金力泰股票:微软芒果手机：后来居上的智能之选

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软(Microsoft) 看上去终于有了不错的智能手机竞争产品。不过坏消息是，这款产品要到今年秋季才能上市。
不管怎样，我拿到了微软这款手机的早期版本。它运行 “芒果”操作系统──这是微软为Windows Phone手机服务推出的重大软件更新的代号。过去一周，我一直在三星(Samsung) Focus手机上使用“芒果”系统，这款手机购自美国电话电报公司(AT&T)，带合约的价格为50美元。
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微软芒果手机的“开始”(Start)界面布满了实时的小窗口。
这个操作系统集雅致和奇趣于一身，让人使用时乐在其中。几乎所有的屏幕界面上都点缀了让人眼前一亮的小动画。比如说有的图标在被选中时会像一扇小门一样打开，而在往手机上装载内容时，屏幕顶端会有一串像赛跑一样的小点。这让界面显得很好玩，同时功能又很强大。
不好的方面是，微软的手机应用商店Windows Marketplace目前只有1.8万个供这款手机下载使用的应用程序，相比之下，谷歌的手机电子市场Android Market有超过20万个应用程序，苹果App Store的应用程序数量更是高达42.5万个。同时我也费了很大的劲才习惯了使用手机屏幕上的虚拟键盘打字。
使用这款手机还需要进行一点点心理调整，因为芒果的运行方式与绝大多数智能手机不一样：它的活动重点关注“人”，而不是应用程序。这就意味着如果你想要查看朋友的状态更新、照片或Twitter更新内容，你无需打开Facebook或Twitter的应用，而是打开“联系人列表”（People Hub），查找姓名，然后就可以看到有关这位朋友在Facebook、Twitter、LinkedIn和Windows Live上的活动的所有相关信息。“联系人列表”中还有人们发布在社交网络上的照片。与朋友聊天的功能也是将重点放在对话本身，而不是对话以什么方式进行。因此如果我一开始是在电脑上用Windows Live Messenger跟朋友聊天，然后走开了，我可以继续在我的Windows Phone上面用Facebook继续聊，或是改成发短信。
虽然一开始用起来感觉不熟悉，但用了一周以后，芒果组织架构系统的好处就显现出来。归根到底，我不用去关注某个人在什么地方贴了照片或进行了更新；手机会自动为我组织有关这个人的信息。
任何人使用芒果手机都会首先注意到的一个特点是它的主界面，微软称之为“开始”(Start)界面，以此向其根源所在的Windows个人电脑致敬。这个屏幕上满是实时的小窗口，它们是一个个的小方块，会呈现动态变化以反映其所代表的程序的新状态。电子邮件窗口会展示新邮件的数量。你可以将代表联系人的小窗口“锁定”到开始界面。这些小窗口会展现联系人新发布的照片、在一些地点“签到”的信息、漏接的电话、语音留言、短信息、社交网络更新、即时消息以及电子邮件等等。
芒果系统中的小窗口较第一代Windows Phone有了改进，不过它们还可以更直观。电子邮件小窗口如果能展示最新邮件的主题或发件人，就会更有用。
早先的Windows Phone在使用第三方应用程序时不能实现多任务处理，芒果解决了这个问题。只要按住“返回”键，就会显示代表每个打开的应用程序的选项卡。我会快速翻动这些选项卡，从一个打开的应用程序切换到另一个。
芒果运行的是完全版的Internet Explorer 9，上网浏览的效果非常令人满意。
芒果系统的一个很酷的功能是免手持的信息传送和语音功能。收到信息时，使用者可以通过蓝牙耳机或手机扬声器收听大声报读出来的信息内容。他们还可以直接口述，然后口述的内容就会被转换为文本信息。其他语音操作包括搜索网络和打开应用软件，以及语音拨号等更常见的任务。
“应用软件连接”功能可以联系“必应”(Bing)搜索引擎，就应用软件给出建议。当我搜索“国会山的影院”时，一个代表商铺点评网站Yelp应用软件的图标出现在搜索结果列表的最前面，因为它可能会让用户对各个影院有更深入的了解。只要点击一下，我就将这个应用软件下载到了我的手机上；如果我已经有了建议的应用软件，我可以直接从这里启动它。
