Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC; the next step, but what are the major changes?
The first view at the new Windows Mobile 6.0 platform for PocketPC devices has been given by our partners Mobile-Review.com. We shall give you a short summary from their extensive story expressing a major changes in the new OS.
The first view at the new Windows Mobile 6.0 platform for PocketPC devices has been given by our partners Mobile-Review.com. We shall give you a short summary from their extensive story expressing major changes in the new operating system that will hit the markets in the upcoming period.
In the past period Windows Mobile 5.0 was the main WM platform used in several new PocketPC devices from brands like HTC, HP, E-ten, i-mate, Samsung and Motorola. Updates were available in a form in which an AKU update was delivered to the user. Some manufacturers have seen the opportunity to change the way these AKU updates were addressed. They used Windows Mobile 5.3 for instance as the WM platform on their devices. To clear some things up; Windows Mobile 5.3 is Windows Mobile 5.0 with AKU 3.0 package.
The new platform will be provided onto newly developed devices that will also hit the market in the upcoming months. We expect the second quarter of 2007. Updates for current devices will be provided by several brands including HP and E-ten.
The major list of changes that has come up out of the excellent review by Mobile-review consists the following:
Some of these changes have major influences on the way users will operate the new platform. Several changes enhance the way in which the complete platform changes on ease of use and user-friendless.
However some changes have not been conducted, which should have been. The cross-shaped button in the top right corner still has nothing to do with closing an application - it only minimizes it. The very concept of this operating system relies on the fact that the OS decides which programs are called for by user and which should be terminated as not wanted, on its own (Smart Minimizing concept). To make the “cross” shut down a program, you still will have to get an extra tool. HTC decided to standardize this tool on their devices.
The media player has changed to Windows Media player 11. The quality did not change and users need to use 3rd party applications to get a decent sound and video quality out of a Windows Mobile PocketPC.
PowerPoint Mobile does not allow you to edit presentations, only viewing is allowed. No changes have been made in relation to this point. Nokia E-series do have the ability to change PowerPoint presentations.
If we look at other issues like office applications or multimedia applications nothing has really changed. No enhancements have been conducted. Profiles are still not available in PocketPC devices running the standard version Windows Mobile 6.0 and the system still doesn’t offer support for several active windows in Internet Explorer, so that you are limited to a single window at a time. The Opera browser will still prevail for WM users.
The major key issues are not at the current system but extending new possibilities like Windows Live, Windows Mobile 11, changes with respect to Windows Vista, Office 2007, MS Exchange 2007. All these packages will be introduced in the upcoming months, so an updated version Windows Mobile was simply bound to come out.
Check out the complete story of Windows Mobile 6.0 currently known as WM Crossbow via this link.
