E@zyVG’s Vichar::World Connected

As I am an avid user of Windows Mobile Pro version, having the HTC Artemis “P3300″, I keep my eyes on what is going on with this mobile platform. Though Windows Mobile 6.1 will be unveiled officially in about 2 weeks at Mobile World Congress 2008 but already people are running it, including myself.

Here are the highlights of WM 6.1:

• Office Mobile now includes also One Note Mobile application - apart from Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and PowerPoint Mobile, one new application is available - it can record voice notes and drawings and textual notes
• Internet Explorer now has function “Zoom Out” what enables page-overview mode and better overall navigation through web pages
• Windows Mobile 6.1 still is based on Windows CE 5.2 so no upgrade to Windows CE 6.0
• SMS chat view mode is available so SMS messages can appear in threaded-way - more comfortable to follow SMS conversations
• instead of “Settings / Memory / Running Programs” now a Task Manager is available with possibility to set settings of executed threads/processes like CPU (indication of dual-core Windows Mobile devices?) and memory
• new menu item “Managed Programs”

As anticipated, the much expected improvements in usage for finger based navigation are nowhere to be found, meaning users will need to wait till 2009 for Windows Mobile 7 to get them. Small improvements are definitely there. I’d recommend to flash your device to latest 6.1. If you are one of the owners of HTC Artemis and want to run Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro version check out the following forum thread. Check out xda-developers site to see if there is one available for your HTC device.

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