Windows Phone Mango: 500 reasons to switch?

Release Date 27 May, 2011 in Australian Personal Computer

 
   
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Microsoft reveals plans for mobile phone software with Mango update

Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - 27 May, 2011
MICROSOFT HAS issued a major update for its mobile phone software, seven months after its launch. The update, known as Mango, brings more than 500 new features to using the phone, including handsfree messaging through speech-to-text features, ...

World Tech Update, May 26, 2011

Macworld - 27 May, 2011
Coming up on World Tech Update this week, Microsoft demos Windows Phone Mango, Steve Ballmer accidentally announces Windows 8, and explosion at a Foxconn manufacturing plants kills three and injures more than a dozen others, North Korea starts making ...

Nokia Plans First Windows Phones for This Year

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Christopher Lawton - 27 May, 2011
Nokia has been busy lately. After a short silence, the company is pulling back the curtain a bit. On a quick trip to New York, Jo Harlow, the company's executive vice president of smart devices, dished the dirt on Nokia's new ...

Windows Phone Strategy Change on the Horizon

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 27 May, 2011
Microsoft now officially indicates that a strategy change with regards to Windows Phone is on the horizon. Nokia and Microsoft have ambitions to succeed in the mobility market, but currently don't have a single ...

Nokia move to help other handset vendors - Microsoft

Reuters India - Luke MacGregor, David Cowell - 27 May, 2011
A woman uses her mobile telephone as she passes a Nokia advert in London July 20, 2009. By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - Microsoft expects Nokia's adoption of its mobile software to encourage other handset makers ...

Nokia On Windows Phone Pricing, Developers, Operators, Skype And App Stores

Forbes (blog) - Elizabeth Woyke - 27 May, 2011
Nokia's head of smart devices, Jo Harlow, doesn't do many interviews. She's too busy criscrossing the globe overseeing Nokia's transition from its longtime Symbian smartphone platform to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. ...

Microsoft Supports Higher App Prices for Windows Phone 7

Bloomberg - Diana ben-Aaron - 27 May, 2011
Further features will be announced in the coming weeks for the latest Windows Phone release, code named Mango. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will support higher prices on ...

Web-Based Windows Phone 7 App Store Arriving with Mango

PCWorld - Daniel Ionescu - 27 May, 2011
Microsoft is putting together a Web-based version of its application store for Windows Phone 7 smartphones, in the fashion of leading app stores from Apple and Google. The Web-based Windows Phone 7 ...

With Microsoft Mango, the focus is on social media

Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Shaer - 27 May, 2011
Mango, the latest iteration of the Windows Phone mobile OS, has about "500 new features," Microsoft says. Here, a bowl of real mangoes. By Matthew Shaer / May 26, 2011 Mango â€"â€" a foodstuff, native to certain tropical regions, and also the latest ...

Microsoft shows Mango love for India

Times of India - 27 May, 2011
NEW DELHI: In India, Windows Phone 7 devices were launched earlier this year by several handset makers like HTC and Samsung. But the launch was quasi official. Even though devices were available, services like Marketplace, from where users can obtain ...

Microsoft announces a web-based Windows Phone 7 Marketplace

Inquirer - Chris Martin - 27 May, 2011
SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has announced a web-based version of the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Marketplace that will come out with the Mango update to its mobile operating system. You will be able to buy apps via the web-based WP7 Marketplace, ...

Microsoft to update Windows Phone software

Boston Herald - 27 May, 2011
By AP NEW YORK â€" Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that it plans a major upgrade to its Windows Phone software this fall, ahead of the launch of the first Nokia phones to use it. The revamped software contains a new, faster Web browser and allows users to ...

Windows Phone Mango: A first look

ZDNet UK - 27 May, 2011
By Staff, CNET News, 26 May, 2011 11:17 Microsoft previewed its upcoming Mango update for Windows Phone at a special event in New York on Tuesday. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs and reviews delivered directly to your inbox with ...

Windows Phone 7 'Mango' video demo

V3.co.uk - 27 May, 2011
Read more at V3: http://www.v3.co.uk/IMG/236/178236/windows-phone-mango-demo-55851-140x87.jpg?1306344535.

Microsoft unveils new software for mobiles

Times of Oman - ‎May 25, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its mobile phone software and new handset partners on Tuesday as it seeks to claw back market share from Apple and Google. The Redmond, Washington-based personal computer software powerhouse said ...

