After months of looking, I found this device at an affordable price on eBay:
Most of these devices have one version or another of Android on them, but point-of-sale device company Micros marketed them with Windows Embedded Compact 7. It has several nice features, including automatic display rotation and two display resolution options
(400x240 [WQVGA] or 800x480 [WVGA]
). It also has a capacitive touchscreen, which means you can't use a stylus - which makes it particularly difficult to navigate in WVGA mode.
The processor is an 800 MHz Texas Instruments TI Cortex A9-OMAP4430. It retains registry settings and files copied or installed to \Windows
(including shortcuts
) after reboot, but while it retains installed databases after reboot, it wipes all data from them. However, it does have a true suspend mode, and the battery life seems good, though I'm still testing that. It has a total of 8 GB of storage, in interestingly-named folders: Application, Platform, and On-Board IDE. The first of those is the largest at 4 GB, with Platform second with 2 GB. The file format in all of these is ExFAT. There is no card slot.
It is synchronizable, but apparently not supported by ActiveSync 3.8.
(It connects and then disconnects on the device end a few seconds later without an error message on either end.
) I did successfully sync POOM databases
(after creating them on the device
) in ActiveSync 4.5 on a second Windows XP PC that I have with that version installed
(which I also use to sync Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices
). Though, as I have previously pointed out in these forums, WEC 7 is very picky about working with older DLLs, the PIM apps I was able to open
(CE Agenda and Microsoft PIM Today
) displayed the synched-in PIM data properly. However, after I later reset the device, it would no longer sync correctly, giving me a 80004002 error in ActiveSync 4.5 on the PC end.
(It should be noted that, before reconnecting the device, I deleted the partnership on the PC end in order to avoid overwriting the Outlook data on the PC with the empty data on the device.
) Looking online, it appears that 80004002 is an Outlook error, and the suggestion was to try scanpst.exe on the PC to check for errors. I did that, and there weren't any found. I'm at a loss at this point about what's causing the error. Anyone else have a clue?