After a long thorough reading and praying I finally pull out all my guts and upgrade to a beta version of Windows Mobile 6.5. Why would I do that? Simply because I'm bored with the WM standard appearance and yes WM6.5 is different and it's soooo cool by default. Well, can't be compared with iPhone/Android/Pre of course but it's not like the same old WM you've ever seen. Trust me. I'm using WM 6.5 build 23003 - this is 3rd Beta Version by tomal. You could download and read other user's reviews in here.
WM 6.5 appearance :
The boot splash and Windows logo is changed to vista-like colour and style. The start menu is now not a drop down anymore but a hexagonal arranged icons (see upper right, below left and below center images above) and the Today Screen format also changed. By default it will list a few links to the applications (upper left and center pic).
In Internet Explorer, the User Agent now is
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Windows Phone 6.5)"
which if you compared to the previous one
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP) (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP)"
is.. shorter.. haha..
Anyway, yes I still encounter a few bugs, but as tomal said in his post, the Beta 3 is much more stable then previous and decent for daily usage. Upgrading to WM6.5 in Universal is simpler than Treo 750 (WM6 to WM6.1) as in my previous post.
Here are the steps :
WM 6.5 appearance :
The boot splash and Windows logo is changed to vista-like colour and style. The start menu is now not a drop down anymore but a hexagonal arranged icons (see upper right, below left and below center images above) and the Today Screen format also changed. By default it will list a few links to the applications (upper left and center pic).
In Internet Explorer, the User Agent now is
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Windows Phone 6.5)"
which if you compared to the previous one
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP) (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP)"
is.. shorter.. haha..
Anyway, yes I still encounter a few bugs, but as tomal said in his post, the Beta 3 is much more stable then previous and decent for daily usage. Upgrading to WM6.5 in Universal is simpler than Treo 750 (WM6 to WM6.1) as in my previous post.
Here are the steps :
- Download the cooked ROM which normally is an .exe file.
- Connect your device using USB.
- Launch the application while praying at the same time. The installer said that the upgrade will took 20 minutes using USB cable connection but mine finished in 5 minutes.
- After that you will be asked to hard reset your Universal. Press the two soft keys in the same time and press the reset button using your stylus, then press 0 (' zero') in the keypad.
- This is the most thrilling part. My O2 XDA Exec was 'frozen' for a 3 minutes. Then the Windows logo appear and 'tap here to configure your device' shown.
- After do screen aligning, you could use your Universal right away.
What's is "the cooked rom"? A file? Where?
ReplyDeleteWhat's "the application"? A file? Where?
Apart from that the article was well written
If you read carefully you will notice that I already give the download link in the first paragraph. :)
ReplyDelete"You could download and read other user's reviews in here."
Just click the 'here' link.
Cooked ROM is basically is a Custom ROM. It is said cooked because the creator need to add or remove some components in the process.
What I meant with 'the application' is refering to the first point.
"1. Download the cooked ROM which normally is an .exe file."
The .exe file is the application. :)
Hope this help.