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Microsoft adds developer tools for Windows Phone 'Mango'
SOFTWARE COBBLER Microsoft has highlighted some of the features and developer tools that will come with the next version of Windows Phone that it is calling "Mango".
A feature called Live Agents will combine multitasking with "integrated experiences", resulting in real time interaction with customers via Live Tiles, Push Notifications, Deep Linking and Background Agents.
The company claims this is a major improvement to phone integration that will allow developers to do more with their applications.
The Motion Sensor library and camera will be opened up to developers, letting them create augmented reality applications. This is expanded further with socket and database access for games and apps.
Additional developer tools on the way include a profiler and emulator for testing, support for Silverlight and XNA in the same project, structured storage that enables access to an SQL database and the ability to access the calendar and contacts list through apps.
Microsoft also hopes to lure developers for Mango by promising to launch in 35 countries, expand its Marketplace and beta distribution, make it easier to find Windows Phone material through Bing and enhance monetisation options.
It expects to ship Mango later this year.
Microsoft also attempted to explain why it is delaying an update to Windows Phone 7, which will add basic functions like cut and paste that rival mobile operating systems already have in place.
The update was supposed to launch in early 2011, but the company said that it encountered problems with some of its partner manufacturers' phones, which resulted in an overhaul of the entire update process. Reuters reports that Microsoft asked users to be patient. µ
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@DaKinMan
You totally miss the point of LoseDoze Fone - users want to be able to install the internet on their phones and be able to browse the web and cut and paste and multitask and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if not IMPOSSIBLE to do with any other phone.
Give me my LoseDoze!
Uh, Kin Man...have you ever seen a Windows Phone? I have had one for 2 months...the OS can access the phone's camera and compass. What are you talking about?
I see a lot of negative comments about the Microsoft phone that appear to be from people who have never used one. My wife and I love ours...they are awesome.
The features that Microsoft is boasting about, are features that Windows Phone 7 does not have now.
Windows Phone 7 is a complete farce. For example, the OS cannot access the phone's camera or compass, because Microsoft hasn't written the APIs to do this. It hasn't got full multitasking. It can't read HTML5 websites or web applications.
Microsoft has promised that these basic features (that every other phone platform already has) will be added to Windows Phone 7 before the end of the year.
But don't trust them.
Look at Microsoft's actions rather than its words. Microsoft made a similar promise before. In November 2010, Arpan Shah, Microsoft's director for SharePoint, made a statement promising that Copy & Paste would be added to Windows Phone "in a matter of weeks".
People trusted Microsoft's word. They bought their Windows Phones, expecting them to be updated in a few weeks. Now, 5 months later, most people still do not have their update, and so their phones won't Copy & Paste.
To make bad things even worse, Microsoft has allowed carriers to delay Windows Phone updates even further. Some people who tried the update got their phones "bricked".
The same thing will happen again with the next rotten Mango update. Why would anyone put themselves through all this Windows Phone Pain & Suffering?