Mobile World Congress is not far away and we have had already many screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 leak. Except for the new Honeycomb interface, the screenshots didn't look that good. pocketpc.ch have managed to install the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 in HTC Touch HD and have provided with some high-quality screenshots which certainly looks better than the previous ones leaked.Enjoy these screenshots for now without that (cute) bird in the background!
The Home Screen
Home screen with missed calls info
Device locked
Home screen with the music player
Honeycomb interface
Option to move an item to top in the Honeycomb
And the inner-honeycomb after you open Office Mobile folder in the above screenshot
Honeycomb in landscape mode
Incoming Call
Missed Call and other reminders
Full QWERTY Keyboard with WLAN Configuration
Mailbox
Images Courtesy: pocketpc.ch
Well, it's readability over prettiness, but yeah ... courier? Eww.
(It appears to be the large version too, I expect there's a smaller version available)
Last edited by LTD on 13 Feb 2009 - 18:53
Oh you're very drole today, aren't you. Can't you just leave Microsoft-related topics alone for all our sakes?
LTD is posting "more of the same" bias apple fanboy comments.
The update looks cleaner, more touch friendly and most important simple. Anyone who's used WinMo or even Windows can go through and use that device without any problems.
Done:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/is-this-windows-mobile-7/
It will arrive on new phones next year, and a private beta will be released this year.
That's how I see it.
The other changes look nice. Generally more touch-friendly and a bit more pleasing to the eye.
I can imagine that a grid may be more touch friendly - for example, your finger is more of a circle than a rectangle.
From PocketNow:
"What's with the hexagonal honeycomb style application icon layout in the new Windows Mobile 6.5 leaked screenshots we've seen? Was this design implemented purely for the sake of being different? What's the point?
Well, there actually is a point. If you'll notice, there are no more scrollbars in the honeycomb interface. However, with the hexagon-shaped grid layout, you are easily able to recognize a pattern to the layout and instantly see that the pattern continues towards the bottom of the screen. That visual cue should indicate to users that they can pan in that direction in order to see more icons. The areas where the hexagonal grid pattern do not continue are obviously the limits to the content dimensions.
Most other touch-scrolling smartphone operating systems really don't take these kinds of usability issues into account. Android and the iPhone's scrollable lists really have no visual indication that they are continuous since the lists simply stop at the bottom of the screen. Microsoft's design makes it instantly clear to new users that this pattern can be panned."
http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_de...&t=news&id=6820
Though I'm sure others think they do it just for the hell of it.
That seems to have entirely stopped since Office 2007, and I'm very grateful for it.
As in, it has many programs?
If I ever need to pull out a stylus to use my phone, then the terrorists have already won.
I don't need a screen full of tiny buttons.
If I ever need to pull out a stylus to use my phone, then the terrorists have already won.
I don't need a screen full of tiny buttons.
Whereas I'd rather be able to do more, than less with my phone. If you don't assume a stylus is present, then you can only assume fingers as an input method.
Not exactly great for drawing, writing, or many types of games.
Looks like they took some inspiration from the Zune team on that home page?
...now to fix that taskbar and the application title bar. This has GOT to be more than what HTC and others have already been doing. Control Panel needs to look just as good as the home page.
But I like the rest it seems okay.
But I like the rest it seems okay.
It'll be smoothed before release you can bet on it.
I have to say this new windows mobile looks fugly. The text is sooo damn big, plus, why read when you can recognize an icon a lot faster (iphone), and what's with the ugly f00kin honey comb boxes?
This crap looks horrible, I'm serious, MS needs to fire the idiot working on this. Look at the pre, now that's a really cool and useful interface - MS is trying to hard to reinvent the UI wheel.
Sorry guys, maybe you'll do better on 7.0
I have to say this new windows mobile looks fugly. The text is sooo damn big, plus, why read when you can recognize an icon a lot faster (iphone), and what's with the ugly f00kin honey comb boxes?
This crap looks horrible, I'm serious, MS needs to fire the idiot working on this. Look at the pre, now that's a really cool and useful interface - MS is trying to hard to reinvent the UI wheel.
Sorry guys, maybe you'll do better on 7.0
Im not in the business of looking at leaked photos, or using a leaked ROM of an unreleased product, and making definite conclusions about the usefulness or beuaty of anything.
So I'm going to do the sane and rational thing of actually waiting for them to present it, and in the future, having a run with an offical ROM.
Anyone doing anything else, and making pronouncements is being a windbag.
True I might have alluded that win 6.5 looks ugly, but I stated this according to what I saw, why is it not ok to judge a product before final release? Designers do this all the time, evaluate and reevaluate their own work, so get over it buddy.
I think you're a windbag cause you're trying to limit my free speech, *******!
Last edited by shempanzy on 14 Feb 2009 - 23:18
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