All the improvements rolling out with Windows Mobile 6.5 (the new UI and set of tools is now “Windows Phone,” though the name Windows Mobile is not completely gone) are coming along quite nicely. This video has many of them being demonstrated — some you’ve seen (My Phone) and some you haven’t (Zune interface, alerts, Windows Marketplace stuff), and I have to say, it all looks quite nice. Internet Explorer actually looked pretty nice, though it was going pretty slowly. Honestly, these phones can run 3D games but panning around a web page brings them to their knees?
I doubt it’s enough to turn the tide against Apple and Google (especially since Android Assault is just beginning), but it may help stop the hemorrhaging of users. Windows 7 will have a number of phone-integrative features as well, so that’s another wild card. In any case, I’d like to get my hands on one of these and try it for myself.
[The Inquirer via BGR]
I can’t wait to try this hands-on. Windows “Phone” has so many features that will accepted nicely to consumers.
Wow, that browser experience is like 2006 all over again. Slow as hell! I have no doubt that flash is part of the problem.
Hasn’t this been demoed on video many many times before?
obviously much better than the current windows mobile experience, but it looks somewhat convoluted and uninspired.
RE: Scott. Perhaps the problem doesn’t lie in the browser software itself being slow (as noted in commentary: it can render 3D objects but chokes on a 2D web page scroll?), but in the websites themselves not being optimised for mobile. This is going to become a bigger problem as time goes on unless attitudes change.
We’ve recently published a paper on our thoughts on this very subject, and how that for the mobile web to be taken seriously, a dedicated strategy for mobile websites has to be followed.
Check it out here: http://tr.im/uTCe
What’s with the bear skin rug?
I don’t want to know what these guys did after this little demo… sick bastards.
Looks actually pretty nice. The browser-problem will possibly be fixed within the time, when it releases.