Windows Phone 7 'Mango' update adds greater Avatar interaction

@Arsenic13

This is exactly how I feel. I'm really looking forward to this update!

@Arsenic13

much agreed. i just picked up the vzw trophy last thursday (coming from an incredible) and i must say i like it. but it definitely needs some more features. but i expected this coming into the wp7 game. i mean it is the first release and all.

can't wait for mango to really liven things up!!! keep up the great work microsoft!

@Arsenic13
what it needs is infinity blade

@Arsenic13 Can't wait for the update also. I bought this phone when it first came out. I should of waited but I needed something to replace my Blackberry. lol

@Arsenic13

I agree with you. The OS is pretty nice. It is only going to get better with Mango.

@Arsenic13 Rumors are that the Mango update will bring Xbox Live multiplayer. Hopefully there will be some exciting WP7 announcements at E3 next week.

I don't know why that's hard to believe.

@Riley Freeman

It sounded like there were 2 songs playing at the same time...

@Riley Freeman

Yeah pretty crummy song i had to mute the vid to make it barable...

It seemed like he was touching his avatar in innapropriate places too... :P

Other then that Mango is a pretty cool update. :)

@Riley Freeman
Wow, no joke...it really did.

@RaxQ I would also like to see a joystiq app for WP7.

@Tyrax Engadget teased about it like 2 weeks ago... Give WP7 some love!

@RaxQ

Good luck with that. You might as well get an Android, Blackberry, or an iPhone if you want any apps. WinMo/WP7 have hardly any support.

@furious

So let me get this correct. In the first six months alone, Windows Phone gains over 18,000 apps in it's Marketplace, plus has thousands more apps in the pipeline and hitting the Marketplace every month, and that magically constitutes "hardly any support".

You know, I REALLY hate haters. I don't even have a Windows Phone for crying out loud. I own a MyTouch 4G, and even I know what you just said was the most ignorant, fanboy thing posted on this entire page.

No Windows Phone does not have the app library depth of Android (300,000), or iOS (500,000). For starters both of those app ecosystems have been around for years, and anyone with even half a working brain cell would expect them both to have more apps. And second, no one needs 10,000 apps dedicated to their Twitter feed, or 15,000 apps dedicated to Pandora. You only need one good app that works well with your phone. The other bazillion apps out there are superfluous. And the way Windows Phone works, especially after the Mango update, apps "talk" to each other and can share data directly with the OS, which in turn can chose and/or recommend other relevant apps to share that data with, to help the user complete a given task from point A to point Z. With apps able to share their data with the OS and with other apps, the reliance on having to have tons of apps, just goes right out the window.

So 18,000 apps in the first six months, with thousands more on the way . . . that works out more than fine, and hardly constitutes as, "hardly any support."

@Tachyonic Cargo

I think it's fair to say though that in comparison, WM7 hardly gets support when compared to the other mobile OS's, and I think that's all he was trying to say. I'm not ripping on it, but when even Engadget hasn't released one yet, it says something.

@Jhoalot

In ads, MS tends to use the generic phone image you see there. It's just a concept placeholder. That phone doesn't actually exist.

@(Unverified)

Man... I still remember when XBL and WM7 were announced I was so hyped MS was getting into the handheld gaming market. Time has passed and I feel really let down. :\ I mean seriously... Halo: CE for WM7 would sell phones or Zunes or whatever they have it run on!