Windows Phone

We are all very happy to see the Mango release, and up to this point the upgrades have been going incredibly well for Microsoft's first major upgrade to the Windows Phone platform. However, there have been some reports (on the XDA Forums, Twitter, etc) of some onscreen keyboards disappearing. There have been reports from other sources stating that it doesn't to be a device specific issue. There also have been some mobile phone authorities mentioning that this issue was existent in the beta Mango release, and is still not fixed.

Google' mobile Operating System (or OS) is Andriod. Microsoft's mobile OS is Windows Phone. Apple's mobile OS is iOS. Nokia's old OS Symbian and now is Windows Phone. Samsung's OS? Bada.

What does Windows Phone have going for it? A few things, but mainly a great, unique user interface (UI). Sure there is back office connectivity, sure there is seemless integration sharepoint... but overall what Windows Phone has going for it is that it has a standard UI that does not look like an iPhone. So what if you could get that killer interface on an Andriod phone?.. Launcher7 is a a free launcher that you can purchase at the Android Market that allows you to get the Windows home screen experiance, while using your android device.

Joe Belfiore tweeted that there has been a video chat video released. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNwUv4dQFCk

In Turkey, at the Qualcomm Inovation 2011 confernce, Cristiano Amon, the vice president of Product Development said :

"When we go to the Windows Phone 8, we can with the fact that we can work with them (Microsoft) and our work position speed look forward to probably be the first to market with a Windows Phone 8 pllatform"

Although there are some cases in Asia where you can get the Mango update to your Windows Phone OS (such as upgrading in Taiwan or installing a leaked update in Japan), most of us will have to wait until Fall. We have been hoping that the update will be coming sooner as we have seen and heard from people using the Mango update. So what is the hold up!?!?! Could this be an example of Microsoft and the Carriers partnering to sell more hardware? I guess it's possible.

Great instructions on how to update your Windows Phone Software. Easy instructions:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics/how-do-i-update-my-phone-software.aspx

We found a great page that shows the updates that have been sent out via Windows Phone Update.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/basics/update-hist...