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Phones
How To: Install Windows Mobile 6.5 Right Now
4:30AM John Herrman | The bad news: Windows Mobile 6.5 won’t be coming out for a while, and you’ll be expected to buy a whole new phone to get it. The good: You can actually install it today, on your HTC phone. Here’s how.
Software
Windows Mobile Team Admits, Explains 6.5’s Half-Assed UI
9:32PM John Herrman | During an otherwise dry TechED conference panel about Windows Mobile 6.5 development, Senior Project Manager Loke Uei Tan made a surprising admission: 6.5’s semi-vaunted new interface was severely rushed, and isn’t even finished. UPDATED
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Will Get TellMe Voice Commands
2:01PM Wilson Rothman | Unlike some smartphones we know, phones running WinMo 6.5 will get a pretty amazing connected voice command interface, courtesy of Microsoft subsidiary TellMe. More »
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Launch Details Coming May 11
5:19AM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Team notes that the “launch presentation” of Windows Mobile 6.5 is gonna be on May 11 and looks like it’ll reveal all kinds of tasty details about the launch—like how else it’s changed since debuting in February. [MSDN via Electronista] More »
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Microsoft Planning Free, ‘Magical’ Updates For Windows Mobile Phones
8:40PM John Herrman | An enthusiastic job posting on Microsoft’s careers site is asking for engineers to help realise their “dream” of frequent, free, “magical” and substantive updates for Windows Mobile phones. More »
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Honeycomb Menu Gets De-Honeycombed
8:20PM John Herrman | Now that the public has made their sundry judgments about Windows Mobile 6.5’s UI overhaul, Microsoft has made a few changes. Most obviously, they’ve removed the honeycomb. OH GOD! More »
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Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App
9:56PM John Herrman | You can now download Windows Mobile’s first usable Facebook app, ripped from the latest WinMo 6.5 builds by the kindly Microsoft connoisseurs at XDA. More »
Phones
HTC’s 2009 Lineup Leaked, Includes Touch HD Successor
7:00AM Jason Chen | WMPowerUser discovers that there’s more than just the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 coming to HTC’s 2009 lineup. The good news? Most of them are Windows Mobile 6.5. More »
Phones
Stolen Windows Mobile 6.5 Prototype Phone Wiped Remotely
4:00AM Jason Chen | As is common practice with phones on corporate networks, that prototype HTC phone with Windows Mobile 6.5 on it stolen from Telstra’s CEO was remotely wiped after it was reported swiped. More »
Press
10:00AM Nick Broughall | Considering how Sol Trujillo likes to roll with the big dogs, I always imagined him walking through the streets with a small army of special forces agents protecting him from the scum of the earth (and us regular folks). But it turns out he actually enjoys rubbing shoulders with the little people — so close that they can casually walk away with his special prototype HTC phone running Windows Mobile 6.5. More »
Pickpocket Makes Off With Uncle Sol’s Private WM6.5 Test Phone At MWC
10:00AM Nick Broughall | Considering how Sol Trujillo likes to roll with the big dogs, I always imagined him walking through the streets with a small army of special forces agents protecting him from the scum of the earth (and us regular folks). But it turns out he actually enjoys rubbing shoulders with the little people — so close that they can casually walk away with his special prototype HTC phone running Windows Mobile 6.5. More » 