Terminal Emulation for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is Microsoft’s operating system for mobile phones (smartphones) and portable computers. Although now superseded by Microsoft’s new Windows Phone operating system Windows Mobile and its variants are still widely used outside of the fast evolving smartphone market, particularly on scanner devices which fall into the category of warehousing, inventory and stock control. This article takes a look at what Turbosoft offers for terminal emulation on Windows Mobile devices.

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Emulation Software for Handheld Devices

One of the most amazing thing about the short history of computers is that the early mainframes of the 1960s and ‘70s – supercomputers that took up entire rooms and required their own air conditioning systems just to keep them at the optimum temperature – were less powerful than the handheld smartphone that most of you are probably carrying in your pocket even as you read this. It’s even more amazing when you consider that the technology required to access these mainframes can now be emulated on smartphones. From 3270 emulation to Wyse and Stratus emulators, it’s all available from your handheld device. In a way, it’s all come full circle.

Why mainframes?

Indeed, technology is progressing at an astonishingly rapid rate, and nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of mobile computing. But you may be asking yourself: if the smartphones of today are more powerful than the ‘big iron’ mainframes of three decades ago, then why would we need to access mainframes at all?

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