“Earlier this morning, the Windows Phone development team officially signed off on the release to manufacturing build of ‘Mango’ – the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system. This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile operator partners to optimize Mango for their specific phone and network configurations. Here on the Windows Phone team, we now turn to preparing for the update process. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and of course will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones.” Myself and those three others who use a WP7 device rejoice.
The two remaining users of WP7, please.
Please remind me to say something along these lines the next time there’s an Ubuntu release.
Why? I personally know more than a handful of Ubuntu users… I’m sure others do too.
The numbers of Ubuntu users I know is rapidly declining. Many have switched to Debian as they get increasingly frustrated with Canonical for releasing such buggy code.
I actually do know a hand full of WP7 users. They’re pretty happy with the devices as well. In any case this is OSNews, popularity of an OS ( mobile or not) should have no bearing on the newsworthy-nes of the story.
Arch Linux mounts me like a donkey and I like it!
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/me shows major man boobage
I also raise my hand! And what is Ubuntu? 😉
Edited 2011-07-27 12:30 UTC
Okay so we got everybody in here. Awesome! No chicks?
Aww.
My wife has a WP7 phone, so I’ll raise a hand for her.
*Raises my hand*
I can’t wait to see how much this release improves the user experience.
This is definitely goods news, now the hardware vendor should put that in a some powerful & beautiful devices!!!
It seems they are turning Windows Phone 7 into a “feature phone”. Ie not a smart phone.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango_%28WP7%29
I mean linkedin, twitter, facebook etc, are part of the OS itself.
Edited 2011-07-27 15:43 UTC
Er, having more features out of the box makes the phone somehow less of a smartphone?
Well if i don’t like a feature that came pre installed/configured on my smart phone i can uninstall/hide it.
Can you uninstall/hide the “people hub” on windows phone 7 or “Facebook Places” or “Windows Live Messenger” ?
If not then these are “features” of the phone meaning its a “feature phone”.
Did Microsoft keep its original pledge to be the gatekeeper regarding the timing and push of updates for WP7 phones or did they cave into the carrier demands?
I don’t own one, so I don’t have any idea but during the product launch that was what they were saying. Kinda found it hard to believe, wondering if it actually worked out?
…Altho’ I don’t know how much longer it will last the way I treat it.
I am looking forward to the Fall (Autumn) when new phones come out with forward facing cams, updated hardware specs, etc.
Right now I have an account with ATT and with T-Mobile. I’ll ditch the HD7 for a new model and leave T-Mobile and stick with old ATT account, but with a new WP7 phone.
OH! For those of you with the HD7, did you get your hardware update? I just got mine yesterday. Finally the camera works like you would hope. Apparently there were some changes with wi-fi and cell connections that are for the better as well, but I haven’t tested them.