Microsot just released a stand-alone emulator of Windows Mobile 5 (AKU2.0) with both PocketPC and Phone bootable images in it (screenshot). You will need the two files from here, plus this file (overall 59 MB). Elsewhere, Qtopia Phone Edition 4.1.1 is released as a bootable ISO for everyone to try out (only VoIP and video playback support is missing from that image, overall 119 MB).
Emulate Windows Mobile 5 and Qtopia Phone Edition 4.1.1
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Screenshots of Qtopia Phone Edition 4.x have recently been added on Qtopia.net:
http://www.qtopia.net/themes/Trolltech/screens.php?op=phone4
I like Qtopia. Some points to make its UI better:
1. The fonts are not AA. All new phones from Nokia and SE now have AA fonts, even the non-smartphones. There is a selection of 4 AA fonts for Qtopia, but these are really ugly and don’t scale.
2. Some of the dialogs were quickly ported from the QVGA PDA edition and they create long tabs that you have to horizontally scroll to.
3. Such lists are very bad UI-wise for a non-toucscreen UI: http://www.qtopia.net/images/screenshots/4/qtopia4-packagemanager.p…
I find those screenshots to be messy overall, UI-wise. Of course it’s hard to judge without using it, but from the screenshots, it looks very clumsy and inconsistent.
Anyone knows if the Windows Mobile 5 Emulator comes with .NET compaq framework?
Anyone knows if the Windows Mobile 5 Emulator comes with .NET compaq framework?
Download links on MS page don’t work.
>> Download links on MS page don’t work.
I had the download links work, but the emulator installer runs, but doesn’t actually appear to INSTALL anything…
Nevermind, I got it… by running it from the command line.
Talk about a convoluted installation – what is this?Microsofts way of saying “Hey, we can make a crappy installer that doesn’t make shortcuts or even let you know we installed anything, and requires certain other installations in a undocumented order – just like linux?”
Had to switch to IE to download it…the installer for the VM Network Driver appears to finish installing rather abruptly, but it works…
Actually, it comes with the newly renamed .NET HP framework. 🙂
Where was this 2 weeks ago when I was trying to figure out why my old mobile program wasn’t working on mobile 5
what phone use qtopia?
what phone use qtopia?
Looks like several vendors delivers phones with Qtopia, mostly Asian vendors or phones targeted to the Asian market.
Like Wistron NeWeb Corporation and Accton Technology Corporation of Taiwan. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3547076080.html
China’s government-owned TEM, http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8901223473.html
Motorola use it in several of their Linux phones(all?) Like the E680, A910 etc. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6429395080.html
>Motorola use it in several of their Linux
> phones(all?) Like the E680, A910 etc.
These phones don’t use Qtopia. They use QtEmbedded and then Motorola has created their own UI on top.
I got it loaded on my computer but I can’t figure out how to get the device to use my internet connection. Anyone figured that out yet?
UPDATE: Nevermind, I figured it out. After setting up the network connection to the Internet, I had to do a soft reset of the device.
Edited 2006-05-20 14:46
I have an Archos media player which runs Qtopia. My honest opinion of it is horrible. The fonts look jagged, the icons look odd and very green. Functionality is also pretty bad compared to Windows Mobile, e.g. Browsing the hard disk is extremely awkward. These issues maybe due to the Archos itself.
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; PPC; 480×640) Opera 8.50 [en]
The Archos PMA430 uses an 8 bit display for Qtopia applications, so that means it is not going to look as nice as a 32 or 16 bit display. Also The Archos uses Qtopia version 1.7. The Qtopia Phoned Edition also has a different home screen and feel to it.
Very well simulated. Feels like PocketPC.
(Posted this in the simulator with IE)
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240×320)