Tuesday, May 24, 2011

WP7 Mango features

These are features that were announced and demo'ed during today's Microsoft press event on Windows Phone 7.
  • Notifications are pushed to "smarter" live tiles.
  • Live Tiles light up, flip around.
  • Twitter and LinkedIn are now integrated.
  • People Hub shows pictures from all social networks.
  • Groups let you bunch related people together.
  • Live Messenger.
  • Facebook Chat.
  • Smarter keyboard that predicts the next word for you.
  • SMS to chat for continuing conversations.
  • More emails options like flagging an e-mail as 'do not forward'.
  • Calendar shows Facebook events.
  • Text to speech and voice recognition.
  • Facebook tagging/face detection built in.
  • More integration with Skydrive/Office 365.
  • You can now jump out of a game quickly and back in again without losing your progress.
  • Multi-tasking.
  • IE9-Hardware acceleration.
  • IE9-HTML5 support.
  • IE9-App Connect, handing off a search result to an app.
  • Greater international support.
  • Photo-to-search feature.
  • Proximity search for local stores,events,etc.
Over 500 features added but all have not been listed yet. I am hoping they separated the volume controls. My ear drums are suffering in the meantime.

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