Windows Mobile 6.5 apps are still worth grabbing even though the OS is soon to be superseded by Windows Phone 7 Series but with shedloads of Windows Mobile apps out in the wild it can be sometimes be hard to seek out the best.
If you’ve got a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and want to make the most of the mobile you’re carrying around right now rather than waiting for the first wave of Windows Phony 7 Series phones, we’re here to help. Here’s our pick of the best Windows Mobile 6.5 apps to super-charge your smartphone.
Coreplayer, $29.95
If you’ve got SD cards stuffed with DivX and Xvid files, Windows 6.5 Media Player just won’t do the job. In fact, it doesn’t support lots of formats you might find floating about on the web. Grab Coreplayer though and you’ll be able to watch files created with almost any video codec as well as all the most popular image and audio formats.
Evernote, free 
Evernote is one of our favourite apps. It’s great on whatever platform you plonk it and the Windows 6.5 app keeps up the standard. You can create text, picture and voice notes and search through notes you’ve created on your Mac or PC. All your notes are stored in the cloud meaning you can get at them wherever you are and use the web interface to access them if you ever lose your phone.
CoPilot Live 8 UK and Ireland, £26.99
CoPilot Live 8 turns your Windows 6.5 phone into a fully features sat-nav. You just need 512MB of storage for the maps and you get speed limit alerts, tunnel guidance so directions continue even when you’ve got no GPS signal and lane information so you don’t end up trapped by traffic and missing your junction. There’s also brand named points of interest so you can find you favourite restaurant or hotel chain.
YoMo Media Reader, free
YoMo Media Reader is an RSS reader which will grab feeds, video and podcasts as often as every five minutes or as infrequently as just once a day depending on how gluttonous for new media you are. The Windows Mobile 6.5 app suggests new feeds and downloads the content to your phone so you can read it even when you don’t have signal or WiFi.
WinMoSquare, free
If you want to get in on Foursquare’s location aware social networking fun, WinMoSquare brings it to your Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. As with other platforms, the Windows Mobile 6.5 app lets you check in to Foursquare, find out where you friends are and add venues. It’ll also show you the badges you’ve earned and search for interesting venues nearby.
Bing, free
While there is a Google Maps Windows 6.5 app, Bing may actually be a better choice. The maps are arguably a little clearer and it’s simpler to get a new route if you get confused while following directions in the app. There is also a range built-in searches to help you find common places like garages or coffee shops which saves time on tapping out searches.
Facebook, free 
A smartphone almost isn’t a smartphone without the time wasting delights of Facebook. The Windows 6.5 app gives you all the most obvious functions from sending messages and calling people in your friends list to updating your own status and uploading photos and video.
Skyfire, free
Get one up on smug iPhone owners with Skyfire which gives you a Windows 6.5 app that will handle pretty much all of the web’s video sites include Youtube and iPlayer with Flash and Windows Media support baked in. There are also some other nifty features including the ability to add updates from Facebook and Twitter and RSS feeds to the homescreen for quick reference. You do need a touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.5 phone to make it work though.
TouchTwit, $1.99
If you’ve been glaring jealously at Android and iPhone owning friends as they tweet up a storm, TouchTwit is a good Twitter app for your touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.5 phone. It shows tweets in the timeline in full, lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts and showsphotos and videos in full screen within the app as well as giving you the option to upload your own snaps and clips.
PowerSMS, $0.99
If you spend most of your time tapping out texts, PowerSMS is a Windows Mobile 6.5 app which will save your aching fingers. It gives you the option to auto-reply with a text missed calls, groups numbers you text regularly and has a simply “Notes To Self” function. It uses your standard SMS folders but also lets you schedule texts to send at a particular time and gives you stats on how many texts you’ve sent and who you text most.
Let us know in the comments: what are your favourite Windows Mobile 6.5 apps?
