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It looks like Microsoft is still actively developing WM6.5 post RTM in parallel to Windows Mobile 7 (I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a waste of time) . For…

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It looks like Microsoft is still actively developing WM6.5 post RTM in parallel to Windows Mobile 7 (I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a waste of time) . For example as you can see in the following screenshot the close (X) has now been place on the lower left (It doesn’t look good at all IMO) : Screen02s

Another change is the media player intégration into the lockscreen (now that’s a nice looking improvement):

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The last screen shows the system wide magnifier which is activated with a double-tap just like the one used by HTC (my guess is that the HTCmagnifier will probably look nicer and used OpenGL es):

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My only hope is that all theses changes are in-line with what the Windows Mobile 7 team is doing. It would be totally useless to continue changing WM6.5’s UI if a few months later Windows Mobile 7 comes out with a totally/radically different UI design in my opinion.

Source: XDA-Devs via WMPoweruser

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