Moto CEO casually name drops Windows Mobile 6.5 in conference call

We've all been waiting patiently for Windows Mobile 7 to drop since the crust of the Earth was still cooling, and at this point, Windows 7 proper could theoretically beat it out of the gate. What's a perpetually delayed platform to do, then? Come up with another stop-gap measure, of course. Windows Mobile 6.1 was designed to plug some short-term holes in 6, and it's looking now like there could be a 6.5 waiting in the wings to plug a few more. Nothing has really been revealed about the mysterious, heretofore-unknown version, but Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha mentioned it in passing during the company's earnings call today while discussing the fact that 6.1 really hasn't been able to keep pace with Apple in the "user experience" department. Would it be totally naive of us to hope for a little Xbox Live Anywhere in there?

[Via CoolSmartPhone]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2008 3:10PM]

Haha. We got NXE fever up in here!

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[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2008 3:25PM]

just leave us with 6.1 and concentrate on freaking bringing us winmo7 that much sooner!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2008 3:34PM]

Palm OS 6 anyone?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2008 4:37PM]

The crust of the Earth comment was hella funny!

[Charles Knight Posted Oct 30th 2008 4:55PM]

Oh come on, nobody is fooled, it's just more lipstick on the pig. The user experience for the general consumer (not us tech geeks who want to spend hours playing with settings) is just miles ahead on the iphone and more minor changes to the front end isn't going to fix the problems that the GUI has. Let me give you a really really minor example, you have to use register hacks to change the softkeys on the today screen, that's just plain stupid.

The only benefit that WM has at the moment is for many business users and certain apps and backoffice integration and that advantage

WM7 is going to have to be something pretty special if MS want to stay in this game.

(Before I get accused of being an iphone fanboy - I use a i780 and was used a number of s60 devices before that and POS before that).

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2008 10:44PM]

#1, its REGISTRY, not register, and you don't have to do that on WinMo devices anymore, there are quite a few freeware programs for doing that nowadays.

#2, WinMo has MANY benefits for the power user and the regular Joe alike. Open installation of applications? You bet. iPhone, S60 devices? Nope. Freeware? Hell no on the iPhone, anything worth a damn costs money, and pretty good on S60 devices. Customization? WinMo KILLS the other platforms in terms of customization. Straight out of the box you can change colors, fonts, where things are, how they work, how they launch etc etc etc.

Your arguements hold no water my uninformed friend.