Monday, May 23, 2011

Ballmer says new version of Windows Phone will have 500 new features


The development team decided to work on Windows Phone to include much more than half a dozen new features in the new version of Microsoft's mobile operating system. Mango is full of changes and improvements, which in aggregate result in approximately 500 new functions to the user. Who says this is none other than Steve Ballmer, chief executive of the company.


During a conference at the Microsoft Developers Forum in Japan, Ballmer revealed the number of 500 new features that Windows Phone Mango brought. Microsoft has an event scheduled for tomorrow (May 24) in New York, United States, where the company must officially submit the update, showing these innovations in detail.

There are rumors that the Windows Phone Mango should have the services Bing Bing and Audio Vision, and navigation turn-by-Turn service Bing Maps, a new native player for podcasts, the speech recognition system, among others.

Besides this information about Mango, Ballmer also said that the New York event will be unveiled details of manufacturers and carriers that will launch smartphones with this new version, which confirms the rumors that new products will be presented at the event tomorrow. Ie, the Mango does not reach the world alone, and will be accompanied by a host of new devices, such as happened at the launch of Windows Phone, at the end of last year.

While we wait for tomorrow's event, worth checking out the video below, which shows an excerpt from Ballmer's explanation in the conference in Japan.