Today MicrosoftbyWindows phone VIP Reception gave the President of the mobile communication Andy Lees and senior Windows phone product manager Derek Snyder us a quick rundown of what to expect out of the latest version of the Windows Phone platform, WP7.1 or "Mango."
Although he had not time to cover all 500 new features, centering around the focus specific communications, programs, and the way we use mobile internet. Microsoft has, together with the current service offerings in the people Hub Facebook, such as Hotmailand at Gmailgone ahead and added LinkedIn Twitterand.
Mango will also lead a groups feature that allows multiple people to communicate across multiple platforms, while at the same time integrating them, profiles, pictures, and a group of all the events and message shared history. Instead of only being able to communicate with groups that all share the same hardware-producer, Mango employs Windows Live Messenger Facebook Chat and stay connected with friends, including those with other phones.
Another message upgrade is an adjustment of call history, which integrates voice mail, missed calls, text messages and any calendar events with regard to that particular contact. Speech to text will also offer a complete hands-free mobile experience for texts, which was absolutely impressive in the demo.
Mango upgrade also all the different Windows phone Hubs, most markedly pictures, Office, and Xbox Live. Mango offers what Microsoft has called people-centric images, which employs facial recognition software to quickly tag, and share with your friends right from the photos app.
Office experience has also undergone a bit of a useful. Mango will support Office 365 together with SkyDrive (which offers users 25 GB of free storage space). Office in Mango brings only on identical functionality to the mobile, allows users to highlight and arrange cells in Excel or make changes in a Word document, and save without worrying about any misleading information. Xbox Live Hub basic brings all your gaming experiences to app in one place in Mango, offers friends scores, the integration of a cute little avatar and offer a quick-CV experience during multi-tasking.
Finally, Mango includes and use Internet Explorer 9, which uses hardware acceleration, and supports HTML5 to deliver a fast experience. When tested against the iPhone 4, BlackBerry Torch and Samsung Droid Charge, Windows phone running Mango blew in other browsers out of the water, provides 27 frames per second, compared with Blackberry's 4 fps and Android's 10 fps. IPhone 4 will not be able to get started.
Bing is also very deeply embedded in the browsing experience. An information search will bring up a quick card to a specific film, event, place, business. Quick Card offers all kinds of information could be requested including upcoming events or other nearby restaurants in the neighborhood. Talk of the neighborhood, offers Mango also a feature called local Scout, which organizes sites by category for each individual neighborhood. Also, if you have had a voice, Mango Bing is a real treat as Windows phone 7 1 will cause Bing Vision. With Bing Vision, you can just snap a picture of a QR code, a 2D bar code, or even a book cover, to educate a fast card for the product in question.
Mango will hit users in the case, according to Mr. Lees, but developers can get their hands on the SDK now.