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Microsoft released in 2014 Developers Conference on the smart phone operating system Windows Phone 8.1, and added a similar Apple's Siri voice assistant Cortana. Currently, Beta version of WP 8.1 or Cortana. However, Microsoft has been to encourage developers to integrate applications and Cortana. Now, developers from South Africa Matt Cavanagh are busy home automation tasks will be integrated into this voice assistant. Let Cortana on / off lights is nothing new, really feel "cool" is: Cortana how "unconventional instruction" to perform the task. For example, when Matt said "Cortana, a little dark inside the house," when, Cortana will open lamp. If you change your mind Matt says: ". Cortana, inside the house too bright" Cortana will turn off the lamp. Windows Phone via Bluetooth connection with Netduino, which is an open-source e-molded platform running on. NET Micro Framework is. Rely on this basic framework, Matt will be able to wr...

Microsoft has released its next-generation mobile operating system Windows Phone 8.1, has some new features. Essentially, Microsoft's Windows Phone overhaul allow closer Android and iOS, the impact of the experience is positive, it is expected to attract some new users to join. If you do not understand Windows Phone 8.1, may wish to read on to see if it meets your needs. 1. Free to upgrade Windows Phone  8.1 Microsoft said that essentially all of the Windows Phone 8 handsets can be upgraded to 8.1, as long as the mobile phone manufacturers launch the appropriate ROM, users can receive push updates in the system settings. 2. developers have to upgrade to 8.1 If you have a developer account, you can now upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 up. In addition, the Windows Phone developer site can apply for free accounts, so early adopters users can try. 3. Cortana, there are two ways to open Cortana Voice Assistant is a significant upgrade of the Windows Phone 8.1, in order to u...

Not so long ago, the Microsoft BUILD conference, Nokia demonstrated several new WP 8.1 devices-Lumia 930, Lumia 630 and Lumia 635. In fact, not just Microsoft's "immediate relatives" Nokia joined the WP 8.1 camp, many other vendors will also be followed, such as earlier reported Samsung is about to launch a product called ATIV Core midrange of WP 8.1 phone, the screen size 4.5 inches, with a resolution of 720p. Recently, we received more news that ATIV Core may not be the only Samsung will launch a WP 8.1 devices, as there were not officially released a SM-W350F a terminal UA Profile on Samsung's website phone. Information from the code point of view, this phone should be equipped with a WVGA (480 × 800) display, built-in IE 11, and we also know that IE 11 is just one of the new features included in WP 8.1 update. So looks like the Samsung SM-W350F is a low-end WP 8.1 phones, Samsung is likely to be used with the Nokia Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 competitive weap...

Nokia Refocus app was Initially available for anyone with a Lumia PureView smartphone, from today the latest Refocus update will allow all Lumia owners sporting Windows Phone 8 to have a piece of the varifocal action and even the Lumia 520 will get a taste of Refocus app. Refocus requires the Nokia Black update, so make sure you have that installed before downloading the app. Here’s a tip from Jens Eggert, Nokia’s Lead Program Manager for Refocus, on how to capture the best Refocus shots: “To create a great Refocus image, move as close as possible to the object nearest you, get that in focus – between five and ten centimeters – and ensure you’ve got something defined in the background. The best advice, however, is experimentation. Just play, it’s fun!” Once you’ve captured the perfect shot, use the in-built sharing feature to show off your deep visual creation to your friends. People receiving the image don’t need a Lumia smartphone or the Nokia Refocus app to play with your photo and ...

  [caption id="attachment_3563" align="alignleft" width="200"] WiFi sense[/caption] The same folks at Unleash the Phones showed the WiFi Sense feature in action and demonstrated how it works in another video.  the WiFi Sense , when activated, will allow users to join public WiFi hotspot's having to manually enter personal information such as the name or email, as well as the terms and condition acceptance. Now, WiFi Sense will take care of the “I agree to the T&C” message that pops up whenever you connect to a WiFi hotspot. During the WiFi settings, it also shows the feature that give users the ability to automatically turn on the WiFi after a set duration, so users don't have to do it manually every time they come back from somewhere. These new Wi-Fi settings aren't exactly the biggest additions to a mobile OS that we've ever seen. They are nice little features that should make using Wi-Fi on a Windows Phone 8.1 device a little easier...

