Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com in the last few months on the pocket now youtube channel which is youtube.com slash pocket now video we've shown you the many evolutions of windows mobile 6.5 from back to the Alpha up until the recent most build and we thought that pretty much by now windows mobile 6.5 was mostly complete since going to be shipping in just a couple of months but then a new belt came out and build 2192 5 which brought a different change and it kind of throw us a curveball because we're wondering if this means that windows mobile 6.5 is still under development if they're still changing things if what we are seeing now is part of the next version of windows mobile or something else all together let me show you what I mean this particular rom comes from XDA developers and actually this has a really cool feature to it the reg the edges of the screen are rounded like the palm pre you see that whereas on other devices or other roms the edges are actually squared off so that's a really nice elegant touch so anyway this is a 6.5 rom we go into the start menu and of course you've seen this before we have the marketplace which really doesn't do anything yet of course it links to a page that says you know marketplace is coming soon we've seen this before anyway so let me show you where the change has taken place so we go back into the start menu and go to settings and we go to any screen where there are multiple tabs so we can go into system and let's choose memory and what we see here instead of a bunch of tabs is this kind of a rotatable list at the top so you can swipe your finger to the right or to the left or you can tap on the next item to get to it so it's a basically a more finger friendly way to interact with your device and if you remember the windows mobile seven weeks that were leaked probably a year ago we saw something very similar to this function at the top and I can go into another menu to show you what it looks like there if we go into screen we the same sort of thing obviously this is a lot less elegant than we saw in windows mobile seven which had kind of a faded look to it so you can perceive depth and that sort of thing but perhaps this is the predecessor to what will be windows mobile seven or again some final changes to windows mobile 6.5 to make it more finger friendly to look a little bit more like seven we're going to keep an eye on the speculation that's out there and any other future built of windows mobile 6.5 to figure out exactly what this means for the latest in Windows Mobile be sure to follow us on twitter at twitter.com slash pocket now tweets that's it for now