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. …
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Windows 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 …
Continue readingOS-Wide Chat Coming to Windows Phone 7.5?
In a regular developer communication newsletter, it seems Microsoft may have mentioned a few new features of Windows Phone 7.5 that we haven’t heard about before. The newsletter mentions “support for real time communication and messaging and a broader connectivity to Skydrive.” Neowin thinks the real-time communication and messaging thing might mean a fully integrated Windows Live Messenger feature, possibly to include Facebook chat like the desktop version of Windows Live Messenger (as well as …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Review
The Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update is finally here! If you’ve already read our “Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview” from June, you’ve got a good idea of the huge amount of features that come with this update. This review will recycle some of that content in case you haven’t seen it before, but we’ll also bring you up to speed on the latest final changes that have arrived to Microsoft’s latest mobile phone platform. …
Continue readingWhy Windows Phone Mango Can’t Edit Older Office Documents
If you remember reading our Ultimate Windows Phone 7 Mango Preview back in June, we discovered that the new version of Office 2010 included with Mango was no longer able to edit Office documents from versions older than Office 2007. This was surprising and odd since the current Windows Phone 7 NoDo devices are certainly capable of editing Office 97-2003 files both recieved in email and stored on SharePoint. I decided to ask Office Mobile …
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