Windows Phone “Mango” Features

by bhavikv 22. May 2011 07:32

Ps. I work for Microsoft, but I am no way associated with Windows Phone Team. I have no idea about the actual list of Features of WP7 “Mango” Update.

Here’s the list from NeoWinand WinRumors for ready reference.

Outlook Conversation View - Emails combined together in threads
Lync Messaging Client - Enterprise messaging client
Twitter integration - Tweets integration into people hub
Office 365 integration - Office 365 features built-in
Bing Vision - Scan QR, Microsoft Tags, books, CDs and DVDs
Bing Audio - Similar to Shazam, will identify songs
Windows Live Messenger integration - Integrated into the people hub and messaging hub
Facebook Chat integration - Integrated into the people hub and messaging hub
AOL Messenger integration - Integrated into the people hub and messaging hub
Contacts grouping - Create groups of contacts to send messages to
Xbox LIVE sync function - Sync function to likely sync settings/games across devices
Now playing artist information on lock screen - album art on the lock screen
Visual Voicemail support - Visual voicemail using same method as iOS/Android
Network awareness NCSI support - improvements for switching between networks/optimization
Internet Explorer 9 mobile - HTML5 support and hardware acceleration
Multitasking support - switch quickly between apps
Fast application resume - quickly resume recently used apps
Podcast support - download podcasts via the Marketplace
Turn-by-turn navigation in Bing Maps - voice guided directions and turn-by-turn
SMS dictation - Microsoft tellme dictates messages
East Asian Language keyboard support - additional language support
Handwriting and dictionary support - support for writing Chinese characters
Pin Outlook Folders - Pin folders as favorites inside Outlook
SkyDrive integration - Access SkyDrive documents from Office Hub
Kinect support for games - interact with Kinect and Xbox games from Windows Phone
Outlook email server search - search Exchange servers from Outlook client
Complex (alpha-numeric) password support - strong number and character password support
Information Rights Management - support for protecting e-mails and Office documents
Ringtone support - third party ringtone support
App list - automatically detect list, implemented jump list and search for apps
Marketplace search improvements - apps, podcasts, music separated for easy search
App install improvements - progress bar install UI
Search extras - User search actions can be connected to third-party apps
Motion Sensor - apps to use new gyroscope hardware
Background audio - apps can run audio in the background
File download service - third-party apps can download files from the web
Alarms - alarm notifications for third-party apps
Pin app features - Users can pin live tiles of deep app features in third-party apps
Zune Smart DJ mix - allows users to discover new music and save/create playlists
Camera sound toggle - users can now disable the camera shutter sound
WiFi improvements - support for hidden SSID networks

This list is impressive! I bet it can be released as WP8 Winking smile

Again this is not the confirmed list of features, so cant comment on it. But I am excited! Are you? Smile

Regards,
Bhavik

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Comments (1) -

Elaina Kaderlik
6/20/2011 3:01:29 AM #

Cell Phones are also seen as a reputation symbol. Just as it became socially unacceptable in the late 1990s not to have an email address, it will become increasingly unforgivable in the next several years not to communicate via Smartphone.

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