Microsoft delivers updates for Windows Mobile

Microsoft delivers updates for Windows Mobile

Microsoft has begun on Tuesday evening to deliver the update for smartphones running Windows Mobile 7 on the mango version 7.5. Mango brings an improved browser, among other things, the integration of Twitter and LinkedIn, an enhanced messaging app that supports non-SMS and MMS and Facebook and MSN chat, and grouping functions in the address book - but not tethering. To install the update, users need a PC with Windows or Mac OS, a download is not provided directly on the smartphone.


Mango is ripe and can be a trick to install now. How far the mobile provider with the testing and deployment are the updates that Microsoft publishes, therefore, have begun in Germany, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and O2 with the delivery, only the update for the telecom version of the Samsung Omnia is missing 7th Also for the smartphone without provider-branding is available mango. The update is available but not all customers immediately available, the entire update process could last until late October, according to Microsoft.

Meanwhile, circulating tips on how users can apply the patch immediately, for example at WP Central. This closes one of his WP7 phone to your PC, click to Zune under Settings / Phone Upgrade, and then goes away once the Internet connection of your PC - and by pulling out of the LAN cable, turn off the wireless network, or if necessary turn off the router - still before you get the message that no update was ready. Shortly thereafter, the message, but that an update was available on version 7720th Now you can turn your Internet connection again and the update and install it.

With a Samsung Omnia 7 it worked, the entire process of importing two updates took about half an hour.