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Windows Phone Tango1 update arriving in early 2012?

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<img alt="Windows Phone in Thailand" class="size-full wp-image-90914 aligncenter" height="200" mce_src="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8630/06windowsphonethailand.jpg" src="http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8630/06windowsphonethailand.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="Windows Phone in Thailand" width="300" />Microsoft released its Mango update for Windows Phone devices last week, and it looks like the company could already be gearing up to release the next big update for its mobile operating system. According to reports online, Microsoft Thailand’s Managing Director, Birathon Kasemsri Na Ayudhayay; the company is set to launch its “biggest consumer brand campaign” later this year and was quoted as saying: “[Microsoft] plans to collaborate with global phone makers Nokia, Samsung, HTC and LG to push its mobile OS to second in the smartphone market by 2015… It will introduce Windows Phone version 7.5 with Thai language support early next year.”</div>
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Windows Phone Tango1 update arriving in early 2012?

Microsoft released its Mango update for Windows Phone devices last week, and it looks like the company could already be gearing up to re...

Caller ID announcement spotted in Windows Phone 7 Mango

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Caller ID announcement spotted in Windows Phone 7 Mango

It seems that phones in the past had more customizability than they do today. I remember being able to get customized logos which replac...

Ovi Maps APIs will be supported in Windows Phone 7 Mango

<img alt="nokiaovimaps" border="0" height="158" src="http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9708/nokiaovimaps.png" style="background-image: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" title="nokiaovimaps" width="372" /><br/><br/>We know that Ovi Maps forms a big part of the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. From this post in Nokia’s developer forums we learn that Nokia’s existing developer APIs for Ovi maps will also be supported in Windows Phone 7 Mango, which should help developers port their existing apps to Windows Phone 7 easily.<br/><br/>We already know Nokia is now very dependent on Microsoft executing well, but it seems the solutions of the two companies will also become incredibly intertwined, with Nokia’s Ovi Maps becoming a central part of the Windows Phone 7 offering for all OEMs, suggesting even if Microsoft did not actually take the step of marrying Nokia, they will certainly be living together very soon, with neither company able to step away cleanly from the partnership without significant disruption.<br/><br/><em>Thanks</em> <strong>Tony</strong> <em>for the tip.</em>

Ovi Maps APIs will be supported in Windows Phone 7 Mango

We know that Ovi Maps forms a big part of the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. From this post in Nokia’s developer forums we learn t...