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Microsoft goes official with Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress!

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Guest Daugvolf

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Details here @ intomobile.com http://www.intomobile.com/2009/02/16/micro...d-congress.html

With yummy screenshots too... sweeeeeeet!

FTA:

"It seems Microsoft is looking to market their new touch-optimized Windows Mobile on new hardware, giving loyal Windows Mobile fans a swift kick in the pants at the same time."

I seriously doubt we will see an update with this because money. If you want 6.5, Microsoft wants you to buy a new phone because they get royalties. Of course phone manufacturers want you to buy a new phone too. HTC devices MIGHT see this in an update because every time I see 6.5 it's running on a Touch Pro or Diamond. But HTC are famous for supporting their phones after-market.

We might. MIGHT see a hacked version of 6.5 running via cooked ROM if some industrious developer sees fit to take a whack at it.

For now though, just be happy with what you have and in two years time or whenever it's your contract renewal time, who knows, WM 7 might be out.

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Guest yiitcakir

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its obvius that samsung wont make an update for us to make our devices winmo 6.5 . i wish i had bought an htc device.there were available in my country and i had waited omnia for months.i regret now :(

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"It seems Microsoft is looking to market their new touch-optimized Windows Mobile on new hardware, giving loyal Windows Mobile fans a swift kick in the pants at the same time"

Oh FFS

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Samsung also launches the new OMNIA HD @ MWC 2009 and two other "Beat Phones", the DJ M7600 and Disc M6710. But in the OMNIA HD, there's no sign of WinMo 6.5. Oh well... still hoping to have it on our Omnia's though. :(

Details here...

http://www.intomobile.com/2009/02/16/samsu....html/omnia-hd/

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http://www.intomobile.com/2009/02/16/samsu...s.html/beat-dj/

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It is already on other devices over at xda, but the got notice from Microsoft to remove all links to the ROMs.

When i get a full, clean copy (if ever?), i will happily install this to the Omnia...

With regards to the Omnia HD, looks ok (not as good as current Omnia or HTC Touch HD), and it runs symbian OS, so bad move for Samsung...

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It is already on other devices over at xda, but the got notice from Microsoft to remove all links to the ROMs.

When i get a full, clean copy (if ever?), i will happily install this to the Omnia...

With regards to the Omnia HD, looks ok (not as good as current Omnia or HTC Touch HD), and it runs symbian OS, so bad move for Samsung...

WM 6.5 won't be released for any device running on WM 6.1. At least not officially. And as I see there will be some problems with cooking it into ROM. Xda had some problems about that already. Only the newest HTC devices - Diamond 2 and Touch Pro 2 will be allowed to get update from 6.1 to 6.5.

Omnia HD is running on Symbian for one simple reason. Camera. You can't use 8mpx camera under WM, and you can't record HD video. So it's not bad move. They just haven't any better choice. And Symbian requirements are much lower. As I've read in gsmarena review, they managed to play video on OmniaHD up to 3mbps which is simply WOW. And the proccesor is only 600mhz.

Guest escobol

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oh jeah - close button is almost perfect :( (i think that in wm 7.0 it will be without any extra pixels outside X)

and hmm, look ath the contacts - it has other type of X -smaller one

and jamesjames_ i think that u are wrong, wm 6.1 devices will be updated to the 6.5 (like it was before 6.1) - the only matter is time of an update- end of this year?

ot : wm 6.5 got also 65k pallet of colours? (it looks that way on a buttons - they are not so smoth)

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Guest Nosferatu™

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Still keeping my fingers crossed... hope to hear from samsung for that matter... soon. BTW, is Omnia capable of having WinMo 6.5?

Guest aridoasis

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not sure about it... there was some mention of hardware compatibility though...

Guest jamesjames_

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not sure about it... there was some mention of hardware compatibility though...

That won't be the problem. It will pass all the requirements for sure. But Microsoft won't release as update for Omnia. We can only count on cooked ROMs but that might be a problem too as we see on xda forum.

Guest Echew

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Yummy!!! now only if Verizon i910 has custom ROMs that could include it!

Don't hold your breath!

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That won't be the problem. It will pass all the requirements for sure. But Microsoft won't release as update for Omnia. We can only count on cooked ROMs but that might be a problem too as we see on xda forum.

This is not Microsoft's decision but phone manufacturer. I remember when I bought ASUS A636N with Windows Mobile 5 everyone was saying that this device won't get upgrade to WinMo 6.

But ASUS decided to create an system upgrade and after few months they released new ROM with WinMo 6.

So this is Samsung's decision.

Guest Echew

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This is not Microsoft's decision but phone manufacturer. I remember when I bought ASUS A636N with Windows Mobile 5 everyone was saying that this device won't get upgrade to WinMo 6.

But ASUS decided to create an system upgrade and after few months they released new ROM with WinMo 6.

So this is Samsung's decision.

Still not holding my breate! lol (especially with Verizon)

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