This week it’s the Mobile World Congress. It’s the same event that Microsoft official announced the new Windows Phone 7 to the world. One year later Microsoft use the same event to publish more informations about the upcoming updates.
Currently there is an update scheduled to be release very soon (was supposed to be release at the end of January but was postponed). We should see the update at the beginning of March. This update will provide some updates like:
- Copy & paste (which is now available in latest release of the developer tools)
- Support for CDMA
- some performance improvement
Later this year (maybe in the next 6 month) Microsoft is scheduling a major update. This update is called “Mango” and will provide a lot of nice improvement:
- Internet Explorer 9
- Skydrive Integration
- Multi-Tasking (some information about that feature will be available at MIX11)
- and more
So now that Nokia is now an official partner for the Windows Phone, i can only imagine that this will help the platform to progress. What we see from the Windows Phone is only the top of the iceberg, the future is very interesting. Microsoft is already talking about an integration with the Kinect (see the video).
If you want more information about the latest news on Windows Phone I suggest the following sites:
http://www.wpcentral.com/
http://windowsphonesecrets.com/
Regards,
LP