Just a few days ago, we told you about a Windows Mobile 6 "update" that's set to land early next year [1]. Though details were scarce at the time, Engadget was quoted as saying that the update is "...very slick, and has a lot of features that just about any WinMo user will agree [are] way overdue."

Well, guess what landed in the Boy Genius Report's lap the other day? Why nothing less than a Motorola Q9 rocking a previously unseen build of Win Mo, version 6.1. Of course, they went ahead and documented the stuffing out of the OS and all its new features. Among them: a new home screen (finally!) with sideways scrolling, an iPhone-like threaded SMS view, a new version of IE with zoom in and out, recent programs in the Start menu and--last but not least--copy and paste functionality (take that, iPhone). Nothing official yet from Microsoft on any of this, though if you use a WM6 device, you had better hope that there's an upgrade in your future.

For 100 photos of Windows Mobile 6.1:
- see this Boy Genius Report story [2]