Windows Mobile 5 & 6 less functional than Pocket PC 2003

andokai

Has anyone noticed that Windows Mobile 5 tasks no longer have the option to add audio clips and drawings as you could in Pocket PC 2003?

Does anyone know a way to get that functionality back or another application which offers the equivalent?

Strange

W3bbo
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I don't know any apps offhand (but you could see about porting OpenOffice.org).

But I'm with you on reduced functionality. I think Microsoft has gone overboard with the two-button UI, back in 2000/02/03 you had the full menu at the bottom of the display, now you need to press the screen twice as much as before, and PocketPCs don't even have soft-keys at the bottom of the display.

andokai

Don't see how any port would help as the goal is to sync them with tasks in Outlook.

I would disagree with you about the change of menus. I think it's much better to facilitate usage without the stylus as much as possible, but it's one thing to obscure functionality, removing it is a different thing altogether.

W3bbo
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andokai wrote:
Don't see how any port would help as the goal is to sync them with tasks in Outlook.

I would disagree with you about the change of menus. I think it's much better to facilitate usage without the stylus as much as possible, but it's one thing to obscure functionality, removing it is a different thing altogether.

Regarding the removal of old-school ink in Pocket Word, I think it's because for WM5 they rewrote most of Pocket Word (and rebranded it Word Mobile). If you're going to take ink notes, you use Notes, for example).

andokai

It wasn't in Word it was in Tasks.

I know Notes still contains this functionality which would be fine if there was some way to link notes to tasks. Instead we have a full page note area in each task that is nothing more than a giant text box.

ScanIAm
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I'm sorry, where is this 'notes' you speak of? I've got a windows mobile 5 device and there is not synching of 'notes' either.

Usedta be you could this, but this was how I used to shop for groceries Smiley

with the written notes from outlook synced into my pda. Now, I gotta print stuff out.

WM5 is a pretty big step backwards, imo

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andokai

ScanIAm wrote:
I'm sorry, where is this 'notes' you speak of? I've got a windows mobile 5 device and there is not synching of 'notes' either.

Usedta be you could this, but this was how I used to shop for groceries with the written notes from outlook synced into my pda. Now, I gotta print stuff out.

WM5 is a pretty big step backwards, imo

Well Notes are still there but not synched by default as far as I know. This is a Pocket PC Phone device though, I'm not sure what the deal is with Smartphone.