AT&T Pure running Windows Mobile 6.5
With Steve Ballmer’s recent admission that Microsoft had dropped the ball with Windows Mobile, and really should have released WinMo 7.0 by now, one should have realistically low expectations for the fresh-from-the-oven WinMo 6.5. Those who are still hoping for a miracle might prefer not to read the five quotes we’ve compiled from the first round of reviews.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is a spit and polish job on 6.1 – nothing more, nothing less. It’s a means of holding people over until Windows Mobile 7 – at least, we hope that’s all it is. Every single change in Windows Mobile 6.5 feels like it was made by a team of homebrewers or modders, rather than a huge corporation with truckloads of money to blow on one of their flagship products. [MobileCrunch]
Microsoft’s not promising the world with Windows Mobile 6.5, nor are they delivering it — it’s very much a stopgap, complete with duct tape, bubble gum, and Bondo. [...] Put simply, 6.5 won’t win a single user to the platform, even though the snazzy hardware that’s running it just might. [Engadget]
Faster, more stable and more capable it may be, but Windows Mobile 6.5 still leaves us hungry for Windows Mobile 7 simply because that OS promises the revolution Microsoft’s platform so badly requires. [SlashGear]
While 6.5 is a good update, only a complete rewrite can really convince us that Windows has a rightful place on a mobile handset. Let’s hope Windows Mobile 7 can truly deliver. If it can’t, Microsoft may find itself too far behind the game to catch up. [TechRadar]
I’d like to think that 6.5’s stunning failure to innovate is a symptom of a neglected project—maybe Microsoft just needed something, anything to hold people over until the mythical Windows Mobile 7 comes out, whatever it is. But as Steve Ballmer himself has plainly admitted, it’s worse: Microsoft has simply lumbered in the wrong direction for two years, letting everyone, save maybe Nokia, fly right past them. [Gizmodo]
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