What is new in Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional for Windows Phones

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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