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Native Check-ins support coming to Windows Phone 7 Mango ?

Native Check-ins support coming to Windows Phone 7 Mango ? Foursquare, Gowalla or Facebook competitor?

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Here’s an interesting tweet that suggests that check-ins (similar to Foursquare, Facebook, Gowalla) are probably supported natively now in Windows Phone 7 via a new Windows Live service. As of right now, the Windows Live integration in Windows Phone 7 is in my opinion severally lacking (I’ve discussed this in my WP7 review here) so it’s only safe to assume that an update to the WLIVE integration on the way with Mango.


Microsoft has yet to announce most of the newly supported services and cloud based features that will be part of the Mango update later this year but we have already seen hints of new Bing search features not long ago.

source: Twitter thanks Clubdirthill!

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