Is WM6.5 faster or better in any way than WM6.1?

[havox22]

Originally Posted by saumaun

I mean compared to the ULTRA SMOOTH HTC Album menu popup. If you go to HTC Album and press menu, it slides and scrolls SOOO smoothly. Does Resco explorer scroll that smoothly?

o the menu pop up...yeah that seems a lil slow when trying to go down like its going 1 items a sec...

Originally Posted by saumaun

I mean compared to the ULTRA SMOOTH HTC Album menu popup. If you go to HTC Album and press menu, it slides and scrolls SOOO smoothly. Does Resco explorer scroll that smoothly?

the scrolling is throughout the entire system and its as smoothest i ever seen it, the reson you might have choppy scrolling is cuz maybe the rom you tried had still htc touchflo scrolling enabled and it overtakes the 6.5 scrolling engine resulting in the clicking type scrolling throughout the os

heres the list of improvements over 6.1.........

new scrollbars (nice touch over 80's 6.1 style)

new 3d style menus and highlight <----makes a hell of a difference!!!!

smooth kinetic scrolling (much smoother than htc touchflo and has the 'rubber band' feeling)

chome (more useful than its given credit for)

improved contacts app (pics in list and spaced out)

improved file explore app (spaced out)

waaaaaaay beter start menu (no more ugly white 'all programs' page)

improved tab menus (small but nice)

microsoft marketplace app built in

weather widget app

money / stocks widget app

live search widget app

new and improved Internet Explorer (flash enabled and full page rendering as well as panning support)

new slide to lock addition (hella nice)

full screen caller id / in call screen (only when locked)


.....................that should cover the basics lol / im NEVER going back to 6.1 after getting the full 6.5 experience, everything is much smoother in these later builds than what we saw in MS's presentations

[dan-htc-touch]

agreed, it's great, there are still quite a few 3rd party apps that don't play nice with it, but we learn to deal, all it's good makes up for the bad

[Keyone]

The scrolling doesn't seem to work with everything. I'm using NewsBreak and it scrolls fine in the channels, but not at all while in the articles. This happens with some other programs as well. There are significant incompatibilities with third party software, such as FTouchSL. It just doesn't work.

Originally Posted by saumaun

When you say


do you mean in programs like Resco Explorer? Because right now that has choppy scrolling. What about scrolling through the programs menu? Does it stutter to load the icons? Or is it more iPhone-smooth

I've noticed the stutter in the programs list is ROM-related. Juicy's first ROM with the TP2 manila had it set so all the icons in the list were pre-loaded... they didn't dynamically load every time you brought up the start menu. This made scrolling through it GREAT because it was super smooth. The next version of the rom added some "tweaks for performance and RAM" which had the icons load every time... kind of seemed like a step backwards in performance to me. Whatever setting it is, it seems to be globally accepted by the chefs, which is a shame

[Carla]

For us new to the phone, I have already unlocked (woohoo), in your opinions is it better to start off with a 6.1 ROM over a 6.5, or does it not really matter either way? Thanks~

[Hidavi]

Well I got the Phantom WM6.5 Rhodium. Impressions:

Much smoother scrolling/animations but a bit sluggish when clicking around and stuff.

I don't have the 3D "right-click" menus that someone here was talking about. They're flat, but they do feel much better than the old ones.

The rest doesn't really impress me much, but I do appreciate the better scrolling and animations. We'll see how it goes...

[gianthobbit]

Go 6.5, JD has a nice rom in the CDMA upgrades section. I was really disappointed when I got the first details on 6.5 but wow, its really nice. The kenitic scrolling is just amazing, so smooth. I feel like every program (email, sms etc. etc.) is a totally new program so much more finger friendly.

[rb240z]

Originally Posted by Hidavi

Well I got the Phantom WM6.5 Rhodium. Impressions:

Much smoother scrolling/animations but a bit sluggish when clicking around and stuff.

I don't have the 3D "right-click" menus that someone here was talking about. They're flat, but they do feel much better than the old ones.

The rest doesn't really impress me much, but I do appreciate the better scrolling and animations. We'll see how it goes...

His pagepool is set too low. It is only 6mb....

[badboy8813]

Originally Posted by mike20pr

the scrolling is throughout the entire system and its as smoothest i ever seen it, the reson you might have choppy scrolling is cuz maybe the rom you tried had still htc touchflo scrolling enabled and it overtakes the 6.5 scrolling engine resulting in the clicking type scrolling throughout the os

heres the list of improvements over 6.1.........

new scrollbars (nice touch over 80's 6.1 style)

new 3d style menus and highlight <----makes a hell of a difference!!!!

smooth kinetic scrolling (much smoother than htc touchflo and has the 'rubber band' feeling)

chome (more useful than its given credit for)

improved contacts app (pics in list and spaced out)

improved file explore app (spaced out)

waaaaaaay beter start menu (no more ugly white 'all programs' page)

improved tab menus (small but nice)

microsoft marketplace app built in

weather widget app

money / stocks widget app

live search widget app

new and improved Internet Explorer (flash enabled and full page rendering as well as panning support)

new slide to lock addition (hella nice)

full screen caller id / in call screen (only when locked)


.....................that should cover the basics lol / im NEVER going back to 6.1 after getting the full 6.5 experience, everything is much smoother in these later builds than what we saw in MS's presentations

Whos ROM are you using?