14 DAY TRIAL // Redmond-based software giant Microsoft released the latest flavor of its mobile operating system, namely Windows Mobile 6.5, at the beginning of October. The platform in itself has seen a fair amount of bad reviews, yet it seems that the iteration should be seen only as a minor update to the platform, with a major update expected to arrive sometime in late 2010 in the form of Windows Mobile 7.
While Windows Mobile 6.5 might not impress users as much as Microsoft would have wanted it to, it seems that mobile phone makers that deliver to the market smartphones based on the platform are able to offer an enhanced experience to their users. HTC Corporation, the largest provider of Windows Mobile-based devices, is one of them and its recently launched HTC HD2 handset seems to come with less issues than Windows Mobile 6.5 was said to come in the first place.
According to a recent article on Zdnet, the HD2 addresses some of the so-called “problems” of the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, thus being able to leverage the experience one has with the platform. The one thing that should be mentioned here is that HTC already announced that its HTC Sense navigation solution, which was originally launched on the Android-based HTC Hero, is also present with the phone and this might be the main reason for which the Microsoft mobile client looks and feels better.
The said piece shows that the Home/Today screen, the capacitive touch screen of the HTC HD2, the Windows Media Player, Photos & Video application and the Web browser are some of the aspects that make users be attracted to the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform and to the HD2 device. All this seems to be possible courtesy of HTC and its work on leveraging the OS' capabilities, something that one might have already expected when the Taiwanese maker announced the launch of its YOU campaign. However, there are still some issues that haven't been addressed yet, and you can learn all about them here.