Nokia to launch Window phone

The Nation, Pakistan - ‎May 25, 2011‎
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Nokia planned to launch its first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 at the end of the year, according to Taiwan's Commercial Times, which did not identify a source. The newspaper also said Taiwanese handset contract maker ...

Finally, something sweet from Microsoft

Independent Online - ‎May 25, 2011‎
Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its mobile phone software Tuesday as it seeks to claw back market share from Apple and Google. New York - Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its mobile phone software on Tuesday as it seeks to claw back ...

Microsoft Unveils Upgraded Windows Phone OS

The Chosun Ilbo - ‎May 25, 2011‎
Microsoft is set to launch a smartphone running a new version of its Windows Phone operating system. The company added some 500 features to the OS, dubbed Mango, as it strives to catch up with Google and Apple, foreign media said on Tuesday. ...

Dialed In 175: Mango Madness

CNET (blog) - Nicole Lee - ‎May 25, 2011‎
Microsoft goes all tropical on us with the announcement of Windows Phone Mango, the next big update to the Windows Phone operating system. We discuss all of the Windows Phone news, the latest 4G markets, and a cavalcade of Verizon ...

A look at Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for Mango

CNET (blog) - Jessica Dolcourt - ‎May 25, 2011‎
Microsoft has shared more details about the upcoming refresh to the online Windows Phone Marketplace application store that the company first teased yesterday in a blog post to developers. The screenshot below was internally labeled ...

Microsoft Hopes Mango Will Keep WP7 Momentum Alive

InformationWeek - Eric Zeman - ‎May 25, 2011‎
Windows Phone 7 gets a major upgrade when Mango is released with 500 new features later this year, but Microsoft still has a long way to go. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek "So, what do you think?" asked Microsoft spokesperson Greg Sullivan after ...

Microsoft faces challenge selling Mango benefits

ZDNet Asia - Kevin Kwang - ‎May 24, 2011‎
Introduction of deeper integration between different communication apps in Microsoft's latest mobile OS update potentially beneficial, but analyst reckons Redmond will have tough job ...

With Mango software update, analysts ask, where's the hardware?

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - ‎May 24, 2011‎
Computerworld - It takes more than a sleek operating system to make a successful smartphone. Even though Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the Windows Phone update called Mango will bring 500 improvements to the mobile OS, ...

Microsoft Windows Phone "Mango" multitasking video demo

mobileburn - ‎May 24, 2011‎
MobileBurn.com - Microsoft gave us a quick demo of the new multitasking features that Windows Phone will get with the "Mango" update that is due to arrive later this fall. The OS uses a combination of freezing apps and interval polling to achieve ...

Microsoft favours higher prices for Windows Phone apps

TopNews New Zealand - Neelesh Raghuwanshi - 27 May, 2011
Director Brandon Watson, of an apps developer program at Microsoft, said that the Redmond-based software giant would support higher app prices for Windows Phone apps to encourage high-quality products. At a press briefing in Helsinki, Watson said the ...

Windows Phone Mango: 500 reasons to switch?

Australian Personal Computer - Peter Dockrill - 27 May, 2011
This week Microsoft demoed some of the key new features (among a claimed 500 tweaks) coming to Windows Phone in its major “Mango” refresh, scheduled to hit locally this spring. Windows Phone 7 was released late last year and, whilst it was received ...

Nokia to Ship New Windows Phones Every 2-3 Months

EnterpriseMobileToday.com - Stuart J. Johnston - 27 May, 2011
A Nokia executive said the mobile device maker is shooting to get its first Windows Phone out this year -- though no guarantees -- and, after it does debut, the company plans to blitz the market with new handsets every two or ...

Windows Phone Web Marketplace, Parental Controls coming with Mango

Ars Technica - Peter Bright - 27 May, 2011
Windows Phone's Marketplace, currently accessed through the phone itself and the Zune desktop software, will gain a Web presence in the forthcoming Mango release. The Web store will allow browsing and ...

Nokia Make Plans to Introduce Multiple Windows Phones

Geek WIth Laptop - 27 May, 2011
Nokia have big plans for the next few years, with the introduction of multiple Windows phones. After the first device ships later this year, Nokia plan to roll them out at a rapid rate, which I'm sure is good news for Microsoft and the struggling ...

Nokia Prepares Multiple WP7 Handsets Pre-installed with Mango Update

Social Barrel - Francis Rey - 27 May, 2011
After Microsoft's Mango announcement, Nokia is confident to release multiple Windows Phone 7 devices pre-installed with the Mango update by year-end. Jo Harlow, the person in charge of Nokia's smartphone devices, refuses to give an exact date when this ...

 

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