Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble visited the Windows Mobile group where he interviewed product manager Ford Davidson and a bunch of other geeks about WM 5.0 and all the other sweet things these guys have in their pockets. Fortunately Scobleizer didn't forget to record his trip and to make the 45mins video available to us mere mortals (see screenshots). Among the things we learn is
- that XBox games such as Midtown Madness are being ported to Windows Mobile 5.0;
- that developers can integrate MS Media player into their own application (Picard, do you read this?);
- why .NET is better than Java;
- that an OEM needs 60-90 days to bring a phone out;
- that MS guys even run POST-5.0 versions of WM which they don't want to share which us;
- that MS is planning to release a theme maker;
- why WM fonts are better readable than fonts on Treos and Blackberries;
- how the police uses PDAs for face recognizition;
- that airport cameras are scanning faces and broadcasting matches to the PDAs of agents;
- why softkeys for PDAs are hot;
- that Ford does know how to blow up a HTC Universal flash.
Download link to the video (WMV, 170Mb).
[via
Microsoft's Channel 9]