[WinInfo] Pocket PC 2003: About as Exciting as a New Dishwasher Well, it’s official: The Pocket PC is a mature product. I know this because the next major revision of the PDA product, which is due next week, contains absolutely nothing exciting. Pocket PC 2003 (code-named Ozone) will include no-configuration wireless-networking support, native Bluetooth support, an improved Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Instant Messaging (IM) capabilities, Windows Media Player (WMP) 9, barely improved versions of the bundled Pocket applications, and native support for the XScale processors that all modern Pocket PCs now use. Thanks to its underlying Windows CE .NET 4.2 OS, the new Pocket PC will also support multithreading, which will add even more to the performance picture. If you’re scanning through that list looking for a killer feature, don’t bother–it isn’t there.

First off, Pocket PC has supported multithreading for awhile so i’m not entirely sure what he’s talking about. I would of loved to see a Pocket OneNote or some sort of updates to Pocket Word and Excel, but for me the simple fact that it’s finally on CE.NET 4.2 and the .NET Compact Framework is in ROM, is enough for me to upgrade.