Core facts: Windows 8 truthiness dissected, Mango sliced

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Core facts: Windows 8 truthiness dissected, Mango sliced Register - Mary-Jo Foley, Gavin Clarke - 4 Oct, 2011 MicroBite: number 31 With 500 new features, Mango's a juicy release for Microsoft's Windows Mobile team: third-party application multi tasking, HTML5-compliant browser and video voice mail. But with the iPhone 5 looming, technology alone won't help ...
Silverman: Windows Phone 7.5 smartphones worth a try Houston Chronicle - Dwight Silverman - 4 Oct, 2011 If you're looking for a smartphone, chances are you're checking out the latest models with Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems. As well you should. iPhones and Android phones are excellent. ...
Windows Phone 7.5 operating system integrates contacts The Australian - Chris Griffith - 4 Oct, 2011 It's all about contacts, but is it any good? Chris Griffith roadtests the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system WINDOWS Phone 7.5 does not seek to be another operating system that supplies blank screen acreage on which you arrange apps and widgets. ...
	A peek into the state of various phone brands Daily Monitor - 4 Oct, 2011 By MUSTAFA ZIRABA (email the author) There was a time when particular elements mattered with every phone purchase. These ranged from the brand, phone size, price and form factor including, bars, sliders, swivels and flippers, among others. ...
Microsoft Hungry For Smartphone Share, Rolls Out Mango Update Forbes - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft is one of the major players in the smartphone industry. It launched Windows Phone 7 last year, which competes with Android from Google and iOS from Apple. It is widely expected to become the third major smartphone platform in the coming years ...
Windows Phone 7 'Mango' Fixes Location Tracking Bug PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 4 Oct, 2011 A Windows Phone developer has concluded that Microsoft's "Mango" update fixes a bug that collected a user's location data without permission. "I have confirmed that Windows Phone 'Mango' no longer sends location data prior to being ...
	Hands on: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango NDTV.com - Sahil Mohan Gupta - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango finally hits Indian shores in the form of the Samsung Omnia W, but will it challenge the might of Apple's iOS and Google's Android? Will the OS war overtake the tablet war? Microsoft would have us believe that the Mango ...
Microsoft Canada reveals new WP Nokia device, the Nokia Sabre Moneycontrol.com - ‎Oct 3, 2011‎ Microsoft Canada has accidentally leaked the name of their new Windows Phone Nokia device after the Searay, as reported by WP Central. The name of the new phone, the Nokia Sabre, was leaked in the rule page for a Mango-app contest. ...
Windows Phone “Tango” coming in early 2012? LiveSide - 4 Oct, 2011 By damaster on October 4, 2011 2:21 AM With the Windows Phone “Mango” update just released to 50% of existing customers, news are already coming out for the next update codenamed “Tango”. The latest news came from Thailand's Bangkok Post (via WMPU), ...
	Details Of Nokia Sabre, Ace & Sea Ray Emerge ITProPortal - Desire Athow - 4 Oct, 2011 Specifications of a trio of Nokia Windows Phone smartphone have emerged on a Nokia fan website called MyNokiaBlog with the Ace joining the existing Sabre and Sea Ray handsets. All three devices come with a 1.4GHz SoC, possibly a single core Snapdragon ...
	Windows Mango 7.5 Update released to 50% of all Phones Gadget Helpline (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011 Windows Phone 7 running handsets are reportedly nearly 50% full of Mango goodness and the update to the latest 7.5 Mango Operating system is going well, according to Eric Hautala who is the General Manager of Customer experience engineering over ta ...
	HTC: Windows Phone is great; Sony Ericsson: no it isn't Mobot.net (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011 Opinions are like, well, you know. Everyone's got one. And specifically both HTC and Sony Ericsson have been expressing their opinions on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in the last day or so. An HTC exec reckons the Microsoft platform will eventually give ...
	Windows Phone 7 Mango rollout hits more phones Pocket-lint.com - Stuart Miles - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft has said that over 50 per cent of Windows Phone 7 users now have access the new version; Windows Phone 7 Mango. “Hello everyone. Six days ago we started rolling out the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update around the globe,” writes Eric Hautala, ...
Ahead of New iPhones, Microsoft's Smartphone Boss Finds Reasons to Smile All Things Digital - Ina Fried - 4 Oct, 2011 While Microsoft knows it still has some catching up to do when it comes to Apple's iPhone, Windows Phone boss Andy Lees takes some pride in knowing that Cupertino's operating system takes some cues from things his team has done. In the first release, ...
