Latest WM 6.5 23041 build brings a little bit more polish

September 2, 2009 | By Surur

WindowsMobile6_5Build230412 RedmondPie reports on the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 build, build 23041, apparently built only yesterday.

The new build brings the following changes:

The buttons on the bottom bar are now more ovalish than the roundish buttons which were found in previous builds (23036 & 23037) of Windows Mobile 6.5.
Hardware buttons for volume and camera are now working.
The status bar on the top has iPhone-like slide effect now. You will now have to slide it to get into the magnified status bar.
More speedy and responsive.
Numerous other bug fixes.

See more screen shots at RedmondPie here.

About Surur

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http://www.avianwaves.com Parrotlover77

Absolutely gorgeous! Is there any word on any type of better integrated task switcher? HTC's is okay, and there are of course dozens of third party ones that are good, but I was hoping there would be something built-in with finger friendliness soon.
IanKay

I gotta say.. while I love winmo and I'm over the moon they are beginning to modernise it. I don't know that I like the bottom buttons.. I mean that "Set" button just looks like its in limbo out there.. not very aesthetically pleasing..

Benji

I agree… overall, it doesn't look more polished to me. I do think this is about as polished as 6.x is going to look before it's no longer updated. Polish doesn't arrive until version 7…

Christian

Polished?? still butt-ugly if you ask me.. how hard can it be to make the graphics a little nicer?? hire some people from xda to do the job.. lots of talent there
Clemens

i totally agree with christian: COME ON MS, HOW HARD CAN IT BE DESIGN A NICE UI?!?! or in this case: HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO JUST DESIGN SIMPLE LITTLE BUTTONS?!?! just ask a design studend to do you a favor and design a nice looking button for wm 6.5. they will even do it for free!! but i think even worse is the navigation in different registers. that looks just horrible!!! or please have a look at requesters or the pop-up-menus!!! i really dont get it!!!
Clemens

…or why does the sim-pin-dialog look totally different compared to the unlog-pin-entry-screen?
…is there really no better, more stylish way for the graphics on the home screen (see clock above)?
…will we ever get rid of the file-dialogs?
…standard applications like outlook/text still look like 1996….
….etc.
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