Windows Mobile 6.5 debuts with new phones, app store...and bad reviews

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 06:07

IT Industry - Strategy

- An enhanced Windows Live experience with What's New feeds and improved Windows Live photo sharing across major social networking sites;
- A "best-in-class e-mail experience" and the ability to manage multiple accounts from the phone with Outlook Mobile and Exchange Server synchronisation;
- The ability to use PowerPoint and open and edit Word and Excel documents from the phone with Microsoft Office Mobile
- The power to sync files on the phone through Windows Live Media Manager and play media files seamlessly with Windows Media Player;
- A redesigned Windows Internet Explorer mobile browser with Adobe Flash Lite2 that "brings the mobile Web browsing experience closer to what people have come to expect from their PC";

The app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, claims to offer "an easy way to find and purchase high-quality mobile applications for both work and play, while creating a new opportunity for developers to reach millions of people using Windows phones worldwide." It is pre-installed on all new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones and will be available for all phones running Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1. by the end of 2009.

My Phone is a free service that helps people manage and back up information stored on their phone and provides an easy restore option in the event of a lost or damaged phone. It automatically synchronises the specific types of a phone's content the user chooses - contacts, appointments, texts, photos etc - to a password-protected Web site. It also enables people to publish photos from the My Phone Web site or their phone to Windows Live, Facebook, MySpace and Flickr.
 
My Phone is pre-installed on all Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones and can be downloaded for Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 phones.