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There is now a great way to try out Windows Mobile on your PC before buying a new mobile smartphone. While this method will not give you a complete experience, it will give you a basic feel and idea of how Windows Mobile works to see if it fits your needs. Read on for instructions on how to do this:

System Requirements:
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 Server SP1
* 1GHz Processor or higher (Should be at least AMD Athlon/Duron or Intel Celeron)
* 200MB of free hard disk space
* Around 256MB of RAM, higher is better

Instructions:

• Download and install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 from here. Don’t worry, you won’t actually be using Virtual PC, it just installs a Virtual Machine network driver thats essential for running the Windows Mobile Emulator.
• Download the V1Emulator zip file from here. Click the Download button next to V1Emulator.zip to download the ZIP file. Extract the ZIP file and run the auto extract executable inside.
• From the same page you downloaded the V1Emulator.zip file, download the file called “efp.msi” and install it. Now you will see a item in the Start Menu called “Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0″ or similar. From that menu you can launch the smart phone in a variety of settings. Launching one will bring up a virtual smartphone with Windows Mobile 5.0 preinstalled

NOTE: You probably notice that this by default is running Windows Mobile 5, which is not the latest version. However, there are some Windows Mobile 6 Images up for download on MS’s site here that you can try. I myself haven’t tried them though.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 2:38 pm and is filed under Windows/Microsoft.