What Is Mango And NoDo Update?

NoDo & Mango…What Are They All About?

In my previous blog post, I, Introduced you all to what a Windows Phone 7 actually is? I tried to demystify its various features and capabilities and what would be the future of it.

In This article ,I would further elaborate what actually is(was) so hyped NoDo.

If you have owned or own a Smartphone than you might me familiar with the issue of Updates. Whether it is an iPhone ,or an Android or a Nokia Smartphone device, You might have actually connected it to the update server to fix some critical issues pertaining to Security vulnerability ,adding new feature and so on.

WP7(Windows Phone 7) as it was launched, got and overwhelming response about its build,quality and navigation but there was some serious improvements to be made.

A much Hyped and Needed Update was on the shelf for WP7. Codenamed “NoDo” .It is a group of updates aimed at adding the features of the much needed “Copy And Paste” feature in WP7.

“NoDo” brought the following features to WP7

· Copy And Paste : Just tap a word and drag the arrows to copy and paste it on your phone. You can copy text from emails, text messages, web pages, and Office Mobile documents, and paste it anywhere you can type.

· Faster apps and games:Nobody Likes to wait so does Microsoft.With this new “NoDo” update, the apps and games load very fast and consume little time to resume.

· Better Marketplace search. Marketplace search is streamlined to make it easier to find specific apps, games, or music. Just Press the Search button in the Apps or Games section of Marketplace and you’ll see only apps or games in the results. Pressing Search in the Music section of Marketplace will search just the music catalog.

· Other Marketplace improvements. Stability of Marketplace while you download apps was a key concern.Microsoft has improved the experience of downloading apps larger than 20 megabytes, upgrading from trial apps to paid apps, using a credit card with an address outside the United States, sharing links to apps via email, sorting Xbox LIVE games by release date, and creating an Xbox LIVE account from within the Games Hub.

· Wi-Fi improvements:Support Of Multiple Wi-Fi Networks has been updated.Now The User can store multiple Wi-Fi networks as it doesn’t require him to delete old ones to add a new one.

MAC(Media Access Control) has been updated in the Wi-Fi Profile ,so that you can now connect using your MAC Address

· Outlook improvements. The email attachments (pictures)sent from accounts like Gmail,Yahoo have a better display layout.

· Messaging improvements. Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages has got a greater flexibilty now.

· Facebook integration. Now Sync Facebook accounts and contacts all together in a single Hub.

· Camera improvements. Improvements in the stability of switching between camera and video modes.

· Audio improvements. Greater Flexibility of using a Bluetooth headset to make calls when you’re playing music or videos.

· Other performance improvements. “NoDo” update also houses Firmware updates from Specific different handset Manufacturers that add bonus features in their devices.

NoDo was a minor update.It was designed to bring performance enhancements to WP7.

Much Awaited ,Much Promising ,Much Hyped :The Mango Update

Mango Update has been in the news since an year or so. Microsoft Promises many improvements in the present WP7 with this Update. The Update Would eventually add a version to the Windows Phone i.e. WP 7.1 (Windows Phone 7.1) codenamed “Mango”.

Microsoft is pushing hard on Mango. This update is thought to change the way the user uses a cell phone. This update has been a prior concern for Nokia as Nokia is waiting Microsoft To officially release this update for the market and it can market its new Windows Phone 7 Nokia Phones.

The Update is ought to release in the Q4 of 2011. Japan would be the first country to get a WP 7.1(Mango) Update.

Mango is a much talked and heated issue in the developer’s front too. Mango is promised to deliver true HTML5 content and Multitasking. The missing features of WP 7.

Steve Ballmer in one of his keynotes said that Mango would bring more than 500 new features to the WP devices.

Let see some of the top features of The Mango Update

• Better App Experience – The Mango update would be enhancing the experience of usage of the apps, and the interface automatically tries to connect to other apps for what you are searching. Like when we search for a movie on the Bing search engine, the phone automatically takes you to a step where you can directly book the tickets for that movie. You don’t need to go and do that by yourself.
• Multitasking – What the Android phones and the iPhone boasted about, now becomes a part of the Windows Phone too. Multitasking is possible, where you can switch between the apps being used or which are recently used in the phone, and get back to the apps where you have left it while using it previously.
• Improved Live Tiles – The live tiles in Mango have been updated to be more dynamic and provide more live information on the home-screen of the Windows Phone device.
• Live Agents – This is something that enables the developers to create multitasking apps for the media, communication and much more where the battery life is not hit badly.

· Personalized Live Tiles – The Live tiles on the homescreen of the Windows Mobile Mango phone helps the users keep the individual contacts on the homescreen for the easy access and providing users with at-a-glance access to real-time updates from social network feeds and notifications without having to open multiple apps.

· Single Inbox – A single inbox can be used to view multiple email accounts at once without having to switch the accounts to view them all.

· Internet Explorer 9 – The Windows Phone Mango would bring the desktop version of the Internet Explorer 9 browser with the HTML5 support and this would not eat up any extra battery, and even the performance of the browser is fast. The browser has a few great features of which Local Scout is one. Local Scout prioritizes hyper-local search results based on user preferences and recommends the closest restaurants, shopping and activities in an easy-to-use guide.

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