Windows Phone developers Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk revealed some new features of the upcoming WP7 update – Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango. According to these two, Mango will include Bing Audio/Video, SMS dictation, podcast support, turn-by-turn navigation.
Bing Audio which allows Windows Phone 7.5 owner’s to search for music using Bing.
Bing Vision will be a search service using the phones camera. Bing Vision will support barcodes, Microsoft Tags, QR codes, Books, CDs, DVDs and text using OCR.
Turn-by-turn navigation- This feature allow turn-by-turn navigation on Windows Phone which also includes voice guidance during driving directions.
Support for Podcasts
SMS dictation –allows you to “speak” an SMS message
East Asian Language Keyboard, Handwriting and Dictionary Support
Improved SkyDrive sync in Office hub - adding Word, Excel, and PowerPoint sync support. Each document type will now be indicated by the color of the tile.
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