14 DAY TRIAL // The development team working on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system has recently unveiled a few more details regarding the upcoming platform, as we've already seen in a video recorded during Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference in Los Angeles. Now we learn that a few details on the platform are discussed in another video from the conference.
Windows Mobile 6.5, as you already know by now, will come with a new user interface, while also being able to deliver an enhanced browsing experience. Moreover, it will come with support for new services from Microsoft, like MyPhone, which enables users to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web, and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which should offer a wide range of direct-to-phone mobile applications.
There are not too many new things in the new footage; perhaps only the fact that the menus are more finger-friendly than before, as they are a little bigger. Other details on the platform are already well known, only that this time our memory is refreshed once again, which is not that bad after all, in case you'd like to take a look at the 12-minute video.
In related news, we hear that the platform is ready to roll, though no details on its availability have been unveiled to the world just yet. A recent post coming from Microsoft's developers’ Twitter account says that all the work on Windows Mobile 6.5 has come to an end: “For the record, Windows Mobile 6.5 is DONE... complete... looks really good IOHO and every bit functional. ping us if u want to know more.”
Undoubtedly, this sounds like great news, for it shouldn't be too long before we see the first phones running under the operating system will be launched on the market. As many of you might already know, they aren't expected to surface until fall, though, given the fact that the platform is ready, we might have the chance to see them released earlier.
And while expecting the Windows Mobile 6.5 to make its appearance on the market, we might also start preparing to wait for the next-generation Windows Mobile 7 to be announced as ready. Windows Mobile 6.5, as reported before, comes with a wide range of improvements over previous iterations of the platform, yet it is the WM7 version that is expected to turn the OS into a really competitive product on the market.