[Windows Phone 7 General] JVH3:
Mango update -

Of course the Mango update was worth it. Would anyone actually want to go back to NoDo?

Granted, Android and iOS offer some benefits. Windows Phone 7 also offers benefits.

Mango did not solve every problem. Very true.

But it solved alot of problems and made it so developers actually have some flexibility with there apps and ability to do and use much more of the phone. We will see more and better apps.

There are really only a handful of minor irritations that I can think of that should have been solved properly by Mango.

1. Playing video when using Blue Tooth should send the audio to the blue tooth device. Curently it plays the sound through the phones speaker phone. My only bluetooth device is my car stereo so I am not normally watching video while using bluetooth.

2. Playlist management is horrible. There clearly was no usablity study done. Simple things such as remove song don't exist for a playlist. I make the playlist on my computer instead. Annoying when you are out and realize there is a song in a playlist that does not belong, but not a huge deal.

3. Battery warning should also sound when playing games, such as Angry Birds with the app set to not play sounds. The phone just shuts off with no warning.

Some things that would be nice:

1. A notifications app that would have a live tile to get to all notifications. To get around this, I keep messaging, outlook, and a linked inbox near the top. I can see all notifications on the home screen.

2. App groups (folders) would also be nice. The ability to jump to a letter helps, but groups would be help organize the clutter.

3. I'd like to see tethering work on legacy devices such as the Quantum. I had it for free with my Tilt 2 using a custom ROM (Energy ROM). AT&T wants to charge for this. Although I disagree with that policy, it techincally not allowed to tether and not pay extra with them, so I can't fault the OS too much for that.

4. Replace Batery indicator on the top witha percent. Going to settings to see this is not helpful. 4 levels is just not enough when you are on your last bar. Really only care about the percent when it is less than about 30%.

Things that work great:

1. Facebook chat / messaging integration.

2. Linked inbox to bring all multiple inboxes to 1 tile.

3. Internet Explorer 9 and HTML 5.

4. Built in Bing song recognition.

5. Bing Vision for barcodes.

6. Bing turn by turn directions.

7. Bluetooth audio for music.

8. Speech to text text messaging. (Needs some improvement with background noic filtering when using bluetooth, but still works for easy reponses.)

9. Auto upload of Photos to Sky Drive.

10. Combining of contacts for muliple places with the ability to seperate.

11. Apps such as Sky Map actually can use the compass.

12. Tasks sync with Exchange and are on the calendar.

All things said. Mango brought a ton of improvements. You probably will find things that it can't do that Android or iOS can. But for over 99% of my usage, I have no issues and I suspect the same to be true for must users.

I don't consider a certain user in this thread to be in the most user category. Only in the most vocal category.