Mobile working Toolkit

Photos: Windows Mobile 6.1

Sandra Vogel ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 03 Apr 2008 11:14 BST

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Internet Explorer has had an overhaul too, and as with SMS threading it simply brings features that have been available elsewhere to the application.

Flash and other rich-media features are handled better, for example. Owners of Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard (no touch-screen) devices will be able to set their own home page just as Windows Mobile 6 Professional (touch-screen) users can already do.

The zooming system has been refined too: text size changes are replaced by five levels of zoom in an effort to help with reading more complex web sites and allowing you to get more of an overview of some pages.

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