Microsoft’s Windows Mango Phone in October

Mango is officially known as Windows Phone 7.5. It adds more than 500 new features to the Windows Phone platform, including multitasking and 4G support.

The world’s second-biggest handset maker, said that it will release its first smartphone based on the latest version of Microsoft Corp’s mobile operating system starting in Italy from the end of October.

Samsung, the top seller of Google’s Android phones, has adopted a multiplatform strategy, rolling out smartphones also running on Microsoft’s software and its own proprietary “bada” software.
Samsung said in a statement that its Omnia W, which runs the latest release of Windows Phone, code-named Mango, features a 3.7-inch AM-OLED display and a 1.4 GHz processor. It will be gradually rolled to globally including Europe, CIS, Latin America, Africa, South East and South West Asia.