With a couple of phones having been announced with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 already, Microsoft quietly announced the update to Windows Mobile 6.5. The 6.5.3 update focuses on three key areas: Ease of use, browser performance, and quality and customer satisfaction:
- Ease of Use
- Capacitive touchscreen support
- Platform to enable multi-touch
- Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)
- Consistent Navigation
- Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about screen)
- Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications
- Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps
- Drag and drop icons on Start Screen
- Browser Performance
- Page load time decreased
- Memory management improved
- Pan & flick gestures smoothed
- Zoom & rotation speed increased
- Quality and Customer Satisfaction
- Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
- Arabic read/write document support
- Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes
It’s not clear at this point whether there will be a Windows Mobile 6.6 as rumours had suggested. Hopefully this will all be cleared up at the upcoming Mobile World Congress.
Source: ZDNet