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just Adam Lane from pocketnow.com going over windows mobile 6.1 standard this has a lot more new things than ones of all pro one first thing you'll notice is the today's screen this is a new default you see the big clock at the top no longer is there the series of recently used programs as icons there on the row below that you see bunch of icons and some of them have numbers if you scroll down to those it changes to list text messages and it shows the recently received text message there and if I go to the right it also shows me six new emails for that specific account I go even more it shows no messages in the MMS account nothing an Outlook no missed calls no voicemails if I go down well first of all we are up here you can still read everything else so this is my next appointment that's well down there it shows it to me I can hit the action button to open them I can also make a new appointment from there going down here's a get it's getting started item if you're just open you're in your new phone you can set up things breezily and also has a media player integration so you can press that and play music and you can scroll through other songs also notice the bottom soft keys are changing so those are context-sensitive can also ask access photos and the last one is a Settings panel you can change the profile you can access the wireless manager change your ringtone change background image and go to the task manager this is a new thing that's really nice a task manager let's open that and it shows our tasks and it's really easy to end them because right here you see the end task is assigned to the left stop key you can also you press these over there or and all tasks at once send actors think okay um goes back home let's take a look at text message now it loads a threaded text message window and I can type back just said something and here you see the window that shows all your different conversations fortunately it doesn't show contact photos anymore so that's kind of disappointment do you can't mark it as unread so if you want to reply later and want to mark it that's unavailable now here's another new thing down here you see slick messages you have the option to choose all below all or several disagree if you want to delete things say that multiple selection very nice now let's go to the Start menu when I press the Start menu it goes through recent programs listing instead of the all programs today you're normally used to with Windows Mobile 6 I have to press the left stop again to see all my programs ok so recent programs change around these are all assignment or accessible with the number pad so I can press 5 to go to task manner I'm gonna press 3 and go to the internet explorer see any 1 2 3 now this is a little different than the windows mo pro version because you can see the left's off he says amount instead of back because we have a hardware button for the back function so let's open a web page this is still the old slow denial or mobile rendering engine notice you can't zoom out while it's renderings this is top there now it's finished Echo's zoom out and you can see I can scroll real easily all across this now notice it's in view as desktop mode you still have your one column fit to screen options those are great so zooming out and scrolling is really easy I think this interface is it's better than the Nokia version which will show a little thumbnail in the corner that you can see the zoomed out version and the scrolling screen rectangle this way I can manually zoom out and choose where I lost Colton so that's pretty nice now here's another new feature in the menu if I go 0 copy and paste first option to select text so that brings us to this window that just shows all the text in the webpage now say I want to select that I press the left soft key and then I scroll down and whatever we can now select all copy bears copy so now I just copy that and maybe I go back to messaging and now look at this I can taste it beautiful so there's some excellent new features and windows mobile 6.1