Just a day back, Nokia's forthcoming handset Moneypenny, was leaked via a leaked product sheet. The successor to hit Lumia 620 will likely to have a 4.5-inch display having a resolution of 854x 480 pixels, alongside much need dual-SIM support. For Nokia Lumia 630 Perhaps you will not feel strange, after the handset had official renderings exposure on the internet, and the rumor is the first model equipped with WP8.1 system, but also is the first virtual key design WP phone system. And now, with the approaching Microsoft BUILD Developers Conference, this new smartphone code inside RM-977 has also been certified by the FCC, which means that Nokia Lumia630 has come from recent official in the late ruler. However, Nokia Lumia 630 seems to offer a choice of two versions, the version passed FCC certification is a single SIM card, so the outside world is also speculated that U.S. sales of single-card version, and supports dual SIM cards will be in the other Nokia Lumia630 State and lo...

Although there have been many Lumia models won the Nokia Black system update, but the low-end positioning of the Lumia 720 is currently still not upgrade list. But Nokia said Lumia 720 Black Update  will be pushed to the Lumia 720 users, this better than previously expected, "A few weeks later," push the date ahead a lot.   Some users in Vietnam seem to have the Lumia Black update on their 720 before the official roll-out begins, as demonstrated in the video embedded at the end of this post. Since only 512MB Lumia RAM capacity of 720, rather than 1GB, therefore Lumia 720 Black will not support this system all the new features included in the update, but after the upgrade Lumia 720 will support double-click wake up the screen. I believe for the user, this will unlock the way to use them very easily.this is shown in the video below (in Vietnamese).  Lumia 720 Black Update Features video The Nokia Lumia 720 currently costs as low as $250 unlocked,if you have already tired of i...

GTA: San Andreas finally arrives at the Windows Phone Store today. The release comes a year after Rockstar ported this app on to mobile, and a month after its iOS and Android release. GTA San Andreas supported Windows Phone smartphones at the current time include the Nokia Lumia: 1520, 1320, 822, 820, 810 and HTC: 8XT. Also to be able to play the new game GTA San Andreas Windows Phone owners will also need to download an additional 2.5 GB update. GTA: San Andreas finally arrives at the Windows Phone Store “Five years ago, Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers. Now, it’s the early 90’s. Carl’s got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for ...

Even though Nokia Lumia1520 is a best windows phone ever launched,  the touch screen with the size of 6 inches but the average person might make it difficult to accept, then with a 5-inch touch screen Nokia Lumia929 (Icon) is naturally highly anticipated. However, according to the reports  Nokia will launch a Lumia 1520 mini version , the model for the Lumia1520V , will likely carry WP8.1 system and equipped with 4.3-inch touch screen and built-in 14 million pixel camera, is expected to WP8.1 system officially debut after release.   Lumia 1520 mini version websites wpbar quoted an anonymous contributor broke the news that Nokia will have a Lumia 1520 mini or Lumia1520V launch, and because the handset broke deliberately hidden relationship with Nokia Lumia 929 (Icon), so they might guess, this new handset is international version of the Lumia 929 (Icon). Lumia1520V launch, and because the machine broke deliberately hidden relationship with Nokia Lumia 929 (Icon), so they might guess...

Many Windows Phone users are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Cortana voice assistant , after all, Android phones and the iPhone has its own voice assistant feature, can not help but make them look a little outdated Windows Phone. The good news is, Cortana voice assistant test version will be landing in April this year, Nokia Lumia devices. As Microsoft's Windows Phone platform for the development of voice assistant, "Cortana" naming masterpiece from the Xbox game "Halo" in the role of artificial intelligence, which is fully consistent voice, and perhaps make a lot of players feel very cordial. From the leaked screenshot of view, Cortana voice assistant functionality and Apple Siri similar voice can send text messages, play music, call contacts and other basic functions; will also have some artificial intelligence features to simple communication with the user. But this year, it seems that Cortana will release beta version in the U.S. market, whether official bu...

