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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocket now calm and in this video we're taking a look at the latest windows mobile 6.5 build that is 2304 seven last time we looked at 20 30 37 and there have been some changes they're not huge but they really led to a nicer visual experience and kind of gives us an idea of where microsoft is going with this interim build of windows mobile that's so mysterious so as we can see this is the same screen we're looking at right now and the little carousel the pivot at the top is much smoother in the newer version it's much more refined it's not as crappy looking as it was in the previous version and of course you can swipe your finger to sort of move it from side to side got the big menu coming up here and also you can make the swype anywhere on the page although you could do that in the previous build of windows mobile too so let's click on OK and go back now something else that is different in this new build is that the bottom button that says back is actually a back arrow now so it looks like Microsoft is really trying to remove all the text from the bottom bar let's go into something like calendar and see if we've got any any text in there yeah the same thing applies here so in the older 20 30 37 it says day and menu but here in 24 0 37 we get an actual little icon that Lao allows us to jump from the view to view or go right into the menu so we're going to have a lot of buttons down here it looks like up to 5 soft keys at a time in this interim build of windows mobile which is good and it's bad it's good because all the buttons are consolidated in one area it's bad because it kind of gets a little cluttered at times something else that is different that we can see from here is that the menu has been consolidated a lot and it's really cleaned up a lot no longer do we have the grayed out items they've just taken them away so that you get you get a nicer view of just the items that you can actually action on it kind of doesn't make sense to have great out items when you have to flick through a massive list and you're on a mobile phone you're trying to be productive but it looks like they're trending towards cutting out all of the stuff that you can't actually use and of course if we go into tools and options we see again that pivot list and we see a nicer way of having these drop-down menus versus how it looked before now it's a little more cleaned up and you can select it a little bit more nicely so that was a quick look at windows mobile 6.5 build 24 0 37 it looks like the builds are evolving very slowly at this point but with each incremental upgrade we're getting sort of Microsoft's vision of where Windows Mobile is going after 6.5 so keep a close eye on the next evolution of windows mobile 6.5 to find out when the next build is out follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash pocket now tweets that's it for now