Windows Mobile 6.5 in the Wild!

[Torx]

im expecting some zune slide plugin, the already common PIE 6.1 with flash, and a few new features i probably wont use.

this is definately bad press for wm 6.5 so early, but all they would have to do is swap fonts and graphics and it'll be a little more appealing. those chinese sure know how to make stuff look like crap.
i was hoping for a removal of the top and bottom bars, leaving more screen space for background and other stuff.

lets face it, the problem lies within the hardware of the phones weve had for years, the screen size and resolution. 2.8" isnt going to cut it anymore for the real enthusiast.
thats the limiting factor of what windows mobile COULD be

[Dr.8820]

i'm sure our chefs will cook up some greats roms from this build.

[hibby50]

This is not fake... more like half the new OS IMHO

[conflipper]

Also remeber that this is from the Blue Angel. the flash file is only 36mb. the newer sys are over 80 mb at least. compress that is about 40 mb. okay that is core system. and no oem. so he has to have oem in there has well. you add flash, and Pie6. that is 10 mb. so i am sure he had to strip a lot out of there in order for it to be able to flash unto the Blue Angel.

[BigDiesel07]

Yeah... I wish he had chosen a newer device to flash onto, but I can't blame him for not risking a new phone...

[conflipper]

More news on the 6.5 front. The one out by Sun_Dream is a very early pre-beta version. with a few 6.5 modules in there.

sun_dream then says this

We are waiting for the official version of the update, there are only so! [And blueangel [32MB ROM] on more components can only be streamlined, resulting in cab]

a lot like i posted above. so more to come at a later time.


in other news haha sun_dream has posted a 6.5 kitchen, i am downloading now will check it out and everything to see what i can find.

[jdume]

Let us know. I downloaded it and could not find the password he uses to get into the zip, so I think I'll pm him and see whats up. Not that I really care but like Con I'm curious.

[conflipper]

I had troubles getting it to work on the Touch pro, but i already have it booted and going on the vogue. I will dig into this more.

[CenFlo]

Beta releases are always a little on the ugly side. Functionality (core OS) is more important than looks and polish.

For those of you phreaking out about how ugly it is or how it's not aesthetically pleasing, you should really wait until a final beta or official release is done to pass judgment.

[Zyphlin]

I remember when the leaks about WinMo 7 came out...complete with motion controls and other such things. They need to continue with that and shoot for announcement of it by the end of this year and it coming out sometime in 2010.

6.5 needs to be a pretty decent shake up though.

A change to the today screen UI would be essential. They've got to at least START to make the progress towards a touch screen friendly UI, even if they create a secondary WinMo Touch type thing.

Seeing the old style program launcher was disheartening, and the today screen looked uninspiring at best. You've got NUMEROUS third parties creating UI's for Windows Mobile that are successful, with TouchFlo3D being the current king. There is so much there for MS to take, look at, build off of, and go from and it is going to be pathetic if after all of that they still put something out that will make people go "God I wish I had Touchflo3D on here".

I understand changing up the "core" functionality and making things zippier, and that IS needed, but you've got the iPhone devouring WinMo, blackbery still going strong, and the Pre coming out of the gate like Jesus just returned and he brought cookies. They've GOT to update that UI at least a bit to look like its not something from out of 2001.