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Windows Mobile 6.5 Flaw

2009-10-01
hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and real quick we want to show you a big usability flaw in windows mobile 6.5 so let's take it back to windows mobile 6.1 when you wanted at launch a program you would go into the program menu and then you would find the program and launch it right and when you're done with the program you press the X in the upper right corner where you go through the menu system to exit but every time you exit a program after going through the start menu you're taken back to the start menu which makes a lot of sense so that you can either launch another program or just revert back to the home screen and you know action on email or whatever you're trying to do in windows mobile 6.5 this behavior doesn't exist at the detriment of the experience so if we go into the start menu and we open up a program and then close the program the start menu is gone we have to go back into the start menu and open a program for some people this may not big be a big deal but for the power users this is a significant problem that hopefully won't be present when windows mobile 6.5 ships officially on devices coming up this fall so again we open it up any program we close it we're taken back to the home screen windows mobile 6.1 not the case we open up a program here's the calculator again close it we get back to the program launcher like like you should be
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