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Strong Predictions for Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango
Posted: Wednesday 22nd June 2011 / Mobile Apps, Caboodle Media
Following on from our previous article regarding the Mobile Phone Market we are very excited to be able to talk about the recent version of the Windows Phone operating system, code-named “Mango”.
It has received a huge amount of praise and it will be free to Windows Phone 7 Customers when it is released in the Autumn. What’s more with IE9 on its Windows Phone the concept of hardware acceleration is being culminated to totally new heights!
First reviews have really rated Mango as a satisfying upgrade from the original Windows Phone OS, and one that brings the platform closer to the competition. Microsoft’s next-generation Windows Phone operating system has been described as “slick, full of features and addresses the needs of consumers and businesses every step of the way”.
Mango is designed around the sharing of information and interaction with a single person or a group of people in particular using many of the social networking sites. Features include:
Threads that enable the user to switch between texting, Facebook Chat, and Windows Live Messenger within the same conversation.
Groups which enable the user to group contacts into personal Live Tiles and see latest status updates from the Start Screen, send texts, emails or instant messages to the whole group.
Mango also allows for deeper social networking integration as Twitter and LinkedIn feeds are integrated into contact cards, with built-in Facebook check-ins and a face detection software that makes it simple to swiftly tag photos and post to the Web.
A Linked Inbox provides multiple email accounts in one linked inbox and conversations are organized to make it simple to stay on top of the latest email.
Hands Free Messaging works as a built-in voice-to-text and text-to-voice to provide hands free texting and chatting!
Additionally, Microsoft is offering deeper integration of apps with a new feature called App Connect which will tie apps to search results in Bing. App Connect will incorporate the information from each app – be it a music app or a weather app – seamlessly into Search thus allowing apps to be surfaced when and where they make sense. Microsoft calls this the “total app experience”.
Of course this is just a smidgen of the 500 new features of the update. Hopefully exciting times lie ahead for Microsoft because, historically, they have failed to gain significant footing in the mobile phones market and have had a handful of trip ups with Windows Phone 7. The struggle ahead is to convince carriers to sell and push its new devices. Microsoft has done all it can with producing great software and they have poured tones into marketing.
With Windows Phone 7 and Apple iOS 5 scheduled for release this Autumn, Microsoft has teamed up with Nokia, supposedly expended billions in exchange for Nokia’s commitment to Windows Phone 7. Nokia have already confirmed that the first of its smartphone devices to run Windows Phone 7 will introduce the Mango update.
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- Creative Collaboration
- To Blog or not to Blog? that is the question
- New Web Site Launch for InvestSmart
- Windows 8 - The Next-Gen Windows OS
- Caboodle Will Soon Be in Spain!
- Wishing all our Customers a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
- Caboodle Media is awarded a major project with a leading Lloyds Insurer
- Blackberry Out(r)age
- Windows 8 Imminent Release
- Team Runner
- Find out what everyone is saying about Google+
- Caboodle Media is Travelling Nationwide!
- Breaking The Light Barrier
- Caboodle Media and Lamb in the City Working Together
- Strong Predictions for Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango
- Mobile Market is Hotting Up
- The Newest Member of the FoxPro Team
- Welcome to our new Web Developer
- "Caboodle Media Welcomes Six New Team Members"
- New Ecommerce Solution Launched
- Android system for Hammonds Group
- Visual FoxPro Developer(s) Job Vacancies at Caboodle
- We need a C# (.NET) Senior Developer to join our growing development team
- PHP / MySQL Junior Developer - Enhance your career at Caboodle
- Mobile Applications - what lies ahead?
- Efficient Communication with our Clients
- CaBOOM - CABoodle Online Marketing
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