Devices like the NEC MobilePro 200, Casio (Cassiopeia) A-10, and HP 300LX started appearing in late 1996 and early 1997, with tiny keyboards, more-landscape-than-landscape displays, and, by modern standards, an impressive number of ports.
By the time Ars Technica started mentioning Windows CE in 2003, it was well on its way to becoming Microsoft’s “Sure, we have an OS for that” solution.
It was the embedded “Windows CE for Smart Displays” OS for a ViewSonic airpanel V150p, which let you remotely control a desktop from something that you might, at an angle, call a tablet.
It was modified with “Windows XP extensions” to power a $250 AMD “Personal Internet Communicator” meant for “emerging markets” in 2004.
Still, in mid-2005, Windows CE was installed in nearly half the PDAs sold, with most of its share having been clawed out of Palm’s clutches.
Later that year, Palm announced that its newest device, the Treo 650, was running Windows Mobile.
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Devices like the NEC MobilePro 200, Casio (Cassiopeia) A-10, and HP 300LX started appearing in late 1996 and early 1997, with tiny keyboards, more-landscape-than-landscape displays, and, by modern standards, an impressive number of ports.
By the time Ars Technica started mentioning Windows CE in 2003, it was well on its way to becoming Microsoft’s “Sure, we have an OS for that” solution.
It was the embedded “Windows CE for Smart Displays” OS for a ViewSonic airpanel V150p, which let you remotely control a desktop from something that you might, at an angle, call a tablet.
It was modified with “Windows XP extensions” to power a $250 AMD “Personal Internet Communicator” meant for “emerging markets” in 2004.
Still, in mid-2005, Windows CE was installed in nearly half the PDAs sold, with most of its share having been clawed out of Palm’s clutches.
Later that year, Palm announced that its newest device, the Treo 650, was running Windows Mobile.
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