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hey guys its brand amendment from pocketnow.com and this is a tour of the latest windows mobile 6.5 rom to come out of XD developers now we've shown you windows mobile 6.5 roms in the past but I think this is closer to what we're actually going to see when it's released this brings a lot of the new changes that we saw at the mix 2009 conference which is kind of a developer conference then Microsoft is heavily involved in and in this particular ROM we don't have the honeycomb interface on the Start menu instead we just have a bunch of icons arranged in a staggered kind of way so let me walk you through all the changes and I think you're gonna be impressed with what you see so as we know the sliding panel interface comes over from windows mobile 6.1 but there are two ways to actually move this we can slide the magnifier itself like so or we can actually move the entire background like so and the magnifier will stay stationary and of course we can slide our finger to the right and to the left and I think this is a really smooth way to use it because you can you have the option of moving slowly with your finger like that or jumping really fast to the top by moving the magnifier area okay so let's take a look at the Start menu and as we can see here in the Start menu we no longer have the honeycomb grid we just have a bunch of icons and we get a little highlighting area and that highlighting area implies that that is the icon that is currently selected so if you have a d-pad on your device you can move around and that sort of thing but yeah we now no longer have the honeycomb interface now something else that is different for windows mobile 6.5 that we really haven't noticed yet is that the waiting cursor has changed the cursor that tells you that the device is thinking so let me try to bring that up I'm gonna click on file explorer maybe you'll see it there and let me go to Windows because that is always a file that takes a long time to show up yep see it right there that is the new waiting cursor so just a bunch of little dots moving around and as you probably also know in windows mobile 6.5 there are new soft key menus there they're further evolved in this build let me show you what they look like so really nice you can flick your finger all the way from bottom to top to kind of carousel through them and we also get a little fade here when so that we know which softkey we've actually chosen there and actually the kinetic scrolling is totally new as you can see it's very springy very bouncy if I flick my finger it's quite smooth of course it's not going to be as smooth as it is when it gets released but this is a huge improvement over previous builds of windows mobile 6.5 that we had on xda-developers so that's pretty much it for the latest build of windows mobile 6.5 it's working out to be a much more refined operating system than we even saw a few months ago as we saw in this video there are three new things that we can look forward to we have the Start menu without the honeycomb boundaries we have the much better flick scrolling that you can find in other programs and of course we have the new waiting cursor which kind of just gives you a nice look and feel when you're waiting for something to happen oh and by the way the today screen is much easier to navigate now that we have two different ways to move along the magnifying glass so that's it for now for more on windows mobile 6.5 keep it to pocketnow.com for more that's it for now