Windows Mobile 6.5 will be making its official debut a little earlier than expected. On Monday May 11th at Microsoft’s Tech-Ed event, Stephanie Ferguson – who is something called the General Manager of Business Experiences at Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business unit – will show the world the new mobile OS in its final releasable form.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is said to be a major step forward for Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Windows Mobile has rather fallen behind of late – at least in terms of its perceived ‘cool factor’. Upstarts like Android and iPhone OS have been pushing forward consumer’s ideas about what a smartphone looks like and is capable of, and WinMo has looked rather clunky in comparison.
With Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft is hoping to win back users with a new interface that is based on one-touch access rather than aping the desktop GUI, a suite of new personal information apps and a greatly improved Internet Explorer Mobile that brings a standards compliant, full frame browsing experience.
Although the OS will officially launch on 11th May the first actual Windows Mobile 6.5 devices will not arrive until late Summer at the earliest.
11th May 2009 | £tbc | Microsoft Windows Mobile Team (via Engadget)
