Filed under: Windows Mobile, Browsers
Internet Explore Mobile 6 won't be available for older cellphones
According to the::unwired, the new browser will be part of Windows Mobile 6.5. It will also be available for Windows Mobile 6.1 AKU 1.4 and newer builds. Which means that pretty much any Windows Mobile device released this year could run the new browser as long as it has a 400MHz or faster CPU asn 128MB of RAM or more. But Microsoft will not be making the browser available for users with older phones to download and install on their own.
So if you've got Windows Mobile 5, 6, or an earlier build of Windows Mobile 6.1, you're out of luck. Well, officially anyway. Hackers have already managed to get the browser running on existing hardware with no help from Microsoft.

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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mattmcb said 5:00PM on 3-05-2009
It's worth checking with your carrier to see if you can get the new operating system. My Verizon Treo was eligible from Mobile 5 to Mobile 6 operating system upgrade and was pretty easy to do.
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Evenio said 7:37AM on 3-06-2009
That should read "much the same way you can with Safari for the iPhone or Opera Mini, but without all that pesky support for web standards". :P
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James said 9:53AM on 3-23-2009
Wooo, my cell phone has the opportunity to enter the year 2001! Sign me up!
Seriously, we're *proud* of putting IE6 on a phone? Hear that? That's the sound of me waiting for Fennec to release a public beta.
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