Microsoft introduced a new version of Windows Phone

Microsoft unveiled on Tuesday the next major release of Windows Phone, codenamed "Mango."



Allegedly, Mango will have more than 500 new features related to communication, applications and the Internet.

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Support for additional languages ​​will appear in Windows Phone, including Russian. The release will be supported by new OEMs such as Acer, Fujitsu and ZTE.



LinkedIn and Twitter have been added along with current services in People Hub, such as Facebook, Hotmail and Gmail. The new group function will allow several people to communicate across multiple platforms, while integrating the profiles and images of these people and the history of all group events.



Call history will combine voicemail, missed calls, text messages, and all calendar events for a specific contact. Speech recognition allows you to correspond without typing.



Face Recognition allows you to quickly mark photos and share them with friends right from the Pictures application. Office Hub has also undergone some changes. Mango will support Office 365 along with SkyDrive (which offers users 25 gigabytes of free space). Office in Mango will have almost identical functionality, users will be able to work with Excel or Word documents without worrying about any distortion of information. And the Xbox Live Hub will concentrate all gaming applications.



Finally, Internet Explorer 9, which uses hardware acceleration and supports HTML5, will be included in Mango. Bing is also very deeply integrated.



It is planned that Windows Phone 7 customers will receive Mango release for free this fall. SDK is available now.