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With the power manager set to 'auto', which limits the processor to 208MHz, rather than either 'maximum performance' or 'power save',i achieved four hours and 56 minutes of MP3 music playback, and the battery died at the same time music stopped. Nor did i note a great deal of battery life improvement.
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It's all thanks to Windows CE, the Dell Axim X5, and the summer of 2002.Truth to say, on test i didn't notice the processor doing anything very marvellous and i still got the Pocket PC wait symbol from time to time. But here I am, and I couldn't be happier. My life goal was to be a linguistics professor studying brain and language, not a tech blogger. That simple Axim and Treo 650 lead me down a career path I had no intention of finding. Returning to the Pocket PC and you may now see why it is the most crucial device I have used. That led to years of writing and working my way up until becoming the editor-in-chief of what was then Windows Phone Central around 2012. We later broke the news about the Sprint Treo Pro. My breakout article was discussing aGPS vs GPS. I would be active in the forums, co-hosted the podcast with Bohn, and eventually start writing news on the front-page.

But luckily, he asked again a few months later, and I accepted. I eventually got a job offer to help write on the fledgling WMExperts from Dieter Bohn (now at the Verge) around 2007. I began testing apps with developers and just learning from the awesome community. Having four years of Pocket PC/Windows Mobile 5.0 experience and being familiar with the PalmOS allowed me to share a ton of knowledge, some hacking, and other tricks. The year was 2006, and I was a regular poster in the TreoCentral forums. This merging would continue when eventually, Palm and Microsoft would team up for the Palm 700wx – my dream device. The device changed my life as, for the first time, I had the combination of a PDA and a phone. We waited weeks, no one ever claimed it, so eventually, I took it home.
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I later became a moderator on many of those sites.Īround 2005, I worked at a movie theater, and a customer left his Treo 650 behind. There I found a community of fellow PDA nerds where we'd debate Windows Mobile 5.0 versus Palm's TREO dominance, share customizations, and just plain old hacking.

My hobby led me to online forums like PPCGeeks, XDA, and PDAPhoneHome, where I post under the handle Malatesta, named after the famous Italian anarchist. But it was more about knowing someday such devices would be conventional. I was a graduate student at the time, and sure, it was neat taking notes, getting email on my hip, and having a calendar. The funny thing about owning a Pocket PC in 2002 was I really didn't need one. From Axim to a moderator to Windows Central Thinner, faster, a better battery, and built-in Wi-Fi changed the game.
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Back then, people were getting used to the idea of owning a full PC (versus a library, school, or the family computer), and here some of us were already geeking out at making it all ultra-mobile.ĭell went on to improve the Axim line with the Axim X30, which I upgraded to just a few years later. It became a ritual.ĭespite all the usability flaws (and boy were there some), the ability to use a stylus, draw on the touchscreen, play games, get email, and more was a game-changer. Nightly "backup" sessions ensured you always had an image of your minicomputer in case you could find an AC outlet. And if the battery died, due to the non-persistent memory of Pocket PC 2002, you would lose all your data, and the metal gizmo would be wiped clean. The battery was about eight hours, but often less. You could, of course, spring for those CF-card modules, but that was a bit too expensive for me. In that sense, the Axim X5 was more like a companion pocket computer than any standalone device. Getting internet on the Dell Axim was achieved by physically plugging into a Windows PC that could sync all your data over to the Axim. There was no Wi-Fi, which was fine as barely anyone had wireless internet at the time. Still, there was a lot that could be done on the device. It was, of course, based on Windows CE, and a completely different system that looked like Windows and ran things like Exchange and ActiveSync. cab file was and how it is not an EXE in the traditional x86-sense.Īs it turns out, the Dell Axim X5 was not a Windows computer for your pocket. Just the idea of carrying around this minicomputer that let me run apps and games was crazy. The promise of a Windows PC in my pocket blew my mind.
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