Build 23049 also spotted

Sep 20, 2009 13:20 GMT  ·  By

Windows Mobile 6.5 has just seen some new builds leaked into the wild and that add to the series of builds that we've already seen available for download in cooked ROMs for some of the WM-powered mobile phones out there. Among the new builds for the OS, we can count Build 23049, spotted a few days ago, as well as Build 23052 and Build 23412, which have popped up recently on the xda-developers forums.

Following the leaked Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23047, which came around with a series of finger-friendliness touches, as well as with a series of user-interface changes, the Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23049 also includes a series of visual changes. Thus, those who will try out this build will enjoy square soft keys, a somehow darker theme, as well as better integration with Manila 2.5 (HTC’s TouchFlo3D UI).

The next in line is Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23052, which can be admired with an HTC Hero Android-like look. The build can be seen on the xda-developers forums here, and seems to come with stablility improvements, as well as with speed enhancements. In addition to the theme changes, it also comes with a relocated start menu, and might soon surface in a series of cooked ROMs, though none has been announced until now, it seems.

Another build that emerged on the forums at xda-developers is Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23412, which surfaced in a cooked ROM for HTC TouchHD, and that also includes a series of visual changes, as well as some improvements in speed and stability. While we do not encourage you to install these builds unless you know what you are doing, we do recommend you to take a look at the screenshots below to make an idea of what they look like. A video with WM6.5 Build 23412 is also available.

As many of you might already know, for it has been said a few times before, these leaked builds and ROMs do not show what the upcoming Windows phones will deliver to users. The Windows Mobile 6.5 OS that will come to the market starting with October 6 is based on a previous build, while the new ones mark the path towards a WM 6.5.1 flavor that was already rumored to come to handsets at the beginning of the next year, before the next-generation Windows Mobile 7 makes an appearance.

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