Video: Windows Phone Mango Demoes.
Here’s a few more video demoes of Mango for Windows 7. These show just a few of the 500 updates Microsoft is promising to ship with Mango.
The first is a long half an hour overview of pretty much all the features. If you’ve got the time, it’s a pretty good watch.
Something cool that’s new to me – when you’re listening to your music on headphones and a message comes in, you can let that be read to you. What’s more, you can reply back in speech to text. These things we have in Symbian but not at this level of integration. You’ll notice that with Windows Phone, it’s all about the integrated out of the box experience. As much as possible it wants to tie everything relevant together.
It’s this type of integration in search/web/applications/locations that would actually make me want to use BING. Currently, I google search 99% of the time on my Windows Phone (partly because T-Mobile decided to turn the search bar into a google search when in web. tut, tut!).
If you’re a facebook user (and a lot of people seem to be) you’ll love what Windows Phone does with facebook and your contacts. It’s possibly your ultimate stalker phone. :p I like that pictures and interaction history view. I thought it would have pictures anyway, but currently FB only pulls photos from your own albums. Now it will find everyone elses. Interaction history shows you call calls/emails/texts/chats you’ve had with that person. Groups of course was something mentioned before. I wish it was there from the beginning – I mean this is pretty basic. One extra thing I like about this is how I can filter out my facebook contacts people into groups and see what people in those groups are doing; old school friends, family, housemate, course mates, work colleagues and of course your special “people i stalk” group :p. JK. This facebook integration in that way sort of lifts it from the already very useful grouping of contacts.
Office integration also nice with skydrive. I hope they do something more with MS Word though.
This one demos Bing Vision. It’s part of the improved search (Bing Audio for music) and with Bing Vision you can search DVDs and books using either the image of the product, QR code or barcode. Of course you could just type in search but this brings great integration again. Once found, you can find prices, descriptions, reviews and purchase that item from relevant related apps.
This one shows multitasking, bing audio, browser and Avatars. Jump to 3:00 to check out the new 3D animated Xbox live avatars. You can interact with them too, shake the phone and they actually fall over. I like it. I kinda want them to do more with Windows Phone like the infamous and obviously much loved MS Word Clippy! :p :p Maybe in Apollo eh?
I HATE portrait card multitasking BTW. I despise the appearance in WebOS, I hated it on Symbian^3, no better on BB Playbook and is just as annoying for me on Windows Phone? Why? I want my live grid view as in Maemo that changes size to fit how many things you’re multitasking. The layout meant it allowed users to change easily so that N900 is a true multitasking beast. I guess it might somehow look “cooler” and be “simpler” to a NEWBIE which is what WP caters for. MeeGo has the balance of both.
I also think there should be a multitask button. On maemo there was that menu come app view button. With a simple download you could make anything into a multitask button, from the camera button to the proximity sensor (it was really cool) bringing up multitask in one quick click or motion. I HATE long press. I find it takes time away (minimal but if you multitask a lot it gets annoying).
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I have a couple of things to say that I need to get off my chest… Basically Nokia was my favorite company of time I just wanted them to get there act together…..I will admit I had a windows 7 phone and it was very beautiful and fluid with basically almost zero bugs and I knew it would be a big the apps are very high quality some are even higher then the iphone apps…but when Nokia Joined with Nokia it pissed me off I wanted them to do good Separately …I basically said I would not support this and buy another windows phone or Nokia phone unless it was MeeGO….But at this point in time I calmed down and I said I would just accept what has happen I just want them to add flash at least as an option if you want it…..ovi maps with bing free turn by turn a dual core processor with at least 1Gb of ram and a 12 megapixel camera or up and a front facing camera and running LTE…..with an Anodized Aluminum it would be a plus with a sexy slide up keyboard or a keyboard like the E7 but I will take a all touch and then just then I will Love it.
I truly can tell that the mobile junkies will love the X box feature. If the talking cat was a trend this seems a more amazing. The avatar showing off the frustration when used rigorously tickles the funny bone and the graphics seem to be alluring. All I can say is great work!
