Thursday, December 07, 2006

Windows Mobile 5 Is a Piece of Junk

I used to have a Verizon XV6600 with Windows Mobile 2003. Now I have a Verizon XV6700 with Windows Mobile 5 (WM5). For some reason, I believe that WM5 does a worse job at managing memory than 2003 did. It is really unbelievable that a product like this can get worse.

With these PDA phones, the memory is divided into two: one section is for "Programs" and one section is for "Storage". In 2003, the user could change the allocation and give more to "Programs" or more to "Storage" depending on which needed more memory.

With WM5, you cannot! This is insane! So my device, which came with supposedly 64Mb of memory, is completely out of storage memory, but has 17Mb of program memory free. Nothing but errors in this scenario!

If anyone has any tips, I would welcome them.

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