Connection and difference between Win CE and Windows Mobile

Win CE is a member of the Windows operating system family. It is used to support HPCS. It can work collaboratively with portable and Windows desktop technologies.
WM is short for widows mobile. With the rapid development of smartphones, Microsoft strengthened its mobile phone communication function based on the Win CE system, and thus independently developed into the WM system. The WM system is divided into PPC supporting Touch Screen and smartphone supporting keyboard.
Therefore, WM is also a Win CE system, but it is a Win CE system for mobile apps. Win CE has good customizable features, which can be enhanced based on the development needs to evolve into a specific and better system.

You have heard that Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 are all Windows NT-based operating systems.
Windows Mobile is an Wince-based operating system.
Both nt and CE are an architecture. Windows Mobile, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 are their specific implementations.

Simply put, you have built the overall structure of a building, but it has not been renovated. In the future, the building will be used for office buildings or residential buildings.
CE is like the overall structure of the building, and Windows Mobile is the office building that has been renovated.
Relationship between wince and Windows Mobile

Windows CE (wince) is a general operating system.
Windows Mobile is based on the same core of wince. It is a set of operating systems specially designed for common pocketpc or smartphone on the market.
Windows Mobile consists of three platforms: Pocket PC, smartphone, and media centers. Windows Mobile provides audio recording, audio/video playback, and other multimedia functions. Because most models support color display, the power consumption is extremely high, and because Windows CE has a huge impact on resources, the Windows CE system is obviously inferior to the palm operating system in terms of energy consumption.
in simple terms, the core of wince and mobile systems is the same. However, Windows Mobile is a development environment and authorization method that Microsoft creates for the common pocketpc or smartphone on the market, generally, if an OEM wants to join the production of pocketpc or smartphone, it must sign related authorization with Microsoft. Microsoft recommends the appearance of the product and the core of the included software, before mass production, you must pass the Microsoft certification before you can sell it with the Microsoft tag.
Windows CE is not limited to pocketpc or smartphone products. Generally, companies can choose a combination of Windows CE kits in many ways, the license fee is USD 3, and Microsoft certification is not required for mass production and shipment.

compare Windows CE and mobile
. Remove the original Word, Excel, PDF, PPT, image file browsers and WordPad applications with word editing functions Program , the new pocket word, pocket excel, picture, and Microsoft reader applications are added. The new applications are more powerful than the original file browser, and most of them have different degrees of editing functions, not just browsing.
. New full-featured outlook applications are added: email client, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, and calculator. There is only one email client named inbox in wince.
. A new phone application is added to Mobile, which is a full-featured phone application. In addition to the call function, it also includes: call, short message service, call transfer, Sim Card Contact Management, and support for GSM, GPRS, and CDMA in the contact list. There is also a cellcore layer, which is a programming interface that simplifies mobile application development.
. Mobile does not support ICS, network utility, SNMP, UPnP, SMB/CIFS, FTP server, file server, Print Server, telnet server, RAS server, and SNTP.
. Multimedia functions are greatly weakened and DirectX is not supported. Audio only supports three formats: waveform, MP3, and WMA. video formats are not supported. (no ready-made codec is available here, but does not prevent the user from implementing it), but Windows Media Player is still available.
. Mobile uses an optimized mobile hand-held shell, which does not support standard shell, taskman shell, Windows thin client shell, and command shell. In addition, mobile does not support Mui and user-defined shell.
. Mobile does not support Kerberos authentication or smart card encryption.
. Mobile only supports pocket IE and does not support IE 6.0.
. Mobile only supports CPU in the ARM architecture.
. Mobile does not support the mouse.

In addition:
Although both smartphone and Pocket PC phone are based on Microsoft WindowsCE, their operations and applications are also different because of their different basic design points. Their software is not generic. PPC mobile phones generally use touch screen operations, while smartphone phones can only use mobile phone buttons for operations.
PPC is short for Pocket PC. PPC is a customized version of wince. It is mainly used for PDA and mobile phones and uses touch screen operations. Most of them do not have a keyboard.
Smartphone can also be referred to as sp. SP is also a customized version of wince. It can only be applied to mobile phones, without touch screen, and can only be operated on a keyboard.
In general, there is wince first, and then PPC and smartphone. Their kernel is the same, but the interface is different.

As far as I know, the authorization fee for wince is very low (Some say it is zero), and the WM fee is much more expensive.
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