Lackluster demand for windows phones and tablets

pdablue

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Put Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on a 7 inch Tablet !!!

Hi,

Every one gave up to soon on Windows Mobile 6.5.3.
The hardware manufacturers should have built some
good 7 and 10 inch tablets and put Windows Mobile 6.5.3
on them. If we had these tablets we could put
BASIC4PPC on them !

Technology is like a race car that is moving so fast that
it drove right by a great opportunity : putting BASIC4PPC
on a 7 or 10 inch tablet.

Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is now called Windows Embedded
Handheld 6.5 Classic and Microsoft intends to support it
up to 2014. Someone needs to put it on a 7 inch tablet at
least. Even if all of the manufacturers are
building Android tablets the consumer should
have the option to load Windows Mobile 6.5.3 on to
their tablets. The manufacturers should build board support
packages for their tablets and let the consumer decide which
operating system they want to run on their tablets.

I was in Hardware/Software Engineering for about 10 years,
the economy got bad and I had to take a job doing
something else to make a living. In that time I bought
a PDA and discovered BASIC4PPC. The programs that I
have written and posted in the Forums have been written
during lunch hours, breaks, sitting in a parked car, at the
laundry mat, sitting in waiting rooms, spare time after work
and weekends. I have been able to experience what the word
Mobility really means. The ability to write programs from
anywhere is a powerful thing. I feel that using BASIC4PPC and
a mobile device has allowed me to practice my skills and helped
keep me in the game. I have been able to live and see the future
of mobile programming. I am waiting on the rest of you to get
caught up ... its lonely at the top !

If you want to find out what the word Mobility really means build
some 7 and 10 inch Tablets with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and put
BASIC4PPC on it.

The world needs to take one or two steps back and
combine a well built Tablet with BASIC4PPC and see
where that can take you.
 

agraham

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I picked up an HP Slate 500 at a VERY good price off eBay some time ago. It is a bit smaller than my Android Xoom, lighter than the Xoom, its got touch and a precision stylus and runs Windows 7 Pro so I've got Basic4ppc Desktop running it as well as all my other Windows stuff including Visual Studio C# Express and the MSDN documentation. Battery life is a lot shorter than the Xoom though!

I'm going to get a Surface Pro as soon as they are available in the UK as the Atom in the Slate can be a bit sluggish st times but the Core i5 in the SP makes it a real computer.
 

Jim Brown

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To me the whole Windows 8 UI is far too childish looking, and gesturing looks horrendous to use. There is no way I am going to use such a diabolical "o/s".

I have pretty much dropped Windows altogether (apart from B4A sessions and the occasional gaming) in favour of Linux Mint. I don't like the direction MS are going. I still crave for fast multi-tasking and productivity. Linux in that sense rocks thanks to work spaces.

I don't want XBox avatars, IE, Bling, and any other MS service. Google have got me covered.
 
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