http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/ Engadget Comments for Windows Mobile 6.6 (aka 'not Windows Mobile 7') set for February release? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Seriously, I think it would be better if you abandoned Engadget.

Everyone here would be much better off without your spread of hatred.]]>Jan 14th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Windows Mobile 7 better be something groundbreaking and while Windows 7 isn't groundbreaking in any way, it sure got a positive vibe - so perhaps 7 is the lucky number?]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Lucky Number 7 has worked so far.]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Looking at them now on my device, they are ok, but I prefer that they were square. ]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Get EnergyRom from xda-developers.com
square buttons on 6.5.3]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Veeeeery nice!]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=578468 ]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
They are round, not glossy, and look beautiful.]]>Jan 14th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
I'd rather them take their time and do it right.]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
they*

Engadget, please allow editing of comments for up to 2-3 minutes after they are posted. :P]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
They don't allow the move from 6.1 to 6.5, so I'm going to guess I can't update my Touch Pro to 6.6. Fortunately, the XDA folks have me covered.]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Some of the phones allow the move from 6.1 to 6.5. Usually all the HTC phone are upgradeable.]]>Jan 14th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
MS don't control upgrades - the carriers/manus do. The TD2 got an official 6.1->6.5 upgrade via HTC in my case.
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It's already been confirmed, I think on this site, so I'm not sure who is confused about this.

The thing that may actually confuse is that some people dont know that 7 is meant for higher-end phones, while 6.5.x is meant for lower power devices, and will both exist and be in development at the same time.]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
I remember reading that but I think it's stupid. Regardless of the hardware of the phone Windows Mobile 7 needs to be the only option for future phones. I a WinMo user and really like it but it's no secret it has it's issues and even on powerful devices it's still pretty crappy, performance and consistency wise.

Maybe it would be okay for non-touch screen phones, but defiantly not with touch, especially on low-end devices.]]>Jan 14th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Other than personal UI choice or some aesthetic not being your style, I will ask for the 10000000000000th time...

Can you please tell us where this is the case where WM cant do what other mobile OS are doing?]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/agreed. I havent found anything that winmo cant do, and in many cases show off things it CAN do over other OSes... dont give the app-for-that argument since all that is is advertising. winmo has had apps for everything for a decade. i love android and like the iphone enough to recognize that its a nice device, but winmo has features and capabilities that people dont see because ms is a company of programmers, not graphic artists.]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
But don't they also have Mobile Opera, etc? It's not the stock browser, but in this case that's irrelevant.]]>Jan 14th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/People are constantly saying "It better be groundbreaking or it will fail!" but they never say what that means or what groundbreaking thing they want it to do. They're just setting it up to fail by default when it does the same thing as every other OS.

So what ground breaking thing do people want? All these people are really saying, "I don't even know what I want the phone to do, but it better do it our I'll hate it more than anything else!"]]>Jan 14th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Actually, no, that would be the N900's browser these days.]]>Jan 14th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
I agree with the "how well it does things argument" because frankly WinMo does everything, but not very well and the look is usually unappealing. We can blame the hardware and software makers but really the OS is inconsistent, slow, and dated.

Don't get me wrong, I only use WinMo phones because I like the things it does but if you look at Blackberry, Andriod phones or the iPhone, it's a lot easier and faster to do things. It's especially bad when you have a WinMo phone with a keyboard and you are constantly switch orientations.]]>Jan 14th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Feb 2nd 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
Whatever "strides" MS accomplishes with WM7 using these 3-4 more months of delay, it will be relatively outdated by Android and webOS. From what I've seen, Android is changing and "growing up" faster than any OS I've seen. So time is not on MS's side. The ONLY REASON why they postponed it is -just as I have suspected- WM7 was not impressive enough, and they felt the need to work more on it. Better delay is than lose stock, right?]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
You are assuming that it won't be at MWC, and that it HAS been delayed. Which you would since, by the tone of your comments, you are obviously a WinMo hater. It's been confirmed that WM7 will be at MWC in Feb. Eff off.]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/I'm not a WM hater. As a matter of fact, I would LOVE WM to come back having "something from everything", customizable homescreens, widgets, notifications, cards...etc... I want the power of WM without sacrificing usability. But form the leaked WM7 screens, as well as this news (and othersites reporting a 2011 delay), MS hardly sounds confident about WM7.]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
"Better delay is than lose stock, right?"

Yeah! I Can get behind that! Wait, what?]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/19/microsoft.windows.mobile/index.html

The Spectacular Failure of WinCE and Windows Mobile
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/50755EA6-A759-42FD-84ED-EBB5A060AF16.html]]>Jan 14th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Really? Can u plz link me to a website or video showing widgets, shortcuts and notifications on the WM 6.5 homescreen? (not SBP Shell 3.5)]]>Jan 14th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/Jan 14th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/cause it will need to be SUPER to get dev support at this point.
i dont know, if MS promotes it good enough maybe they can get the consumers interested (it would have to be on verizon/at&t and tmobile simultaneously!). if not, its just not enough apps for me to go back.

signed,
7 year winmo vet (now a DROOOIIIDDD)]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
You are a 7 Year WinMo vet that thinks there are only 1000 apps for WinMo?

LOL

That is hilarious!]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
How that activey sync and MS office working for you on the droid?

How about Voice Commnader over bluetooth?]]>Jan 14th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/windows-mobile-6-6-aka-not-windows-mobile-7-set-for-february/
I don't see how a Windows Mobile 6.6 could not just be something evolutionary. Normally you don't increase the version numer of something by .1 if it's something completely different.

I've also never heard of WM6.6. Given that it is a WM6.X, it must be based on CE5.2, which means it can be ported to current devices and would have leaked to xda-developers if it actually existed.

In addition to that, Digitimes refers to it as 'Maldives', and that's in fact WM6.5.3, which is definitely just an evolution of 6.5.

So, what do I think? There's several possibilities:

- WM6.6 is really WM6.5.3 and Bach has lied, which means they're going to show only WM6.5.3

- WM6.6 is really WM6.5.3 and Bach has said the truth, which means they're going to show both WM6.5.3 and WM7

- Bach has said the truth and for some weird reason, they're calling a completely different system WM6.6 instead of 7, despite it being much more than an evolution of 6.5, and they're going to show this.]]>Jan 14th 2010 2:47PM