As expected, Microsoft announced the next version of its Windows Mobile system intended for mobile phones and other devices of this type. Stamped 6.5, this grinding focuses heavily on the interface and general use, finally taking into account the many models of phones with a touchscreen. But how?
Pen pudgy fingers
In proposing a new interface more suited to the fingers. All phones are not equipped with a stylus, and always leave it whenever you want to use the device can be cumbersome to use for daily tasks. We find the blow of large buttons are easy to use with fingers, and a Start menu that shows a structure now honeycomb:
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If choosing Microsoft does not show all icons on one screen, the user can however change the positions of the hexagons in applications for example by putting up all those he uses most often.
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The rest of the system itself does not offer any real fundamental news. The basic system remains the same in outline, and only a new version of Internet Explorer Mobile is noteworthy. With a slightly improved engine, the browser displays pages better in full screen and has a zoom easily accessible form the guts to move with the finger
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My Phone and Windows Marketplace
Windows Mobile 6.5 can not alone. It is indeed accompanied by two services that are also waiting for the Mobile World Congress: SkyBox and SkyMarket, now known under the name My Phone and Windows Mobile for Marketplace. My Phone is a central service and free data synchronization. SMS, contacts, photos, videos and other forms of data are sent to a remote area, accessible from the Web:
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If the interface is familiar to you, she's very close to Windows Live Hotmail. Moreover, the user account is controlled by its Windows Live ID. The service is currently in private beta.
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Windows Marketplace will come certainly fill a gap that Apple was the first to address by offering a central purchasing and / or downloads for applications. This type of distribution offers many benefits, the most important is the ease for the user and the guarantee if the software was installed from this source, it will run (via checks for compatibility).
To date, more than 20 000 applications have been developed for the Windows Mobile platform. Their discovery and retrieval is easy, however, as many are spread everywhere. Microsoft said that software will be paid from the Internet or purchased from a PC, which suggests to purchases made from a fixed computer, and then passed through a synchronization.
Windows Mobile 6.5, My Phone Marketplace and all three are planned for the second half of this year, without further explanations and clarifications. However, several handsets have been announced as compatible or included with the next system, such as GM7300 LG, or even the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro 2 of 2 HTC. We will have the opportunity to revisit these phones very soon.
