Windows Mobile 6.5: a family portrait

Can you name them all? Don't worry, it's a lot to keep track of. Clockwise we have the HTC Tilt 2 (AT&T), Toshiba TG01 (not announced for US), HTC Imagio (Verizon), HTC Pure (AT&T), Samsung Intrepid (Sprint) and LG GM750 (not announced for US). It's a pretty diverse roundup, with two QWERTY phones in the mix and an incredible variety of home screens and themes, though all six do house touchscreens -- resistive, of course. Check out a super quick meet and greet after the break.

Windows Mobile 6.5: a family portrait

[OsoOto Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:33PM]

How many of them, aside from the TouchPro2, might compete with current "big" phones.

[ndrwme Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:36PM]

The TG01 for sure beats the biggies in hardware. But I don't think that's what you're getting at. Honestly I don't think anyone going to look at a WinMo unless they walked in looking for one. Anyone who's smart enough would get a WebOS or Android, possibly an iPhone. And anyone else won't know why Windows is on a phone and will get one of the billions of touchscreen/qwerty featurephones.

[trevr Posted Oct 6th 2009 10:03PM]

so here's how i see it... Tilt 2 and Pure are siblings... Tilt 2 is seeing GM750 but is cheating on him with the Imagio... Pure is out to kill TG01 cuz he sold him out to the cops over a meth bust and grand theft... Intrepid's ready to commit suicide cuz nobody loves him and Imagio seduced him out of all his money (Imagio's dirty... don't ask why)... HD2 (tho not pictured) is god and will destroy them all upon arrival. idk.... seems like a pretty messed up family to me... they put up a pretty good front for the portrait tho

[Average White Boy Posted Oct 6th 2009 11:55PM]

Oh, snap! The Wow stops Now... First, Microsoft candy-coated Vista for Windows 7. Now they candy-coated WinMo 6.1 for WinMo 6.5. Foundation makeup covering the same underlying ugliness.

[N900 Posted Oct 7th 2009 9:16AM]

Hey look at that, we just candy-coated your comment. Gotta love vanilla!

[Average White Boy Posted Oct 7th 2009 6:09PM]

HTC is committing suicide by selling WinMo smartphones. All their fine hardware is saddled with an out-of-date operating system. Sticking WinMo 6.5 on their handsets are going to do nothing. They should stop building WinMo-powered smartphones and move on to Android. HTC is losing money quarter after quarter and basically WinMo is to blame. Most companies are dumping WinMo and HTC would be wise to follow suit. They just can't afford to take good hardware and stick shyte on it and then expect to make any money. WinMo 7 is a big question mark and is going to be released many months from now. I hope HTC can hold on until that time.

[EpsilonNot Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:33PM]

Wait, is that clockwise? Or am I looking at it wrong, because it seems to be clockwise would be Tilt 2, TG01, GM750, Intrepid, Pure, Imagio... am I missing something?

Of course, it's not really circular, more like two rows, in which case the description makes more sense.

[JMonkeYJ Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:43PM]

heh, i thought the same thing...it's totally not clockwise, it's left-to-right, first the top row, then the bottom row.

[Zombie Salus Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:06PM]

I headed for the comments to see if anyone else was lost by their "clockwise" reference. Glad to see I have company..
Where does Engadget find some of these people?

[HeadMajor Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:09PM]

Yeah, totally messed me up.
I got to reading "HTC Pure (AT&T)", and was comparing it to the phone in the picture which says Sprint/Samsung, and was thinking sump'ins wrong

[Chieze Okoye Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:57PM]

yeah, definitely not clockwise.

[SoulinEther Posted Oct 6th 2009 10:23PM]

5 comments before mine? Aw.. I guess I'm not that quick-witted after all.

[dzeikei Posted Oct 6th 2009 11:11PM]

DIGITAL CLOCKWISE :)

We are in a gadget blog :) None of those old analogue things here!

[LOLOtech Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:35PM]

WM6.5 WebOS Android Symbian and iPhone.... who dominates？？？

[EpsilonNot Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:38PM]

Palm OS 4 life yo! (Er, though not Palm OS 4- that's too out of date even for me)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:42PM]

Palm OS follows by WinMo. :)

[glenskey Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:51PM]

what is up with your question marks?

[N900 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:17PM]

wtf？

[ndrwme Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:40PM]

I'm happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but tony has one of the best question marks of all time, ALL TIME!

