New Windows Mobile - Windows Go.

[Mattt]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/defau...

Anyone had a go yet? Comparison to iPhone/Palm/Android?

[AB]

"My Phone" hmm, sounds familiar?

[gamefreaks]

Yep...well sort of.

I have the emulators that ship with the dev kit.

Comparison to Iphone? No contest.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is simply a new start menu and mildly re-designed screen furniture.

It doesn't resolve the issues that Windows mobile has at the minute.

I await Windows Mobile 7 with baited breath!

[Tycho]

gamefreaks said:

Yep...well sort of.

I have the emulators that ship with the dev kit.

Comparison to Iphone? No contest.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is simply a new start menu and mildly re-designed screen furniture.

It doesn't resolve the issues that Windows mobile has at the minute.

I await Windows Mobile 7 with baited breath!

So this is only WM6.5?

I put a beta on my Xperia and wasn't too impressed.

[Don]

gamefreaks said:

Yep...well sort of.

I have the emulators that ship with the dev kit.

Comparison to Iphone? No contest.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is simply a new start menu and mildly re-designed screen furniture.

It doesn't resolve the issues that Windows mobile has at the minute.

I await Windows Mobile 7 with baited breath!

It will be interesting, that. Microsoft do have "surface" technology - remember that coffee table thing? They ought to be able to sort out a multi-touch user interface with pinch-to-zoom etc.

IMO it's the way that Apple have have sorted that out that makes the iPhone user experience so good for browsing. It's simply the best mobile device I've seen for that - this coming from a died-in-the-wool Blackberry fanboy...BB may do email better but not browsing - oh no...

[Don]

I notice that these phones supposedly have "push" email. I thought RIM had a patent on that? How sophisticated is the email handling?

One thing that BB does is to be very, very clever about how much data gets delivered to the phone per email - even when it includes documents and pictures - so that the facility works well even when the data rate is GPRS and st. I realise a lot of this is achieved by BIS server-side but do these phones have an equivalent service? Or if someone sends you a 20Mb mail filled with their holiday pictures do they have to download the whole sodding thing to let you start reading it? (Like my old Sony Ericcson smartphone did).