Yes, it’s now finally official – Windows Phone Mango brings heaps of new features. The announcement however doesn’t come from New York, but rather straight from the heart of Eastern Europe, namely – Romania. The local Microsoft’s website has the full press release and here’s a summary of what we have in the new version of the Windows Phone platform:
- Multitasking,
- Internet Explorer 9,
- Built-in speech-to-text and text-to-speech,
- Threaded conversations,
- Groups,
- Better integration with social networks,
- Linked inbox allowing you to control multiple email accounts,
- Connect app for better organizing your applications,
- Improved Live Tiles.
We've counted nine, which leaves 491 left, but - leaving all jokes aside - we are sure to hear in much detail about all of them as we're live covering the event live. For current WP7 phone owners the new update will be "freely available," so that means full legacy support. The update will be widely released "at the beginning of this summer."
Redmond has also released a Windows Phone Mango SDK Beta with updates including new features and will come with more than 1500 APIs for:
- Multitasking withing apps for switching, background processing and file transfers,
- Deeper phone integration with features like Live Tiles
- Access to the camera and Motion Sensor library
More information and a download link about the much anticipated update is in the download link below, while machine translated full press release awaits you at the source link below with all the tiny details.
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source: Microsoft Romania via WMPowerUser
download: Windows Team Blog
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