

You can scroll up and down the honeycomb to see all your applications, something that's a lot more touch friendly than either style of Start menu. The new Start menu (nicknamed 'the honeycomb') is a hexagonal display of the applications installed on your Windows Phone (again, more like Standard than the drop-down Start menu of Windows Mobile Professional). Choose photographs and you can scroll through thumbnails (again like Media Centre) pick the browser and you get thumbnail favourites. You navigate through the menus using flick gestures, and like the bubble panes in Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard you can see more details – like your next appointment – or scroll left and right.

Turn on a Windows Mobile 6.5 device and you're presented with a very Zune-like experience (with hints of the Media Centre interface in Windows 7).Ĭlean text replaces the old icon-driven home screen.
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Handset manufacturers will still skin Windows Mobile, but the built-in interface takes a huge step forward too. He hopes the Windows Phone brand will allow stores to display devices together, although it will also put the Windows logo on devices that have very different user experiences, like Sony Ericsson's Xperia or HTC's TouchFlo.
