What legacy Windows Mobile apps do you miss?

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[MJThib]

Pocket Informant & PocketBreeze are my top missed apps. Really miss having a fully function calendar and task.

 

[aximtreo]

I know I don't need it for my ICON but I miss the little green icon for RESET. I remember having to do a reset many times during the week. LOL

 

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[Laura Knotek]

I know I don't need it for my ICON but I miss the little green icon for RESET. I remember having to do a reset many times during the week. LOL

What did it look like? I've never even played with a Windows Mobile device in a store.

 

[jplemt]

I know I don't need it for my ICON but I miss the little green icon for RESET. I remember having to do a reset many times during the week. LOL

I drilled a small hole in my Palm Treo 700wx battery cover to be able to do a reset with my stylus... lol while it was in a case. I wish Opera was available for WP. I think I even had Norton AV on WM. Lol

 

[Laura Knotek]

I drilled a small hole in my Palm Treo 700wx battery cover to be able to do a reset with my stylus... lol while it was in a case. I wish Opera was available for WP. I think I even had Norton AV on WM. Lol

I liked Opera for BlackBerry.

 

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[Kevin Rush]

Resco File Explorer
Kinoma Play
Pocket Informant
Opera

All the rest of my Windows Mobile apps have made the transition and even improved.

 

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[fatclue_98]

SPB Mobile Shell
Resco Explorer
JetCet Print

 

[amitnahar]

Resco Explorer and Call Recorder
Sent from my Lumia.

 

[link68759]

I forget the name, but I had something where if you held down the windows button, the entire screen would be covered in a grid of customizable buttons. You then dragged to whichever button and released your finger. This was accessible from any app at any time, and is the fastest shortcut system ever... Just a flick of the thumb and I could toggle airplane mode, or start the flash light, etc.





Also I miss xdaUC for obvious reasons.



This isn't really an app, but I miss the internal file picker of WM6. It had an address bar which supported all protocols. WP7/8's file picker is a HUGE regression. For example, if I had a normal picture viewing app, i could browse to My pictures... Or type http://google.com/logo.jpg and it would be fetched. Or \\LAN-PC\shared-picture.



A simple video player would not have to support network functions because the system file picker handled that automatically. The video player TCPMP was aware of this and offered controls for how big the buffer should be, and etc, in the event the file was not sourced locally.



Now it falls to each and every developer to implement each and every network protocol (and they never do for most apps), and the file picker necessitates that every app copy every file into isolated storage, which causes long wait times and effectively requires you have double the file size in free space (opening a 4GB video will result in a long wait while it copies 4GB into app isolated storage).

 

[Cryio]

Opera Mini/Mobile

 

[Joshua Jackson]

resco file explorer

+1
Let's have a file manager that can access UNC shares.
JJ