MDC 2003 Europe: conclusions
April 03, 2003 [General] | By anonymous 1.
Here is the list of major conclusions from this MDC:
- Microsoft still [in our exclusive opinion] loves much too much Pocket PCs and treats Smartphones as second class citizens although Smartphones should be treated, being mass market product, as more important than Pocket PCs
- in next (after MS Smartphone 2002) generation of smartphones (and also in next Pocket PCs) client side .NET will be burnt into ROM and this (totally easy to program) technology will revolutionize cell phones
- new, yet to be named, successor to MS Smartphone 2002, apart from having built-in .NET, is based on Windows CE 4.2 (old: Windows CE 3.0) and offers incredible enhancements in expandibility of the platform by 3rd party software
- new, upcoming, MS Smartphones have built-in camera and ultra-fast XScale processors, so progress is visible not only in software but also in hardware
- emulators in new software development kits for Pocket PC phones and for MS Smartphones will include radio part emulation so developers will be able to test such aspects (incoming phone call, sending SMS messages, etc) that by now required hardware and costly service fees (SMS, GPRS traffic, etc.)
- standard API for Bluetooth both in MS Smartphones and in Pocket PCs will be available
- still no MS Smartphone from Samsung in sight, but Microsoft people in presentations still include Samsung as one of manufacturers of MS Smartphones (together with HTC, Compal and Mitac); strange that Asus is not being listed there, although we have seen already working prototype of Asus phone powered by MS Smartphone platform of next generation
- this MDC showed, that Microsoft is on track to increase significantly its market share in software for cell phones although yet some problems remain (no built-in camera API, no handsets with built-in Bluetooth, no books from Microsoft Press addressing specifically MS Smartphone)
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