Windows Mobile 6.5 Device Emulators and more 6.5 Information
With the Windows Mobile 6.5 device emulator images now finally released we can probably start to see much more information about Windows Mobile 6.5 being made available to the public.
Grab the 6.5 Professional or Standard emulators here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e
I already had the Windows Mobile 6.1.4 Professional images and Device Emulator 3.0 installed and the 6.5 images appeared to work straight away:
Please click on any of the pictures below to enlarge them for better viewing. My main purpose for using the emulator is for additional device testing, and not so much on the development side..
Connectivity on Windows Mobile 6.5
To get network connectivity you can follow the same steps as with previous emulators. Please see this blog posting for additional information.
The emulator network properties:
Walkthrough in a WM 6.5 emulator image:
MyPhone on Windows Mobile 6.5
Another tip in using the emulator is using the built-in MyPhone client to get more “live” data easily into the emulator for testing and usage. I did get a upgrade prompt to install the latest and greatest MyPhone client in my emulator. You can now install the open beta MyPhone client on any of your existing Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 devices, back-up the data and then restore it within the emulator.
MyPhone walk-through on the WM 6.5 emulator:
Windows Mobile 6.5 Widgets
Jorge Peraza has posted some quick information on how to get your feet wet with widgets on Windows Mobile 6.5: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2009/06/04/getting-started-with-widgets-on-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx.
What’s Hot about Windows Mobile 6.5
At the recent TechEd this TechTalk was recorded with Dale Coffing and Chris De Herrera to discuss the new user interface, MyPhone and Windows Marketplace for Mobile services:
http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=5471dd4c-9d1f-47c8-85df-c3bf5bfe678c
Network Utility on Windows Mobile 6.5
I did a quick test of the Enterprise Mobile IP Utility and it works under the Windows Mobile 6.5 emulator just fine and could be a very useful tool for troubleshooting:
System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 Support in WM 6.5
Of course testing out the SCMDM client embedded in Windows Mobile 6.5 is something I had to test out as well. :-) It didn’t disappoint and the VPN came up fine against a SCMDM 2008 SP1 instance over the Internet. I did notice a new option and error messages provided in the client:
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