Microsoft has announced that the Windows Phone Mango (7.5) release date will be sometime within the next 1 to 2 weeks. In a fairly short blog post the company confirmed that partner companies around the world have been working hard over the last few months to get the new update ready for launch.
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Could Arrive on Vodafone Tomorrow
September 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Vodafone group is expected to begin the roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango tomorrow (September 21). The roll out will cover all the network by the end of the month from what we have heard today.
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Rumoured for September 15 Launch
September 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft could be launching Windows Phone 7.5 Mango as early as this week. Rumoured dates have hinted at September 15 being the release date of the OS and we are now hearing more supporting evidence that confirms this to be so.
Microsoft to Launch Windows Phone 7 Mango on September 1 – Rumour
August 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
It is likely that Microsoft will be launching the next version of Windows Phone 7 to users on September 1st. The new update codenamed Mango will be made available to those compatible devices.
Motorola Want a Windows Phone 7 Deal Like Nokia
August 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Motorola is currently focussed on using Android in its smartphones. This could change in the future though as the CEO Sanjay Jha has recently commented that they would be willing to use Windows Phone 7 as an OS if Microsoft was willing to give them a similar deal as to what Nokia has.
Before signing any deal with Microsoft the company would need to evaluate the future of the Windows Phone 7 operating system:
However, he said that beyond Android and Apple’s iOS, it’s not clear which smartphone platforms will survive in the long term. He said he does not think all three competing ecosystems–Windows Phone, Hewlett-Packard’s webOS and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry–can survive.
Skype To Bring Video Calling to Windows Phone 7
August 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By the end of 2011 you will more than likely be able to use Skype on your Windows Phone 7 smartphone to make video calls. This assumes you have a front facing camera of course.
Microsoft is currently hiring someone “…for building and optimizing the Skype Video Engine solution for Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone platforms.”. This strongly indicates that Skype video calling will be coming soon to WP7 smartphones.
Microsoft Gives Windows Phone a New Logo
August 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft has now released a new logo for Windows Phone. The new logo is part of the Mango update and has appeared in the latest build 7710 and all those that follow.
The logo is more basic than the previous version and is flat and somewhat looks like the tile system that Microsoft use on Windows Phone smartphones.
Windows Phone 7 Mango will First Arrive on Fujitsu IS12T
July 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You might have already seen a picture of the Fujitsu IS12T earlier on today when I mentioned that Microsoft had signed off the Mango update as RTM (released to manufacturer). This particular smartphone is expected to be the first hardware that will run Mango.
Microsoft Windows Phone Mango Gets RTM
July 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft has announced on the Windows Phone Blog that the Windows Phone development team have now released to manufacturing the latest version of WP7 called Mango. What the RTM phase means is that the code is now handed out to smartphone manufacturers so they can begin testing on new hardware and prepare their smartphones for launch on to various networks around the world.
Windows Phone 7 Mango Update ROM Leaked
June 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Windows Phone 7.1 Mango ROM has leaked. The leaked ROM is build number 7629 and was grabbed from the SDK emulator image. One problem with it is that it’s not possible to use it on a WP7 smartphone due to it being x86. Details of where to get the build from and what has been found within so far can be found at XDA Developers.
Nokia Could Create Windows Phone App Store
June 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Nokia is rumoured to be creating an app store for its new smartphones launching later this year. The app store will include Windows Phone 7 apps as well as apps for other platforms that Nokia supports such as S40 and Symbian.
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Now has 20,000 Apps
May 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Microsoft is seeing some decent growth in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Over the last few days the total number of approved apps has hit 20,000. At the time of writing this there are 20237 apps in the Marketplace and out of those, 1174 are currently inactive. We also lean from wp7applist that 48% of those are free and that the average price of an app is $1.44.
