Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is a look at a new windows mobile 6.5 build that's 20 30 22 from XDA developers that bring some mysterious new features that may be paving the way for a build of windows mobile that goes between 6.5 and seven we've heard about a possible six point five point one or possible 6.7 it's tough to say but there are new features in place that really allow for better finger control that would be conducive to abuse on a capacitive display for example so let's go through those now to start we have a larger notification area at the top that's actually scrollable to the right and to the left which will help to manage multiple notifications if you didn't have a stylist and I think that's the key here so we can tap on the volume icon and we get a very finger friendly way to change the volume very large obviously these things that we're showing you aren't complete their kind of the infrastructure that is being put in place presumably for a new version of windows mobile that has bigger buttons and they can do some different things also new and you've probably seen this already is all the soft keys are down here including the ok button it used to be up here in the upper right and now it's down here so if we go into an application like notes it's really weird to see four buttons on the bottom here and now if you tap on the keyboard it obviously brings up the keyboard it used to be centered if you do a double tap on the keyboard button you get the touch input settings a lot of people that have windows mobile devices compare that it's really tough to get this keyboard selector and the last feature that is different or new in this build is the magnifier so if we go into let's say contacts and we want to make a new contact okay and we type something and then if we double tap watch what happens we get a magnification box kind of like an iPhone that'll allow us to position the cursor presumably without a stylus it's more difficult to position the cursor especially on a capacitive display but now with this double tap feature you have that option obviously this is very crude it doesn't work too well but again we may be seeing the pieces put in place for a of windows mobile that comes between 6.5 and seven so we'll keep our ear to the ground and when we hear more about this possible interim build of windows mobile you'll be the first to know follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash pocket now tweets that's it for now