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Pros and Con of WM6 over WM5
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Posted by: toanv

Hi all,
Before upgrading my BJ to WM6, I'd like if you guy can list what the benefit of WM6 over WM5? Thanks in advance.

Posted by: davidbred

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Originally Posted by toanv

Hi all,
Before upgrading my BJ to WM6, I'd like if you guy can list what the benefit of WM6 over WM5? Thanks in advance.

It has been better in nearly every way over WM5, faster, more stable, IE is much better, and I get less dropped calls (no doubt related to the upgraded phone firmware). The less dropped call was huge for me. I literally had a hard time holding a call on 3g for 5 minutes. If I was in a car holding a 3g call for more than 5 minutes practically never happened, now they work just fine. There's HTML email, and now that ICS is working (see the other thread) there is almost no downside. I have noticed that using the alarm clock hasn't worked as well with WM6 for me, but that's a small price to pay.

Posted by: Delta5

Everyone's list of needs is different, but here's what I see in WM6 that makes it superior to WM5.

Battery Life. I'm seeing an absolute 20-30% increase in battery life on WM6. For both normal and 'extended life' battery. I've verified this by flashing back to WM5 and comparing times. I don't know how or why, but I am. Stock configurations too, with identical check-email settings.
HTML Email. Many emails these days are HTML encoded. It is very useful to me to be able to read these. The Email app itself seems a bit snappier at rendering emails too, and the auto-setup feature actually seems to work now.
PIE Improvements. The 'Fit to Screen' option actually works now, and it seems faster and more reliable in general now.
Calendar. I very much like the improvements to the Calendar app. The hour-bar at the top, as well as the views in general have changed and are more useful and less 'version 1.0' like.
General UI Improvements. Call me a freak, but I actually like Vista. WM6 has some Vista-esque touches to it in the menus and layout. I like it. While it's subjective, the whole device seems 'snappier'. Menus seem to open a fraction of a second faster, and I do not have as many keyboard delays as I used to.
Windows Mobile Device Center. WM6 + Vista uses this rather than ActiveSync. So far, it has been very reliable for me. I've used WindowsMobile/PocketPC's since 2001's iPaq, and I've been through almost ever version of ActiveSync. It used to be a terrible product, and only marginally improved until about 2005 when Microsoft finally figured out how to make it mostly reliable. But this new version seems even better, and I've yet to have any sync issues (duplication, corruption, errors, etc).

What I don't like:

No dynamic soft keys from the Home screen. With WM5, that right soft key (RSK) would change when something happened. If I'd get an email or text message, it would change to show that and could take me there with a single click. Missed calls were the same way - right to the call log. It made it very easy to respond to the event immediately. WM6 doesn't do that. The RSK stays the same from the Home screen. Not a huge deal, but I miss it. Also, with WM5, there were ways to reassign these keys. AFAIK, you can't do that (yet) with WM6.
Missing Profiles. WM6 only has like 3 profiles that aren't 'Silent' or 'Vibrate'. This isn't enough for me. I like to have many profiles for different situations. WM5 had more. I've read about and tried a registry hack to add more, but it didn't work.

Posted by: wfj5444

Biggest issue for me and the reasons I can't use WM6 is the bluetooth stack is even worse than WM5.

on WM5 I can pair with my car but not get signal strength/battery.

on WM6 I can't pair at all. Others are having the same issues.