[newreformation Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:48PM]

There is no one answer. Each OS has it's specific market:

WM 6.5 for business power users.
Android for the consumer that does not like to be locked into a closed system.
Iphone for consumers who DO like to be locked into a closed system.
Web OS fits somewhere in between a business OS and a consumer OS.
Symbian for techy folks who like the development platform.

[tonyunreal Posted Oct 6th 2009 11:13PM]

looks like someone forgot to turn off his east asian input method before typing punctuation marks

[LOLOtech Posted Oct 7th 2009 12:38AM]

absolutely right。。。

[Jakintosh Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:35PM]

correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you named those clockwisically. I actually didn't know what those phones were, so it was confusing for a minute... you should have said "Starting with the top row, left to right..." or something like that. Anyway, I figured it out now.

[Dahis Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:36PM]

You missed the HD2 ;)

[tylersmyler Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:53PM]

yeah, the poppa bear

[ClothoBuer6293 Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:38PM]

Ah. I love windows mobile. I've been using it for about a year : ) I have a t-mobile dash with a WinMo 6.5 rom, I have windows marketplace, and I enjoy long walks on the beach with my Windows 7 Laptop :D

[Level 5 Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:39PM]

What a beautiful family! Let's not forget about the bastard children (flashed ROM WM devices).

[seancollinduffy Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:39PM]

wheres the leo?
you couldnt photoshop it in?

[Templarian Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:50PM]

Yea, was kind of expecting to see it. Would of been nice to see it randomly edited into the video.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:39PM]

Oh thank god the Tilt 2 doesn't have that god-awful numpad split we saw in the teaser images.

Also I'll use this space to say I'm disappointed that AT&T didn't stick with the names "Warhawk" for the Pure and "Fortress" for the Tilt 2, could have been the two best sounding names in wireless.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:40PM]

The picture reminds me of a bunch of cheap gadgets ready for ebay auction. :)

[N900 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:20PM]

*sigh*

[Guybrush Threepwood Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:40PM]

The majority of them will look like cheap iPod rip-offs to the untrained eye.
But not for long.
A revolution is coming. Watch out, apple.

[N900 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:21PM]

double *sigh*

[GeekPI Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:42PM]

What's up with the audio in the video clip? Are you filming in an Avian discothèque?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:47PM]

Is it just me, or does anyone else not see the point in the 240 x 320 screen on the intrepid. I though we were past the bad old days of QVGA. It's like a Jack with a touchscreen. Ewww.

[soccersgreat Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:53PM]

Por que es Windows Mobile muy mal? No comprendo por que todos dicen es muy mal.

[Templarian Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:58PM]

Yea, Windows Mobile is pretty awesome. I agree these new devices are looking pretty awesome.

I'm on a plan for another year so I'll wait till Windows Mobile 7 myself.

[tonyprince Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:54PM]

which one is the HD2/

[trevr Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:57PM]

none of 'em... i was expecting to see it too by some weird voodoo

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 8:56PM]

D'AAAAWWWWWWWWWW

[Jeff117 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:06PM]

I’ve been running Winmo 6.5 for months now. I have to say it’s the WORST interface I’ve seen in a while. Why do I need MASSIVE text labels like “Voicemail”.. etc, that cause needless scrolling. I’m not an iPhone fan by any means, but they got the interface right. How about an Icon with a superscript or subscript number for indicators.

Also – the HTC addon is another culprit. Needless scrolling, for the sake of a Massive clock on the home screen. We all need the time displayed larger than life right?

[Level 5 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:13PM]

Um.. what 6.5 are you running? Mine have tiny labels, looks very similar to the iPhone except in a hexagonal formation.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:14PM]

still not impressed, ppl held their breath when they saw webOS, cried tears of joy for iphone OS, and straight fell in love with android. The same ppl see the new windows mobile and are like "oh, ok...movin on." try some thing new microsoft, completely new.

[Uncontrol Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:17PM]

That's counter-clockwise, Engadget.

[Mr Oos Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:36PM]

I agree, but don't you think winmo still has an uphill battle to fight in re-asserting itself in the smartphone realm?

[N900 Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:40PM]

wtf?

[dodo Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:41PM]

Can I haz them all? :(

[Mr Oos Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:41PM]

exactly

[ixianradeon Posted Oct 6th 2009 9:42PM]

Will WinMo ever have multi touch i hope so