Saturday, February 4, 2012

2012: Windows Phone Tango, Tango 2 and Apollo flavors to be launched.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

According to Microsoft's roadmap, Mango will be upgraded to Tango in March-April 2012, to Tango 2 in mid-year, and to WP8 (codenamed Apollo) at year-end 2012, with a large volume of WP8-based smartphones to hit the market in the first half of 2013.

Despite the launch of a number of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango phones by HTC, Samsung Electronics and Nokia since the fourth quarter of 2011, the sales performance of Mango phones has so far lagged behind that of iPhone 4S and Android models. Although sales of Nokia's Lumia Mango phones have surpassed the one-million-unit mark, the performance of Lumia has been flat.

With Nokia alone receiving a capital input of US$250 million from Microsoft for the development of Windows-based handset platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, it remains to be seen if other partners of Microsoft, including HTC, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, will continue to support WP8.

Source: Digitimes.

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