Windows Mobile 6.5 introduction - part 1 of 2

Part 1 of our look at the new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS, as seen on an HTC Imagio for Verizon. This intro shows off the new UI, IE 6 web browser, the lock screen and some of the designer themes. More info: http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=7736

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• microsoft
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• htc
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• tour

[oldpueblo]

The reason it's hard to find things is you chose a noisy background. :/

[mobileburn]

No, that's not it. The reason it is hard to read is because the icons and labels are not arranged in lines, like a book.

Its just as bad with other backgrounds.

[myoung7997]

You see the way they put that ugly background on the imagio on purpose these guys are hatin such much on Verizon its not even funny. They must work for T-mobile, Sprint or At&t. They try to make this phone seem inferior than what it is . Trust the phone is way more responsive than that from other footage that i have seen on this phone. Are u kidding me.

[mobileburn]

You're an idiot. I chose those backgrounds to show what was available in a stock WinMo 6.5 system. Plus, they show off the colors of the display well. This isn't about the Imagio or any carrier, it is about Windows Mobile 6.5.

[oldpueblo]

It's not a book to be read, they are icons not paragraphs. If it's so hard why can so many people find their icons without issue? Maybe you specifically should stick to solid backgrounds to make it easier on you. :)

[h20hydro]

whats sooooo hard about looking for a certain button where there's only like 8 to choose from? how is it MESSY? DAMN YOU'RE LAZY MAN!!!

[theandroinvader]

@h20hydro win-fag

[tubulation]

video quality = very good

phone utilities shown = poor

blablabla = too much

you're not the only one doing this scores

if you change this, things will get better

[pgdrz41]

It seems like touch flo 3d is such a RAM hog. With TF 3D im only around 40-55% of free RAM from running programs. Without tOUCH fLOW 3D im at 84% free RAM from running programs. with 90MB of free space.

[miggbg]

@oldpueblo

There is no consistency with the UI here... there is a home menu, that looks like nothing else in the phone... there are the icons, which really make me wanna right-click and arrange icons... and the settings... file manager... nothing looks like anything else in this phone. Now if you like it, that good, but don't say it looks good and expect people to agree with you... its a mess

[eatfastnoodle]

@fupasack2

Well, WM has been steadily losing market share for several years. And it was clear to MS that old WM simply didn't work any more. There was some major reorganization inside Microsoft to rejuvenate WM, but it seemed that people just didn't buy old WM still deeply rooted in desktop windows. MS got no choice. If they don't do it, they would be on fast track to irrelevancy.

[fupasack2]

thats some of the same reasons i want to get a wm smart phone. i was going to get android until i realized that google is some what like apple in that they want you to use all there services and have access to all your info, just too much big brother.

but now i dont know with WP7s coming out. it just looks horrible. its like an ugly iphone. it just seems like WM will be dead and all focus will be on the new lame WP7s.

[shnizalproductions]

sorry for the late reply fupasack2, just the amount of things you can do with winmo, i can go to xda and download a new custom rom any day of the week, i can view office docs and its different from what most people have. every man and his dog has an iphone. androids a great OS but why move from winmo when it has been completely reliable to me, never crashed/freezed on me

[rourin]

The Android OS is built on the Linux Kernel, yes. The operating system itself is written in C, but the applications from third parties are written in Java with Google developed Java libraries.

[fupasack2]

this may be a dumb question but i know nothing of computer coding, isnt the android OS linux??

[rourin]

I mean that Java is exactly that, an ineffective programming language. It takes more code than necessary to do the same thing compared to C and its equivalences. (C, C++, C#). The pros with java is that it's easier to learn than C. I wouldn't agree that WM is slow and buggy. I've used it for five years and I would beg to differ. However, I was referring to applications programmed for it, not the OS itself.