Comments on: Forget Windows Mobile 6.5. Look at Windows Mobile 6.5.1!

By: Tech

Tech — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:12:29 +0000

Looks flashy. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself yet.

By: mikecane

mikecane — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:30:13 +0000

Looks like Zune.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:47:40 +0000

I don’t see that happening, and that’s the problem with WinMo. MS has contracts with the carriers/ partners and they can’t just push out updates. It’s the WinMo hell.

By: Frank McPherson

Frank McPherson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:25:32 +0000

I’ll be more blunt than Jake. If Microsoft releases this directly to users and NOT via carriers then it will be a win. If updates like this get stuck in carrier hell, it doesn’t matter. It would be great if the updates were OTA, but just providing them for direct user download on a Microsoft web site would be a BIG improvement.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:37:44 +0000

Ah yes, the eternal promise of OTA updates for Windows Mobile :) The situation is supposed to be fixed in 6.5 but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see whether these improvements ever make it to anybody’s phone as an update.

By: Ricky B.

Ricky B. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:05:47 +0000

I’ve been using builds with this on my Touch Pro since before 6.5 went RTM — it’s much nicer. I don’t like how the bubbles look in those screenshots, but some of the theming — which can be done much more easily than in the past, I gather, without hacking at least — makes it look beautiful, and it is much more usable.

You get just as much screen space, too — the wasted whitespace on the top bar is gone to make more room for the bar on the bottom.