The big events are the two keynotes on Wednesday and Thursday, both beginning at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 4:30 PM GMT / 9:00 PM IST Don’t worry, we’ll put up a reminder post later with a link to check for your time zone later today.
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Yes. We’ll try to continue our tradition of embedding the live stream here on the site, giving you folks a chat room and our live blog (which is usually a few seconds ahead of the stream). We’ll deliver live commentary with photos, assuming everything connects up.
Three weeks and four days left before the biggest event of the year. Who else is excited?
Current Windows Phone 8.1 Leak list:
From: WPCentral1
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Action Center
Notification center – Alerts, non-Toast notifications, update history, more
Quick-access to customized actions, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Plane mode, etc.
Apps + Store
Apps can capture audio/video from themselves; be limited for copyright concerns
App and Game data stored on SD cards
Apps on SD Cards are only allowed from ONE originating phone. If it detects that apps from another phone are installed on the SD Card, then it will ask to delete those first
App Suggestions by location
Backup of App + Game data to OneDrive (if developer enabled)
Facebook app comes with OS, updates independently, hooks into OS
Filter through installed apps by usage/install date
Manual Update checks
Option to update store apps automatically
Option to update store apps when only on Wi-Fi
Single sign-in for apps (like on Windows 8) with Microsoft Account; sign in will persist across devices + apps with permissions prompt
Calendar
Google calendar support, with multiple calendars
Weather in calendar
Week view in calendar
Camera
Burst camera mode, including auto-deletion of bursts
New layout
Bing
Bing smart search (similar search system as Windows 8.1)
Podcast app powered by Bing, full featured
Browser
Internet Explorer 11
IE 11 to save and remember your password for websites
JavaScript and HTML for app development
Upload files through Internet Explorer 11
Tabs now show up individually in multi-task window
WebGL and Normal mapping support
YouTube Player including HTML5 video support
Developer
Background tasks: Bluetooth signal strength, Chat message notification, Device connection change, Device use trigger, Gatt characteristic notification, Location, Push notification, Rfcomm connection, System event, Timer
XAP replaced by APPX
Audio/video transcoding that’s hardware accelerated
New dev tools including: SemanticZoom, DatePicker, TimePicker
Actionable notifications for apps
Silent/ghost notifications for apps
Email
Encrypted and signed e-mail support
New Email sync options with accordance to usage patterns (i.e. If you get a lot of mail on particular days and if you don’t check mail every day).
Option to always download emails and pictures within them
Enterprise and Office
Enterprise enrolled phones can have their passwords changed and remotely locked
Password protected Office document support
Office Lens support for scanning documents with camera, import into Office with OCR
Rebranding of SkyDrive to OneDrive
VPN support built in
S/MIME to sign and encrypt email
Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware
Auto-triggered VPN
Certificate management to enroll, update and revoke certificates for user authentication
Enhanced MDM policies to lock down functionality on the phone for more enterprise control, in addition to richer application management such as allowing or denying the installing of certain apps.
Enterprise Wi-Fi support with EAP-TLS
General User Experience changes
Start screen backgrounds
Back button no longer closes apps, instead it suspends them
Double-Tap to unlock your phone (Feature from Lumia devices on Amber Update and newer)
Double Tap to Power Off
Favorite photos by tapping a heart icon
File picker
Kid's Corner - Password won't be displayed (bug fix)
Live Tiles – mark as red by swiping from the left over the Tile
Live Tiles – Three column support (maybe)
Navigation bar for phones without physical keys on the front
Notification if charger isn’t of adequate power
Quiet Hours - Disable notifications during pre-selected timeframe
Screenshot button combination is now Power + Volume Up
Search button will be the new way to open Speech (aka ‘Cortana’)
Separate volume controls for ringtones/notifications and music/media
Set default Voice Navigation app for the OS
Swipe down to close apps in multitasking view
Voice Narrator for Accessibility
Keyboard
General keyboard enhancements, show emoji when typing
Swipe keyboard option - “Write, when I swipe through letters”.
Media
Audio/video transcoding, Hardware accelerated
Media editing: audio and video; Audio effects, video effects; Slow motion video
Xbox Music and Xbox Video as standalone apps instead of the Music + Video Hub (allowing more updates to be pushed)
Messaging
Change default SMS app. You can also change which SMS app will show notifications.
Mute Thread - Optionally silence text threads, no longer receive notifications or Live Tile updates
Phone + Contacts
Contact list sorting of those with phone numbers
Call duration (press and hold reveals a "details" menu in call history)
In-call speech commands. You’ll be able to say “Call XXXXXX”.
Inner Circle of contacts. Up to 40 contacts can be in the inner circle.
