Microsoft has announced what restrictions smartphones with Windows Phone Tango. Devices on the cheap version of Windows Phone do not support multitasking: fast switching between applications.
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango will support multitasking, but only in a limited form. Users can switch between apps by long pressing the back button, and then five windows of recent apps will appear. In addition, apps can certain things in the background to perform, such as requesting a location, or the playing of music.
Both functions, switching between apps and performing tasks in the background, can be disabled in Windows Phone Tango, says Microsoft. The ram size of 256MB is not sufficient, argues the software maker. Also can podcasts under the Tango can not be managed on the device, and works with Bing Local Scout is not.
Windows Phone Tango is a version of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango for cheaper phones, such as the Nokia Lumia 610 and the ZTE Orbit. In addition to the limited working memory have both cheap devices, a Qualcomm MSM7227 cpu, with a old cpu which top serving in the HTC Legend. The processor in the Lumia 610 clocked at 800MHz, while ZTE him at 1GHz has clocked.
Later this year, is allegedly the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Apollo. That version would run on the same kernel as the desktop version of Windows instead of the Windows CE kernel. Also would that version has more integration with Windows. Finally, encryption using BitLocker, and Secure Boot options are added, like a new version of Internet Explorer with data compression.