Windows Mobile 6.5 Release Date May 11th?

Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. At that point in time, the expected release date was estimated to be either late summer or early fall of 2009, with the first devices to follow soon after.

According to the Windows Mobile Developers blog the long awaited update the the mobile OS will be released on May 11th at Tech ED 2009. That’s a decent bump in the schedule, and means that new devices running 6.5 should be out sooner than later.

Of course, for those not afraid of a little hacking of their phones, versions have been available at xda-developers.com for a while now, and if these early builds are any indication, everything has been good to go, outside of the still sluggish Internet Explorer, though Opera 9.5 handily replaces that one shortcoming.