Mango Preview: Rumor Bingo Results Are In!

Man what a day! We've done sixteen posts on today's Mango Preview Event and we're pretty sure we broke a few fingers in the process. Don't beat yourself up -- it was all worth it to see so much awesome functionality coming to our precious Windows Phones in the future. Well if you were playing our Mango Rumor Bingo while the action was going down then good news...DOUBLE BINGO! Let's take a look at what popped up green on our bingo sheet:

• That swanky new live tile for the People Hub made an appearance during the presentation and in one of Microsoft's official screenshots.
• New Bing features like Visual Search, Music Search, and Local Scout were confirmed. We're excited.
• Built-in Facebook check in support was confirmed by the official Windows Phone Blog today but Microsoft hasn't shown it off yet nor have we spotted any videos or photos of it in action.
• Voice to Text was demoed for a few minutes during the presentation.
• The Linked Inbox has been confirmed and appears in a screenshot, but no one from Microsoft is referring to it as that by name and for now they aren't showing off how exactly it works.
• Turn-By-Turn Navigation from Bing Maps is now seemingly confirmed thanks to a video that was taken from the Mango SDK tools.
• The revamped Messaging Hub which now features an instant messaging/text/email interoperability called 'Threads'
• The redesigned Zune player was spotted in the Facebook live demo.
• Visual voicemail was candidly confirmed during the presentation.

But what functionality didn't come to Windows Phone that was rumored and considered highly likely to make an appearance today? Let's break it down.

• Windows Phone Mango was not renamed Windows Phone 7.5. We thought this one would definitely happen, but Microsoft has yet to commit to a name to go to market with.
• Rumors of Zune getting split up into Xbox Live and Windows Live brands failed to come to fruition, and the original rumor said it would happen specifically today.
• Sadly no news about Mobile Hotspot or even USB tethering yet, but we're assuming it's going to come with the hardware announcements when Mango officially launches.
• Skype integration was rumored but since the acquisition isn't supposed to be finalized until this Fall, Microsoft most likely just hasn't had enough time. We don't even think it'll make it into the final build of Mango.
• Here's the big one: zero hardware announcements. We heard that crazy rumor of 9 new devices launching today but we should have known better from the rumor's shady origins.

It's still entirely possible some of the unconfirmed rumors could come true (turn-by-turn navigation was discovered as we were writing this up) but we're exhausted! We'll be calling it a day folks (but not before an obligatory recap post).

What are your final thoughts on the rumors that didn't work out for today? Still have hopes?

Windows Phone Daily presents Mango Rumor Bingo!

Download the full-sized sheet to play along from anywhere!
Tomorrow is going to be a huge day for Windows Phone fanatics. Microsoft is set to unveil all of the Mango-flavored goods at their preview events in New York, London, and Poland. So we thought we'd make things a little more fun for everybody.

Introducing Mango Rumor Bingo! Now when the announcements are pouring in on Tuesday you can have a handy go-to list of every rumored feature and see if they show up! If you need a quick summary of how to play bingo, all you need to do is get four true items in a row. On our sheet, you can get those four items vertically in any column, horizontally in any row, or diagonally across the sheet (but it must be four items). Plus you have two free spaces in our sheet, which means you can cross those off right now and play with them. After you get four in a row, you get "bingo" and win! (Remember, this is all just for fun.)

Guess what? The bingo sheet above also doubles as a quick recap post of every rumored feature of Mango thus far! So if you want to know more about a certain rumor, just click on the picture and you'll see that topic's article.

Keep your monitors tuned to Windows Phone Daily for tomorrow's Mango Preview, which kicks off at 10:00 AM EST!

P.S. In case you're having deja vu, Joystiq inspired us to do this. Their E3 Prediction Bingo games each year are awesome!