To promote the Windows Phone mobile line, and its recent update, the Mango release, Microsoft is taking its smartphone platform around the United States, throwing parties in its name, dishing...

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Good news Windows Phone handset owners: provided that you do not live in Spain, the Mango update is yours for the taking. After a remarkably (in comparison to the NoDo...

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It is Friday, which means that it is time for us to gather around the fire and talk about the last seven days of Microsoft. Oddly, most of the juicy...

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The Windows Phone "Mango" update adds Twitter integration to the platform. Microsoft's Andy Myers explains how this all looks and works in a blog post this week.


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Windows Phone "Mango" is the first major upgrade to Microsoft Windows Phone 7. Devices may appear (depending on whose rumors you read and believe) as early as this week. One of the things you can expect from the Mango update is a much improved camera and photo handling subsystsems. Here's what Microsoft tells us we can expect to see that will make taking and sharing photos a lot easier and more fun.


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One of the features that was in Windows Mobile but missing in Windows Phone was the ability to tether another device to share the phone's 3G wireless data service. WPCentral reports that this much needed feature is returns with the upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update.


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Fujitsu announced the availability of the first Windows Phone 7.5 ("Mango") device in the world. But, there's something unsettling about the announcement. Fujitsu Launches Windows Phone IS12TWhen Windows Phone 7 was announced and released last year, it delivered a mix bag. On one hand, tech pundits seemed to love its fresh Metro graphical user interface design. Personally, I use it as my primary voice phone because it deals with calls they way I like. On the other hand, it left out features that [...]

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Microsoft's "Mango" update for Windows Phone is will be available in some form next month. The update is a significant one that includes movement to multitasking, enhanced voice commands and integration of the People Hub with Twitter. The Windows Phone Developer Blog offers a number of tips for developers who will be submitting app updates for the Mango release. There is, however, one tip that should cause concern to current Windows Phone 7 users. Read on…What happens when I publish a Wind [...]

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Image courtesy of PocketNow.When I asked my friend Adam Lein, of Pocket Now, what he feature in Windows Phone "Mango" stood out the most to him, he said that speech recognition was the big winner for him. Microsft apparently concurs with Adam's opinion because they wrote about this in the official Windows Phone blog and featured Adam's video demonstration (see below).Look who’s talking: Speech in MangoMicrosoft calls Mango's speech recognition feature voice-to-text. It focuses primarly on messag [...]

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The only thing better than a leak is six leaks, which is exactly what we have for you today. Bundled nicely in the form of a 2011 LG Roadmap (discovered by PocketNow), five Android smartphones and one Mango-powered handset have found their way to the web.

Along with the recently announced Optimus Pro and Optimus Net, LG has quite a bit more in store for the rest of the year. However, we don’t expect that this is the entirety of LG’s 2011 smartphone lineup, so if you can’t find something you li [...]

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