windows mobile feature areas

Office Mobile

Office Mobile allows users to work with Office documents. It allows viewing and editing of Word documents and Excel workbooks and viewing of PowerPoint slideshows.

Outlook Mobile

Outlook Mobile Service is the messaging and Personal Information Manager (PIM) component developed for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. It allows users to

Compose new text messages and multimedia messages within Outlook.
Forward Outlook items (including e-mail messages, meetings, and contacts) as text or multimedia messages.
Receive replies from mobile devices and have two-way communication between Outlook and mobile phones.

For more information see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb277361.aspx#OfficeOutlook2007OMSMobileServicesGuidelinesPt1_Overview.

Windows Live Mobile

Windows Live for Windows Mobile provides a rich set of Windows Live services, including Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search and Windows Live Spaces.

Office Communicator

Office Communicator Mobile extends the IM and presence capabilities of Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 to Windows Mobile devices.

Live Search

Windows Live Search for Mobile brings the power of Windows Live Local Search to your cell phone. There's lots more information available on the team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/default.aspx.

Live Mesh

Live Mesh is a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage to the "cloud." For more information, see http://mesh.com.

Internet Explorer Mobile

Internet Explorer Mobile is a full-featured Internet browser that is optimized for devices with small, vertically oriented displays and for cached or customized content. For information about using and developing with this browser, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb159821.aspx.

Browser

Windows Mobile devices support the browser Internet Explorer Mobile.

Windows Media Player

The Windows Media Player Mobile component can be integrated into the device image. For more information about configuring this component, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc907953.aspx.

.NET Compact Framework

The .NET Compact Framework is a hardware-independent environment that supports building and running managed applications on resource-constrained computing devices. The .NET Compact Framework inherits the full .NET Framework architecture of the common language runtime and managed code execution, supports a subset of the .NET Framework class library, and contains classes designed exclusively for the .NET Compact Framework. For more information see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc656764.aspx.

SQL Server CE

SQL Server CE provides a compact, yet robust, storage solution for mobile developers. For more information see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188785.aspx.

Silverlight 2

Go to the Silverlight 2 Developer Center for documentation, downloads, code samples, and forums. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/silverlight/default.aspx

Games

With Windows Mobile, you can play manyfamiliar titles right on your phone. For more information go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/meet/games.mspx.

Location Based Services

Rich Internet Applications

Multimedia

Line of Business

ActiveSync

It's easy to synchronize and transfer your contacts, e-mail, calendar and other files between your mobile device and your PC with ActiveSync. For more information and download instructions, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/default.mspx.