While Sony and Microsoft compete in the highly competitive field of home console, but this did not prevent the two sides to cooperate in other areas. Sony Mobile head of the European Division, Pierre Perron recently in an interview, said the company is currently active in the research and development efforts and plans to launch its own Windows Phone smart phone. Ever since Microsoft announced the acquisition of Nokia after the company's equipment and services for other companies to become more open attitude. And if Sony can successfully cooperate with the launch of Microsoft's Windows Phone smart phone, then it has no intention to run Windows Phone ecosystem Sony and both are very good news. Pierre Perron said that the current growth momentum despite Sony's well on the Android platform, but in general, since Google's open policy pursued has led this market has become very crowded, so if we can expand the Windows Phone market, then, So for Sony mobile business is a very ...

According to previous reports, Nokia's commitment in January of this year will push the Nokia Black Based GDR 3 updates to users worldwide, and today the Finnish mobile phone maker has finally realized his promise. It is reported that this update will be the first landing Lumia 925 and Lumia1020, and other equipment will begin to receive the Black updated within the next few weeks. Nokia Black update will bring a number of significant improvements, including low-power Bluetooth, richer Screen Glance, calls attribution, App Folder application folder, the screen switches, turn off background applications, traffic management, driving mode, the Nokia Image logs Nokia and Nokia re-focus shooting professional series of new features compared to previous versions of the system upgrade is still quite large amplitude. It is worth mentioning that Nokia Beamer and re-focus feature requires device has 1GB RAM, while the flagship Lumia 1020 also features a separate camera RAW format camera mode ...

Nokia Lumia 525 Released with 1GB RAM and WP8 : Nokia's new budget Windows Phone, the Lumia 525, is now official.   Nokia Lumia 525 smartphone features 1GB of RAM, which is double than the 512MB RAM found on other budget Lumia smartphones like Nokia Lumia 520, Nokia Lumia 620 and Nokia Lumia 625. Other specifications of the Lumia 525 are identical to the Lumia 520. The Nokia Lumia 525 runs Windows Phone 8 with the Lumia Black update. It features a 4-inch WVGA (480x800) IPS LCD display, translating to a pixel density of 235ppi. The Lumia 525 is powered by a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor alongside 1GB of RAM. It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expanded up to 64GB with microSD card. The Lumia 525, much like other Nokia Lumia smartphone, comes with 7GB of free SkyDrive cloud storage. It sports an 5-megapixel rear camera with no flash or front-facing camera. The primary camera on the Lumia 525 features Nokia Smart Camera Cinemagraph lens, Panorama lens...

The popular photo sharing app Instagram is now available for Windows Phone 8 devices. but currently on beta phase, so that mean's it's still under construction and may not work flawlessly. The app is now ready to download from the Windows Phone Store although it’s still a beta version so you can try it at your own risk. The application is not a completely finished product. In order to bring it to the market as quickly as possible, the developers have released it without support for video capture and uploading. There are other missing features too. They include the inability to tag people in photos, as well as view maps from geotagged photos. To make up for the missing features, Instagram for Windows Phone 8 has been optimized to support Live Tiles with data refresh. More importantly, the developer team will continue to fine-tune the app until it is fully on par with its Android and iOS counterparts at which point the final version should debut. You can download the Instagram be...

As early as late October, Instagram had said will be launched within a few weeks Windows Phone version of Instagram. The latest news shows, WP version of Instagram launched to the market as early as next Monday. Which for some use WP system, but then Instagram interested users, it is definitely good news. Although the WP operating system there is an alternative third-party program, but this will change the WP platform Instagram lack of well-known photo sharing application dilemma. Not just Instagram, the moment a lot of well-known applications are launched WP operating system version. After following the Instagram, Flipboard will also be officially launched Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1 version. After the news show, Instagram will be December login Windows Phone store. Although this broke some discrepancies in time, but for users who reduce the waiting is a big thing. It should be noted that the current Instagram next Monday is coming soon to Windows Phone platform has not been offic...

