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OneNote Mobile is real, not a rumor anymore! November 24, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. OneNote is an application used mostly by users of Tablet PC computers but also by users of regular Windows XP. OneNote Mobile is now being included with OneNote so you can enjoy OneNote functionalities also with your MS Smartphone or Pocket PC! The rumors about Office Mobile 12 however still are not confirmed and well may be not true... Enter OneNote Mobile. OneNote Mobile is your portable extension to OneNote that you get when you purchase OneNote. You install it on your Windows Mobile SmartPhone (this is semi-automatic so it is low hassle) and you’re good to go. A few weeks ago, David Siedzik, the program manager for OneNote Mobile showed it to the mobile devices MVPs who were on campus and actually got a standing ovation! Read on to find out why. When we shipped the syncing feature for mobile devices in OneNote 2003SP1, we had a few constraints that limited us to simply one-way sync (device to PC). A big one was that the built-in note applet was not designed with OneNote in mind, so it couldn't handle our data unless it were "dumbed down" to plain text more or less. We didn't have dev resources then to build our own SmartPhone client so that limitation wasn't going away. We also found that most people were interested in the "upload" scenario, although plenty were also interested in bringing their data with them. So we did the relatively cheap thing which let you take notes on your device and see them in OneNote. OneNote Mobile goes way beyond that. It is a real note taking app for your mobile device. You can take text notes, voice record, or snap them with a camera. It has a cool picture viewer for navigating the image in detail. To learn more click here (posting by Chris Pratley - a Microsoft employee from OneNote team). Conclusion: while lack of Office Mobile and Microsoft Reader for MS Smartphone means that Microsoft simply doesn't understand what users need, some other divisions of Microsoft are taking full advantage of synergy effect and are delivering mobility solutions with their desktop/full size programs!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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