Apple iOS 5 vs. Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

 

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Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7.5 OS, code-named Mango was launched around the same time Apple Inc.’s iOS 5 came into the market this fall. In this review of the mobile Operating systems launched by these big giants, we discuss their new features, improvements from earlier versions and see if apple or mango is sweeter.

New Features :

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango has several new features added to it. Some include a powerful search function, including voice-enabled and visual searches using Microsoft Bing, local searches with recommendations for nearby places and threads which combine the user’s text, IM and Facebook chat all into one conversation. Apple has also added a few interesting features like “PC-free” which enables iOS updates over the air and its loose-leaf paper-like Reminders App over the cloud.

Multitasking:

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is the first mobile OS from Microsoft to offer true application multitasking. This seems to be the best improvement in Mango from earlier Windows OS versions although Apple has already mastered it before. So no more app-jumping. This enables you to run multiple apps at a time with no need to close to other running apps.So you cab tweet, email or be in Facebook all at the same time.

HTML 5:

Apple iOS 5 looks better than Windows Phone 7 Mango at HTML 5 Rendering. Windows Phone 7 gives HTML 5 at about 25 FPS but the Apple’s iOS 5, even in beta, managed to render the same page with 31 FPS.

Web Browser:

Microsoft has included IE9 in Windows Phone 7 Mango for faster web browsing and support for new HTML 5 web sites. Meanwhile, Apple’s advanced Mobile Safari has several new features including tabbed browsing which is lightning fast. It also features a Safari reader that allows user to save stories in it which can be synchronized in various devices. It also gets rid of irritating reviews, interrupting ads and other unnecessary content on the page to enable user to dive right into essential stuff.

Similar features

Although Microsoft is new into the mobile OS markets, the Apple seems to adding few of the features developed for Mango, into its iOS 5.

1. Improved notifications: Apple has built a notification center into iOS 5 which displays the notifications at the top of iOS which works in a similar way to how Windows Phone 7 operates.
2. Split Keyboard:

   Apple has now built a split keyboard; separate for both hands, into iOS 5 s. This feature is strangely similar to an identical keyboard that Microsoft developed for Windows 7 recently.

3. Built-in Twitter:  Apple, just as Microsoft, has integrated Twitter straight into iOS 5. You can tweet directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube or Maps.
4. Messaging improvements: As Windows introduced deeper incorporation of messaging services directly into its OS, Apple has also introduced “messages”,  using which one can send unlimited text messages via Wi-Fi or 3G from the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch to anyone who has an iDevice.

In view of the features and the trend in the market, both of these seems to give a tough fight to each other, although Apple iOS 5 has a upper hand and as Microsoft tries to stabilize itself in its new market of Windows Phones.

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