Microsoft and its industry partners will try to make a big splash on Tuesday as they release the first mobile phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 -- complete with a mobile application store, a mobile synchronization service, a new look and features designed to streamline the process of accessing information on a device.
However, Microsoft executives acknowledge behind the scenes that they wish their mobile operating system was further along. Perhaps most noticeably, the new Windows Mobile supports single-finger touch input but not native multi-touch, the ability to interact with the screen using multiple fingers at once -- to pinch or expand a Web page, for example.
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