@Rahul Aggarwal – Agree. I am no mobile junkie, but I am willing to create an XBox Live account if for nothing else but to have a little fun with the new avatar feature! I don’t have WP7 now, but I think that even today you can shake the phone and your avatar will fall down. It seems that in Mango, you will be able to do a whole lot more with the avatar. Plus, all of the other functional efficiencies that are coming with Mango really makes WP7 a very appealing OS. Am really looking forward to purchasing a Nokia WP7 device.
No offence but, I don’t see what’s so great with this OS. Too much swiping and unnecessary animations. Can’t we just tap on where we want to go? yes the animations may look fast and smooth. Definitely better than the current symbian. But I don’t quite see where does this OS shine. Simplicity, maybe? It could be great for people who are crazy about facebook, twitter etc. And maybe for smartphone newbies. But for hardcore users who wish to do more, maybe customize, or fiddle a little bit, this OS doesn’t seem to fit. And about the avatar..Pure gimmick? Or does it actually have a purpose?
As mentioned before, Windows Phone even with Mango isn’t for hardcore users. Symbian fans used to feature packed goodness might have to look elsewhere (wait on for Belle, new Symbian handsets coming).
There’s a lot to say about the ease of use and Windows Phone’s insistence on integrating experiences. Thus yes, it is great for FB/Twiter/smartphone news. Hardcore users who which something more customizable, you have MeeGo/Symbian/Android.
Why? Rapid, rapid growth of smartphone user base. Many first time smartphone users. Large proportion of smartphone users aren’t actually using it for smartphone capabilities. Smartphone of yesteryear was for smart people. Now, it’s for everyone. Simple is the key. Short learning curve, high reliability, minimal frustration. It would be interesting to see if MeeGo at least capitalized on some of this “user friendliness” too. That’s what Nokia accepted was needed (as well as hardware improvements) for their step 5 mass market version (though we know plans have changed slightly).
We’ve still got 400+ features from Mango to come though, to be shown over the next coming weeks until release.
Agreed.
Windows Phone is going after the market the iPhone appeals to, not power users who like customization.
It isn’t good or bad; it just is what it is (though it’s main problem is that Microsoft and the ‘Windows’ brand doesn’t have the ‘cool’ cachet that Apple has, not sure how they get past that).
Yes, for power users, there’s Android, Symbian, Meego and WebOS.
will custom ringtones be possible with the mango update?
Yes. You can have custom ringtones. I’m not sure to what extend their customizability lies (e.g like Symbian/Maemo where yo ucan load your tracks)
I em sorry to say, but this win7 is already in the end of tunnel, I would rather have WinXP sp3 on it than the rubbish win7!
Apple created the first touch screen multi touch based phone back in 2007. This excited & interested the public so much it caught on & changed the way we interact with technology, with mobiles forever.
This new technology from Nokia could be a leap ahead again & bringing something new to the public audience. If it’s going to be a simple new way of interaction between phone & user it just might catch on.
I hope the new Harmattan Meego OS really is revolutionary & is built purely for multi touch. This surely gives us a hint as to Nokia’s statements within the teaser ad “The Next Sense” does seem to imply that the new OS will be stuffed full with new innovative gesture based actions of which even IOS or Android haven;’t thought about yet.
Just like Maemo, every OS as a platform needs to bring something different from the rest of the competition. As long as it’s fusion of attractive UX simple, Intuitive, concept for anyone to grasp. It’s important that Meego bring something to combat Android. I’m pretty confident.
Knowing the potential of maemo could have had a lot going for it with the hildon desktop UI. It’s all about the design of the whole UI, the funcionality, compatiblity & extensibility with which the Linux OS can act like full OS within a mobile should bring more power than a Java front end Android for the cloud!
Virtuoso, please search before you spit comments around, bcz it is not apple who released first touchscreen phone so check this http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6708-1518.php
Nokia made touchscreen phones long before iphone ever existed.
It was to expensive gprs data for costumers, for nokia to release any greater touch devices, some of them was cancelled, otherwise favorite time for apple worked well by locking phones and selling them with contraction and data unlimited that attracted so much Americans to it and iphone gain popularity over top of the church.