P/PC-H/PC Program compatibility

Hello,

I am about to betray what
HPC:Factor stands for, because I am either going to get a Pocket PC 2000 Device or a Palm Sized PC Device (1.0 or 2.0). So, I must know the compatibility with each platform. The H/PC counts as CE 2.0 and/or CE 2.11, the Pocket PC as CE 3.0 (Pocket PC 2000) and the Palm Sized PC as CE 2.01.




Question 1.: Will H/PC Programs work on the Palm Sized PC?
Question 2.: Will Palm Sized PC Programs work on the H/PC?
Question 3.: Will H/PC programs work on a Pocket PC?
Question 4.: Will Palm Sized PC Programs work on a Pocket PC?

Thanks,

Joseph

EDIT: Spell check

Edited by tenjeangosi 2005-10-30 10:53 AM

Hi,

Q 1+3: You will have screen problems with it, either it will squash the screen of you will only see bits of it AFAIK.

Nick

Re: Q2
Some Palm-size PC apps will fill the screen if installed on an H/PC. Even if they don't, many still work. Some developers, like Peter Balogh, have written programs with their own interfaces (no title bar or buttons on the top of the window) that are sized for the Palm-size PC and thus will (theoretically at least) work on the H/PC screen (eg, Peter's Casino and Peter's GameBox).

Re: Q4
There are definitely a few Palm-size PC 2.0 (CE 2.11) apps that work on Pocket PCs - but not many.

Having all three types of CE device (H/PC, Palm-size PC, and Pocket PC), I've been doing a lot of searching and experimenting, and I'm still learning about cross-compatibility - and I've had to look far and wide for a few apps for Palm-size PC that no one seems to have for download any more. The best example of this was Windows Media Player 1.1 for Palm-size PC. No one in my part of the world seems to have this any more, including Microsoft. After weeks of searching, I found the Palm-size PC version on a Russian site. Even though I can't read Russian text, I guessed which links to click - and got it right. Now I have it and it works great.

Thanks for help, but I just cannot do it! I cannot get a Pocket PC! Maybe a Palm-Sized PC. It just seems wrong to me. Besides, I like keyboards better.

You still need a smartphone.

nah ... a bsquare PHH

I have a jornada 420, it looks like some one took a 680 a smashed it into a little block....the thing with palm-size pc when compared to a pocket pc is that the OS version looks more like the hpc's with the bottom start car and such...the big thing i dont like about it there is no default desktop, its either a today screen or wall paper w/out icons.....but im aware that its just hp's build, like a casio has a desktopish like feature on their pspc....Steve

Yeah, I don't know what Microsoft was thinking when it designed the Palm-size PC interface, nor what OEMs and Palm-size PC software developers were thinking when they designed and pre-installed software. No Pocket Word, no pre-installed Web browser, you need a special tray icon app just to close most apps (how hard would it have been to include "Exit" in the File menu?). But my fascination with the historical stream of efforts to port a mainstream desktop OS to portable devices (which, like it or not, is what Windows CE is), together with bargain-basement prices on eBay, enticed me to buy the Palm-size PC to compare with the H/PC. (Am I a geek, or what? )

tenjeangosi and cmonex: No, please, no phones. I want a cell phone I can carry in my pocket, and I don't want a tiny screen that requires a magnifying glass to see the GUI.

Well, maybe MICRO$OFT did not 'feel' like coding Pocket Office for PSPC, and in that tried to get third-party developers to develop Office-Like Programs for the PSPC.


If you were not a geek, you would not have put CE Geek as your username ...

Now you're getting it . . . .

you can shut off the phone module...
you don't need a magnifying glass for the bsquare, the GUI is very well designed so no problems with seeing it...