windows media differences in 2002 and 2003..

[jlee24219]

what are the differences between these two os, 2002 and 2003, and how do they affect my performance. Also, do you still get solitaire with 2003 along with jawbreaker.

[cegarlan]

On my experience: The videos are played better on the WM2003 than the Pocket PC 2002.

the only difference i can remember now--it's been too long--is that WM2003 WMP has an independent volume control and is fully scaled (no sudden move from mute to medium).

that alone is almost worth the upgrade.

[gadgetnerd]

Yes, indeed it has been a long time since I upgraded. But I do highly reccomend it. Here are a couple of the changes I remember.

In the Switcher Bar "Brightness settings" and "power settings" have been added.

Wi-Fi communication no longer requires fiddling with the drivers that came with your card. WM2003 does it all for you.

The volume can go significantly higher than it could in 2002, without any loss in quality. Also you can adjust the volume more finely, and the OS volume is seperate from the WMP volume.

About 50 of the add-ons you could download for 2002 and included in 2003, and have been smoothed down along the edges.

It is a heck of a lot more efficient in CPU and RAM usage. 2003 uses about 2MB less of Program memory, and very rarely does it require for my CPU to go to 300Mhz while running only OS-built-in programs, even when all of the mare running simultaneously.

When you do a soft reset the OS adds a couple hundred things to its to-do list, so with every soft reset it becomes slower and slower. There was an app somebody linked to a while ago that deals with this problem. 2003SE should have this problem fixed, I hope.

Even with SE's arrival in a few months, I do beleive that it is worth the upgrade to 2003 from 2002. And I don't know if you can upgrade from 2002 to 2003SE directly anyways.

Edit: whoops, I thought you were asking about the OS. Anywayss, due to the above, everything works much better in WMP. hope this helps.

Yep, you still get Solitaire.

[jonjon98765]

I cracked the screen on my 1 year old X5 [pc2002] . I bought a new one so I could keep rolling [it has pc2003].
I plan to fix the old one. Since the two OSs are so different, it takes hours to switch from one X5 to the other.
Q: Is it worth the 30 bucks and the time to upgrade the old one to 2003??
Just doing a sanity check.
thanks

[gadgetnerd]

Originally posted by jonjon98765
Q: Is it worth the 30 bucks and the time to upgrade the old one to 2003??
Just doing a sanity check.
thanks [/B]

MOST definitely, no matter what you do with your Ax. However since you have a working X5, why bother spend the money on the broken one? I could understand about your files, but they'll be gone already unless you've had it plugged in. You could resurrect it and sell the newer one...