Unwiped whiteboard teases Mango, Apollo and beyond Apollo

June 28, 2011 | By Surur

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Sharp-eyed reader Karl spotted an unwiped whiteboard behind Dr Victor Bahl, Director of Mobile Computing Research, Microsoft Research, in this video about Microsoft working on white space data transmission in the UK.

The writing teases several Windows Phone features in Mango and beyond, some which we unfortunately can not discern mainly due to the bad handwriting.

The first line however suggests Windows Phone Mango will support TIPC which is a network communication protocol.

The second line appears to talk about localization in Apollo, the next version of Windows Phone. Hopefully this is about much wider support for Microsoft services world-wide.

The line after appears to talk about an Inspiration Engine in Apollo. Googling the term does not reveal much unfortunately.

The line after talks about Apollo bringing one-handed input via (I think) another soft keyboard, but that part of the line is unclear.

The next two lines are unfortunately also unclear, but clearly talks about work being done beyond Apollo.

Are any of our readers able to make more sense from the writing? Let us know below.

Update: This appears to be an accurate transcription of the text (thanks Aditya)

TIPC/S – Mango
Localization – Apollo
Inspiration Engine – Apollo
One handed input and next gen soft keyboard – Apollo
Voice Typing
Context Engine – Beyond Apollo

Voice typing – looking pretty good!

Thanks Karl for the tip.

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Tagged apollo, mango, microsoft research, windows phone 7.5

http://twitter.com/alingamp Aditya Lingampally

TIPC/S – Mango
Localization – Apollo
Inspiration Engine – Apollo
One handed input and next gen soft keyboard – Apollo
Voice Typing
Context Engine – Beyond Apollo

Aceofspades25

Nice!
Anonymous

After localization, it says East Asian 7&On

I think the other word has something to do with bing… bin sch? bing shim? dont know.
The same word repeats after voice typing…

http://twitter.com/alingamp Aditya Lingampally

TIPC/S – Mango
Localization – Apollo
Inspiration Engine – Apollo
One handed input and next gen soft keyboard – Apollo
Voice Typing
Context Engine – Beyond Apollo
http://profiles.google.com/chandramuralis Chandra Murali Srinivasan

this is insane……
http://fxfp.com/ Alex F.

I think first looks a bit like “something CLS” (CLS is a .NET way of having multiple programming languages for a single runtime). Perhaps they are going to support other programming languages in addition to current C# and VB?

Tom

No, I think the translation is right. Its a slash. Nobody writes CLS with a lowercase L.
Anonymous

… and I think you are talking about the common language runtime, which is CLR

rsgx

Here is a better screenshot I took from the video
rsgx

Here is a better screenshot I took from the video
arok

“Googling the term” ??. Didn’t expect this on WMPU.

Anonymous

I bet if he had bingo the term he would have gotten some good results.

http://twitter.com/imaxxhd Maximilian Hernandez

“i dont google” sry :/
Vinnie

I happened to BING ‘inspiration engine’ myself and inspirationengine.com is a company that offers a service for mobile phones. From their site:
“e.mote™ is a new approach to gathering feedback, measuring customer engagement and predicting customer behavior. e.mote™ is based upon the latest research in emotion and facial expression psychology. The e.mote™ platform combines a unique survey tool, rich qualitative insights, and powerful, predictive metrics with the ability to integrate with social networks.

e.mote™ is simple. It asks the three questions that are most important in predicting behavior: the positive or negative emotion, the intensity of the feeling, and why someone feels that way.

e.mote™ is mobile. Emotions are at their strongest during an experience. Using mobile devices e.mote™ catches people in that moment and allows them to express how they feel – anytime, anywhere.

e.mote™ is social. It asks people how they feel, and lets them share those feelings – not only with businesses, but with others in their social network.

e.mote™ is engaging. Based upon current emotion psychology, facial expressions are built into an emoticon that reflects people’s emotions. e.mote™ is fun, takes less than a minute, and people can e.mote™ from a browser or smartphone.”

So MS has “Inspiration Engine” on their board and InspirationEngine.com not only happens to be related to mobile software, but also seems to involved with social networking which is huge in WP. It’s all speculation but could this be it?

Anonymous

haha I did the same… crazy. could have nothing to do with it, but it sounds cool.

Ram

Inspiration Engine reads the emotions of the user. This was discussed few months back at one of the WP7 forums and I can’t recollect it where, sorry, and I think that is coming in Apollo. Apollo should be really good.

Ram

Also Inspiration engine should read the engagement of the user with the device in addition to emotions.
Anonymous

oh cool. isnt there parts of that in the xbox live hub, i remember seeing that the xbox live avatar will change emotions based on a smiley contained in a message.

Anonymous

“inspiration engine” sounds awesome. so does “context engine”

could a context engine be a context based search engine? predictive sentences? sounds crazy