'Mango' update on Windows Phone to offer unique audio, voice features

The interview of Brandon Watson, director of developer experience for Windows Phone, conducted by the Windows Phone Dev Podcast has disclosed that the Mango update will be launched on the Windows Phone platform in late 2011, but the release date is yet to be announced.

‘Mango’ update features
The forthcoming ‘Mango’ will include Bing Audio to recognize any songs playing in the surrounding area, while its Bing Vision, an enlarged and improved reality feature will help it scan barcodes, QR Codes etc.

It will also include voice guided navigation as well as an SMS dictation feature, says the online report.

According to earlier declarations, the new Windows Phone version 7.5 will have multitasking facility and speedier version of the browser Internet Explorer.

According to a recent data, only 6 percent of customers voted for a Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7 smartphone as their next gadget.

Separately, a panel of top Microsoft developers is ready to unveil the updated Windows Phone Developer Tools for designing more high-performance applications.

The report states that the new tools will be much more effective as well as efficient for audio and file transfer, swift application processing, and application multitasking.

Microsoft fighting to come up on top
According to a recent data, only 6 percent of customers voted for a Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7 smartphone as their next gadget.

Android is the first preference of 31 percent users, 30 percent voted for Apple’s iOS, and 11 percent for Research In Motion’s BlackBerry.

In the first six months of its release, Windows Phone could retain only a small share of the overall smartphone market,

However, the expert professionals at the Microsoft Corporation have been consistently trying to make its Windows Phone popular among of users in order to give its competitors a tough fight.