Win Mo 6.5: 7 reasons why we ain’t impressed!
October 8th, 2009 by Mr. Spock
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 is finally out and finally the OS which which we know as a yesteryears superhit, in the age of Android and iPhones, it’s trying to adapt to the touch generation. Here are 7 reasons why we are not impressed with Windows Mobile v6.5:
- The today screen is a massive improvement over its predecessor, but hey, it is going to get papered over by the skins made by most manufacturers today. Can you imagine HTC giving up Touch Flo or Samsung pulling the plug on Touch Wiz. Get real, fellas!
- Yeah, we love the new icons, but at the end of the day, we still need that metallic toothpick they call a stylus. If the iPhone and Android can dump it, why not Win Mo? And don’t even get us started on multi-touch.
- Nice to see Internet Explorer get Flash support and the zoom bar, but it still does not do multiple tabs and has no download manager. We are sticking to Opera!
- Notwithstanding all the tom-tomming by the marketing guys, My Phone and Windows Marketplace are NOT a Win Mo 6.5 exclusive. Those using Win Mo 6 and 6.1 can use them too. And neither really does enough. 200 MB of cloud space for backup is laughable, as are 300-odd apps on the Marketplace.
- While the likes of Android, Symbian and the iPhone OS are working on Web applications and widgets, Win Mo 6.5 seems very much stuck in the “run it off the phone” age. Yes, they have a cool Facebook app, but that is hardly enough and even now,but that is hardly enough and even now, Win Mo lags behind its competitors when it comes to apps that run off the Web. Do not even dream of getting the kind of push notifications on your homescreen that you get on Series 60 (5th ed) and Android.
- The decision to let only a limited number of phones – mostly high-end at that - support the new OS sucks big time. The official line is that this is because only certain hardware configurations can support Win Mo 6.5. That’s pure bunkum! Many people have been using beta versions of 6.5 on HTC Touch Pro, a device that is officially not upgradeable to 6.5. Why should someone who has invested in a Win Mo 6 or 6.1 device recently be deprived of using the new OS? Has hardware changed THAT much?
- It seems all the changes have been reserved for the Professional edition, with the Smartphone edition getting short shrift. Come on guys, the keyboard ain’t dead yet.
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Categories: Softwares, smartphones, windows mobile | Tags: microsot wm 6.5, review, symbian vs windows, windows mobile, windows mobile 6.5 review, windows mobile vs anroid, windows mobile vs iphone, WinMo 6.5, wm 6.5, wm6.5
I hope it works on the Xperia! I want to give it a shot.
you know whom to contact for that
@hardik
Well, there are many things that I would not agree to. About the typing, Microsoft have managed to provide 7 different options of typing. So you have ways to use the Stylus for the old fashioned stylus users and then you have the larger touch keypad for your fingers. The HTC Pro 2 even has a keyboard to do your typing!
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