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Windows Live for Windows Mobile updated

By on October 6, 2009 6:11 AM
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wlwm With today’s announcements around the release of Windows Phone (Windows Mobile 6.5) comes not only an updated MyPhone, but upgrades to both the mobile client and web experience for Windows Live for Windows Mobile.  Not much from Windows Live about the new versions yet, except one post on the Stay Connected (Windows Live for Windows Mobile Team) blog (last post: Dec 26, 2008, woohoo!).  Here’s what’s new, from the post:

  • Windows Live Home – an entirely new feature!
    • View you and your friends "What’s new" feed from Windows Live and other major 3rd party social networking sites.
    • View Windows Live photos and comment
    • Upload photos to Windows Live and other 3rd party sites through integration with the new My Phone client
    • View your Windows Live people
    • Update your status and accept network invitations from others
  • Improvements and Updates like
    • Entirely new launcher screen
    • Significant touch investments that shine with new Windows Mobile 6.5 devices
    • Bing search integration
    • Abuse reporting
    • Automatic uninstall of previous versions
    • Virtual memory improvement and reduced installation file size through client refactoring

You can try out Windows Live for Mobile at mobile.live.com

Windows Live for Mobile client:

You can also download the Windows Live for Mobile client to your Windows Phone (or Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 phone).  To get it on your phone, go to WindowsLiveforMobile.com, input your mobile number, and send yourself a text message with the download link.  From there, you’ll be asked to identify your carrier in order to configure Messenger, and install the app.  Sporting a new simplified look, Messenger and Hotmail integration (but not much more) and Mail and Contacts sync, this new app may be stripped down, but looks like a much better Messenger interface than we’ve had previously. No MPOP (multiple points of presence) though, so signing in to Messenger on your phone signs you out everywhere else.

There’s still lots we’d like to see from a Windows Live mobile experience (not the least of which is to clean up the confusion between MyPhone and Windows Live for Windows Mobile, why do we have to re-invent the “don’t be confusing” wheel with every Microsoft product release?).  And unfortunately here we don’t have our hands on a true Windows (6.5) Phone, so our experience is limited.  Let us know what you think in the comments.

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Comments

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/jamiet/default.aspx jamiet

    Nice new UI and they’ve done good work there but its desperately short of new features. The key missing component being calendar sync.
    And yes, the continued overlap with MyPhone is SO annoying.

    I wanted to give this feedback to them personally but they have disabled comments on their blog, there is no “contact” link and they aren’t on twitter or similar.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/emiliano84/default.aspx emiliano84

    i hope they’ll merge myphone, windows live mobile client and mesh with full sync (sms, email, contacts, CALENDAR, TASKS, NOTES, files…) they can use skydrive for this…

    i hope the same will they do for desktop softwarse: mash, live sync, outlook connector, mobile device center…

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/quikboy/default.aspx Quikboy

    Wished it looked as nice as the new Bing Mobile app.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/efjay/default.aspx efjay

    MS does what they think the customer wants, not what the customer actually wants. Example, still waiting for Live Movie Maker to acknowledge WM phones have a resolution above 320×240!

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/CharlyAR/default.aspx CharlyAR

    “To get it on your phone, go to WindowsLiveforMobile.com”

    O yeah. Except that for my country is not available. !)@#! Telefonica. Would anybody post a download link for the cab? :(

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/JSYOUNG571/default.aspx JSYOUNG571

    I do appreciate the update….but yet here we are on our 4 or 5 update version of Windows Live Mobile software with no calendar sync……COME ON Y’ALL!

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/CharlyAR/default.aspx CharlyAR

    I found the link: http://mobile.microsoft.com/live/en-us/mobile/default.mspx

    To JSYOUNG571: If you use Outlook, you can sync the calendar to your Windows Mobile phone through Outlook Connector. It works very good.

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/GoodThings2Life/default.aspx GoodThings2Life

    CharlyAR,

    Thanks for the link.

    As for using Outlook as a middle man, yes, it works– I use it currently, in fact– but it’s absolutely shameful that they haven’t baked this in yet. So many great advances and technologies, and yet so many stupid decisions too.

  • http://www.bisnes.digital-pages.net/ eddywijaya

    Thanks for the link.

    I do appreciate the update…. but my country is also not available.

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  • http://www.liveside.net/members/zeke009/default.aspx zeke009

    I have to agree with GoodThings2Life here. MS really needs to get with the times and release a single solution for all of this. We shouldn’t need Outlook, Mobile Mesh, MyPhone, and Windows Live for Mobile to get everything we need. What a waste of resources.

    One application to sync Live Hotmail content (Contacts, emails, calendar) and to sync data (MyPhone & Mesh).

    It appears that MS likes to have 2 or 3 teams working on projects that are nearly identical but just different enough to co-exist.

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