This is my short and Personal review for Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft has been making it a big hype out there like there is a lot to offer as an upgrade, so I think it needs a little review since I have 6.5 right now, let’s get to it.

Style

This is where Microsoft didn’t do much but still a little for it to matter. They changed the drop down start menu and put in a new and in my opinion better page start menu. They also added Kinetic scrolling so now more side bar locating and hoping that you’re hitting it right. They biggest changes the made to it is to make buttons more Fingers friendly and easy to press. Other than those I really don’t see any other changes to the Main OS for example the Media player is still ugly and sucks, the Contact and outlook still looks bad and the Dialer has changed. Microsoft has a lot to do till the release of WM7.0 and from the leaked images I think this might be something good that the didn’t release it now.

Under-The-Hood

This is the easiest on to review, there is no difference, it’s the same thing since 6.0, maybe since 5.0.

Usage

This Os even tho there isn’t much change there is better speed, but it comes with a cost of memory and Power, which if your me you have a lot.

New Apps

Funny I should say that with the unveiling of there brand spanking new app store. There has always been a lot of apps available to windows mobile from small Developers for free and now with the app store people can get a lot of apps for there phone. There isn’t up to 1000 apps there last I checked but that number will change soon, also there are more than 21,000 apps for windows mobile but not all made it to the store. This new app store is great and it will help with development on windows mobile turf

Overall

Positive

New Menu system

New Kinetic Scrolling

New Faster Os

New Start Up animation

Bigger Buttons

More Finger Friendly

Negative

Same under the Hood since WM5.0

Same Ugly Player

No Visual changes to the File explorer, outlook, Dialer, Sms and more, actually pretty much everything is the same

IE Mobile is still The Worst

Workingman’s Rating: 3.7/5