Rumour: Microsoft looking to release next major update for Windows Phone in September
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A now deleted tweet picked up by Mobility Digest appears to have blown the lid on the release of Microsoft’s next major update to Windows Phone.
In the tweet, Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Twitter account (a competition to “help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges” according to Wikipedia) posted that “finalists ALL receive Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Release!! Students will get the phone by September!”.
Naturally, because it’s been deleted we can’t confirm whether the information is real or not, but given that some estimates put the release of Nokia’s Mango-powered Windows Phones at the end of 2011 it doesn’t seem all that far-fetched to us.
Why get excited about Mango in the first place, you ask? Other than a welcome host of improvements to how the system runs, including Internet Explorer 9 and the intriguing Local Scout, Mango also adds extra gubbins to the Xbox Live portion of the OS, like improved messaging and a redesigned collections page.
Alas, no sign of that fabled real-time multiplayer option or global leaderboard support for third party games, though. Once those two features are in place the fact that the games are often four times the price as on iPhone won’t hurt nearly as much.
