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.
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t it slightly ironic that the day after Microsoft unleashes Windows Mobile 6.5, the biggest UI refresh for God knows how long, Telstra and MS announce that they’re creating a Telstra-themed skin for Windows Mobile 6.1 phones? Even more curious is that we won’t actually see the skin on phones until April with the Motorola A3100 and May for the Xperia X1, which is just a couple of months before we can realistically expect to see WM6.5 hit handsets.
I like the new Windows Mobile 6.5 interface, specially the new home screen, which is brilliantly executed. Running on the new HTC Touch Diamond 2, everything looked smoother, cleaner, and matched the iPhone’s lick factor.
Here’s an interesting one-off about Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft has mandated that all phones running the OS feature a physical “Start” button.
We are at the Hotel Catalonia Plaza, here in Barcelona, listening to Steve Ballmer sing the virtues of the new Windows Mobile 6.5. Update: It’s over. The new user interface looks great.
Microsoft finally got around to giving official word on the stopgap disaster relief measure known as Windows Mobile 6.5, and here it is: Marketplace, My Phone and the new interface are, as expected, happening.
Some stylus-wielding European posted a video on YouTube previewing Windows Mobile 6.5, honeycomb and all. It’s a little choppy, and we’re not sure how he got it, but it looks like the real deal. [Engadget]
