Microsoft calls the new look for Windows Mobile cleaner and fresher. The front screen has a vertical menu of applications and information like the sliding tabs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard Edition (but with the look of Zune or Media Center). And the hexagonal icons of the Start menu “honeycomb” are similar to the Standard Start page – but you’ll get the same look on touchscreen devices that would once have been marked as Windows Mobile Professional. That should mean an end to the consumer confusion of two interfaces (though features will still be different depending on the hardware).
The hexagons fit more icons into the same screen space as previous versions, and you can finally change the order of the icons easily from the phone screen instead of being stuck with a preset or alphabetical order.