Windows Mobile 6.5

Thursday 19th February 2009

I have had my iPhone for nearly a year now and still love it but I am always looking at the latest handsets coming out to see if an iPhone killer is on the way. So far, in my opinion, nothing has come close to the iPhone in terms of usability and design. That said there are a lot of things that irritate me about the iPhone: the lack of copy and paste functionality, the poor camera, the fact Apple ties you down to one provider, limits what you can install and tries to control everything in a way only Apple does.

These problems have made Google’s Android more appealing by the day. Android still has a long way to go, and at present there are no handsets using it that I like, but the fact it is open source and has Google’s backing means as time goes on more people will begin to embrace the platform and develop apps for it. The future looks bright but currently the lack of iTunes and Exchange synchronisation still make this a no-goer for me.

So it was with interest I read about Windows Mobile 6.5 earlier this week. I have had one Smart Phone running Windows Mobile before and it was awful. This latest version does show some promise though:

I like the look of the UI, it seems very intuitive to use. The menus look great, the effects and transitions seem smooth and the loading of images fast. It also has in-built Flash support. This is a must for me and is sorely missing on the iPhone, it is almost unforgivable.

Although it all seems good I still don’t think I could use IE as my browser of choice!

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