The rumors that Windows Mobile 6.1 is going to make its long-awaited official debut
next week are flying fast and furious, but if you can't stand the wait, it looks like Boy Genius has managed to score yet
another Moto Q9 running the update and he's posted up some deets and a bunch of screenshots. There's nothing too earth-shattering in this latest rev, but there are some minor tweaks from what we've seen before: AT&T's Video Share is now supported, as is TV out, the camera UI and home screen have been refined, there's a new Albums feature in the media player, and photos and videos can now be uploaded to your Windows Live account. Right, nothing major, but that's fine -- the smaller the changes, the sooner the ship date, right? Hit up the read link for tons more shots.
posted Mar 26th 2008 1:24PM
Interesting...
Me want. A lot. I have a bad sanyo katana from sprint and it does nothing
but will it play doom?
Yes.
Why don't you go play frigging doom and leave the rest of us in peace?
Everything these days play doom! We are not in the computing stone age.
Next time, before you post "Will it play Doom" in any post, remember the answer - YES IT WILL PLAY DOOM
can you play doom?
I guess it's fair to ask that question since nVidia and others are developing GPUs for mobile platform
confucius say: Getting angry at someone asking, "will it play doom?" is just as silly as asking the question.
Can you please go play Doom?
(BTW Doom does run on Windows Mobile: http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Games/Action/Cell-Doom-14139.shtml )
Wow, you fail. 90% of your comments are "But will it play doom" and they're all low ranked.
Wait a sec, I've been using WM6.1 for over a week (or more) now from xda developers completely customized to have HTC Touch Flo, Touch cube, virtual cube, iPhone launcher and loads of other apps and customizations right from scratch. And I'm on a HTC P3600 (Trinity). So, is this any different? Not a lot of difference in the actual OS, but some tweaks here and there to make it more pleasing and a bit faster.
over a week, wow! so.... 8, 9 days? next time just say a week and people will be sufficiently impressed. over a week makes it sound like you're trying too hard to reach the 10 day mark
That actually looks good.
Wil they roll this out for all WM devies and for all carries? I have a Touch on Sprint and was thinking of adding the one from XDA but I'm being a scare-d.
I've been using a cooked up version of WinMo 6.1 from XDA on my Tilt for over a month now. Its relatively the same as WinMo 6 except for a few changes but I can say that overall speed is much faster, programs load much faster. And threaded texts is also a big plus. Can't wait for the official version to come out.
I talked to a Windows Mobile rep at the Windows Server 2008 launch event, the only ones he would confirm were the Samsung Blackjack II and the Palm Treo 750. There are unofficial builds running around out there for some models, I hope Samsung actually gets the BlackJack II upgrade out the door soon though. :(
I'm so envious of your HTC touch...I wish AT&T had one.
The new 6.1 home screen is a huge improvement for me. I like it much better.
how u get it so quick?
The homescreen is the last thing that would make an OS replacement necessary. It's easily changed. If that's your concern you might as well stay with Wm2003. The real magic takes place under the hub.
Hood. I wanted to write "hood", really.
WM 6.1 homescreen runs faster on the Dash than previous versions for me. To get additional functionality in older versions you have to install all kind of plugins that take up memory.
WM 6.1 has many welcomed tweaks here and there.
I also have it. GREAT IMPROVEMENT. I dislike the iPhone but I must thank it for it has shown M$ that its phones need work. Not saying the iPhone is perfect but just perceived as so was enough.
This, and the Sony X1 need to come out ASAP...
I concur my friend.
That X1 is one sexy beast !!
Dis OS is teh hotness!!!!1!
Come on Microsoft. Hurry the **** up and release this iPhone killing update!
You do realize that there are many, _many_ more WinMo devices, in the US alone, compared to iPhones?
The iPhone is for a different market segment than WinMo phones. The iPhone is shooting for the RAZR users; WinMo and BB are shooting for power users/people who have work to do.
The iPhone is for fun; WinMo phones are for work and play. (Sling mobile, anyone?)
you comment reminds me of Full Metal Jacket:
"This is my rifle this is my gun...this is for fighting this is for fun"
I do agree with you, but I'm perplexed at to why Jobs compared the iPhone to the Q and the BB and then retreated and said that it isn't for the business user?
WM and the iPhone definitely compete, especially now that the iPhone has activesync support.
I have an HTC Mogul and certainly hope 6.1 improves things, especially RAM use. Still, it's silly to say that the iPhone doesn't blow away WM in terms of interface and web use.
@Jesse
"The iPhone is for a different market segment than WinMo phones."
I'm no iPhone zealot (I don't own one) but do you actually believe this to be true?