Operators can also install certain applications once a SIM card is detected
Sense
Battery Power Sense – App to monitor which apps draw the most power
Battery Saver (under Battery Sense) will have an app exclusion list
Data Sense – Operators can now control Data Sense limits remotely
Wi-Fi Sense – Sharing secured WI-Fi Networks with contacts if they have Wi-Fi Sense. They don’t get to see the shared password though
Wi-Fi can auto re-enable after a set duration of time
Wi-Fi Direct
System
Bluetooth 4.0 LE
Chkdsk for SD cards to ensure card health
Geofence monitoring support. Geofence is a boundary around a place of interest to you. Location services can monitor geofences to tell your apps when you’re entering and leaving them. This would be really good for IFTTT
Miracast, PlayTo, mirror and project via wireless display or USB-out
Mouse and keyboard support (HID)
Stereoscopic 3D support
The phone will have to update to the latest version before you can restore it to factory settings
Trusted app list for NFC that will remove the need for asking whether you want to open a particular app
Virtual SmartCard support
Wallet supports tickets and membership cards
Windows Phone 8.1 apps won't run on 8.0 devices until they upgrade
Screenshots and Demos:
Action Centre
Cortana
What Cortana looks like:
Cortana live Demo:
Most of the tech activity comes from Windows Phone users here on ATRL. Aside from HIM of course.
The rest of the OS is awesome. Love Android though but Windows Phone is my baby.
Love iOS too but it's so boring
Haaa, I was about so say the same thing.... the smartphone discussion section is all about Windows Phone.
I'm most excited for having the WP8 version of "swype". I almost purchased a Nexus 4 back when I was choosing phones purely to have this feature out of the box... but not being able to type with my fingernails was a dealbreaker for me. Sooo... yay!
I hope they include more theme colours. No word on whether there'll be more to choose from. I change it like twice a day, haha.
I'm sad that there's been no indication that they'd make the windows phone button a notification light, but being able to wave my hand over the phone to see if I have notifications has satisfied me enough for now.
Excited for Windows 8.1, gonna be like having a new phone!
Haaa, I was about so say the same thing.... the smartphone discussion section is all about Windows Phone.
I'm most excited for having the WP8 version of "swype". I almost purchased a Nexus 4 back when I was choosing phones purely to have this feature out of the box... but not being able to type with my fingernails was a dealbreaker for me. Sooo... yay!
I hope they include more theme colours. No word on whether there'll be more to choose from. I change it like twice a day, haha. (1)
I'm sad that there's been no indication that they'd make the windows phone button a notification light, but being able to wave my hand over the phone to see if I have notifications has satisfied me enough for now.(2)
Excited for Windows 8.1, gonna be like having a new phone!
1. There is a placeholder for Custom Colours, as far as I know because one of the leaked images had sky blue as a theme, and it was placed under the "Custom" accent.
2. I think Glance would do the same function, if you peek at your phone or you hover your screen. It depends on your liking. I personally like Glance because I have Night Mode set to blue. I love Blue.
I haven't seen the cortana vid until now Looks amazing
Also, I am excited for the notification bar and the tiles
Microsoft is ALREADY in the development phase of Windows 8.5! This year is going to be a busy year for Microsoft stans and MS themselves. I honestly think Nadella is doing a great job!
I am still waiting for Gapless playback though. The only thing I'm missing on my Windows Phone 4 months after leaving iOS.
That would be so cool
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Microsoft is ALREADY in the development phase of Windows 8.5! This year is going to be a busy year for Microsoft stans and MS themselves. I honestly think Nadella is doing a great job!
Windows Phone 8.5 is already in the works as WP 8.1 launch nears
07 March, 2014 | Comments (69) | Post your comment
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The Windows Phone emulator has been very generous in providing under the hood information of Microsoft's mobile OS. Besides the countless clues regarding the scheduled for April update to Windows Phone 8, the emulator has obviously a lot more to share - particularly an interesting bit of info about the next-generation iteration of the OS dubbed Windows Phone 8.5.
TimeMe developer has encountered an interesting tooltip in the WP Emulator, which indicates that secondary live tiles may no longer be available in Windows Phone 8.5. Check out the exact tooltip message below.
This doesn't necessarily mean that the secondary live tile will disappear entirely, but most probably the API may be altered or completely rewritten to allow new functionality. In any case, Microsoft plans to change the start screen in Windows Phone 8.5.
In addition, Windows Phone 8.1 will allow developers to choose a shorter update period for their Live Tiles. Currently, the update happens every 30 minutes, but Windows Phone 8.1 will introduce a shorter update period of 1 minute.
Microsoft is holding their BUILD developer conference in April. There, the software giant will spill all the beans of the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1, which is scheduled to hit devices this spring.
Looks amazing
