Aug 24, 2011 19:11 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is getting ready for the release of Windows Phone Mango, and we're all wondering what the company's partners have in store for their customers.

The first series of Windows Phones brought some appealing devices to the market, but things have evolved a lot since then, and the natural question is how much the new Windows Phones will manage to impress.

Windows Phone Mango is bringing along a wide range of enhancements and new features, but that won't be enough if the hardware inside these devices won't offer the performance levels expected.

Moreover, the exterior design of Mango phones will play an important role when it comes to their performance on the market, and, if handsets like the one in the photo to the left will be released, users will certainly be lured to Microsoft's OS.

However, the handset to the left is only a concept phone, and it will not arrive on shelves in the next few weeks. It is the result of Kevin Zhou's imagination, and nothing more.

Even so, one should agree that the phone looks amazingly appealing, and that any Windows Phone that might be launched on shelves with these looks would easily conquer anyone.

Of course, there is the possibility that either HTC or another mobile phone maker will come to the market with devices that look similar with Elegant, but there is no certainty that this might actually happen.

The phone's designer did not offer hardware specifications for it, and we can easily imagine that it would include some of the latest advancements on the mobile market, to complement the capabilities Microsoft's Windows Phone Mango OS will enable.

Most probably, the next few years will actually bring on shelves devices that look very much like this one, but all we can do at the moment is to appreciate Kevin Zhou's work. One more photo can be seen on his website.

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