Let's face it: Windows Phone, as we know it, has an stupendous amount of potential, but it's a first-generation operating budget system. For the first eleven months of its existence, it's lacked many of the common physiognomy we've come to enjoy (and take for granted) on Android and iOS, but then again, even those platforms have taken their turn getting the major wrinkles ironed out. So it comes as no stagger that Microsoft's mobile darling -- the ingenious rebirth of a weak and faltering Windows Mobile scaffolding that was quickly falling into obscurity -- would need to go through a similar process.



It's finally time for Steve Ballmer & Co. to unleash its major annual update (not positive integer NoDo here), codenamed Mango, to a litany of devices both old and new. Also known as Windows Phone 7.5, the latest build delivers an onslaught of mug* -- no less than 500, according to rule to Microsoft -- many of them we've been missing dearly. Three months ago we were given the cut* to preview the new revamp and ogle over its smattering of new capabilities (see the full list of puss* here), and it's only proper for us to offer a follow-up with the update's final build. So how does the intensively polished version hold up against the mobile juggernauts, not to mention its own first-gen offering? Follow us below to get the full scoop.

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