360° Coverage Microsoft Windows Phone Mango Update Details are official
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Microsoft Windows Phone Mango Update Details are official
The Mango Update already comes beginning of Autumn.
May 24 2011, 8:41am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Microsoft just released a press-release (via Engadget) in Romania with the official announcement of Windows Phone 7 Mango. Indeed Mango brings 500 new features as Ballmer said yesterday. The new version will be freely available to all terminals with Windows Phone and can be downloaded at the beginning of fall. This is in line what was originally expected.
Microsoft highlights three areas that see great improvement in Mango:
Communications: Easier to Connect and Share
The smartphone experience can be complicated by a sea of disconnected apps and accounts as people attempt to keep pace with all the ways they communicate — from calls, texts, email and instant messages (IM) to status updates, Tweets, check-ins, photo posting and tagging. To help people stay on top of that growing complexity, the “Mango” release organizes information around the person or group people want to interact with, not the app they have to use.
| • | Threads. Switch between text, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation. |
| • | Groups. Group contacts into personalized Live Tiles to see the latest status updates right from the Start Screen and quickly send a text, email or IM to the whole group. |
| • | Deeper social network integration. Twitter and LinkedIn feeds are now integrated into contact cards, and “Mango” includes built-in Facebook check-ins and new face detection software that makes it easier to quickly tag photos and post to the Web. |
| • | Linked inbox. See multiple email accounts in one linked inbox. Conversations are organized to make it easy to stay on top of the latest mail. |
| • | Hands-free messaging. Built-in voice-to-text and text-to-voice support enables hands-free texting or chatting. |
A Smarter Approach to Apps
Windows Phone will challenge the way people think about apps. Today their usefulness is measured by what can be done within the app, but Microsoft sees the promise of apps in how they can be integrated directly into the core experiences of the phone. In addition to making it easy to get timely notifications and updates from apps right from the Start Screen, the “Mango” release also will surface apps as part of search results and within Windows Phone Hubs. As a result, a useful app is more likely to be right there when needed.
| • | App Connect. By connecting apps to search results and deepening their integration with Windows Phone Hubs, including Music and Video and Pictures, “Mango” allows apps to be surfaced when and where they make sense. |
| • | Improved Live Tiles. Get real-time information from apps without having to open them. Live Tiles can be more dynamic and hold more information. |
| • | Multitasking. Quickly switch between apps in use and allow apps to run in the background, helping to preserve battery life and performance. |
Taking the Internet Beyond the Browser
In addition to including Internet Explorer, the “Mango” release will connect the power of the Web to the unique capabilities of Windows Phones, such as location awareness, camera and access to apps, to present a way of viewing the Web that is more localized, actionable and relevant.
| • | Internet Explorer 9. A browser based on the powerful Internet Explorer 9 and including support for HTML5 and full hardware acceleration. |
| • | Local Scout. Provides hyperlocal search results and recommends nearby restaurants, shopping and activities in an easy-to-use guide. |
| • | Bing on Windows Phone. More ways to search the Web, including Bing Vision, Music Search and Voice so it’s easy to discover and decide. |
| • | Quick Cards. When searching for a product, movie, event or place, see a quick summary of relevant information, including related apps. |
Microsoft will hold a live webcast at 10am EST to preview Mango. The Romanian Microsoft site published the information early. Another botched media event for Microsoft. Update: Now the official US press-release is also here.
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Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years
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