Webcams & Flash Drive

Joe

A suggestion for the developers/marketers of Windows Mobile, would be:
- All standard application to have an "EXIT" button. I see there is only one
way to close down opened applications in Windows Mobile 5.0 and that is by
opening the task manager and "killing" the applications.
- The ability to turn your SmartPhone into a Webcam. This would enable video
comms on MS Windows computers.
- The ability to run the storage system on the SmartPhone as a USB flash
drive/disk/key. If ActiveSync then worked via BlueTooth, you would have a
bluetooth enabled webcam, flash drive and internet connection in your
pocket!!!!!

There are software products that do this, but these applications are not
generally supported by Microsoft and therefore do not either work reliably or
with standard interfaces.

Unless I am wrong, and microsoft does provide all of this in Windows Mobile
5.0?

Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices

Item 1: this is a very old discussion between this community and Microsoft,
aging from the first days of the PocketPC with its X button that only
minimizes the program. The developers of Windows Mobile believe that the OS
is the one to be responsible for closing programs when needed, and every
application that is open should stay open until the OS needs the memory
being used by it. I personally had a lot of discussions on this issue
regarding the Pocket PC, but until now it is working nicely for me with a
Smartphone, probably because of the fact that I use less applications there.

Item 2: good idea, and there are already some third-party software
implementing that.

Item 3: this is also a good one, and there are also third party software
that can do it. I think I have even seen some new phones that implement that
from the factory.

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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor - PocketPCFreak.com



"Joe" <> wrote in message
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>A suggestion for the developers/marketers of Windows Mobile, would be:
> - All standard application to have an "EXIT" button. I see there is only
> one
> way to close down opened applications in Windows Mobile 5.0 and that is by
> opening the task manager and "killing" the applications.
> - The ability to turn your SmartPhone into a Webcam. This would enable
> video
> comms on MS Windows computers.
> - The ability to run the storage system on the SmartPhone as a USB flash
> drive/disk/key. If ActiveSync then worked via BlueTooth, you would have a
> bluetooth enabled webcam, flash drive and internet connection in your
> pocket!!!!!
>
> There are software products that do this, but these applications are not
> generally supported by Microsoft and therefore do not either work reliably
> or
> with standard interfaces.
>
> Unless I am wrong, and microsoft does provide all of this in Windows
> Mobile
> 5.0?