Windows Mobile 6.5… CRIPES!
Are you kidding me?

Published on February 16th, 2009

First I saw a demo of this on a website where the MSFT guy was trying to explain it and all I was seeing was a lot of fingering the display and nothing really happening. Now this appears to be the official promotion. Horrid and lame.

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# 1 faxon said, on February 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pm

Make it stop. Please. Make it STOP! Just, please, please, fuckme. Please MAKE IT STOP!

# 2 xwing71 said, on February 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

It seems ridiculously slow. Almost like another operating system from Microsoft.

# 3 Jim said, on February 16th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Okay…. so they didn’t get a new ad agency?

Why yes, let’s demo a dark-colored phone with a black background and certainly not zoom in very much.

And absolutely no actors, just hands and fingers. We don’t want people thinking that you actually want normal people using it.

# 4 the weakonomist said, on February 16th, 2009 at 7:52 pm

It’s sad that winmo is suffering. Hopefully someone can make a device capable of running things smoothly. They’ve come a long way, but as an iphone lover and a pre fanboy, this just won’t cut it.

Blackberry still pwns them on the business front too, so where is winmo in the market?

# 5 snuffmuffler said, on February 16th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Ahh hello. Are you guys blind? Didn’t you see?
The damn thing flies!! You push a couple of button deallies and the Goddamn thing takes off,cartwheeling through space and then returns to the exact same spot proudly displaying a new image. I mean WTF do you want. I dont see that apple thingy doing that.
Cmon lets go ,rally around…
Go big team go.

# 6 Lou Minatti said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

John,

Go to FT dot com and watch Ballmer’s interview regarding smartphones. It was just posted. These people have no effing clue. MSFT is doomed with current management.

# 7 Improbus said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:35 pm

Another bad Apple rip off? Another lame ad campaign? Who do they think they are? IBM? 50 billion dollars and they still can’t buy any street cred. Just do Windows, Office and Xbox you suck at everything else.

# 8 jasontheodd said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

Microsoft has never been good at adds. I have always gotten the impression that they get the ad agency so afraid of showing a flaw that they always wind up trying to obscure the actual product. The lame as hell MOJAVE commercials are the best example. You just keep looking at people, rarely seeing the actual product they are trying to sell. Smacks of paranoia, with a hint of an inferiority complex.

# 9 Grandpa said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

WoW, a phone where you push an icon and it does something. That’s new and cool huh.

# 10 GregA said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Um, it looks like Microsoft is being honest about what this is, and how it works, unlike a certain other touch screen phone maker that runs video ads of their phone that are pure unadulterated bullshit.

The Storm actually has me regretting my iPhone purchase a little bit. Well except for the no wifi thing.

But yeah… This demo is crap… I don’t want one of these. But none the less, this is what is going to be on every other free with service phone this time next year…

# 11 Uncle Dave said, on February 16th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

Was that created using Windows Movie Maker?

# 12 Mark said, on February 16th, 2009 at 9:36 pm

I actually found the demo of 6.5 to be somewhat compelling (albeit, this ad certainly doesn’t do it much justice), and my Touch Pro is a decent enough device. I use it daily, and appreciate the things it can do that certain other smartphones can’t.

Such as, I can copy and paste an address from an email into, say, my turn-by-turn navigation software. I can take a video and upload it to Youtube. I can take a picture and send it via MMS. And I can run Pandora in the background while I do, well, anything else. I admit that I don’t have 75 flatulance applications to choose from, but I’ve learned to live with that fact.

Windows Mobile isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly functional–more functional, I’d say, than some other devices. That said, I’m still looking forward to the Palm Pre, which will do all of this (except video, oddly enough) and more. Oh, and it’ll run Flash, as well.

# 13 bloodywolf said, on February 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

WinMo was obviously an after thought for this company. I really want to see a good winmo phone but this is a joke. I can’t believe they would release this.

# 14 thefakedvorak said, on February 16th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

i like it!

# 15 Whatever said, on February 16th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Cripes! Damn that was dog slow and awkward looking. If you want to see a screaming fast OS with smooth transitions and ACTUAL features (like true multitasking and cut & paste) go check out the video on the new Palm Pre. Even the iPhone, which doesn’t have those features (or a removable battery, camera flash, 3.5 MP camera, etc) even the iPhone looks slicker than Windows Mobile 6.5. This Windows mobile OS looks like it will lag solidly behind the iPhone and the Pre.

# 16 Ah_Yea said, on February 16th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

This was Microsoft’s best ad for getting an Iphone!

# 17 Uns4ne said, on February 17th, 2009 at 12:07 am

Doesn’t mater.
Win7=WinMo7(winmin) or it doesn’t. Those ARM fuckers are are poised to pown Atom, JCD called it. He aint sayin it cause the parallel coders haven’t showed their faces yet.

My 2cents.

