Windows Phone 7 "Mango" Done, Says Microsoft

It's now up to the manufacturers to distribute Microsoft's "Mango" update for Windows Phone 7.


Peter Wissinger, Microsoft’s director of Mobile Business in the Nordic countries, reportedly released an official update on Friday in regards to the status of Mango, the massive update for Windows Phone 7. According to Wissinger, the update was actually completed earlier than planned, and is now up to the phone manufacturers to distribute accordingly.

“Now it’s up to our manufacturing partners to release Mango to our customers," reads the translation. "Microsoft has delivered complete Mango earlier than planned to the manufacturers. Feels good now.”

According to the official Windows Phone Blog, the Windows Phone development team actually signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of Mango back on July 26.

"This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile operator partners to optimize Mango for their specific phone and network configurations," said Microsoft’s Terry Myerson. "Here on the Windows Phone team, we now turn to preparing for the update process. The Mango update for current Windows Phone handsets will be ready this fall, and of course will come pre-installed on new Windows Phones."

Microsoft’s list of hardware partners includes HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Fujitsu, Nokia and ZTE Corporation. Currently it's unknown when these manufacturers will release new handsets including the new Mango update although Fujitsu will reportedly release something in September.

It's also unknown when manufacturers will actually push the update on the current crop of eight devices. Right now speculation points to a time period sometime around the launch of Apple's iPhone 5 which is rumored to take place in early October. Google's Ice Cream Sandwich build of Android is also expected to arrive in that timeframe.