This week has been a good week for WinMo 6.5, with images popping up everywhere, of it’s new interface and look. Now someone has decided to give everyone the video tour. Running on a HTC Touch HD, the 9 minute video demonstrates many of the new features including the new IE Mobile, the “honeycomb” launcher, new tabs and skins for dialogue boxes, the new home screen. It’s definitely still not ready and as Engadget said it seems very much beta.
I think this is a step in the right direction, it’s becoming more finger friendly but still has some ways to go. The interface looks much nicer, more appealing to a wider audience but it’s not without it’s issue in this form, the portrait mode ran painful slow and unresponsive at times, given it’s probably in beta this should get fixed, IE Mobile still has a long way to go if it wants to catch up to the likes of Opera or the iPhone’s Safari, but as i said earlier it does looks very nice, a damn site better then 6.1 does, the new features and new interface do look very good and when a nice device is released with 6.5 running the show (Omnia HD anyone???) it would make me seriously consider purchasing it.
Screens – GadgetMix
Screens 2 – pocketpc.ch (some images were broken for me)
Video after the break.
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