New Life for Windows Mobile : Internet Explorer Mobile 6

By Mary Branscombe , published on February 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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The big update in Windows Mobile 6.5 is the Web browser: the equivalent of IE6 on the desktop. Internet Explorer Mobile gets CSS, Ajax, JavaScript and Flash so that it can finally load pages that look the way they’re meant to. Flash support (not yet available on the iPhone) means videos play in the browser and you can easily zoom in to make a video – or any other part of a page – full screen, by double-tapping on screen or using the zoom scroll bar at the side. Tap the translucent full-screen icon to show and hide the address bar, title and browser buttons. Unfortunately, you can't upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer Mobile 6 unless your handset is one of the few that will upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5—it will only be available to most people via new handsets that will arrive towards the end of 2009.

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tntom 02/17/2009 4:17 AM
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Windows Phone why not just WinPhone

Igot1forya 02/18/2009 9:06 PM
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I say call it the "Phone Operating System" or POS for short... and everyone will ask "Is your phone a POS?" and companies will put labels on thier next gen phones saying "POS-Ready"!

hellwig 02/19/2009 11:13 PM
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Hmm.. so I have to hold the TG01 phone perfectly straight to watch movies on it, what a pain.

I remember being at Microsoft and going to a presentation of their smartphone OS (can't recall which version). They had big hopes for the market, but this was 2004. I had figured that marked had all but dried up on them, but this article claims they're the number #1 smart phone OS. When did that happen? Why don't I see more Windows phone advertisements? Seems very contrary to MS's whole philosophy.

redhat 04/17/2009 6:23 AM
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I still do not know very clear what's windows mobile!

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