Windows Mobile 6.5 Review... - Page 8

**orangekid** · #71 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by nemoid

Microsoft themselves said they wanted it to be a game changer. They are "responding" to Android and the iPhone with Windows Mobile 6.5.

what has apple done to update their OS since it first came out? WOW it can play videos now! and when you slide the icons to the left, it gives you a search feature! What has android update since it came out. donut isn't exactly a gamechanger either. What can the iphone and android do that WM can't? The "old" winmo OS core is STILL better than the newest iphone OS and I would rock a diamond with a 6.5rom over a 3GS ANY day and its over a year older!

nemoid · #72 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by orangekid

what has apple done to update their OS since it first came out? WOW it can play videos now! and when you slide the icons to the left, it gives you a search feature! What has android update since it came out. donut isn't exactly a gamechanger either. What can the iphone and android do that WM can't? The "old" winmo OS core is STILL better than the newest iphone OS and I would rock a diamond with a 6.5rom over a 3GS ANY day and its over a year older!

Apple and Google wouldn't have to update their OSes from the beginning to make it more usable than WM6.5. That's the point. On the updating issue, if there is a problem or a feature that can be added, at least with those two operating systems, they can push an update (which they do, quite frequently) OTA and you're done. Can't do that with WM. You can use both of the OSes with finger-friendly ease, WITHOUT a stylus. The applications ALONE trump WM (forget the App stores).

I would LOVE to have a LEO with a slide-out keyboard, but I doubt that'll ever happen (HTC should write their own OS because they can clearly do it better than MS can). But seriously, I'm not gonna keep spending money on a phone with an operating system that doesn't automatically insert my contact's birthdays into the calendar. I mean come on.

**orangekid** · #73 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by nemoid

Apple and Google wouldn't have to update their OSes from the beginning to make it more usable than WM6.5. That's the point. On the updating issue, if there is a problem or a feature that can be added, at least with those two operating systems, they can push an update (which they do, quite frequently) OTA and you're done. Can't do that with WM. You can use both of the OSes with finger-friendly ease, WITHOUT a stylus. The applications ALONE trump WM (forget the App stores).

I would LOVE to have a LEO with a slide-out keyboard, but I doubt that'll ever happen (HTC should write their own OS because they can clearly do it better than MS can). But seriously, I'm not gonna keep spending money on a phone with an operating system that doesn't automatically insert my contact's birthdays into the calendar. I mean come on.

that's just preference. I don't see that either have any specific features that WM lacks that I would need. I never use a styles and find everything quite simple on my diamond and get around just fine, as well as apps that I want but can't get ahold of (and all of the wm ones that I want and use are free btw). I think it's just a matter of preference. It just gets annoying when a review is stated as though its a fact that 6.5 is worse or sucks. It could stand improvement like every other OS. It least it can run Flash...

nemoid · #74 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by orangekid

that's just preference. I don't see that either have any specific features that WM lacks that I would need. I never use a styles and find everything quite simple on my diamond and get around just fine, as well as apps that I want but can't get ahold of (and all of the wm ones that I want and use are free btw). I think it's just a matter of preference. It just gets annoying when a review is stated as though its a fact that 6.5 is worse or sucks. It could stand improvement like every other OS. It least it can run Flash...

I think it gets annoying because you just don't like to hear bad things about WM. It's not a coincidence that every single review about 6.5 is negative, and they all say the same exact things about it.

**orangekid** · #75 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by nemoid

I think it gets annoying because you just don't like to hear bad things about WM. It's not a coincidence that every single review about 6.5 is negative, and they all say the same exact things about it.

thats whats annoying, we all know what's wrong with 6.5, we don't need to hear a million times just like people would get tired of me posting a new thread every week about how much the iphone sucks because I can't change the battery and it can't play flash and you can't change the UI, etc... It gets old.

I don't mind hearing/knowing things that are bad with 6.5, I have no vested interest and I don't own any microsoft stock, I'm out of contract and could easily get a hero or switch to att and get $100 3G if I wanted.

6.5 is far from perfect and there are things I hate about it, but the pros outweigh the cons and for me its much better than iphone and more preferable than android at the moment.

**orangekid** · #76 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:45 PM

I do agree that government is the problem though

(I've read that sig so many damn times today)

oldpueblo · #77 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by nemoid

I think it gets annoying because you just don't like to hear bad things about WM. It's not a coincidence that every single review about 6.5 is negative, and they all say the same exact things about it.

Obviously they are all as irrational as you are. Guess what, I like using the stylus for some things. I have the choice. That's pretty much all you had, and it's not even a negative it's relative. The updating? Last I heard that "feature" wasn't a dealbreaker or showstopper for any phone and even then WinMo does have the option. So far I have yet to see a need for it since WE have the ability to update our own devices unlike the others. The way you talk there's a comprehensive list of all the things WinMo can't do that the others can. Where is it and how do you actually think the list of negatives isn't longer for the other operating systems? The iphone CANNOT EVEN MULTITASK and you are trying to set it above WinMo. That's just amazing.

**MrObvious** · #78 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:54 PM

Everyone is grumpy that 6.5 isn't exactly a huge upgrade from 6.1. Well remember that 6.1 wasn't a great upgrade from 6.0 (adding threaded texting only). And in later builds (23017) they redid the Start Menu so you could drag stuff around, so building a ROM off of that build solves the Start Menu issues. 6.5.1 is a little better because the bottom bar but overall it's not too bad. We just need 7.

**orangekid** · #79 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by oldpueblo

The iphone CANNOT EVEN MULTITASK and you are trying to set it above WinMo. That's just amazing.

+1

I forgot about that, I just take it for granted.

excolatur · #80 (**permalink**) 10-07-2009, 09:13 PM

microsoft doesn't care about 6.5, im sure they only see it as a stop gap for wm7.