Microsoft Releases Suggestion Box App For Windows Phone

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Microsoft seems to have made some vast improvements in terms of Windows Phone with the release of version 7.5 Mango, however that does not mean they are stopping. In fact, Microsoft has been allowing users to make feature suggestions using an online forum page. And now, now it look like those same feature suggestions can be done directly from your Windows Phone smartphone.

The new found support for suggesting features from your device comes by way of the Suggestion Box app, which is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

“The Windows Phone Feature Suggestion Box app allows you to provide feedback and make your voice heard to the teams building the Windows Phone application platform.”

The app requires Windows Phone 7.5 or higher, measures in at less than a 1MB file size and is currently sitting at version 1.2.0.0. As to some of the features, of course, there is the obvious in that you can suggest new features and capabilities, however the Suggestion Box app also offer the following;

• This app connects your Windows Phone to the Windows Phone Suggestion Box forum (http://windowsphone.uservoice.com)
• Browse current suggestions (sortable by top ideas, hot ideas and new ideas)
• Comment on submitted suggestions
• Add up to three votes to suggestions

Otherwise, the Suggestion Box app requires you to offer your suggestions in 25 words or less. Also worth noting, Microsoft states that you should not “send any novel or patentable ideas, samples or demos which you do not want to grant a license to Microsoft.” Oh and, the items being suggested are community based and just because they are included (or popular) that does not guarantee that they will ever come available. Or as Microsoft puts it; the “listed items and their rankings represent community interest in features, and does not represent an actual priority list for the product team.”