Next Windows Phone to Be Unveiled on May 24th

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has announced plans to bring the next flavor of Windows Phone into the spotlight on May 24th, 2011.

The unveiling will take place during a press event set to take place on that day in New York City, at least this is what the invitations Microsoft sent out read.

“On May 24th we lift the curtain on the next major release of Windows Phone and we would like you to be the first to see it,” the invitation reads.

No specific info on what the new mobile platform iteration would actually include was made available, but some of the latest rumors on the matter suggest that we're to see many appealing new features included into the mix.

Last month, during its MIX11 conference, Microsoft announced that the next flavor of Windows Phone is expected to bring new features into the mix, and even detailed some of them.

Some of these would include the new Internet Explorer 9 for mobile, along with Twitter integrated into People's Hub, multitasking, or a series of new applications, including Angry Birds, Skype, or Spotify.

Some of the latest rumors on the matter suggest that Microsoft might also enhance the Bing experience Windows Phone users would receive, with the addition of features like Bing Audio for music identification, or Bing Vision for bar code scanning.

Some of the other features that might be included into the mix, would be turn-by-turn navigation with Bing Maps, Native Podcast support, and even voice-recognition SMS messaging, Windows Live Messenger integration, and enhanced support for East Asian languages.

For the time being, however, these are only rumored new features for the mobile operating system, as Microsoft has yet to confirm that they would be included in the new Mango update, set to arrive sometime in fall.

Hopefully, May 24th would be the day when more details on this should become available, so stay tuned to learn additional info.