Smartphone Users Getting a Taste of “Mango”

Microsoft has released the newest version of its Smartphone software Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”. The updated OS includes several upgrades to its suite of communication tools, vastly improving the communication hub of Windows Phone. It supported Facebook and Windows Live integration before, but Mango adds support for LinkedIn and Twitter as well. You can check out your friends’ social updates while browsing through your contacts. Microsoft has developed advanced algorithms for matching Twitter and LinkedIn handles to contacts in your phone. Live messages to small groups and threaded conversation feeds from Facebook and Windows Live messaging, in addition to SMS. Apps are getting the bulk of Microsoft’s love, though. The upgraded OS is designed to make Windows Phone’s 30,000+ apps more discoverable, useful and accessible. Microsoft has introduced a web version of Windows Marketplace so users can browse apps from their desktop. Its improved Live Tiles will deliver richer information from apps. Not only that, but users can create multiple Live Tiles from the same app. For example, if you love Glee, you can now pin that show from Netflix to your home screen. The upgrade also allows app multitasking, so you don’t have to close one app in order to open another. Such changes are geared to make Microsoft more competitive with Apple and Google in the smartphone market.