Tag: mango

Microsoft encourages developers to hack away at Mango

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We say tinker away with Mango and enjoy the juice… But beware the fine print — unlocking phones may void your warranty. Microsoft’s Bill Cox on All Thing D, showing yet again that the Microsoft Dev Team want people to hack around with Windows Phone to see what it can do. Stories like this are going to help developer adoption, detoxify Microsoft, and help build up trust between Redmond and the hackers. Which is a great thing to do. Oh and if you don’t want to hack, they’ve said every phone will get the mango update in the fullness of

RWW looks at Windows Phone Mango before bowling a backhanded compliment

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How weird is it that Microsoft is the company doing the “think different” routine in mobile? Instead of searching for apps, a task which many first-time smartphone users are overwhelmed by due to the sheer quantities available, users just search and the apps find them. This might be the most overlooked of all of Mango’s updates, but it’s the one that could have the biggest impact on the mobile application economy going forward… That is, if Microsoft can ever sell enough of these phones for it to matter.