HTC, LG, & Samsung are among the brands of 30+ phones that run the much awaited windows mobile 6.5 operating system.
Microsoft Officials & Marketing Managers are saying that Hardware diversity is a major selling point for the Windows Mobile platform. Competitors in the Mobile Phone market like Apple & Google have a very limited hardware base.
Users will find in the new WM 6.5 mobile phones a home screen that was inspired by the Zune & has an application grid layout. There is a tighter integration with all Microsoft Live Services, Facebook, Twitter, & Flicker. An enhanced mobile Internet Explorer now resembles the browser you have used for many years on your home PC & included features such as panning & zooming via finger gestures. The browser also supports Adobe Flash Lite so users can access more multimedia online.
Behind the new Operating system are a few new features to support & enhance the use of Windows Mobile. First Microsoft has developed Windows Marketplace as an answer to Apples App Store. Another feature called MyPhone lets users backup as much as 200 MB on contact info & other mobile data free. MyPhone has a phone finding capability that will locate missing phones with the use of GPS even if the phone is off. Microsoft is offering the phone finding service free of charge for the first month thereafter will be 4.99 per incident.
Content gathered from. PC World Microsoft Shows Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphones
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