The DeviceEmulator V2 is significantly faster than the V1 emulator you're used to. Most of the performance wins come from a small set of optimizations in the ARM-to-x86 JIT and the MMU emulator. These wins improve raw execution of ARM instructions...

Using GPS receiver hardware from inside the DeviceEmulator is actually more straightforward than using the virtual GPS receiver from Part 1. Here is how: Plug your GPS receiver into a serial port on your PC. Launch the Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC...

Have you ever wanted to run a GPS-aware application inside the DeviceEmulator, without using a hardware GPS receiver? This would make both demos and test automation of GPS-aware applications much easier! It turns out that the support is built right...

Great news! You can now download Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack OS images (aka AKU2) for the Device Emulator. The MSFP release includes Direct Push , Remote Wipe, S/MIME, policy enformencent and other features - see this article...

If you do not have Visual Studio 2005 installed, but have Device Emulator OS images you want to try, you can now do so using the same emulator that ships with Visual Studio 2005. Head to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C62D54A5...