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If you haven’t heard by now, Microsoft is planning on a releasing Windows Mobile 6.1 very soon. Screen shots, videos have been circulating for some time now. Most of the mobility world has met it with ho-hum enthusiasm. From MSMobiles.com:

Here are the highlights:

• Office Mobile now includes also One Note Mobile application – apart from Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and PowerPoint Mobile, one new application is available – it can record voice notes and drawings and textual notes
• Internet Explorer now has function “Zoom Out” what enables page-overview mode and better overall navigation through web pages
• Windows Mobile 6.1 still is based on Windows CE 5.2 so no upgrade to Windows CE 6.0
• SMS chat view mode is available so SMS messages can appear in threaded-way – more comfortable to follow SMS conversations
• instead of “Settings / Memory / Running Programs” now a Task Manager is available with possibility to set settings of executed threads/processes like CPU (indication of dual-core Windows Mobile devices?) and memory
• new menu item “Managed Programs”
• the much expected improvements in usage for finger based navigation – are nowhere to be found! (apparently users will need to wait till 2009 for Windows Mobile 7 to get them)

But with all things mobility, the ROM has been leaked and has caused a whirl wind frenzy in all the forums where Chef’s are furiously trying to Hack the ROM and port it to their favorite devices along with a host of other plug-ins, updates, registry hacks, etc. Easily the most famous ROM Chef for our Device is Duttythor who generally resides over at xda-developers.com. He has a long list of very well proven ROM’s to his credit. His most notable and recent is the DualTouch ROM he has ported to the Tilt/TyTN II. There are 2 versions that are really popular. His v3 and v4. I highly recommend the v4 version as it has TouchFlo and the HTC Sprint Cube that works really well on the ROM. There are some bugs, but he has promised a v4 update soon. That is until WM6.1 leaked. Even without a device (his is broke) he has managed to port the 6.1 ROM to our Tilt/TyTN II. It is in the BETA stages, and is being tested by a handful of “senior” members, but feedback is looking really promising. The BETA 6.1 ROM from Dutty of course has been leaked and you can download it here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1877610&postcount=2188

I am waiting for the public release mainly because I finally have got Dutty’s v4 ROM tweaked just the way I like it. I am going to enjoy this ROM for a least a day or two! I will run down more highlights and benchmarks in the near future when it is released. Until then, ENJOY! We have the Best Device Out!

Sources: MSMobiles.com, TheBoyGeniusReport,com, and xda-developers.com

  Edit: Here are some Benchmarks by Pietrucci

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