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A little history is the best way to start. Pocket PC is an Operating System developed by Microsoft. It replaces an earlier Microsoft Operating System called Windows CE. This is a competitive platform to PDAs that run the Operating System that Palm provides (simply referred to as Palm OS).   There are several vendors who provide handhelds that are compatible with Pocket PC. The largest is HP with its IPAQ series. But, there are also vendors, including ones who provided Ruggedized Pocket PCs.  This would be of value to anyone concerned about the stress on a PDA in a gym environment.

It should be noted that Lexabean does not sell Pocket PC devices nor does it sell any Palm devices. As a result, we do will not attempt to advocate one platform over the other. All we will say is that both are well established platforms. Lexabean is committed to ensuring its software works equally as well on both platforms. Any platform specific features that may be of value to our users will certainly be taken advantage of.

Minimum Configuration

The minimum Pocket PC handheld requirements for our software to work is still under review. The general guidelines are:

• USB based Hotsync Cradle.

• At least 8 MB RAM.

• Pocket PC 2002 or later

• Microsoft ActiveSync. This is a free download from the MicrosSoft website. Note - most newer PDAs will come bundled with this software.

• Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. 1.0 can be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft website. Note - most newer PDAs will already have this installed. 2.0 can be downloaded from here.

Some of our PDA applications display video. In order to provide for the best video display, your PDA should include:

• At least 70MB of free space for the videos, or preferably - 128 MB (or larger) expansion card .

• A high quality, color display.

• Version 7.1of Microsoft Media Player for Pocket PC can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft website. However - there are newer versions of the media player.  It should be noted that not all versions are distributed for free. Click here for more details...

The videos take up a lot of memory on your PDA. Be sure to check how much free space you have on the PDA before and after downloading the PDAs.