芒果系统的其他一些功能运行起来也都十分流畅，比如它整合了微软的Zune播放软件，可以播放音乐、视频以及收听广播。
我还使用了这款手机上整合的微软Office 365办公软件，后者是一个针对小企业的基于网络的协作服务。我打开并编辑了一个幻灯片演示文件，手机将我所进行的更改同步到云引擎上，这样其他人就可以看到更改的内容。芒果系统还可以关联多个收件箱，让人们将多个电子邮件的收件箱集合到一起，比如说将Gmail和Hotmail都关联上，用来收取所有的个人电子邮件。
用芒果手机拍摄的照片可以直接在手机上编辑，只要点击一下“自动修正”(Auto-fix)就可以了。网上的图片也只要简单的一步操作就能存储到手机上，我很好地利用了这个功能，将别人的Facebook照片设成了我的手机壁纸。
虽然微软没有宣布这款手机或其他专门针对芒果系统的硬件设计的价格，不过当前的Windows Phone机型价格在50美元至150美元之间（带合约），而且可以运行这款升级软件。
有了芒果这个臂助，Windows Phone终于成长为一款可以看作是真正能与苹果iPhone和谷歌Android设备一较高下的设备。iPhone和Android手机今年秋季预计也会推出升级的操作系统。我们得等到那个时候才能判断芒果与其竞争对手的新软件孰优孰劣。
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2011.07.05 15:31:36
50美元，什么概念，中国的电子产品什么时候能和国际接轨
- 562308
2011.07.05 15:13:07
类比一下好了，Mac的介面系统比Win要强，可是Win是赢家，差别在app 同样的这次在手机上，iOS、Andriod都比微软之前的强太多，除非他们犯了很致命的错误。 否则微软仍面临一番苦战！
- wantedsanzo
2011.07.05 14:12:12
:D I think i like
- michelle33
2011.07.05 08:35:58
前两段在时间上很矛盾
- abel
2011.07.04 22:04:05
保持谨慎看好，
其实apps的数量多固然好，但质量应该更加重要，要精品，不要都是些重复的东东
- ms nka
2011.07.04 21:53:22
刚买了ipad!!⊙⊙
- chrisli007
2011.07.04 20:25:55
我一直想买一个，确实是外观漂亮价钱也不贵的。但是，应用也太少了吧。本地的QQ也没有。过气的汤姆猫和愤怒的小鸟、植物大战僵尸有么？有的话马上买一个。其实如果已经有了1。8万个应用，那也不少了！问题就是没有几个吸引别人去买苹果和谷歌的那几个程序。要是我是盖先生，就是出钱也得请别人把汤姆猫和愤怒的小鸟、植物大战僵尸、QQ的程序给做出来。只要这几个一出来，马上销量就上去了~
- mwl
2011.07.04 19:37:59
微软那么好的资源，但这几年太不给力了，已经沦为一家腐朽的公司了
- mkgmkg
2011.07.04 17:20:21
这个作者不明白smartphone决胜负的关键是第三方apps
- chan808yuen
2011.07.04 11:49:48
淘宝上一堆，价格不贵，是app数量太少（尤其本地应用），希望诺记加入会好些吧，只有水果和机器人的世界还是不够精彩。
- 生抽
2011.07.04 11:01:57
非常期待，之前的莫扎特 一直没有中文输入法，而且在国内始终是有钱买不到的状态，期待这款手机热销
- gamezhai
2011.07.04 08:59:59
太乐观。。。
Mango Phone: A Peach Of A Late Bloomer
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It seems, at long last, that Microsoft has a viable smartphone contender. The bad news is it won't be available until this fall.
