In my last post, I was talking about buying a new phone this year and also waiting for Win Mo 6.5 to show its colours. But now, MS made my choices pretty simple, it's now Android, iPhone or Palm Pre.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is still lingering in last century
Microsoft recently came with the announcement of Windows Mobile 6.5 in MWC yesterday and it looks good from a first sight and also feels way ahead of its previous versions. Ahem, "... way ahead of its previous versions"? Not at all folks, Win Mo is just got a new look and some tweaks here and there, that's all. I wonder what's MS is doing all the way since January 2007, when Apple announced their revolutionary iPhone for the first time. This is 2009 and there is still not support for Capacitive Touchscreens? Adding to our agony, no update Media Player, weirdly small onscreen keyboard in IE, no direct Zune integration, what the hell is this?
Windows Media Player 12 is constantly testing my patience
I was one of those people who ran after trying Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) like 'headless chickens' and I don't want to say that I'm unimpressed. I even posted about a quick look in Windows 7 Beta's plus and minus points in my website after using it for a month. But now, I'm also an avid user of Windows Media Player and don't bother looking into alternatives when I'm running Windows. WMP used manage my music library better than anything else and it's nice interface was always a boon to use, but that was before WMP 12 stepped into the scene.
Apart from the MP3 corruption goof-up in the first place, WMP 12 Beta looked nice to me. A change of taste from Vista's blacky to Windows Live-esque interface is really nice and easy one eyes. I've got a collection of 30+ albums on my PC now and I added them all to the library. Hell broke loose, pigs flew and magma froze - WMP behaves so slowly now that even finding a song by hand from 50 vinyl records is faster than switching from one to another in WMP. It hangs for a moment and then stutters to start playing a song, sometimes even forgets Album Arts. Playing mkv files is another story, even CoreAVC cannot boost FPS in 720p videos while VLC plays them fine.
I know it's still on BETA but the way it is going on and so sluggish compared to rest of the new Windows 7 Beta, MS needs serious attention on this one.
