When you show up late to a party, you should at least bring a bottle of wine (or a case of beer depending on the party). Nokia’s highly-anticipated launch of Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” smartphones comes fairly late in the game, and doesn’t seem to add anything to make it worth the wait.

This was supposed to be “it”. Microsoft invested a billion dollars funding the relationship with Nokia, and buying the global mobile phone leader over to the Windows Phone 7 platform. We waited all year to see what Nokia would bring to the table, and the answer seems to be “nothing new”.