Forums • A Rewrite of WLM for Windows Mobile 6.1

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Sep 24 '25

Never posted before, so nobody has probably seen my username in forums here.    Anyways,  so something interesting about development,   i've been working on a Messenger system  for LORA Radios (like Meshtastic/Meshcore), i have a pretty decent start on it (beta release in roughly  December).  It's a pretty cool  Mesh networking system/protocol in it.   It's like if you were to combine  IM, BitTorrent, Limewire (P2P File sharing), Group chats, RSS Feeds, and Decentralized  Social Media all into a single chat app.   Currently it looks fairly standard in terms of HTML5 based  mobile IM apps.  However, since it's HTML5, i was thinking... why not mod the code a bit and have the UI look like  WLM  for Windows Mobile 6.1.   It wouldn't really be that difficult.  The only problem is that i would need some screenshots of the  App running on Windows Mobile.   i have an old  i-mate PocketPC phone from roughly 2007 which could probably run it, but i don't have a battery for it and the few battery suppliers for phones i've asked said they have no idea where to get the battery for it.   If anyone else has access to a device or perhaps screen shots of the UI for WLM on WM 5.0 or 6.1  that would be incredibly helpful ...
The other side of this project is that because i also do 3d industrial design (Solidworks & now FeeCAD 1.x)  as well as PCB Design, Firmware development and Electrical engineering  i plan on making some  retro-looking  handsets that have not GSM inside but  a Quad Channel  LORA radio (SX1267 chip if you want to look up the datasheets). The end goal is obviously to earn some money by providing the community with really good hardware and a retro-nostalgic type feel  on both the hardware side and the software side.  Obviously for IPR reasons i wouldn't be able to ship a device with a WLM  UI  and an OS that is nearly a clone of  Windows Mobile 6.1  - that would just be a sort of aftermarket install that someone can add on if they like  and free to the community to mod as they see fit.   If you're wondering what kind of  processor i'm putting in these devices, well, i'm not.   I'm putting  2!  LOL.    Dual ESP32-P4 (400 Mhz dual core RISC-V)  chips with a SPI interconnect.  Each individual chip has 64MB of RAM on it.  Which if you remember in 2009,  most phones probably only had half of that.  
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