On Monday at GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided a (typical enthusiastic) presentation about mobile industry and Microsoft's latest creations. Like predicted, Microsoft unveiled latest version of the their Windows Mobile Operating system along with few long waited features to their mobile stack.New Windows Mobile 6.5 will have new interface with more finger friendly user experience. WM 6.5 is promised to be better at navigation and more user centric. Microsoft is heavily in touch screen phones but promises to improve usability also in smart phones with no touch screen capability. (Are there any left?)
My Phone is a new service from Microsoft (It's in invitation-only beta at this stage). With My Phone you can back up your mobile data to a web-service. For example pictures, contacts, appointments, SMS and other things. If you happen to lose your phone, data would be easy restorable from the web. In addition, My Phone let's you upload your pictures and videos automatically to the service.
In addition, Microsoft launched a Windows marketplace for mobile applications. This will be a place for Windows mobile users to search and purchase mobile applications to their mobile phones. It will be preinstalled to Windows Mobile 6.5 phones and will be usable with Live ID. Developers can release their applications through this service after a little security and compatibility check from Microsoft.
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