A web browser is a must-have feature of any modern smartphone, and yet many people probably don’t give it a second thought. My job on the Windows Phone Engineering team, on the other hand, is to think about phone browsers all day long and specifically how to make surfing on a small screen a more enjoyable experience.

If you already own a Windows...

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Hi everybody. Given all the recent speculation around the timing of our Mango update, I wanted to bring you up to speed on what to expect next. 

For months, we and dozens of our partner companies have been laying the groundwork for the Windows Phone 7.5 update—and making solid progress. As a result, we now expect to start rolling it out...

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On Friday we published the 42nd episode of Windows Phone Radio. During the show we chatted a bit about the Foursquare app, and how it will take advantage of the upcoming Mango update to Windows Phone. We shot a quick video to show of how you can not only pin the Foursquare app to your start screen, but also specific locations where you check in...

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What a week. It kicked off with new Windows Phone handsets from AT&T and ended with our friends over in “big” Windows taking the wraps off Windows 8. Still, there were plenty of Windows Phone tidbits to go around. Here are a few of my favorites.

Apps updated for Mango start to arrive

Here they come. New versions of the official Foursquare and Fli...

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