14 DAY TRIAL // Before the end of this year, we should see three different flavors of Windows Phone being delivered to devices, recent reports suggest.
First of them will be Tango, which is said to arrive in the March-April timeframe, and which should bring support for 120 languages and for entry-level hardware into the mix.
Next, we’ll see Tango 2 being released on devices sometime in mid-2012, yet info on what it will bring new to the ecosystem hasn’t been unveiled as of yet.
In fall of 2012, Microsoft will push out the Windows Phone 8 platform version, codenamed Apollo. In early 2013, large volumes of WP8 devices are expected to arrive on the market, DigiTimes reports.
One of the companies committed to deliver Windows Phone 8 devices is Nokia. What remains to be seen is whether HTC, LG, Samsung and other vendors will launch similar smartphones as well.