{"id":3907,"date":"2009-02-16T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/02\/16\/windows-mobile-65-a-quick-introduction\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:31:00","slug":"windows-mobile-65-a-quick-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3907","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 6.5: A Quick Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">At MWC, Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.5.&#160; The new OS will power the next generation of Windows Phones and, as expected, has a major emphasis on touch navigation, Cloud-syncing and functionality with Windows Live services.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"296\" alt=\"Windows Mobile 6.5 -- It&#39;s Official!\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wm65panels.jpg\" width=\"496\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The WM6.5 Lock screen features new iPhone-like sliders to unlock the phone.&#160; This screen also provides instant access to new voicemail, text messages and other important information. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">A new slider interface on the Home or Today Screen with sliding access to email, voicemail, text messages, calendar, pictures, music and more (right screenshot above).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Email supports Live Hotmail, POP\/IMAP accounts and Outlook syncing.&#160; <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Programs menu (left screenshot) has the honeycomb interface we\u2019ve been seeing for months.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">All Windows Phone will have a Windows hardware button that takes users to the Programs menu.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">IE Mobile 6 (center screenshot) is a completely revamped version of mobile Internet Explorer with swipe and zoom control and a more desktop-like experience.&#160; Flash support is also included.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Voice-capable IM via Windows Live Messenger allows you to chat with voice clips. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Microsoft My Phone Cloud-syncing service with 200GB of storage for syncing photos, calendar entries, music, videos, documents, text messages, email.&#160; All data backed-up to My Phone can be restored to a new Windows Phone. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">New Contacts management with finger scrolling, photos and touch calling. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Marketplace allows users to purchase, download and install Windows Mobile software from the handset.&#160; Users will still be able to use Handango and other web stores to get new software. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ll be posting a Windows Mobile 6.5 Product Brief later today with a full list of features and updates.&#160; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At MWC, Microsoft officially announced Windows Mobile 6.5.&#160; The new OS will power the next generation of Windows Phones and, as expected, has a major emphasis on touch navigation, Cloud-syncing and functionality with Windows Live services.<\/p>\n<p>The WM6.5 Lock screen features new iPhone-like sliders to unlock the phone.&#160; This screen also provides instant access to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}