Nevertheless, I got my hands on an early version of Microsoft's phone, which runs Mango -- the code name for the company's significant software update for Windows Phone devices. For the past week, I've been using Mango on the Samsung Focus, a $50 (after contract) smartphone from AT&T.
The operating system is a mix of elegance and whimsy that's a treat to use. Mango is sprinkled with delightful animations on nearly every screen. These include icons that swing out like tiny doors when selected, and little dots that race across the top of the screen when something is loading onto the phone. The result is a playful yet functional interface.
On the downside, the Windows Marketplace currently offers only 18,000 apps for downloading to the device, compared with the 200,000 plus apps from Google's Android Market and 425,000 plus from Apple's App Store. And I had a lot of trouble getting used to typing with my phone's on-screen keyboard.
A bit of mental adjusting is required since Mango operates differently than most smartphones: Actions focus on people rather than apps. This means instead of opening up the Facebook or Twitter apps to look at a friend's status updates, photos or tweets, Mango users can open one People Hub to look up a name and see a compilation of the friend's activities in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Windows Live. The Pictures Hub contains photos of people from social networks. Chats with friends focus on the conversation rather than how the conversation is conducted. So if I start talking to a friend on a PC using Windows Live Messenger and leave my desk, I can keep chatting on my Windows Phone in Facebook Chat or switch to text messaging.
Though unfamiliar at first, Mango's organizational system made sense after using it for a week. After all, I didn't need to pay attention to where someone posted a photo or new update; the phone organized that person's information for me.
The first feature anyone using a Mango phone will notice is its home screen, which Microsoft calls the Start screen in a nod to its Windows' PC roots. This screen is filled with live tiles -- small squares that dynamically change to reflect new activity in whatever program they represent. Email tiles display the number of new emails. You can 'pin' to the Start screen tiles representing people. These tiles reflect updates like new photos people posted, check-ins at locations, missed calls, voicemails, text messages, social-network updates, instant messages and emails.
The tiles in Mango are an improvement over the first version of Windows Phone, though they could stand to be even more insightful. A more helpful display in the email tile might show the newest email's subject line or sender's name.
The original Windows Phone didn't allow people to multitask with third-party apps, and Mango fixes that. By holding down the Back button, cards representing each opened app are displayed. I quickly flicked through them to jump from one opened app to another.
Mango also runs a full version of Internet Explorer 9 for satisfying Web browsing.
One cool feature is Mango's hands-free messaging and speech capability. People can hear incoming texts read aloud to them via Bluetooth headsets or through the phone's speakers. They can speak and their words will be translated into a text message. Other voice operations include searching the Web and opening apps, as well as more common tasks like initiating phone calls.
App Connect is a feature that suggests apps related to Bing searches. When I searched for 'theater in Capitol Hill,' an icon representing the Yelp app showed up at the top of my search-result list since it may offer better insight on theaters. With one click, I downloaded this app to my phone; if I already had the suggested app, I could launch it right from here.
Other Mango features, such as its integration with Microsoft's Zune software for music, videos and radio, all worked without a hitch.
I also used the device's integration with Microsoft's Office 365, a Web-based collaboration services targeted at small businesses. I opened and edited a slideshow presentation, and it synced my changes back into the cloud so others could see them. Mango's linked inboxes let people group multiple email inboxes together, like linking Gmail and Hotmail for all of their personal emails.
Photos captured on the Mango phone can be edited right on the device with a tap on Auto-fix. Photos from around the Web can be saved to the phone in one step, a feature I took advantage of when I used someone else's Facebook photo as my wallpaper.
Though Microsoft isn't announcing pricing for this or other Mango-specific hardware designs yet, current Windows Phone models range in price from $50 to $150 (with contracts) and will all be capable of running this updated software.
With the help of Mango, the Windows Phone has grown up into a device that can be considered a real competitor for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, which are expected to get updated operating systems this fall. We'll have to wait until then to see how Mango stacks up to its rivals' new software.