Comments on: Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.5, My Phone, Recite and a Marketplace

By: Kashif

Kashif — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:41:19 +0000

I am trying to watch the “windows-mobile-65-on-htc-touch-hd-video-tour” video but on youtube it is stated that this video is removed due to a copyright claim by MICROSOFT.Can someone tell my how can i watch or download this video.

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:38:36 +0000

This is a great step in the right direction by Microsoft. Now to the fools calling for Windows Mobile 7, you would be the same fools complaining at how unfinished it was and how rushed MS brought it to the market…if you want something done right then, shit, just wait…you people make no sense sometimes. And to the iphone issue…aside from it not bein able to make calls and its lack of features, the main reason the iphone feels so well put together and unbuggy (for lack of a better term) is because it does one thing at a time…ONE…and Apple knows this that’s why it doesn’t allow any running background processes…if it did, just like Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices, it would become just as slow and sluggish…that’s why even now that they’re comtemplating letting this happen they might limit it to like 2 or 3 at a time…the Jesus phone is not as cracked up as it is people…yes it has the best UI out there but underneath it all if it was allowed to do what a smartphone is supposed to do it would just like how all the smartphones react lol.

By: roach

roach — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:06:43 +0000

Can anyone else picture this or an update further and WinMo 7 on a revised Dange product?

By: celz

celz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:32:56 +0000

excuse the typos im typing on a samsung m520…

By: celz

celz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:31:30 +0000

so the you want a phone thats pretty and not flat.. the iphone was buggy as hell when it was released and this is a beta.. my touch pro doesnt run buggy at all.. and touch flo 3d looks alot better than an icon grid.. so again why is an iphone so much better than anything else.. i think its a good phone it just missing alot of basic and advanced features..

By: celz

celz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:25:56 +0000

any way 6.5 is gd but its unecessary like the iphone 3g.. lmao the first iphone shoulda had 3g just like 6.1 shoulda had these improvements

By: jenkman91

jenkman91 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:20:29 +0000

@celz

Your kidding, right? Windows mobile is so buggy. I have seen the demo of 6.5 and im still not buying it. the transitions graphics are still choppy. And the UI looks flat. And plus it runs a mobile version of Windows :X thanks, but no thanks.

By: richxps

richxps — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:25:14 +0000

Hey anyone know where i can find that wallpaper of the dock with the boat ? It looks pretty sweet.

Thanks in advance

By: celz

celz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:12:52 +0000

can someone explain how an iphone is better than wm 6.1 running touch flo 3d… i mean all you bashers are making valid points but i havent seen the phone os thats better yet…

By: Davis Brown

Davis Brown — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:00:02 +0000

This is butt ugly. Microsoft UI sucks. All their stuff looks like it was designed by monkeys.

By: khanh

khanh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:29:08 +0000

i think it looks better than the iphone, and the home screen is more informative and usable

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:05:44 +0000

@mr.fingers

I think he was talking about the Interface not the entire iPhone as a whole. Most people will agree that iPhone still has the best interface out of any mobile platform. Companies are still trying to mimic it unsuccessfully. This 6.5 is just a pretty new start screen and new browser bolted on the same ugly OS. HTC has done this with their replacement home screen and including Opera. This does not make WM better.

By: Christopher Cox

Christopher Cox — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:02:49 +0000

This is not a facelift for Windows Mobile. It is just a touch friendly home screen and a new browser. All of your apps will still look just as ugly after 6.5 as they did before it. Touch friendly home screen with everything else still being the same will lead to an inconsistent experience.

By: mr.fingers

mr.fingers — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:10:37 +0000

iphone is better than anything in the whole wide world, the best invention man has ever seen.

It’s soon to cure cancer, fix the world economy, create millions of jobs, fix global warming, create peace in the Middle East.

Oh wait, it’s hooked up to ATT where I can’t even get a 3G signal in the middle of LA.

Never mind.

stfu you iphone troll

By: CTSLICK

CTSLICK — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:23:05 +0000

Changing the front end UI is nice (and needed) but until they overhaul the UI for the rest of the device (I’m looking at you calendar) its just Windows dressing (pun intended)

By: backbeat

backbeat — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:22:16 +0000

If MS has further developed the UI’s hex boxes to flow so that when an icon was pressed it became surrounded by icons of related controls, options and apps, they might have had something there. Instead, the damned thing just scrolls like a pinwheel.

What is wrong with Redmond? They need to reallocate resources to get WM7 fully-charged up or WM is marginalizing themselves into more of a minority platform.

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:02 +0000

The iPhone is still better and MS has had a year to try to come up with something that can compete

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:09:04 +0000

@Jon, Agreed, most people might think that i have something against microsoft cause i bash them so much, but i do it cause i love them and i want them to be better, honestly this thing can’t even be compare to the Apple’s iPhone OS that came out 2+ years ago. Ballmer should stop Dicking around and buy out Palm at what ever cost and get Windows Mobile back on it’s feet again

By: 1adonis1

1adonis1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:56:21 +0000

^^
Have you looked at what all the HTC Touch PRO 2 can do…..that’s what I call functionality!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:53:49 +0000

This OS really needs to be revamped to compete with everything else. That puzzle menu (whatever it’s called) is not appealing to me nor functional. It is a great UI update from the source, not third party, but I have to agree, Microsoft should have skipped this an bring out version7. There is no time to sit around for another year while the Palm Pre and updated iPhone come out this year.

By: aleis

aleis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:41:11 +0000

^dude!
your totally killin our high!
wait to it comes out instead of looking at roms!

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:37:58 +0000

I just can’t understand why didn’t they just skip this junk and move straight to WM7, my opinion is Microsoft just hammered the last nail in the WM coffin. No way in hell this thing can’t stand against any of the new Mobile OSs out there. I mean has anyone seen the Video Demo???
it’s can’t be worse that what it is here’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAq5lFQFyMI

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:36:51 +0000

Looks great , the ui totally needed a facelift .

Can’t wait to check it out .

By: blur(p)s

blur(p)s — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:25:40 +0000

Awesome!!! I personal am quite fond of Microsoft having used it for so long and though i see many a flaws within thier software, this definitely looks like a step in the right direction. To bad it took so much/long for them to get to this point. Oh well, better late than never, right? Good job MS. ^_^

By: Jamal Anderson

Jamal Anderson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:15:37 +0000

Hot is all I can say!

This looks great. I love the menus looking so touch friendly.