Microsoft Release Pocket Streets for MS Smartphone

Darren

Microsoft have released Pocket Streets for the MS Smartphone platform. Offering similar map functionality to the PocketPC version you can locate addresses, junctions and POIs, download maps of cities an the US, Canada and Europe from the Pocket Streets website, or create your own using MapPoint, AutoRoute or Streets & Trips Desktop applications. Sync your maps to your Smartphone and have them available whenever you need them.

The only dissapointing ommission from this version is a complete lack of GPS Support! Come on Microsoft, this is a must have! Oh and did I mention that unlike the PocketPC version, this one costs $24.95 from Handango!.
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Darren Griffin

Fuego · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject:

Pocket Streets 2002 and 2003 has never worked with Bluetooth GPS receivers on Pocket PCs, anyway. I had a long support conversation with MS, many months ago, which ended with "Yes, it doesn't work that way". :/

Essentially, what I could glean from the somewhat fruitless exchange was that PS200x accesses the COM port hardware at a lower level than the virtual COM ports that the Bluetooth stack presents and therefore cannot "see" nor can it use these ports.

Was it likely to change in the future? Probably not.

icsys · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject:

If this is PocketStreets 2004 then there should be no problem as it works fine with a BT receiver on a PocketPC. Maybe the functionality has been omited for some other reason?

Darren · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

The Smartphone version completely lacks GPS support, there is talk that it 'may' make it into the next update but for now it's not available.
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Darren Griffin

Fuego · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

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