Windows Mobile 6.5 launching on May 11

Justin Cauchon April 17, 2009 3

windows-mobile-65Back in February, Microsoft announced and showed up Windows Mobile 6.5. Today Windows Mobile official team blog made a post that said Windows Mobile 6.5 is officially launching on May 11th at Tech Ed conference. Windows Mobile 6.5 bring a huge update to the UI and the browser that will apparently make a big difference in the operating system. Windows Marketplace will also be a feature in 6.5 that will allow users to buy applications from the marketplace.

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  1. Tim Layton May 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM -

    Windows Mobile 6.5 is awesome! The Windows Mobile contact list will get a huge visual boost and be more touch-friendly as well, with larger menu items and an updated look. Windows Mobile 6.5 will have a lot of new apps, features and technologies will be included and introduced. Just to name a few: internet explorer mobile, live mesh for mobile, silverlight 2 for mobile, windows media player mobile, windows mobile marketplace,.NET compact framework, .NET mobile, compact framework, and SQL server compact. Microsoft has officially confirmed a new web browser for Windows Mobile, Internet Explorer 6. The hottest new features and apps include: My Phone–a backup and recovery service for contacts, photos and other data stored on a mobile device. My Phone will also be available for phones running Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1. The new Windows Marketplace for Mobile is a centralized place to buy increasingly popular mobile applications. Windows Mobile 6.5 features a new user interface and “honeycomb”. A customizable start screen with hexagonal tiles for each program that are designed to be easier to use on touch-screen phones. The Windows Mobile start menu can be customized with Internet applications like weather or stock reports, that are automatically updated. The new Windows Mobile 6.5 user interface is designed to be more “finger friendly,” You can also move icons up or down in the new layout. In addition, the new Windows Mobile Home screen will support special widgets, which will give status information like missed calls, new messages, etc. Another new feature of Windows Mobile 6.5 allows people to go directly to waiting voice mail, text messages or other information when unlocking their phones. Microsoft Recite, came out of the company’s research group. It allows people to record voice notes or other audio files on Windows Mobile phones and then search for keywords using their voice. LG is set to launch 50 new Windows Mobile devices over the next 4 years. And to boot you will get widgets in windows mobile 6.5. The widgets will appear to function just as full applications do, and will have their own icons in Windows Mobile menus and access to web content. The widgets will be powered, in part, by the new Mobile Internet Explorer 6, which will give them access to Flash and ActiveX controls. The widgets will also have control of the SK menu bar. According to Microsoft, the widgets can be written with standard web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, AJAX, and JavaScript.

  2. Alonso Smigiel March 6, 2010 at 11:12 PM -

    Hey, I came across this article while searching for help with Microsoft Silverlight. I have recently switched browsers from Safari to Firefox 3.2. Just recently I seem to have a problem with loading sites that use Microsoft Silverlight. Every time I browse site that needs Microsoft Silverlight, the site crashes and I get a “npctrl.dll” error. I can’t seem to find out how to fix the problem. Any help getting Microsoft Silverlight to function is very appreciated! Thanks

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