"I have a huge list of all of the tweaks that have been done to the operating system but I'll save that for next week. Also, if you're wondering, you can expect Windows Mobile 6 devices in the marketplace worldwide by second quarter 2007." More here (screenshots). Betas of WinMob6 also had integrated VoIP support via SIP in them, but it doesn't seem that this was announced along the other features.
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well, if you look at the 2002 vs 2003, vs 2003SE vs the WM5 versions I still can conclude that MS so far hasn't got it right at all.
Why would WM6 be any better? I never have seen such a bugridden phone as a Windows based one.
I now have my phone almost one year and next one won't be a 'smart' one.
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As a longtime S60 user, this could be another nail in Nokia/S60's coffin.
Microsoft and other companies would love to be in that coffin.
What weak areas besides outdated default email client (which has nothing to do with OS quality itself, but a selection of bundled software) you see in S60? I think S60 evolve at a much faster rate than WM, it's has far more licensees, so I fail to see why you are under impression it's failing, when actually it wins.
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As a longtime S60 user, this could be another nail in Nokia/S60's coffin.
When I look at "What's new" with the new version of WM and see they've improved things like the email client and the web browser, it makes sense. These are areas that have needed improvement.
When I look at S60FP2 (which was just announced a few days ago), I see nothing like that. S60 still plods along with the same messaging client that was clunky and outdated 3 years ago... let alone today. Nokia gave the platform a great desktop browser.. and forgot the target platform was a mobile phone.
WM2003 sucked. WM2005 sucked less. WM2006 may be the edition where they get it right. It really makes me sad, in a way, because S60/Symbian had so much potential, and it's just been wasted over the years and given the competition a great chance to catch up.