The experience of these last years, whether with a PC or a Pocket PC, shows that with all the best will of the world, the manufacturers of equipments and software don't explain how to use and get benefits from their equipments or their software. The interaction between both of them is never or rarely described.
The reason is generally simple : Manufacturers build a machine meeting a given purpose in order to be used with a given operating system. The software publishers developp software to meet definite needs. Marketing presents all the potential functionalities that this unit can realize for you.

This book will change that, it is dedicated to you, who discover the Pocket PC, who wish to acquire one, understand how it is integrated in current telecommunications such as Internet, GSM, GPRS, the network of your company, and particularly learn how to use it and make it evolve to fit your daily needs to your satisfaction.

The approach in this book is different from the one we often find in this type of literature, it is written for you, and it will make you feel confident in the use of your Pocket PC.
To understand how your Pocket PC is integrated in the current telecommunication world, we will explain you how we arrived at Pocket PC which is the outcome of 25 years of evolution.

With this new knowledge, we will study together the use that you plan to do with the Pocket PC and how to choose it.

Then, we will teach you how to operate your machine along with all the programs which came with it, such as : pocket Outlook, pocket Word, pocket Excel, ... all this, in a very comprehensive way, easily and based on examples.

You will learn, among other things, how to upgrade your Pocket PC with new software, how to subscribe to the Internet, how to read your e-mails through the use your mobile phone, how to transform it into a MP3 walkman... For leisure, you will also learn how to transform your small machine into a game box which will marvel your children.

If you do use your Pocket PC only for business purpose, this book will also explain how to integrate it into the electronic e-mail Exchange of your company, to share your diary and in paricular, it will explain you how it can be used and integrated into the big software which are implemented in your company.

Guy de Lussigny, omputer engineer, has been part during several years of the great adventure of mobile phone and the Internet.

Former director of studies of a subsidiary company of a large French aeronautical manufacturer, he currently works at rebuilding the information systems for a mobile telecommunications company.

Impassioned by data processing, he knows and masters the information systems based on Unix and Windows.

Creative and enthusiastic, he carried out several jobs and leaded various programs throughout his career.