Purported release dates for the first crop of
WIndows Mobile 7 phones have varied in a surprisingly tight range over the past year, slipping from late '09 to the latest we've heard,
late 2010, and the latest info we've got here dovetails nicely with that. What you're looking at up above is allegedly a slide out of an Office 2010 deck presented to Microsoft partners, where an updated Office Mobile suite is mentioned in passing alongside a WinMo 7 RTM date of Spring 2010. As Mary Jo Foley points out in a comment on the original post, that would put phones on shelves several months later at the earliest, which leads us back to the fact that this actually fits in very well with the Q4 2010 window we've been getting from other sources in recent memory. Though the screenshots on the slide are seemingly new, they match perfectly with the UI paradigm set by those purported WinMo 7 shots we saw
nearly two flippin' years ago, which leads us to the obvious question: is the UI basically finalized? And if so, is it going to feel stale by the time it's released some three years after it first leaked?
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posted Oct 9th 2009 5:41PM
Is it just me or is Microsoft is "a Day late and a Dollar short" in mobile OS game.
Now that WinMo 6.5 has been tried and trued by the so called mobile phone experts of the World, we now know that all the hoopla about weather or not WinMo 6.1 could be upgraded to WinMo 6.5 was a farce. No wonder ATT and Verizon including Motorola never jumped in to say that upgrading would not be a problem. They all knew what we all now know and that is WinMo 6.5 is simply "Lipstick on a stale 2 year old Pig." A freakin stylus, a passive one at that in 2K10 is not only a joke in the iPhone age its an outrage. Because we all know that not once will we ever see that stylus being used in a marketing commercial. WinMo = fail
It's just you.
I was going to correct your spelling in the phrase "... weather or not ..." to the correct "whether or not" but then I read the rest of your post and decided that you have even larger issues with proper punctuation.
I agree that WinMo 6.5 is simply a stopgap, but then again it was never billed as anything other than that.
WinMo7 hasn't even really been shown beyond a few purported screenshots of alpha UI's, so passing judgement at this point is premature. I would think after the recent Zune HD launch people would at the very least be reserved in their judgements, if not optimistic.
Lastly, a stylus is ALWAYS a welcome addition to any phone so long as its an accessory and not the primary way of interacting with the UI.
UIs are one of the last things finalized in Microsoft OSes, and like the article states, it's roughly the same UI we've seen for almost two years now. i know there's no way this represents the final product, but i'm hoping MSFT can pull a Windows 7/Zune HD with this one. At the very least, no more blue as the predominant color.
I keep seeing that theme on engaget mobile, and it seems no one has notified them yet, that picture is just a "Theme" for Wisbar Advanced Desktop, a theme creation and customization application for Windows Mobile 6+, the name of the theme is "Prot’n V2 for WAD2 "
Here is the official link, http://encoreppc.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/release-protn-v2-for-wad2/
It's a very popular theme.
I would like to point 2 more facts out.
1. The picture's title bars do not match eachother.
2. Wisbar Desktop allows you to change the words at the bottom to anything you want, and they can link to anything you want as well, the theme allows the bottom part to be pulled up (a slide up gesture) to show menu items, and you can even link the words to open the menu items as well.