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msmobiles.com_robot · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 16777215

Our Bavarian reporter visited Systems 2005 trade show, that takes place now in city of Munich in Bavaria (EU), and he managed to get information and photo about the successor to the ultra-sucessful T-Mobile MDA Comp...

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LiverpoolFan · Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

I am confused. I thought that there should be two softkeys on screen if this was running WM 5.0 - regardless of whether there were matching hardware buttons or not. Is that not the case ? Or is this a sign that this unit is still just PPC 2003 - and maybe hence the reason it was still behind glass ???

lutzh · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 114

it is because the keys that were formerly used as contacts and calendar keys are now used as the so called soft keys on screen. the two hardware keys are now useless for that specific need and are used for other things like the start and the ok key... clear indicator that this device IS the magican II with wm5.

cheers, lutz

adamz · Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 44

But if you look at the screen in the picture, there's a "New" button in the bottom left. That means that either this version is not running Windows Mobile 5 (as WM5 does not have a "new" button like that), or it's a non-functional demo.

lutzh · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 114

it's a non-functional demo with a paper behind the "screen".

cheers, lutz