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Windows Mobile 6.5 fever: catch it! AT&T had the good fortune of releasing the Tilt2 late enough to get 6.5 out of the gate, but the other guys have been falling in line ever since: first Verizon, then T-Mobile, and at this time Sprint’s getting in on the action. The bad news is that they’re only committing to a vague “by the end of first quarter, 2010″ window at this point, but the great news is that this appears to be more than a simple 6.5 bump — Sprint says that there’ll also be “significant enhancements to the Touch Pro2 user interface which will allow additional customization / personalization options and more integration with the applications users access most.” We’ll take it — and actually, why don’t you just go ahead and make it this mysterious 6.6 while you’re at it, guys?

Sprint outs details on WinMo 6.5 update for Touch Pro2 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The GSM flavor of Motorola’s DROID, or Milestone as it will be known in Europe, has multitouch built-in to the UI. For reasons we can only assume have something to do with an unspoken intellectual property agreement between Google and Apple, the US version of the user interface lacks multi-touch features like pinch-to-zoom even though the underlying 2.0 OS supports multitouch events. However, the video of a GSM DROID headed to Europe clearly shows this feature at the 3 minute mark. No really, see for yourselves after the break.

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