Bill G. opened the 2005 MEDC with a 75 minute keynote. The main focus of the keynote was to pull the wraps off of Windows Mobile 5.0. The keynote consisted of 4 demos all structured to highlight the new APIs, Visual Studio 2005 integration, and the new Compact .Net Framework 2.0. I felt the most impressive item was the advances in VS.Net 2005 which made it unbelievably simple to write applications that leverage the new APIs. Alot of the new features were additions to the framework which ease integration to the new Office Mobile applications. A demo given by one of the Lead Product Mgrs for .NET CF had him writing and deploying a restaurant database that leveraged integration with Outlook Mobile (to set an appointment for a reservation), integration with the telephony APIs (you could click the "Call" softkey to call the currently selected restaurant), and integration with the Picture Caputure API (so you could save an image of the restaurant you've visited.) Cool stuff. While they paid a passing nod to the Windows XP Embedded market (one demo used a kiosk to send custom themes to a smartphone), the real focus of all the activity in this first event was all Windows Mobile. On a sidenote, I did a little WarToothing before Bill G got started and I found 15 open and discoverable Bluetooth devices. Here's the breakdown:
- Nokia 7610
- Nokia 6820 (2 of these)
- Nokia 6230
- Nokia 6630
- Blackberry 7100
- Sony/Ericsson T630
- Audiovox SMT5600
- Unknown Phones (5 of these)
- Unknown Windows Mobile
- Laptop
I didn't have time to connect to them all, but the first three I tried allowed an OBEX push with no pairing (no clue if the end user accepted the object I pushed.) Shocking that this many open devices would be found here. Blackhats would have a field day at this place!
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