Users who currently enjoy an Android or iOS- based smartphone (that is, an iPhone) are wary of trying the experience that Microsoft promises with its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango platform. And is not for less. The memory of Windows Mobile still burns in the memory of many, who can get to ignore the experience (pleasant for some, warm for others) of the new environment developed by those of Redmond.
For them, the most interesting thing would be to try without obligation. But since it is not easy to distribute phones with Windows Phone for anyone who is curious to feel in their hands the options and the operation of the platform, a website has been made available that, in a way, emulates the operation of the system on a mobile equipped with the Android icons or those of the iPhone.
In case you are interested in checking it, you can enter, directly from your mobile, in this link and follow the instructions. It is, plain and simple, an HTML5 web application that replicates the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango menu and icon system. In other words, what is produced is not a virtualization of the system, but is limited to an emulation that does not have access to our system data.
Thus, we will not be able to check one hundred percent how Windows Phone 7.5 Mango behaves, although we can get a more or less accurate idea of how it looks in operation on a phone. However, we must admit that, comparing the fluidity of the emulation in a Samsung Galaxy S2 with the real operation in an HTC Titan, the difference was more than remarkable.
For starters, the application is stuck (or at least not as smooth as it should be) during the carousel that, after all, this Windows Phone 7.5 Mango web showcase represents. In addition, we cannot leave the itinerary proposed by the application itself to show the options of the Microsoft platform, so in the end the experience remains a mere aesthetic idea that, taking a few minutes in a phone store, can be a lot more complete.
