{"id":434,"date":"2009-07-09T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-07-09T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:27:55","slug":"windows-mobile-6-5-touch-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/windows-mobile-6-5-touch-gestures\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Mobile 6.5 Touch Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I now have an iPhone, I have to admit I\u2019ve always quite like Windows Mobile.&#160; It may be a bit clunky compared to Apple\u2019s newer toys, but I\u2019ve had WM phones since the original <a title=\"Orange SPV\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orange_SPV\" target=\"_blank\">Orange SPV<\/a> years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I\u2019ve been keeping an eye on how the new version, Windows Mobile 6.5, has been developing.&#160; I managed to have a play with a phone running 6.5 a few months ago and was actually quite impressed.&#160; While you could tell the old WM was underneath, the touch interface was a great improvement on the old home screen, and it felt modern \u2013 even next to the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I was just going though my rss feeds and noticed <a title=\"Lets Talk About Touch Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/marcpe\/archive\/2009\/06\/29\/let-s-talk-about-touch-part1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this new post<\/a> from <a title=\"Marcus Perryman\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/marcpe\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Perryman<\/a> over at Microsoft.&#160; He\u2019s written quite an in depth article about how 6.5 implements touch and the gestures you use to navigate and do things.&#160; It\u2019s pretty techie (don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you!), but quite interesting if you\u2019re into that stuff. <\/p>\n<p>Marcus also points out the official touch gesture docs have been published and can be found here:&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee220920.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee220920.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Perryman over at Microsoft has written about how Windows Mobile 6.5 impliments touch and gestures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,300,121,13,299,58],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-gesture","tag-iphone","tag-microsoft","tag-touch","tag-windows-mobile","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}