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Official release of the Microsoft Tango finalized at the beginning of June. Although Tango ROMs have already been floating around for some time now, Microsoft has pushed the dates ahead so that more operators could finish testing. Basically, Microsoft is planning a universal roll-out, much like the Mango.

Tango will be released over an extending time-frame in various regions like the Mango update which took almost two months to reach nearly 90% of devices. A bigger welcome is planned for Tango, since it brings with it 500 new features.

Let’s see if carriers can take an advantage of the extended time for the Tango update!!

The much promised and similarly awaited Windows Phone Tango has been unveiled by Microsoft at the MWC.

Microsoft has lowered the hardware specs for Tango to smoothly run. The Windows Phone 7.5  now runs on Qualcomm 7×27 processors and 256MB of RAM, thus ushering a new era, ahem, for low end smartphones.

But this comes alonwwith some sacrifices at core level. SkyDrive automatic uploads and Bing Local Scout have both been removed from devices with 256MB of RAM. The reason behind this is that they stored a large amount of data in RAM, which is plainly not feasible on low RAM devices. Though 95 percent of existing applications will work fine on these devices, apps that use a lot of memory (aka badly programmed apps) will be slow and clunky on the updated platform.  The multitasking feature is also to go down the gutter except for background audio.

But there is a silver lining to all this..!! The perk comes as an improved MMS which can  now handle video and multiple images as well as a new voice notes feature to record one minute audio snippets.

you can get a hands on demo of the ZTE orbit running the Tango HERE.

Stay tuned for more..!!