Huawei Announced Ascend W2 budget Windows phone 8, Huawei has announced it's latest windows phone 8 smartphone into market. more impressively this time Huawei has targeted entry level market by releasing an entry level windows phone 8 model as Ascend W2 to directly competite against Nokia Lumia 520. The new Ascend W2 has a 4.3" IPS LCD screen with WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels, 217ppi). It also features super sensitive touch technology, so it works even if you're wearing gloves. The phone is rather large for a 4.3" device though, measuring 134 x 67 x 9.9mm, it's almost the size of a 5" phone. The 160g of weight don't help its cause either. Anyway, the Ascend W2 comes in several color options (that's the strength of the WP lineup, right?), from standard Black to Blue, Red and Yellow. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon MSM8230 chipset with a dual-core Krait CPU running at 1.4GHz, Adreno 305 GPU and 512MB RAM. It has 8GB of built-in storage and no...

Huawei Announced Ascend W2 budget Windows phone 8, Huawei has announced it's latest windows phone 8 smartphone into market. more impressively this time Huawei has targeted entry level market by releasing an entry level windows phone 8 model as Ascend W2 to directly competite against Nokia Lumia 520. The new Ascend W2 has a 4.3" IPS LCD screen with WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels, 217ppi). It also features super sensitive touch technology, so it works even if you're wearing gloves. The phone is rather large for a 4.3" device though, measuring 134 x 67 x 9.9mm, it's almost the size of a 5" phone. The 160g of weight don't help its cause either. Anyway, the Ascend W2 comes in several color options (that's the strength of the WP lineup, right?), from standard Black to Blue, Red and Yellow. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon MSM8230 chipset with a dual-core Krait CPU running at 1.4GHz, Adreno 305 GPU and 512MB RAM. It has 8GB of built-in sto...

Although Nokia has been acquired by Microsoft, but in a short time, the company continues to previous product plans, and with the 2013 Nokia Assembly approaches, new equipment rumors intensified, one of the most concern cross-border nature is six inches big screen flagship - Lumia 1520 . Here take a look at the recent rumors about the handest summary. Body design According @ evieaks leaked pictures, the Nokia Lumia 1520 continues the series of designs, including the iconic polyethylene shell. And recently, @ evieaks has leaked on Twitter Lumia 1520 red version, indicating that the aircraft or with a variety of body colors. Compared to the previous Nokia Windows Phone, Nokia Lumia 1520 that features an ultra-narrow screen frame, the screen size will also be the best Windows Phone. Display Apart from boasting of a 6-inch screen, the Lumia 1520 will also sport a full 1080p high definition viewing panel. This will be essential to the growing number of mobile gamers, who can take adv...

HP Strongly denied Windows phone 8 debut : A few days ago, we had seen on the Hewlett-Packard Company may return to the smartphone market, and with Microsoft to launch Windows Phone Smartphone news. However, HP's PR department today from the statements made, things seem to be far from simple imagination. Maybe the rumors are not true before, but HP has a very strong and clear attitude denies launch Windows Phone smart phone rumors, it looks very interesting. Generally speaking, most companies encounter rumors about himself, would choose an eye, close one eye attitude choose to ignore, because if rumors are no more basis in fact users will gradually fade out of sight slowly. Generally speaking, to say nothing of the effect actually played a lot better than vehemently denied, if a company is very concerned about a rumor, generally speaking this rumor becomes not so far-fetched it. For example, we often see in the report "a certain company refused to express their views on a r...

Windows Phone 8.1 Notification Center  in the last quite a long period of time, we already know that in the upcoming version of Windows Phone will be added to the system we are looking forward to the Notification Center feature, and now, there are a latest Windows Phone Notification Centre spy lights in front of us now. The latest Windows Phone system will be named Windows Phone 8.1, the most interesting improvement is the addition of Windows Phone system before never had, but some competitors who already Notification Center feature. Judging from the exposure of the spy photos, Windows Phone 8.1 notification center seems to be integrated into a tile, in the standby screen you can see the number of new notifications, but you can see after clicking on the specific content of the notification. In addition to these, it seems that we do not know more about the new notification system in more detail. Windows Phone system phone was initially displayed at the top of the main scree...