wraggster
October 27th, 2011, 22:59
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/lumia-800-apollo.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/27/windows-phone-apollo-coming-middle-of-next-year-says-nokia-vp/)
A top Nokia exec just confirmed the much-rumored schedule for the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Apollo. Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it'll launch in mid-2012 and be a "very different game" to Mango (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/27/windows-phone-7-5-mango-in-depth-preview-video/) -- hinting that Apollo actually refers to Windows Phone 8 rather than any mere decimal increment. What do we know about Apollo at this point? Well, not a great deal (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-phone-apollo-to-feature-speech-to-text-low-end-tango-ge/), but Halbherr also revealed that he's been pushing Microsoft to integrate NFC and a "positioning framework" to make its mobile OS work better with Nokia's Navteq (http://www.engadget.com/tag/NAVTEQ/) mapping platform and thereby provide new location-based services. Sorry HTC, Samsung, but everything points to a more 'Nokia-fied' OS.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/27/windows-phone-apollo-coming-middle-of-next-year-says-nokia-vp/
A top Nokia exec just confirmed the much-rumored schedule for the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Apollo. Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it'll launch in mid-2012 and be a "very different game" to Mango (http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/27/windows-phone-7-5-mango-in-depth-preview-video/) -- hinting that Apollo actually refers to Windows Phone 8 rather than any mere decimal increment. What do we know about Apollo at this point? Well, not a great deal (http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/13/windows-phone-apollo-to-feature-speech-to-text-low-end-tango-ge/), but Halbherr also revealed that he's been pushing Microsoft to integrate NFC and a "positioning framework" to make its mobile OS work better with Nokia's Navteq (http://www.engadget.com/tag/NAVTEQ/) mapping platform and thereby provide new location-based services. Sorry HTC, Samsung, but everything points to a more 'Nokia-fied' OS.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/27/windows-phone-apollo-coming-middle-of-next-year-says-nokia-vp/