The player also includes breakthrough Windows Media Audio and Video 8 codec technology providing the best-quality audio and video in the smallest file size. The launch today of these two key innovations for mobile users is a critical milestone in the goal of delivering digital media any time, any place on any device. New automatic media discovery locates digital media files, both on the Pocket PC and on compact flash or other extra storage media, and adds them to the user's media library. It also can discover digital media located in e-mail attachments. New skins and an integrated skins chooser allow users to easily and quickly customize their player with new built-in skins management combined with new skins designs.
Users can also download additional skins or create custom skins.
New background playback lets users work and play the way they want to and maximizes battery time and productivity. Users can listen to music on the Pocket PC device while reading e-mail or reading an electronic book. Windows Media Player 7.1 for Pocket PC can minimize the Player and still continue to play music in the background, allowing users to work on other tasks or activities while preserving precious memory resources and battery life. Also, users can easily program a button on the Pocket PC to switch off the screen while listening to audio to save battery resources. Availability Windows Media Player 7.1 for Pocket PC is available for download today for owners of Compaq iPAQ Pocket PCs, the HP Jornada and the Casio Cassiopeia Pocket PC models.