At Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 are lately analysts criticism and voices from the company itself become loud that it was only a half-baked interim version of Windows Mobile on the way to 7th
"Microsoft responded with Windows Mobile 6.5 on the latest developments in mobile Internet devices. The company has therefore taken on a very broad support for common touch screen technologies and the establishment of a platform for additional services and applications," said Ruediger Spies, an analyst at IDC compared pressetext.
First test judgments that waiting for Windows Mobile 6.5 on only superficial improvements. The mobile browser has been around, although improving, remains sluggish, but after the competition. Aside from the Start menu is reaping the menu, but also the user interface of the online supermarket's "Marketplace" criticism. "The chances of Microsoft to compete with Windows Mobile to compete with alternative platforms such as Android or Symbian OS, are still intact, but expected to be not serious," said Spies, however the long term. Due to the development of many new mobile Internet devices, whether in the next few years at least to start from an uncommon growth potential.
Many hardware manufacturers, however, follow a Mehrebenenstrategie. Manufacturers such as Motorola, Samsung and HTC to develop on multiple platforms, and sometimes rely on their own user interfaces. "HTC has both its devices based on Windows Mobile 6.5 as well as with Google's Android. In addition to online services and new cloud features such as 'My Phone' is also possible for HTC to-use user interface is crucial," says Lars - pressetext Christian Weisswange, Regional Director of HTC Europe, with the conversation. The company is launching the HD2 first time a Windows Mobile smartphone with a large 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen on the market. Also to concepts such as "HTC Sense" serve the user comfort and make personal contacts to the starting point of the operation. Unlike developers should identify the end user, no significant differences between the operating systems have, says at HTC.