# 18 jcd'slovechild said, on February 17th, 2009 at 1:10 am

CRIPES! (belongs on a t-shirt methinks)

This video was nowhere as entertaining or profound with gravitas like the Songsmith video. Songsmith is clearly Microsoft’s future, not this lame smartphone crap.

Let’s face it folks, Windows hasn’t improved since version 3.11 and they have one shot left with Songsmith.

Get it together Microshaft! HAR!

# 19 Neo-Postdarwinst Ben said, on February 17th, 2009 at 1:15 am

Wow! A phone with a touch screen interface! Who’d have thought of that! (except maybe Steve Jobs…..)

# 20 Un24ne said, on February 17th, 2009 at 1:42 am

Shhh!. 6,5 is just a ruse while PRE goes to litigation. Microsoft has been pimping miultitouch for a couple of years. I guess nobody remembers seeing Surface in action.

# 21 LotsaLuck said, on February 17th, 2009 at 2:00 am

Demo would’ve been better with Gates and Seinfeld.

# 22 Stu Mulne said, on February 17th, 2009 at 2:09 am

I just picked up a Samsung Omnia when a testdrive of a Blackberry Storm turned out to be a waste of time. Web-based navigation was impossible. The screen v.s. hot spot for touch use was just way out of sync, and some of the stuff I needed to “click” click was too small to tap accurately, if at all….

The Omnia (Windows 6, I guess) is fine, but it’s still not really touch-friendly. But at least it works with a stylus, even though the one that comes with it is obviously an afterthought (it’s TIED to the case, not riding “inside” someplace). Some strange features, but it works adequately, although the included Opera just doesn’t work well enough to keep it installed.

Now if I could only figure out how to mute the microphone when using the speakerphone interface to check voice mail…. Seems to be impossible…. The other deal-breaker is that the phone turns off (but maintains connection) in just a couple seconds after you connect. This avoids your ear dialing anything, but makes “Dial 1 For English” difficult – you have to push the little mousething to re-activate the screen, and then press the key(s)….

The demo shown here is just plain puff. Sure wouldn’t tempt me…. (I didn’t try the iPhone – my nephew, who’s even tech-crazier than I am, didn’t like it.)

Regards

# 23 jescott418 said, on February 17th, 2009 at 2:26 am

It was closer to reality of these devices then Apple did. Some of Apple ads were banned from some countries because of misrepresenting the speed. At least they will work on a better network then AT&T!

# 24 LinusVP said, on February 17th, 2009 at 4:39 am

Rhymes with iPhone. ha.

# 25 rudedog said, on February 17th, 2009 at 4:48 am

#19 my Sony Erricson P800 had a full touch screen many years before Mr. Jobs thought of it…….

Hell it had a full numeric keyboard the folded out to access the full touch screen.

# 26 Somebody_Else said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:07 am

What’s so horrid about it?

It’s windows mobile with touchscreen capability. It doesn’t look as nice as what you get on the iPhone, but its designed for a variety of phones that aren’t as powerful. It actually looks pretty decent to me.

I guess when Apple does something its incredible and when Microsoft releases something similar it automatically sucks? Get a life.

# 27 Nitroneo said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:15 am

all this My Phone, My Stuff, My Player… sounds so close to IPhone, IPOD, etc…

I, My… too close.

coincidence or a direct move?

# 28 Esteban said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:20 am

They ought to call it “Boomerang”.

# 29 orangetiki said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:25 am

Moral of the story: Don’t let your IT guys do your TV commercials. Leave it to the professionals (designers). Or at least an intern at a community college. They could have done better then this. Did they spin a wheel to see which generic song the would use? Did they think they were hip to use a black phone on a black background? And don’t worry about actually showing the OS at a size that the viewer can see it. That’s the details.

# 30 Cheesehead Dave said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:26 am

I’m fine with an updated version of Windows Mobile, and have come to expect to see features “borrowed” from Apple

But “My Phone”? That’s the most original thing they could come up with?

# 31 pedro said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:34 am

I don’t know what you mean John.

Yes, it looks like a useless piece of demo, but so are the oy!phone ones. Even worse, the oy!phone cannot even achieve what winmobile 2003 can do (or even wince1.0 – copy/paste fer cryin’ out loud!- )

So, it is aimed at the same demographics as th oy!phone crowd. Will it succeed with ‘em? Don’t think so.

Question is, will it come with something like the ifart pre-installed? That’ll make it sell millions!!

#4 Yeah, no ifart, virtual zippo nor virtual beer there. I feel ya.

#7 No, only a rip off of the rip off.

#11 Most likely.

#12 Heck, I can even watch cable on my old pocketpc with slingplayer mobile and have a phonecall at the same time. But what matter’s is what’s kewwwwwwl.

#18 Why did you have to bring back that lame excuse of a program!!! I won’t be able to sleep today.

#19 How old are you, 5?

# 32 Lou Minatti said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:36 am

“Don’t let your IT guys do your TV commercials. Leave it to the professionals (designers). Or at least an intern at a community college.”

