Toshiba Offers ROM Update for e400 and e800 Series Pocket PC

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Toshiba released its latest ROM update for their Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition devices which inlcude the e400 and e800 series Pocket PCs.

Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition adds a number of features to the platform, including support for 640x480 or VGA screens. Higher-resolution displays mean fonts and icons made for lower-resolution displays will appear smaller. So Microsoft has a new tool in Second Edition called the Settings Panel that allows users to set the size of the fonts at a readable level. There is also a high-resolution version of the Windows Mobile on-screen keyboard as well as icons in Second Edition. Voice Tags have been added to Pocket PC Phone Edition and users can dial directly from the Today Screen now.

Other new features in Second Edition include an improved Start Menu that will remember the most recently used applications. This list will appear separate from the Start Menu's regular list of software. Shortcut support has been added to Transcriber, the Windows Mobile handwriting recognition program. So users can now come up with a word or phrase that will tell Transcriber to put in its place, for example, a predetermined sentence or paragraph.

Microsoft has added the ability for Pocket Internet Explorer to display Web pages as a single column. This will make websites easier to view on a handheld's small display, as users won't need to scroll from side to side to read text. Some third party applications had been offering this function, but it is now native to the operating system. The company has also made Wi-Fi access more secure with WPA or Wi-Fi Protected Access, a security standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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