14 DAY TRIAL // The Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system flavor was already delivered to around 20 percent of all Windows Phone devices out there, recent reports show.
The roll-out of Mango has started about ten days ago, and should be completed in the following few weeks, as Microsoft announced at that time.
The info is based on data collected by a third-party application available for handsets running under Microsoft's mobile operating system.
We're referring here to the 'I'm a WP7!' application that is said to have a number of no less than 83,527 users at the moment, which is pretty impressive.
The application reportedly shows that the Mango update (builds 7720, 7721) was already loaded on around 20 percent of Windows Phone devices,
Apparently, the update arrives on handsets at a rate of around 1.5 percent per day, though chances are that the data is not as accurate as one might have hoped.
After all, Microsoft promised that the update will be delivered to almost all users in about four weeks, which means that approximately one third of all Windows Phone devices should have already received it.
In the coming days, Mango should be pushed on over half of the existing Windows Phone devices, provided that all will go according to plan.
All in all, this shows that the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango software is arriving on handsets much faster than other software updates for Microsoft's mobile operating system.
The Mango update is being delivered to users via the Zune software, for those who own a computer running under Windows, and through the Mac Connector for Windows Phone, for those who own an Apple machine.
One thing that should be noted here is that not all Windows Phone devices have been included in the first wave of handsets to receive Mango, and that some users will have to wait longer before the new software is being made available for them as well.