Go over to any WinMo fansite or forum and you'll see that people are swapping out their WinMo handsets for iPhones in their droves. I'm sick of seeing every second post saying "I thought I'd never leave WM but, after using the iPhone, I'm hooked". Shiny gadgets appeal to geeks no matter what logo is on the front.
With the SDK and ActiveSync support coming, the two markets are only going to cross further.
xbit,
that's true, but the lack of a physical keyboard is really frustrating to the serious business user. A couple of guys made the switch in my company, and they keep complaining about not having a keyboard.
xbit, my pdaphone just does too much. I've used many iPhones, many times. I couldn't stand them, at all. No real keyboard, unintuitive UI, etc.
And it still doesn't have real push email. The exchange support still isn't instant.
And who wants to use EDGE, anyway?
I never said I liked the iPhone, I was just pointing out that many of WinMo's customers are the kind of people who would be interested in the iPhone.
Windows Mobile needs to compete with the iPhone if it wants to survive. It's already losing market share to it in the North American market.
That still looks kinda bland to me. Eh.
Will it support Opera 9.0?
Will it support Opera 9.0?
I love WM 6.1 on my HTC Excalibur! Now we only need a stable version of Smarttoolkit...
Same here, though I do get occasional spontaneous power-downs, where I have to manually turn it on again. I'm not sure yet whether this is a Windows Live Search Mobile incompatibility with WM6.1, or a general OS thing, since I've only experienced it so far while using WLS.
I didn't experience powerdowns yet, but there have been a few cases of the wifi driver not loading (seems to be a general WM6 problem) and the unlock softbutton not going away (even though th phone is unlocked and the start folder pops up if "unlock" is pressed". But all in all it's still a huge improvement over my old WM5...
Any word on threaded sms?
this is something i'd really love to see.
it's in. I love it on my Kaiser
just interesting to note that there's no new homescreen for Professional devices...
I've had WM6.1 and Opera 9.0 on my Telus P4000 for over a week now and it was available some time before that...
So if we have a device with WM6 already on it, will this be a free update? Will I finally get to use that Windows Update feature I see in my Settings?
That depends both on your device manufacturer and your carrier. A wm image needs to be customized for a device and typically the people doing the customization happens to be the device manufacturers, with input from the carriers (usually the input is fairly short; enable this, disable that, but for devices like the shadow that are highly customized for one carrier their input is far greater, to the point of joint development). Microsoft supports some BSPs (devices) out of the box so to speak, so typically little work needs to be done by the manufacturer. Still, it is the manufacturer that ultimately provides the image and if they don't want to the end user won't get it.
People who buy HTC branded devices likely will be able to download an update for free. They have always been pretty good about it. Tmobile likewise has made updates free for their branded handsets, but this takes a bit longer. AT&T and Verizon have typically been glacier slow at adopting new builds but it has been long enough since I have been with either of them that this may have changed. I don't recall any cell phone carrier charging for the update in recent memory. It is more a question of whether they will provide the update at all, and if so when.
You can also go a different route and get a cooked ROM from the interwebz, if you don't like your warentee that is.
I've been running PointUI on my Mogul for a while now and I have to say I really hope Microsoft picks up on the project and pushes it into the mainstream. It runs quickly, smooth screen transitions, is easy to use without a stylus and is great for at a glance info.
(hoping someone will port this to the Dell Axim x50v/x51v)
As expected. Another anemic update for Windows Mobile. Complete with yesterdays UI designs and amateurish color schemes and placements of elements. Perhaps next revision will be improved.
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I am using the iwindowsmobile suite from VitoTechnology. It is obviously an iphone clone, but it works for me. I also like the spb 3.0 mobile shell, PointUI was nice, but a few too many things missing.
Just so nobody asks, YES IT WILL PLAY DOOM! In a completely unrelated matter, I finally turned in my AP World History homework this morning, over a month after it was due.
Does it still say:
"Missed calls.
No missed calls."
I'm still wondering if the Q9 is worth the upgrade from the Razr2 V9 on AT&T's network.
Great, another update, yet it's still the same PocketPC OS I used 7 years ago albeit with a theme job. To say WM is long in the tooth would be an understatement. Come on MS, time for a little innovation!
Can anyone running one of these things tell me if it supports any of the major IM (msn, aim, skype) _video_ chats? Or if it could with enough bandwidth/horsepower?
I am really looking forward to this update, especially since Opera 9.5 is STILL not available!
Can anyone tell me where and how to get the upgrade to WM 6.1, I have a blackjack 2. Thanks.
yea it does have threaded messaging is less of a memory hog and is an all around better improvement from wm5 and wm6