Mango is Coming

Yesterday Microsoft officially announced the next version of the Windows Phone 7 software. Communications and more interactivity on tiles, integration with Twitter and LinkedIn is now available on the tile view (very cool)! Here are some of the highlights that I took away from the press release.

• Group communication looks cool
• Visual voicemail is very cool, soon my Windows Phone will be like my old iPhone!
• Threads looks cool
• E-mail is getting better (one of the reasons I bought this phone in the first place)!

One of the best features of this phone has been the integration with Facebook and Windows Live, in Mango everything looks better in this regard.

Also, another observation! I could not view the press conference on my Samsung Windows Phone 7, hopefully Mango will have built-in Silverlight. I'm going to view the press conference again to make sure that I did not miss anything. In any case I'm glad to see that Microsoft is finally giving the Windows Phone some much needed love!