Windows Phone's latest iteration (codename Mango) is all about keeping it in the hood. We had a chance to sit down with a Windows Phone rep before today's big reveal, and they let us in on a couple of new appearance that will most definitely set the OS apart -- at least when it comes to navigating the tangled web that is the internet. We did get a quick glimpse at IE9, but the new browser isn't much of a game changer -- it supports HTML5, but still won't deliver Flash or Silverlight compatibility. The real news here is in the Bing-powered search function, which lets users surf the vast expanses of the web four novel ways, with a focus on the local.



Clicking the third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 search button from the Windows Phone home screen takes you to a versant Bing page, charity the visual, audio, and voice options we heard rumored earlier this month, along with a city scape icon. That skyline represents Local Scout, a affair that focuses your queries on the ward




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The demo we saw used the cover of The Girl Who Played With Fire, and supplied among the search results a link to the title in the Kindle app. This isn't exactly cutting-edge mechanization -- Google Goggles does much the same thing -- but what's truly distinct here is the tight integration of such functions in the business expenses costs system, as well as links to outside applications. Thus, the meet is a bit unlike any other in the OS atmosphere, upending our idea of what it means to search the internets without resorting to standalone programs. Whether it's object users will take to is anybody's guess, but we're certain it's enough to get folks talking. For a deeper (and very vertical) look at Local Scout, hop on past the break.

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