Adam Parton

Windows Phone 7.5 which was code-named 'Mango', is now out for the handset's of the world. The update is the first big update for the phone since NoDo, which bought Copy & Paste to the OS, and also bought more stability fixes etc.

So what will Mango include? Well, a lot of things to be honest, he main ones being Multitasking, deep Facebook & Twitter integration and much more.

I was quite excited as the time built up for the launch of Mango, and upon 27th September I found it was out. Plugging my phone straight away into the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac, I searched for an update and found out it wasn't available. Every day I checked over & over, around 4-5 times per day seeing if the update was available, until I got so bored waiting I forced the update.

Now people don't really recommend doing this, but I did. I used the PC Zune software to force the first of 2 updates to my phone, which installed successfully, then I used the Mac Connector to install version 7720, which turned out to be Mango!

Yes that's my phone above, it's great to see Windows Phone 7.5 as the Software, and although recently I've had doubts about keeping the phone, I have to admit now since updating to Mango I definitely will be keeping the device, and already thinking about sticking to Windows Phone when my current contract expires. I was an early adopter of the OS, and it really does pay off in the end to be one of the first to go 100% with it.