Windows Mobile 5.0 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft . It was originally codenamed "Magneto". It was released at Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2005 in Las Vegas, May 9–12, 2005. Microsoft offered mainstream support for Windows Mobile 5 through October 12, 2010, and extended support through October 13, 2015. It was first offered on the Dell Axim x51.
6-811: BenQ-Siemens P51 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA smartphone developed by BenQ Mobile . It comes with an array of wireless connectivity including a built-in GPS receiver, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi . Like the BenQ P50 before it, the P51 took long to market - it was announced in March 2006 but was only first available in November 2006 in China, and March 2007 in Singapore and Turkey. The next BenQ Windows Mobile device platform would be
12-418: A new error reporting facility similar to that present in desktop and server Windows systems. Caller ID now supports photos so a user can apply an image to each contact to show when a call is received. DirectShow was also natively added. This release was the first to include DirectDraw with hardware acceleration, replacing the deprecated graphics component of GAPI, and Pocket MSN can be viewed directly from
18-749: The BenQ E72 is the bar form factor without touch screen, had run on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standards (Smartphone Edition). It was released in 2010. Windows Mobile 5.0 It used the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3, an environment for programs based on .NET. Windows Mobile 5.0 included Microsoft Exchange Server "push" functionality improvements that worked with Exchange 2003 SP2. The "push" functionality also required vendor/device support With AKU2 software upgrades all WM 5.0 devices supported DirectPush . Windows Mobile 5.0 featured increased battery life due to Persistent storage capability. Previously up to 50% (enough for 72 hours of storage) of battery power
24-491: The ability to insert tables and graphics. Media management and playback was enhanced with Picture and Video package, which converged the management of videos and pictures and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile. Among new hardware features were enhanced Bluetooth support, default QWERTY keyboard-support and a management interface for Global Positioning System (GPS). Improvements were made to ActiveSync 4.2 with 15% increased synchronization speed. Business customers benefited from
30-403: The two as needed. Everything is backed up in the flash memory, so unlike prior devices, WM5 devices lose no data if power is lost. New to 5.0, OS updates were released as Adaptation kit upgrades , with AKU 3.5 being the final released. A new version of Office was bundled called " Microsoft Office Mobile " which includes PowerPoint Mobile, Excel Mobile with graphing capability and Word Mobile with
36-448: Was reserved just to maintain data in volatile RAM. This continued the trend of Windows-based devices moving from using RAM as their primary storage medium to the use of a combination of RAM and flash memory (in use, no distinction between the two is obvious to users). Programs and frequently accessed data run in RAM, while most storage is in the flash memory. The OS seamlessly moves data between
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