You can’t accuse the Windows Mobile team of not loving their product: after the official launch of v6.1 of the mobile OS, the guys over at the WM Blog put together a forty-minute demo video of some of the software’s new features (and they didn’t even get a chance to include them all!)  It’s aimed more at consumer users rather than enterprise customers - despite 6.1’s new clutch of remote management, VPN and security additions - so there’s the “Bronze” sliding-panel Today screen, threaded SMS, the new Task Manager and the new home screen plugins, among plenty more.

Video: Windows Mobile 6.1

One thing they don’t show properly is Mobile Internet Explorer 6.1, so make sure to check out our own video of the latest update to the once-maligned smartphone browser (which has now pulled its metaphorical socks up, with Flash and Silverlight support amongst other things).