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A look at Windows Mobile 6.5.3 from CES 2010

By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 4:34 PM

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At this point, Windows Mobile 6.5 is still a far ways off from being the intuitive mobile operating system it needs to be to take on the finger-friendly offerings from iPhone, Android and webOS. Microsoft’s latest update to the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform is incremental at best, but shows that the company realizes that their smartphone OS doesn’t have the aesthetic appeal to compete with other platforms. The company is at CES 2010 to show off, among other things, their Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS update. As you can see from the video below, the new WM6.5.3 UI is slightly updated to reflect the design philosophy we first saw in the new Internet Explorer Mobile. The new homescreen moves the “Start” button to the bottom of the screen, in much the same way that IE Mobile displays its navigation buttons.

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Sucra

    I don’t know why, but the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 kernel is still WinCE_5.2, which is exactly the same kernel that shipped with Windows Mobile 5, in 2004.

    I’ve got no idea why it’s so difficult for Microsoft to update the kernel, which is essentially the guts of the OS. A kernel update would optimize the OS for modern ARM processors, like the Tegra and the Snapdragon. But it hasn’t happened again.