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Re: Iphone....no way man

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Originally Posted by DaPeeps View Post
When you look up pocket pc on Wiki, here is the first sentence of their article:
"A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer (Personal digital assistant) that runs the MicrosoftWindows Mobile operating system."

Now granted, the 2nd line says "It may have the capability to run an alternative operating system like NetBSD, Linux, Android or others. It has many of the capabilities of modern desktop PCs." ....but I think the point is that when people think of Pocket PC's, they think of Windows Mobile.
History lesson time.

If you're wanting to go litteral on the "Pocket PC" or PPC, then technically your Diamond, Touch Pro, and all other things shouldn't be on this site either.

PocketPC, or PPC, is no more. It died. "Windows Mobile" killed it. Common vernacular at times is still to consider Windows Mobile Devices as PocketPC's because that was the name of the OS that popularized windows on devices (Funnily enough, they were previously Handheld PC's [HPC's] running WindowsCE before PocketPC came out). However, the "PocketPC" as it was traditionally and technically known is no more.