Screenshots for the new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system have appeared on SmartphoneFrance delivered by an Anonymous source. The new interface is designed to be touch-friendly by having a honeycomb home page as well as a carousel menu. 
In previous Windows Mobile releases, the items in menus were often too small to use a finger, forcing the user to resort to a stylus. Windows Mobile 6.5 hopes to change this by having a large scrolling menu that enlarges the current object and provides additional information for it. The honeycomb menu shown above allows the user to quickly select their task. Tasks that are used more often appear closer to the center of the screen.
As previously reported, Windows Mobile 6.5 has been confirmed and could be ready by the first quarter next year.
Neowin will continue to keep you up to date on Windows Mobile 6.5 as the details arrive.
These screenshots have not yet been confirmed by Neowin to be official.
I'd be interested to see WM 6.5 on my device however
The "2" badge on the phone icon is also waaaay too similar to the iPhones badges. I don't normally think this but if Microsoft really does release this, they're really losing their creativity.
It does seem to move away from the "classic" view of windows mobile by quite a bit. Which could be bad for some, while any finger friendly, usability improvements are quite welcome. (look at touchflo, and touchflo 3D from HTC.)
(don't really want to use a cooked ROM from xda-developers.com)
Windows Mobile is quite powerful enough which allows you to revamp windows mobile UI entirely to make it touchable without having to upgrade Windows Mobile.. just write one app and ur done.. Apple iPhone app doesnt allow that
It's true though the Windows Mobile wasn't designed for this. It was designed for displaying heaps of information and forcing the user to use a stylus. That's why companies like HTC have to make interfaces such as TouchFlo over the top. Though this eats up some overhead, it actually does make the device touch friendly.
I am pretty sure Microsoft is trying to fix this in 6.5 or 7 just like they fixed memory management in previous iterations.
It's fake sorry, good idea though.
To whoever made them, get better at photoshopping
Last edited by Digix on 13 Nov 2008 - 06:43
And the youtube one looks like OSX network icon. I mean it's like wut? if they're going to post a fake and take it seriously they should put more effort into presentation. lol
it doesnt looks MSish enough
Smart phones use styluses ... I haven't met one person that likes using them.
I think that all people today want the ability to install apps and therefore all phone are almost becoming smartphones.
Touch screen phones have too much potential to just have some standard apps.
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