New Windows Mobile OS 6.5 Revealed at Mobile World Congress

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer revealed the new features of Windows Mobile 6.5 at Mobile World Congress. They include some improvements such as the application store, a backup and restore service, and an improved web browser.

The images are bigger and it easier to use with fingers on a touchscreen.

The backup and restore service or cloud service is called My Phone, to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the web. Contacts are backed up with My Phone,so users don't have to worry about losing contacts.

Consumers also will be able to automatically upload photos and video from their Windows phone directly to the My Phone service, making it simple to preserve content that, in the past, would have lived and died on the phone. The My Phone service is currently available in a limited invitation-only beta.

The new Windows Mobile 6.5 home screen keeps people up-to-date on important information by providing a dashboard-like experience to items such as new e-mails, texts, missed calls and calendar appointments. It also includes an improved touchscreen interface and an updated version of the latest Internet Explorer Mobile browser, which in a third-party research study sponsored by Microsoft supported execution of up to 48 percent more assigned tasks than the other browsers and phones studied.