New Mango Features

Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast have revealed some new consumer-oriented features that will appear in the next major release of Windows Phone (version 7.5), codenamed Mango. According to the two, Mango will include two new Bing features—Bing Audio and Bing Video—as well as SMS Dictation (spoken text messages), on-device podcast support, and turn-by-turn navigation.

• Bing Audio allows you to search for music using your phone. Bing Audio allows users to hold up the phone to a song and identify it.
• Bing Vision will be a search service using the camera. So, you get this one-stop shop to scan barcodes, Microsoft Tags, QR Codes, Books, CD’s, DVD’s, and even text using OCR. Users could even scan products or images of products. Or, of course, the barcode using the camera.
  
• Turn-by-turn navigation(includes) “voice guidance during driving directions”.
• On-device podcast support.
• SMS Dictation: (In Messages) at the bottom of the screen on the Application bar is a microphone icon. Under the microphone icon, are the words “Speak”.