14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Phone Mango, the new flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, was expected to arrive on existing devices starting with September 15th, yet that day has come and gone, and nothing happened.
Apparently, it should have happened, and many wireless carriers around the world were already prepared to start the deployment.
A recently leaked internal memo from French wireless carrier Orange shows that the software update was expected to become available starting with September 15th, and that it was supposed to roll-out over a four-weeks period of time.
HTC Mozart, LG Optimus 7, and Samsung Omnia 7 were the mobile phones that should have received the software update on Orange's airwaves starting with that day, and all users were supposed to taste it in about one month.
The said document leaked on the SmartphoneFrance website, unveiling not only the said targeted release timeframe, but also the fact that there are some features that did not make it in Mango.
Here's what a rough translation of a part of the said memo reads (via WMPoweruser):
As of September 15, 2011, our customers WP7 Orange mobile users will benefit from the updated WP7.5 (called Mango). The Orange mobiles concerned => HTC Mozart / LG Optimus 7 / Samsung Omnia 7
Principle
Microsoft campaign spread over four weeks to avoid overloading servers and touch all of our clients. Receiving a pop-up on the mobile offering the update. Updated to do from a computer via Zune (The customer does not lose its contacts or its applications or multimedia content during this operation).
Rumor has it that some of the partner wireless carriers around the world were not ready for the deployment, and that Microsoft decided to delay the entire operation until they were ready too.
As stated above, the Mango update is also expected to arrive on handsets at Orange with a series of features removed, including wifi sharing, visual voicemail, and MMS sending group.