Windows Mobile 6.5 build 23037 brings easily re-arrangeble start menu
Video courtesy of Youtube denizen Swulaki.
Some-one must have lit a serious fire under the Windows Mobile Dev team, as the progress from one Windows Mobile 6.5 build to the other seems pretty astounding.
The latest build, 23037 finally brings easy to re-arrange icons to the start menu, unlike the clunky “Move to top” menu that popped up previously when you tapped and held a icon. The animation also appears pretty nice also.
With a rate of progress like this all I can say is Keep it up Microsoft.
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This feature is already present in previous build 23034
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This feature is already present in previous build 23016
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That feature has been here since somewhere in 2300X, though not in all builds.
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I still find it funny that this is the first UI revision at all ever since the softkeybar was born in WM5 in 2005. Glad to see progress though. Keep it up. Now that everything is bigger, make them look nicer please. And remake comm manager, PIM apps, and control panel applets like wifi and connection manager. I still dont get what the whole "this connection connects to work/internet" deal is. Make it simple like desktop window's network manager.
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l3v5y Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
WM2003 had a fairly similar UI, with PocketPC 2000 being the biggest difference…
Bear in mind this is still fairly early development, and I suspect it'll get pretty after it works (what's the point in pretty if it does nothing?). The WM default Comm Manager is crap, though most OEMs supplement it…
I'm sure MS are remaking a lot of things (and I hope they're doing media player as well as your list!), just be patient :p
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JKingDev Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
True. I just wonder how much will get into 6.5r2 and how much will go into 7. At this point, what even is the purpose of 6.5r2?
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l3v5y Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I think 6.5.X and 7 are going to run side by side (though there may be another one instead of 6.5.1 given how far 7 has been pushed back) on different hardware levels, so I suspect everything will go in to 6.5.X.
Also, WM7 is essentially a rewrite, so all the core applications will have to be rewritten. There are currently WM7 builds around, though they're very alpha, and most current hardware can't run it anyway.
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its been on the comm 4 branch since the build 23022
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l3v5y Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
AFAIK 230XX is COM3, 234XX is COM4.
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Guys, all I can say is – Why did you not tell us! This is clearly a major feature, you should have mentioned it ages ago!
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l3v5y Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Cause that would be helpful! :p
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since it's said that the real touch friendly version of WM6.5 won't ship until next year all I can say is WM6.5 R2 is looking better with every new build
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how do i get WM 6.5 on my ATT Fuze
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DavidK Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Here you go – step by step. it's really easy http://www.fuzemobility.com/ready-to-unlock-and-f...
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Hey, just to clarify, I have 23034.5.3.0 and I can arrange icons… So I dont think its something brought in from 23037…
Also, why does MS do this? Why not just release WM7 already :-/… 6.5 sucks…
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Parrotlover77 Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Thery are based on entirely different versions of the underlying Windows CE. 6.5 is going to be "lighter weight" and 7 will be more like Vista/7 where it requires more horsepower. WM7's development is in progress, but there's more to do since it's a new underlying kernel and so on. Why complain? If 6.5's GUI is this good, imagine how 7 is going to look!
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I'm not sure the pace has changed. 6.5 was a lot of under-the-hood stuff. 6.5.1 is more cosmetic, as they've stated all along.
I'm not complaining I'm just saying development is a lot more than GUI.
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6.5 dosnt have a lot of under the hood changes. the major change is probably the scrolling engine. under the hood changes come in WM7
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