This is definitely good news for the Windows Phone lovers. Patience here will be considered as a virtue. The notification centre and on screen keys are major attractions. With my previously updated windows phone to amber, I got an addition of a radio feature and a glance screen but with this new OS update, Life has just been made easy.
The new features includes:
- Virtual Personal Assistant called Cortana – Cortana is also able to feed you custom notifications based on your personal information and usage data, should you allow it, much like Google Now. At launch, Bing and Foursquare are going to be feeding Cortana with information for places and events, but more online services will follow soon
- Action Centre(also called Notification centre) – It holds customizable quick setting toggles, which include brightness adjustment, location settings, rotation locks, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on and off among others. Below that you get a notification drawer with a full list of ongoing notifications such as email, text messages, missed calls and even notifications from Cortana.
- Custom tile background and updated lockscreen – Windows Phone 8.1 allows applications to take control over the lockscreen and change the theme or alter its functionality altogether. The other great customization feature is the option to set up custom backgrounds for the Start screen tiles. Another UI change means that you will now be able to select whether to have a third live tile column on the Start screen. Previously, this was set only by the phone manufacturer, so it’s cool Microsoft lets the user make this decision in WP 8.1.
- IE 11 – Windows Phone 8.1 ships with the latest version of Internet Explorer. IE 11 brings reading view, which grabs websites and extracts their text for easier reading. It also comes with a tuned up password manager, which will sync your passwords across multiple devices.There’s also an InPrivate mode enabling incognito browsing. It doesn’t make you invisible on the web, but rather disable history storing and cookie information is deleted once an incognito tab is closed.
- Other features includes On-screen keyboard, Low-end CPU support and quiet hours.
There is no information as to when the update will get to the rest of the world but we should expect it soonest.
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