wixostrix

@katam ivory:

Bing in Mango will have native image search.  You can see the pivot in demos when they make searches. 

I also don't understand why third-parties don't get access to the search button.  It's totally going against their idealology of contexual search.  If an app is submitted and has a search option, it should be as easy as hitting the hardware key and there should never be any software buttons.  Double clicking the search button should go to Bing as it currently does in native apps when the app searches (People Hub, Email, etc.)

The threads feature is something I loved about WebOS and I'm excited to see something similar is coming to WP7.  I'm wondering about how those multiple recipient messages are going to work in Mango though.  Currently in WP7 if you seed a message to multiple people, when they responded it would just come back in the current thread you have with them, but the original message is not there, it remains in it's own thread that will no longer be updated.  Will this be the same in Mango?  Will group instant messaging be included and the conversation between all participants remain in a single thread? 

I'm excited about the Groups feature.  I spent a lot of time, and I always add new people to lists on Facebook.  I was thinking it would be cool if WP7 could sync those lists, but now FB is doing groups too (which I hope they make a conversion tool for those who utilized lists, they both shouldn't co-exist).  But anyway, the more FB integration, the better.  Every platform has their form of FB integration, but none of them do it as great as WP7.  I think the Windows Phone team should be working really close with FB so new features could come to it first, already integrated into the OS, while the competition will still be using dedicated apps.