA functionality on a mobile phone.

posted by sbc

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201703400000000 Fri, 14 May 2004 22:25:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201703400000000 sbc Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? posted by phillprice

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201714590000000 Fri, 14 May 2004 22:44:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201714590000000 phillprice Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?
sbc wrote:
What's the battery life like on it?


I don't have a specific number, but the Motorola MPX200 is nice since the screen turns off instantly when you shut it, which is a large part of the power drain on the device. When it's in your pocket and the screen is off the device is essentially completely asleep.

I usually go about two days between charges. It depends on how heavily I sync Smiley Obviously, driving the radio uses the battery faster.

What's really nice is that it charges over USB, so I have it on my desk next to my keyboard when I'm in my office. When I leave I take it with me on the hammer loop of my jeans.

posted by Neil

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201722590000000 Fri, 14 May 2004 22:57:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201722590000000 Neil Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?
I think in the future we are going to see batteries based on renewable fuels (i.e. fuel cell batteries) to be used in portable devices. Imagine filling up you phone along with your car (perhaps there will be two pumps - one large one for the car, and one for the phone/PDA/Laptop etc)?

posted by sbc

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201739520000000 Fri, 14 May 2004 23:25:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201739520000000 sbc Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? posted by cwoodruff

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201820110000000 Sat, 15 May 2004 01:40:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201820110000000 cwoodruff Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?
cwoodruff wrote:
The smart phones are getting better but why not a scroller along the left side so that I can use my thumb to scroll to an item and make a selection.  I don't want to use the directional pointer just to scroll up and down.


Using a scroller for that purpose on a mobile device is actually patented, and our hardware partners would have to pay a license fee to use that technology. The up/down keys on some of the Smartphone devices, like the Orange SPVx, are actually pretty nice to use for scrolling. There are some other nifty ways of doing it that I've seen prototypes for; hopefully we'll see them in production devices soon!

Neil

posted by Neil

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201946040000000 Sat, 15 May 2004 05:10:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632201946040000000 Neil Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? Could you have a scroller on the inside of the direction button?  It could act as the slection button and also have a scroller?  Is that patented? Smiley

posted by cwoodruff

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202350210000000 Sat, 15 May 2004 16:23:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202350210000000 cwoodruff Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone?
My other thought is that the phone could be inserted into a larger dumb device that has a larger screen, a thumb keyboard and maybe additonal ports and slots.  Might not be a functional idea but I would love to have a device that I could seperate when I was just bumming around town and needed quick info like movie times and maps.  And when I was at a client site the smartphone in the back slot of the input device and have a richer data experience.

posted by cwoodruff

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202358510000000 Sat, 15 May 2004 16:37:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202358510000000 cwoodruff Re: Neil Enns - Can you give us a demo of the SmartPhone? I use an E200 as my every day phone. The battery life on it is terrible compared to the standard Nokia's, etc, but my phone is constantly on charge in it's cradle so I don't have a problem with it.

There's a smartphone moblog site at http://www.atomiclava.net if youre interested Smiley

posted by Richard Acton

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cwoodruff wrote:
Is the team looking at the clamshell design like the high end Nokia's use? 


One of the interesting things about the mobile devices group is that we don't actually build any of the devices our software ships on. We do have an internal hardware prototyping team that looks at a ton of different hardware design concepts, but our hardware partners are the ones that decide what the devices should look like.

To be honest, until we shipped Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition it was a little tough for our hardware partners to build devices with different form factors. We didn't support screen rotation, and we had a pretty fixed set of screen sizes that could be used. With 2003SE that's all fixed, so I expect you'll see a host of cool new devices coming out.

Neil

posted by Neil

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202581340000000 Sat, 15 May 2004 22:48:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Neil-Enns-Can-you-give-us-a-demo-of-the-SmartPhone#c632202581340000000 cwoodruff