Thanks! Found it and she’s still running 7.0. I guess we’ll wait until the download shows up. Do you notice any real differences?
Just updated my wife’s Samsung Focus last night. So I haven’t had a chance to tinker too much. The few things I have noticed so far:
Groups for contacts. Nice
The alarm clock snooze is now 15 minutes, not 5 minutes. May seem very minor, but this is huge as the 5 minute snooze was infuriating. ;)
They renamed the Orange theme to Mango. Wow!
The real test will be the wife test. in one week — If I do not hear any griping, it passes. If I hear even faint praise, it’s a touchdown!
“Do you notice any real differences?”
Well, I’m not a real ‘power user’ and I probably don’t use many of the features available to me, so there’s probably lots of cool things I’m not noticing, but I do like the enhanced voice to text capabilities. For example, I get frustrated typing text messages on the virtual keyboard because my oversized fingers hit the wrong keys all the time. With the Mango update, I can send a short text by pressing the microphone icon and vocalizing my message, and it’s pretty accurate at transcribing what I say. Another thing, I was playing with the built-in map application, and now you can get audible turn-by-turn navigation. If you turn correctly, you get a short series of ‘pleasant’ tones indicating you’re going the right way, and if you turn incorrectly, you get ‘negative’ tones and it tells you to tap anywhere on the display and it will recalculate your directions. I wouldn’t say it’s nearly as good as a dedicated navigation unit (such as garmin), but it does seem to work reasonably well. One other thing, I’m not really much into Facebook, but people who are might like how the Mango update sort of integrates Facebook directly into the smart phone.