6.5.3
Ease of Use features
* Capacitive touchscreen support
* Platform to enable multitouch
* Touch controls throughout system (no need for stylus)
* Consistent Navigation
* Horizontal scroll bar replaces tabs (think settings>system>about
screen)
* Magnifier brings touch support to legacy applications
* Simplified out-of-box experience with fewer steps
* Drag and drop icons on Start Screen
IE Browser Performance
* Page load time decreased
* Memory management improved
* Pan & flick gestures smoothed
* Zoom & rotation speed increased
Quality and Customer Satisfaction features
* Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
* Arabic read/write document support
* Watson (error reporting) improvements and bug fixes
Then beyond those updates the stock Samsung apps have been updated
- Samsung WidgetPlus is now smoother and naively works on 6.5.3 no longer refreshes the widgets when jumping between each page and motion is fluid and smooth.
- New Media Player, re-design with big and clear cover display (Similar with JC2) with better volume control at left side volume button.
- New Photo app as now it allow you to deselect folder you don't want to be display.
- Re-skin the calculator, must more better color than JC2.
- Re-skin of Samsung Keyboard which now suite better with theme and dialpad.
- New incoming call screen when device is unlock.
- New Opera Mobile 9.7 preloaded.
- More RAM available.
- No issues displaying asian language.
- Samsung Main Menu & Cube 3D removed.
- Larger Indicator has been remove and replace with default WM 6.5.3 one.
6.5.5 is more orless a compilation of a bunch of minor refinements over 6.5.3. The whole 6.5.X series we had for awhile before.
6.6 will be to 6.5.5 what 6.5.5 was to 6.5, that is, not a major retooling but just bringing stuff up to spec with the general UX paradigm (touch/capacative friendly)
Remember that 6.6 is intended for a parallel release with WP7 so we're still a ways off from it. It will likely just 'creep into being' like the 6.5.x series did.
This post has been edited by eric2k: 10 May 2010 - 05:44 AM