This explains the Zune, and why Microsoft marketing staff thought it would be a good idea to have Bill Gates be the pitch man while wearing a brown poo-colored jacket. For an 18-year-old kid, nothing’s more hip than Bill Gates wearing a brown jacket and holding a large brown media player.

# 33 pedro said, on February 17th, 2009 at 7:26 am

#27& #30 I have an iphone and it’s not from mac. It’s from Linksys. It predates the oy!phone (not to mention smartphones have been around for loooooong ago) so the question is, who copies who?

# 34 Mark said, on February 17th, 2009 at 9:10 am

#19: My Palm Treo 600 had a touch screen some years before the iPhone was a speck in Steve Jobs’s eye.

It might be hard for some folks to accept, but Apple didn’t actually create the concept–or implementation–of the modern smartphone. They make things prettier, I’ll give ‘em that much, but they don’t make things _better_. The list of things that the iPhone _can’t_ do is just about as long as the list of what it _can_ do.

#15: I’m hopeful that the Palm Pre will be everything it seems to be. And if it is, then I’m really looking forward to the side-by-side comparisons. I’m also looking forward to Apple producing a device that competes, meaning one with a removable battery, a camera that aspires to average, a physical keyboard, a processor powerful enough for multitasking, cut/copy/paste, etc., etc.

Of course, that means the iPhone will adopt all those features that Steve Jobs and the Apple clique says are unnecessary today, simply because the iPhone can’t handle them.

# 35 Ken said, on February 17th, 2009 at 9:26 am

It looks like the phone and hand were separate elements put together, and the scale is off.

It looks like a Monty Python animation gone wrong.

# 36 Bob West said, on February 17th, 2009 at 9:37 am

If it’s sold unlocked for around $150 I’d buy it.

# 37 GregA said, on February 17th, 2009 at 10:00 am

#35,

I entirely disagree. It looks like they filmed the actual phone, as opposed to the phone experience simulations that Apple and Rim show…

Apparently there is some trade show going on… (per Engadget) and this is the OS of choice for the low end free with service type handsets that will all be touch screen phones next year.

People are wary of Android because no one knows if google is in it for the long haul… (From Techcrunch) Palm, Rim and Apple are not willing to sell their OS to third parties.

So once again, as sad as it is… Microsoft wins the handset war by default, because no one else is in the game…

You can fault microsoft all you want, but when the entire rest of the industry lets them win over and over again…

# 38 ArtSpot said, on February 17th, 2009 at 10:22 am

The resistive screen will never be good. Microsoft’s API is flawed. Look at how the actor (finger) has to “work” to make the phone respond. Until Microsoft & the OEMs fix the interface layer, they will never get much respect.

# 39 Brian said, on February 17th, 2009 at 10:40 am

And John’s incoherent ramblings against anything microsoft continue.

John, do us all a favor and let the hate go. We GET it…you love apple products. You haven’t even used mobile 6.5 and you’re already bashing it, just like you did with Windows 7, which has been universally praised by even the most ardent pro-apple blogs like Gizmodo.

Good lord.

# 40 The0ne said, on February 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am

Big gripe on WM OS is it’s sluggish feel. I believe the OS isn’t really optimize. Everything I do on the phone is sluggish and it becomes very annoying. It reminds me of Windows OS of PCs. You need a quad core 4 billion giga hz to run the thing. Every iteration is more bloated, less optimized and requires more speed to run it properly….why?

As with #12, I’m hoping the Palm pre to change this and hope that the OMAP4 chipset would make it even better in later iterations.

# 41 totalmarketing said, on February 17th, 2009 at 11:02 am

So bad. So painful to watch; desperate, unhip and absurdly white

Who approved this product and who approved this horrible video?

(This is definitely a testament to what poor consumers will accept)

# 42 Special Ed said, on February 17th, 2009 at 11:21 am

Pedro will buy one!

# 43 Who said, on February 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am

This will come in steaming brown.

# 44 pedro said, on February 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

#39 Take a pill man. I think you’re overreacting a bit.

# 45 brandscill said, on February 17th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Jesus Christ that was piss poor.

The hand even using it looked awkward, coming in every so often covering up the screen, could they not learn anything from apple? I hate it when they get a hand involved, whole person or nothing. I much prefer the palm pre adverts with just the phone nice bright background, something to focus on and realise what a great product they have.

Poor Microsoft, you may have taken back a bit of ground in the gaming industry with the 360, but maybe you should cut your losses and get out of the mobile and music industry?

# 46 Sister Mary Hand Grenade said, on February 17th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

The design was actually intended to use something smaller than a finger, like Steve Baldmer’s penis.

# 47 Mark T. said, on February 17th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

MyLife, MyPhone? What next? MyTunes?

What a blatant ripoff.

MyPhone! From the people that brought you MyCoffeeTable (formerly known as Microsoft Surface).

# 48 smh said, on February 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Why is the guy in the demo swiping his hand so wildly?

# 49 pedro said, on February 18th, 2009 at 3:13 am

#48 He’s telling the producer to stop it already.

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