More Windows Mobile 6.5 love; HTC Mega screenshots revealed

By on Aug 23, 2009 at 2:00 PM
General August 23, 2009

We can’t believe we’re about to type these words… But it looks like Samsung may have done an infinitely better job of skinning Windows Mobile 6.5 than HTC — at least out of the gate. Earlier this morning, a truckload of Samsung Omnia II screen captures were uncovered and, well, we’ll be damned if Samsung didn’t do a bang up job with its TouchWiz 2.0 UI on top of WinMo 6.5. Shortly thereafter, ai.rs blog followed up with a new render of the mid-range HTC Mega along with a handful of screenshots. The UI mask is looking good, and a little Sense UI-ish, but it doesn’t look anywhere near as thorough or sexified as Samsung’s efforts. Now to be fair, we know that the Mega is going to be part of HTC’s mid-range crop so we’ll have to wait and see how Windows Mobile 6.5 is looking on the company’s higher end handsets before reaching any real conclusions. Hit the jump for a few screenshots of the UI along with an updated list of reported specs.

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  • Jeff

    Small screen…2.8 inches seems impossible to me :(

  • http://www.twitter.com/jazzyl jazzyl

    Nice winmo is really looking good now!!

    Sent via BlackBerry.

  • http://www.favbrowser.com Vygantas

    Nah, 1st samsung screenshot was messy

  • http://mytechcloud.blogspot.com Shuelin

    It seems like MS is getting their act together. WinMo looks sharp and their office webapps are also looking good.

  • steve d

    6.5 is a band-aid. microsoft needs wm7 now or they won’t be in the phone business for much longer.

  • 2sikk4u

    I gave up on WinMo a long time ago

  • Frank

    by the time wm6.5 comes to the US, wm7 will probably be out. we r still awaiting phones that run 6.1! i am just gonna get tp2 and hope xda can give me roms for 6.5 and eventually wm7.

  • Joe the Plumber

    Why the hell hasn’t ATT launches the touch pro2/diamond2?!!

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • SomeGuy

    Because AT&T has their head up Steve Job’s ass. They’re putting all their eggs in one basket. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when their customers defect to Verizon if the iPhone ends up on Verizon’s network (bound to happen). They been ignoring high-end Android devices…

  • Orga

    Every time I see WinMo 6.5 news, I want to find the people responsible for thinking that WinMo 6.5 and 7 should co-exist so I can crack their sternums with ball peen hammers.

    Fuck this high-end/low-end bullshit. WinMo is the low-end choice. Android is the sexy new kid on the block, the iPhone is the 800 pound gorilla, and Blackberries are for work addicts, text fiends, and some other demographics that I’m not clear on yet.

    Why the fuck do you think WinMo needs a JV and a varsity squad? They need to come with the All-Star Team. The day they sell a handset with 7 is the day they need to disallow people from selling handsets with 6.5. Make 7 cheaper for manufacturers if you have to.

    In the long term, marketshare is a hell of a lot more important than whatever licensing fees you would lose in the near future.

    I’m just an armchair quarterback, though. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason for keeping old and busted when you’re releasing the new hotness.

  • bart

    There are lot’s of wm6.1 phones. Also a 2.8inch screen is not small for general use. Not everyone wants a 3.8 inch screened brick!

  • Djblois

    Orga,

    Actually it is great business Strategy. 6.5 will be used to compete against android and 7 will be used to go against iPhone and BB. The reason why is the cost for android on a phone is so low that Microsoft cannot charge that low for 7 and still make a profit (after the costs of development) And if you think 6.5 cannot stand up against android – you have not seen the pinnacle of 6.5 they are actually still adding to it and making changes (in a later version). This time next year 6.5 will be a very good OS. Then once WM 8 comes out then 7 is going to become the low end OS and 8 will be the high end OS. They should start doing this with desktop Os’s also in order to compete with Linux. But I would wait until Windows 8 comes out and use 7 as the low end one because no one really liked vista. Or do it with Windows 7 and XP as the low end.

  • Clamknuckle

    “They should start doing this with desktop Os’s also in order to compete with Linux”

    Hahahahahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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