	Nokia Ace to be first 4G LTE supporting Windows Phone The Mobile Indian - Samir Makwana - 4 Oct, 2011 A new Nokia smartphone, codenamed Ace, will be the first 4G mobile phone with Windows Phone, according to a report. MyNokiaBlog.com, an unofficial website that covers the latest Nokia ...
	Windows Phone Mango update sent out to 50% of the world Ubergizmo - George Wong - 4 Oct, 2011 Even though the Windows Phone Mango update was released last week and you haven't received your Windows Phone Mango update today �" don't worry. Microsoft hasn't even pushed out the update to the whole world yet. According to them, as of today ...
	Windows Phone Mango update crushes location data bug TechRadar UK - Patrick Goss - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango update will bring an end to the always-on location gathering that mired the company in controversy. A developer had pointed out that Microsoft was gathering user data without the user opting in to the ...
Mango Now Open to Half of Windows Phone 7 Smartphones [Microsoft Says 50% of ... TFTS (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011 Wow, that was quick. Microsoft says it has started rolling out the latest Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update to about half of all Windows Phone 7 handsets, regardless of country, carrier or model. Barely a week after Microsoft announced a gradual ...
Mango update going better than expected, Windows Phone team speeds up release MobileSyrup.com - Daniel Bader - 4 Oct, 2011 Windows Phone fans, rejoice! The Mango update, according to Customer Service Manager Eric Hautala, is going really well. So well, in fact, that after unleashing it on the public last week ...
Nokia 3D maps and voice controlled navigation to join Windows Phone? PC Authority - Lucy Hedges - 4 Oct, 2011 Word on the web suggests Nokia is prepping its own 3D maps and voice-controlled navigation for the new Mango-flavoured OS. WinRumours, the site behind the speculation, say an anonymous tipster sent in images of a marketing ...
	Mango Update for Windows Phone is as Sweet as Can Be Cleveland Leader - Eugene McCormick - 4 Oct, 2011 It amazes me that a company as big as Microsoft can make a product as good as the Windows Phone 7 and not find footing in the market. Perhaps it was because they were late to the game in a ...
Nokia Sea Ray, Sabre, and Ace specs leaked Online News Today - 4 Oct, 2011 Are you sick and tired of hearing about Nokia's Symbian-powered smartphones such as the X7 and the 701? Are you biting your fingernails in anticipation of the Finnish phone manufacturer's Windows Phone handsets? If this is the case, you might not have ...
Mango rollout going smoothly, now available to half of all Windows Phones Engadget - Brad Molen - 4 Oct, 2011 Bring. It. On. Rolling out a phone update tends to take a few weeks before it's available to everyone, so we were expecting Windows Phone to have its share of hiccups when doling Mango out to several different ...
	Nokia Ace and Sabre specs leak VR-Zone - Lg Nilsson - 4 Oct, 2011 Details of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 7 handsets are starting to appear if we're to believe the rumours. As with every other Windows Phone handset maker, Nokia seems to be limited to the same Qualcomm SoC and in this case it's the MSM8x55 depending ...
Windows Phone Mango now available to 50 percent of users IntoMobile - Marin Perez - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft started pushing out Windows Phone Mango last week to select customers and the company just announced that it will be making this available to more and more users. About 50 percent of Windows Phone users will now be able to download the major ...
Microsoft 'opens the spigot' and sends Mango to 50% of eligible handsets The Next Web (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011 Things continue to look up for Windows Phone, as good news mounts in successive reports. Today Microsoft announced that the Mango update roll out process is ahead of schedule, and due to the lack of issues thus far in its delivery, ...
What's New in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango? Online PR News (press release) - 4 Oct, 2011 Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone Mango offers a ton of opportunity for Developers looking to create great looking mobile websites and applications. Online PR News �" 03-October-2011 �"Ever since Windows Phone first shipped almost a year ago there has been ...
With Mango's arrival, Windows Phone garners new momentum The Next Web (blog) - 4 Oct, 2011 Windows Phone, previously maligned for its poor sales and lacking feature set, appears now to be enjoying new momentum. HTC, a giant in the mobile space, has made it known that Windows Phone devices now comprise some 30% of its total unit volume. ...
Digitimes: Windows Phone 7 market share to grow to 5% in Q4 2011 WMPoweruser.com - 4 Oct, 2011 Gartner claimed Microsoft mobile market share was just 1.6% in Q2 2011. Digitimes, citing industry sources, has a more optimistic forecast, suggesting Windows Phone sales will hit 5% market share in Q4 2011. Citing the release of Nokia Windows Phone ...