Microsoft has been dangling version 7 right in front of everyone in the mobile phone community for the longest time. But with the nearly impossible to use WinMo 6.5 and the ever constant delays, MS cannot possibly expect that they can still get people excited.
Anyway, the new WinMo 6.6 is coming instead of a full version 7. Despite the fact that a lot of people have already expressed disappointment with most incarnations of version 6, the series is still alive until now. Whether we see MS announcing the device this coming February at the mobile world congress remains to be seen but we are expecting the company to deliver more evasive answers when the topic of WinMo 7 is brought up.
Anyway, 6.5 just got updated to 6.5.3 recently and it will now support finger input a little better. Despite the slight adjustment, it still will not save the OS. Should 6.6 be a full capacitive touch-screen conversion of the OS, then MS might be on to something.
Right now, the only devices using WinMo 6.5 worth having are those from HTC. The HTC HD2 uses its own Sense user interface to enable users to access all the features of Windows Mobile without having to use WinMo itself. The same goes for three more upcoming HTC devices, the Trophy, Photon and Tera. The three new phones will use the HTC TouchFlo interface instead of Sense.
Other WinMo phones are not doing well. Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X2 just got booted out of Vodafone’s 2010 line up. The device was supposed to be launched last December but got delayed to January. Vodafone has since then deemed the device’s issues too hard to deal with. The HD2 also got taken out of Vodafone’s direct sales list; they now offer the device exclusively to business class buyers.
Tags: Windows-Mobile