Tuesday, April 28, 2009

WM6.5 and the Polaris

I am now running the PDAViet WM6.5 ROM on my HTC phone. You can go to xda developers to download it.
I have been using it for around two weeks now and I have found it fast and free of bugs. In the first week I had some issues with the bluetooth taking a long time to connect and the camera shutter speed made taking a picture impossible. After looking on the forums I upgraded the radio version from 1.59 to 1.65 and that has improved the GPS lock speed as well as fixing the other issues.
So what about WM6. 5? Well you can go and google the experts opinion but I like it. The new titanium interface is good but a little clunky sometimes. An example of this is the audio section which is let down by windows Media player. Every time you want to play music it has to start up the app. I think the HTC touchflo interface has an advantage due to it's in-built applications.
I use the transcriber a lot and it is a lot faster and accurate despite my horrible writing. Added to that everything is more touch compliant, so most menus and applications are usable by touch. Unfortunately WM6.5 doesn't come with a touch keyboard but you can install the htc one.
So more updates coming as I less this.

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