A Microsoft Windows Phone event in Berlin has just shown off some more new features in “Mango”. Which should hopefully add a few more features to the The Great Windows Phone Mango Feature List.

Battery Saver Mode

Battery Saver Mode appears to be an option to conserve your battery when you start to run low on juice.

Your phone can turn off some service to help preserve your battery. For example you won’t automatically receive email, and apps won’t run in the background. You can still use the phone, send and receive text messages and get your email manually.”

Native Account Support for Twitter, LinkedIn and Office 365

Most interestingly there you can now add Twitter and LinkedIn as separate accounts in your phone as well as native support for an Office 365 account. Twitter integration was announced back in January however it was widely assumed that this would be done via hooking you twitter account up with you Windows Live Stream. It appears now that this is a separate account that you will set up on your phone to enable this integration. LinkedIn is presumably only going to support contact syncing which will be very handy for those that use the phone more as a work phone. However the native Office 365 support is something that AFAIK has not previously been shown off. Hopefully this account setup will also integrate with Lync client that was also announced for Windows Phone means users will not need to setup their credentials twice.

Check out the whole video below:

Source via NeoWin

The people at WPMango have just posted a 5 minute video show off many of the new features of Windows Phone Mango.

You can jump to the times below to see particular features.

• 0:13 – Multitasking
• 0:27 – Music + Video
• 0:50 – Bing Music Search
• 1:22 – IE
• 1:55 – Contact History
• 2:18 – Messaging
• 2:58 – Xbox Hub

You can check it out below:

Source: http://wpmango.blogspot.com/2011/05/xbox-live-avatar-uses-several-sensor.html

Since I posted yesterday on a few of the “hidden” features in the Windows Phone Mango emulator I have now discovered a few more features.

NOTE: All of these features are in the current emulator that ships with the Windows Phone 7.1 (a.k.a. Mango) development tools emulator. I did not have to do any hacking to the emulator to reveal these features and can be found by simply navigating the UI.

Task switching UI can be activated by pressing and holding the “F1” button. It appears the UI is not finished as it does not show a preview image.

Photos taken with the camera now have an “auto-fix” option.

New normal pop-down volume bar with bigger numbers to represent the audio volume. There are now 30 different volume settings to chose from instead of 25.

Thread Options with the “Switch to” windows which would give you an option to change to Facebook or Messenger if it is setup.

Of course there are some Background Services Settings is also easily found under settings.

I can also confirm that the camera flash settings seem to be remembered when you re-launch the camera app.

With the release of Windows Phone “Mango” Developer tools Microsoft have now released the new limited functionality has been released to the public. Even though this emulator is greatly restricted there are still some new features that can be used if you just going diving into the UI following all the links to other actions…

Note: Everything you see here can be see by anyone who has the new Windows Phone “Mango” developer tools installed with the new “Mango” emulator.

MP3 Audio Playback now has the controls at the top and they have a repeat and shuffle to support the playlist feature announced at MIX’11.

Video Play Back now has a new button on the right that stretches the video to fit the screen.

Normal

Expanded

HTML 5 Audio Playback support is confirmed and will continue to work after you are back at the start screen. Then if you use the volume rocker you will see the new pop-down audio control with bigger buttons.

Search has the new Camera, Music and Audio search buttons… I found in my test that the music search was very good and the length of time taken to find the song depended on how loud the music is playing.

Voice Search also works well… Showing you results for Web, Local and Images… Also included was Windows Phone Apps that might match the query.

Windows Phone App now has new pivot view with Reviews, Screenshots and related panes…

Camera App has a soft camera button in the top left…

Bing Local search can find stores of certain type in an area.. You can also see reviews of that place under the “Buzz” pivot screen.

Turn by Turn directions is working… With Voice Guidance.

Map now shows traffic flow.

Update: Apparently the “Show Traffic” is a feature of the current version of Windows Phone. However this is not a feature of my HTC HD7 NoDo phone I bought in Australia so I assume this is a regional feature.

The “Nearby” button in the maps app shows you many interesting highlights of the area…

You can even filter on the types of places you want to look for…

Photos are now sorted into “Albums” instead of “ALL” and there is a camera button in the choose picture screen.

Contact Card now has History pivot to see what communication you have had with the persons.

Conversation View also shows that each type of message is tagged with the type (e.g. Text)