According to Microsoft’s official Windows Phone Blog, the Windows Phone 7 Mango Update should be available to all existing WP7 devices within another week or two. The Windows Team indicates it won’t be pushed to your phone OTA when the time comes, so you’ll need updated versions of the Zune for PC or Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac installed on your computer.
Looks like this time around the Update may come out the same day, unlike with No-Do when it was over several weeks.
A newly leaked marketing render of HTC’s upcoming Omega Windows Phone has surfaced the inter webs of today. Specs include :
Microsoft has just outed the new “We’re In” location sharing app for Windows Phone 7 Devices. The App is free to download in the marketplace and is available now.
The App works on a time based location sharing scheme, first you invite someone to share their location and then you specify for how long the location sharing has to go on. It does bring in Location based networking features of Foursquare.
Today we’re happy to announce the release of the “We’re In” app for Windows Phone.
We’re In makes organizing get- together’s, carpooling and trying to find people in a crowd a breeze. Any time you want to see where your friends are—We’re In can help you. It’s simple, invite your friends, and when they join, they’ll see your location and you’ll see theirs. When the invite expires, so does the shared location – no complicated process to worry about.
We’re In is a great way to save time and frustration when planning your roadtrip or meeting your friend at the mall – helping you connect with your friend faster. Let’s take a closer look at the new We’re In product features and how they work.
We’ve made We’re In super simple to use – all you need is your phone number to sign up. Simply invite your friends (via your contacts) to start sharing location info with each other including who, why, and how long:
Pick your friends from the contact list or enter their phone number, tell them what the plan is. At this point you can choose how long you want to share location info.
Your friends receive a text message with these details. They can use the app to join you or, for friends that don’t have a Windows Phone, they can join from the mobile website via the invite.
Seeing your friends on the map
As each of your friends joins you, their locations appear on the map. If you need to you can pan, pinch and stretch the map to see more or fewer of them. Everyone that joins can see everyone else’s location.
You can also update your status message to let your friends know what’s going on (you’re on your way, you’re going to be late, the first round has just arrived, important stuff they need to know). To see someone’s most recent status message, just tap their user tile on the map. To see status messages for everyone that’s joined, go to the People tab.
To stop sharing your location info at any time, just tap “leave” on the People tab. If you want, you can send them a status message to let them know that you’re leaving.
And when the time is up, the invite expires and location sharing stops. You don’t need to do anything.
“We’re In” is available as a Windows Phone application. We’re working on bringing this app to more devices, so stay tuned!
Nokia CEO seems to have retracted his earlier statement regarding the ups of the Google’s planned takeover of Motorola Mobility. At a seminar in Helsinki the Finnish CEO quoted some misdirects at Android device manufacturers, stating that the road ahead is bumpy if the takeover goes through as planned.
If I happened to be someone who was an Android manufacturer or an operator, or anyone with a stake in that environment, I would be picking up my phone and calling certain executives at Google and say ‘I see signs of danger ahead,The very first reaction I had was very clearly the importance of the third ecosystem and the importance of the partnership that we announced on February 11, it is more clear than ever,
-Stephen Elop, CEO Nokia
The final version of Mango has leaked and is available for download today. Known as build 7720, and it requires the post-NoDo update dubbed 7392.
Follow the link below to Xda-Developers where you will get instructions , warnings and files to update your device to the latest build.
A good experiment for the long Freedom weekend.
Chris Weber, President of Nokia’s US operations has wait that Nokia will cease Symbian products post the launch of Windows Phone devices in the North American operations.
When we launch Windows Phones we will essentially be out of the Symbian business, the S40 business, etc.”
-Chris Weber, President of Nokia US
This may also be due to huge losses by Nokia with their previous handsets in the market. The overall share of Nokia devices is at a all time low, especially in the smart phone segment. This also means that Symbian devices may go obsolete in the Near future in India as well.
HTC chief executive Peter Chou on Tuesday said that the Taiwan-based smartphone vendor is scheduled to launch between six and eight new smartphone models this quarter.
After their immense profit reporting in the last quarter and with over 12.1 Million phones shipped, the Taiwanese giant are planning to up the sales by introducing new units. the expected growth for Q3 is a million , taking total sales to 13 million.
Chou also stated that all of the devices HTC launches in the third quarter will be middle or high-end models, and therefore HTC has no plans to launch low-priced models in the market, uncompromised to price competition.
Microsoft confirmed on its Windows Team Blog on Monday that it has released the RTM build of Windows Phone “Mango” to manufacturing partners.
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,” explained Microsoft’s Windows Phone corporate vice president Terry Myerson.
Microsoft has said Mango will deliver more than 500 new features to the Windows Phone platform, including Internet Explorer 9 and deeper social network integration. Mango is also set to release sometime in August to all existing devices.
Microsoft also plans to release Nokia, HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE branded Windows Phone ‘Mango’ devices.
Fujitsu Toshiba mobile communications have just announced the au IS12T, world’s first Mango phone. The device is not only waterproof but also packs in decent specs including a massive camera.
Remember Chevron WP7, the first tool to allow jailbreak of WP7 devices, the makers later met with Microsoft and now have come out with a tool that will allow custom homebrew on your Windows Phone 7 for a mere price of $9. So unlock the potential in you WP7 device. The tweets from Chris Walsh (Chevron team) suggest that the Mango Update will re lock the device. So you better think twice before spotting that $9 for a quickie. Either way the tool will be out soon.
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Microsoft said in January, that the marketplace will cross the 25,000 Apps target in June and so it has. The marketplace, relatively slow, but has managed to cross the the 25,000 apps number . That’s a rapid jump from the 18,000 applications that were available in May but it is still far away from the number of apps offered by iOS and Android.
Android has over 200,000 Apps, whereas the Apple App Store has over 500,000 Apps and growing. Thats a huge target to close up and Microsoft thinks it can achieve a significant reduction in gap in the coming year thanks to the Mango update.
The top 5 downloaded apps are games including the recently released Angry Birds at number one follwed by Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1, Plants vs. Zombies at two and three.
Nokia recently announced the N9 with MeeGo and at the event, CEO Stephen Elop wanted to showcase a device to please the developers. He asked them to put their cameras away and not take pictures of the device, but who listens to CEOs anyway? Check out the new SeaRay!
Its the first Windows Phone 7 from Nokia and it runs the upcoming Mango Build. Check out the full video from the event below.
This week Rovio’s Peter Vesterbacka said that the smash hit game Angry Birds is now downloaded more than one million times per day. About 8 months ago in a similar situation the company had given the 2 million number for 2 days, i.e. 2 mill downloads in 2 days. But, for a similar trend to continue for so long is really applaudable.
Rovio’s super hit angry birds is available in various versions like Seasons, Standard and Rio. Angry birds is also the most cross platform game, available on iOS / Android / Mac / WebOS and soon on Windows Phone 7 Devices.
Eldar Murtazin snapped a few shots of an as-of-yet unnamed HTC device running Windows Phone. Identical to the HTC trophy. It has a 12 MP sensor similar to that of the Nokia N8. But the software feature allows the user to capture RAW unprocessed images.
Nokia has confirmed during the announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 Update “Mango” that the software showcased my Microsoft will be the actual stuff we would see on the First Generation of Windows Phone Devices from Nokia.
“Today Microsoft has announced the key new ingredients of the latest ‘Mango’ release of the Windows Phone operating system. This is the software that will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone device, and so should be of keen interest to Nokia-watchers everywhere.”
