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Article: EDN hands-on project: building pocket power: astonishing portable computing and growing popularity and power have lured legions of system developers to the pocket PC platform. This hands-on project examines the software tools that you can use to build your own pocket applications. (hands-on project)(Cover Story).
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- EDN
- Article date:
- October 25, 2001
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AFTER LANGUISHING IN THE SHADOW of the Palm Pilot, the Windows CE-based Pocket PC platform is showing new vigor and deserves careful consideration for your next embedded project. With a growing market share, significant operating-system upgrades, and a series of new hardware offerings, Pocket PCs have erased most of their earlier shortcomings and user concerns. But the key ingredients of widespread acceptance of a complex system such as the Pocket PC are the tools available to translate your design ideas into a viable product. So, during this project, I investigated off-the-shelf and mostly free development software for creating, debugging, and testing Pocket PC ...