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A little outdated, but very helpful even though a lot if the newer info concerns the mobile phones and not the handheld computer.
I got the book for help with my Verizon mobile phone but found that throughout the book in trying to cover both pocket PCs and phones it did neither well. This might have been a great book. three years ago but now it is woefully out of date. As an example, the note on page 287 regarding using Word Mobile states "Word Mobile s not available on Smartphones." Odd. it seems to be there on my Smartphone and seems to work.
This books covers Windows Mobile 5. Most new phones come with version 6. This greatly limited the value of the book.
Very sophomoric approach to explaining how to use Windows Mobile. If you have never before seen a Windows Mobile device and have no intuitive capacity whatsoever, this is the book for you. If you are looking to solve a problem or change a feature, forget it -- you won't find the answer here mostly because there is no answer. This book takes 433 pages to explain a four page topic.
I suppose the word "Everything" lead me astray here. Perhaps, also, I expected too much otherwise.The book does help you to learn the basics of using a Windows Mobile Smartphone or PDA, but I felt like I expected it to go into some slightly more advanced topics in detail, like installing and configuring software, or more advanced configuration of the system itself. My failing there could very well be in my expectations, though.If you just need to learn how to use your Windows Mobile phone, then I suppose this is a decent book. I would wonder what else is out there along those lines, though, since that's not really what I was looking for.
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