14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Phone 7, the mobile operating system that Redmond-based software giant Microsoft brought to the market in October last year, is about to get better courtesy of a series of software updates the company is preparing for it.
Among them, we can count an update expected to arrive as soon as this week, codenamed NoDo, which would bring a nice range of improvements to the platform, including support for copy&paste, or faster performance when it comes to applications and games.
This update was preceded by another software from Microsoft, one that was aimed at enhancing the update process for Windows Phone 7 smartphones, and which started to roll-out a few weeks ago.
That software update caused a series of issues on some of the Windows Phone 7 devices available on the market, even rendered some unusable, and is expected to be completed on some of the phones as soon as today.
Developer Raphael Rivera of ChevronWP7 said in a recent tweet that Samsung Focus devices on AT&T's network are expected to taste the new firmware today, and that the aforementioned NoDo software update would receive today as well.
This info is in line with what was said before on the copy&paste update, namely that it would arrive on March 7th, but no official confirmation on this emerged for the time being.
We can only hope that the rumor would pan out, and that Windows Phone 7 devices on the market would start receiving the said functionality as soon as this week.
Additional enhancements are expected to arrive on these phones later this year, as soon as the first major Windows Phone 7 update, called Mango, becomes available.
Some suggest that the update might have been pushed back to 2012, yet Microsoft promised that it would arrive at OEMs in early fall, and it would make sense to see it available on devices in the beginning of the fourth quarter of the year.
The said update was rumored to include enough improvements to be called Windows Phone 7.5, and it would make sense for Microsoft to have it available one year after the official launch of the current OS flavor.
In addition to a series of other enhancements, that update might bring Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) into the mix, though some previous reports suggested that the browser could arrive earlier that fall.
Hopefully, Microsoft would manage to stick to the original plan, and the said Windows Phone 7 updates would arrive in due time on users' devices.