A second beta build of Windows Phone Mango was released to developers yesterday even though the final version has gone gold two days ago. This second beta is close enough to final for developers to start finalizing their new applications, but we’re also interesting in what kind of consumer features may have changed since the previous beta from June. First off, the big ones are working Twitter and LinkedIn integration in the people hub. Well, …
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Sharing Pictures on Twitter with Windows Phone Mango
In addition to being able to follow your Twitter timeline, post text based tweets, see notifications of mentions, and reply/retweet other tweets, Windows Phone Mango also supports sharing photos on Twitter. It does not use any of those third party Twitter picture sharing services though. It uses SkyDrive. That’s right, when you hit the “Share” button in your pictures library and choose the “Twitter” option, you’ll get an interface similar to what you get when …
Continue readingVisual Voicemail UI Updated in Windows Phone Mango 7712
While the new developer build 7712 of Windows Phone Mango was just released, we’re frantically digging around for new features. Here’s one, the visual voicemail interface has been updated. Instead of just a play button on the left, you tap the name of the caller in the visual voicemail tab and while the voicemail plays you also get a few extra buttons for calling the person back, accessing their contact card, and deleting the voicemail. …
Continue readingWindows Phone Mango Build 7712 Sent to Developers
Well this is quite a surprise! I just plugged in my Windows Phone to Zune in order to charge up the battery a bit, and low-and-behold an update to the Windows Phone Mango beta build is available! The update brings your developer provisioned Windows Phone up to build 7712 of the highly-anticipated Windows Phone update. While this is not the final RTM gold master version of Mango, it is pretty close. The Windows Phone SDK …
Continue readingHTC Pushing Update to the HD7 Today
Some of you with HTC HD7 Windows Phones may have noticed an update has become available in Zune today. No, it is not the final version of Mango. It’s called “HTC Update for Windows Phone” and you probably won’t notice much of a differnce after the update, but this does apply to T-Mobile USA and International versions of the HTC HD7. The update does not seem to be being pushed to the HTC HD7S at …
Continue readingWindows Phone Mango RTM’d For Real This Time
A few days ago we had heard that Windows Phone Mango had been released to manufacturing so that OEM’s could start producing final versions of their new phones. That turned out to be inaccurate, however today we do have real confirmation that Windows Phone’s Mango update has been released to manufacturing as you can see by Terry Myerson’s blog post on the Windows Phone Blog. That means now we have to wait for mobile operators …
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