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You’ve seen numerous Windows Mobiles in the market from makers like Motorola, HTC, imate, Samsung (in fact only Nokia doesn’t have a Windows Mobile phone!!).. what you have NOT seen is the Windows Mobile displaying local Indian languages like Hindi.. watch these screenshots from my HP Windows Mobile phone:
Watch the day of the week in Hindi alongwith the name of the month. Even the appointments have the days mentioned in Hindi.
So why hasn’t Windows Mobile been able to show Hindi fonts?
While Windows Mobile supported Unicode, the core issue was the font engine in WM did not know (was not built) how to render complex characters. The reason why it was not done for WM, was that made the font engine heavy and OEMs didn’t want to increase memory footprint for that. Also, there were no fonts natively for Hindi on WM. All that changes with this application install that enables the following features.
An inscript Hindi keyboard:
Any WM application that supports Hindi fonts can now actually display them. look at the screenshot of google maps on Win Mobile:
And yes, even Word and Excel documents containing Hindi text render correctly on the Windows Mobile (using Word Mobile):
Earlier, you could not browse Hindi websites on mobiles. Now, websites that render Unicode text are also shown correctly (intentionally rendered in Opera Mini to show that it works in all browsers):
i have tried sending a Hindi SMS to a hindi enabled Nokia phone and it has worked seamlessly!!
However, it should be noted that this solution is not a localization engine. The dates and few other things get localized because they happen to use localized fonts which are installed by this font engine. Hence, most of the menu items of Windows Mobile are not rendered in Hindi but in default English.
Now, if you want your Windows Mobile to start showing you things in Hindi, you can download the solution FREE of cost from here: http://www.eyron.in
The solution is designed for Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices with a touch screen for Windows Mobile 5 and Win Mobile 6 Professional.
remember, this solution is not to localize WM to Hindi, but rather enable WM to get Hindi input and show Hindi characters on the UI (not changing the UI elements from eng to hindi)..
Let me know what you think of this solution.
At the recently concluded Mix 08, Microsoft showcased Silverlight 2.0 working on Windows Mobile. In addition, Nokia licensed Silverlight to display on its mobile device.
In a recent news, it is said that Microsoft is licensing Flash Lite for display with Windows Mobile Devices. Here’s what ZDNET thinks of it: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8240
Now i don’t think what ZDNET thinks is at all on the mark for the following reasons:
- it has already being displayed at Mix 08 and I don’t doubt that it is going to come out soon.
- If MS has to dissect Flash lite to learn it, there is no need to license the same.
- Why wud MS want to make Adobe look relevant, when it is fighting Silverlight war with Flash and Expression suite war with Adobe designer suite?
I think:
- Microsoft will continue to prefer Silverlight for its mobile devices.
- Flash Lite provides Windows Mobile owners additional avenue of using content.
- In the new found Interoperability “karma”, Microsoft may want various technologies to play on Windows Mobile.
In any case, it is the ultimate consumers who are going to benefot from this deal!
If you have been using Windows Mobile to read documents on the fly, you know that till now Office 2007 docs cudn’t be read… 😦
Office Mobile 6.1 has now been released for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC and Windows Mobile 6 devices. The upgrade is a free download and will allow you to open and edit Office 2007 file format documents from Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx) You can also view Powerpoint 2007 (pptx) documents.
Other improvements include:
• Enhanced viewing experience for charts in Excel Mobile.
• Ability to view SmartArt in PowerPoint Mobile.
• Ability to view and extract files from compressed (.zip) folders.
This free upgrade works only for Windows Mobile powered devices that have an earlier version of Office Mobile.
Well i tried to install the same on my HP 6965, but the upgrade failed.. i am still investigating..
Here:
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/domore/halo3.mspx
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