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Well this is something new. Here in the tech world, we hear of delay after delay, but very few companies come out and say: ' Hey! We are ideally come earlier! "
Today, Microsoft was that company and the product was Windows phone 7 mango.
Peter Wissinger, Director of Microsoft's mobile business in the Nordic countries, today released an official statement on the status of mango in:
And for those whose Swedish can be a little rusty, translation:
"Now it's up to our manufacturing partners to release mango for our clients. Microsoft has full mango earlier than planned for producers. Feels good right now. "
(Shout out to WinMobile .se to identify statement first)
The only hanging: just because Microsoft finished mango earlier did not mean that its OEM partners are ready to rock and roll. Microsoft is currently in the list of hardware partners includes HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE Corporation, and, of course, Nokia. We already know that Fujitsu has something (probably a Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T) in the works, scheduled for early September, and at the end of June, we got a quick peek at the Nokia first mango Smartphone, the so-called "Sea Ray".
There is really no telling how long will it take to get them out of WP7 devices based on mango or when we could expect-mango devices to start to see updates, but the ball is out of Microsoft in court.
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