While Apple’s new “Siri” speech interface on the iPhone 4S may have a few more features and a little more intelligence than Windows Phone’s current speech interface, Microsoft isn’t standing still has been working on similar features for a while now. They put together this video that was released months ago of how a future version of Windows Phone will work with a more natural, personalized, and adaptive speech interface. Microsoft also shows how this …
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Amaze 4G Launch Party
T-Mobile throws some pretty good parties! Last night we attended the T-Mobile 4G Factory Live launch event for the new Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Amaze 4G. In addition to T-Mobile, the party was also hosted by Nur Khan of Electric Room, Rassi Mazdack of Milk Gallery, and Hillary Kerr & Katherine Power of “Who What Wear”. About 500 people attended the party including a few A-List celebrities such as Khloe Kardashian, Chace Crawford, …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango Lets You Correct Bing (Video)
In our Windows phone Mango preview device there’s a nice new feature in the menu for Bing locations that lets you suggest changes or corrections. It only shows up in searches for locations really, but it’s a good way to easily help Bing fix some of the errors or recent changes to local places that you may come across. When you tap the “suggest changes” command, it will load a webpage with fields relating to …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango Multilingual Keyboard (Video)
We’ve had a few requests to see how the multilingual keyboard works on the upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, so here you go! First off, you have to go into the settings area and then “keyboard”. From there, check off each language you want to be supported in the keyboard. After you have more than one, whenever you have the keyboard open there will be a language button at the bottom next to the spacebar. …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango RTM’d UPDATE: Not Yet
We’ve heard rumors and seen a video of the Nokia Sea Ray running what is expected to be the final version of Windows Phone Mango, but now we’re also hearing confirmation from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast that the much-anticipated update has already been released to manufacturers. That means they can start producing new devices with the final code if they haven’t already. The gold build number is expected to be 7710 which is a …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Update Released Now!
The mango juice has started pouring! Today’s the day when Microsoft starts pushing the 7.5 “Mango” update to original Windows Phones that were released over the past year. Not everybody is going to get the update pushed to their device right away today, but we can expect the process to go a lot more smoothly than it has in the past. Microsoft has done a lot of work to get all the ducks in a …
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