A Guide to New Windows Phone Features

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Windows Phone OS Features

• Windows Phone Visions

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Windows Phone operating system for smartphones
has been introduced by Microsoft with an
objective to create a simple and easy to use
UI/UX with innovative features. With these unique
features Windows grab the smartphone market
within a short period of time. Thats the reason
why Windows Phone App Development currently in
movement. Microsoft developed a completely
different user interface by introducing new
design concept named Metro and also developed
new functionality that was not provided by other
competitive Smartphone os new functionalities
are discussed later in this article. The aim to
introduce Windows Phone was to target consumer
market rather than enterprise market. Windows
Phone OS was first launched in October 2010 with
Windows Phone 7. Other versions under Windows
Phone OS are Windows 7.5 Mango, Windows 7.5
Tango, Windows 7.8 and Windows 8. The latest
version of Windows is Windows 8.1 lunched in
June, 2014. In this article we are going to
discuss major features and functionalities of
Windows Phone. We will also focus current and
future significance of Windows Phone as compared
to other Operating Systems. Windows Phone was
launched in the market with very unique and
stunning features. Windows Phone acquired huge
market in short period of time not only because
of its features but also for easy native
application development.
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• Major features and functionalities of Windows
  Phone OS

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Contemporary UI Design
The greatest element that makes Windows Phone
different from other competitive OS is its simple
and remarkable User Interface design. The UI is
developed based on concept of Flat designing. The
Home Screen of Windows Phone contains all the
shortcuts of the installed application with
consistent design and easy search
facility. Another striking feature of Windows
phone is Live Tiles provides up-to-date content
or notifications of installed application on
Smartphone.
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Interface Customization
The Home screen icons and its position are easily
customizable as per user requirement. One can
easily rearrange the shortcuts of installed
applications from home screen. The theme,
background color and font size of the Windows
Phone can be customized easily. Tiles can be
resized by holding down on the home screen, or
from within the apps drawer.
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Make your own ROOM
Creating a ROOM is again a major feature that
makes Windows different from other Mobile OS.
User can make a ROOM by adding contact persons
and giving suitable name to it. After making a
Room, you can share pictures, chat, make
appointments, or broadcast your location to
everyone inside the ROOM. You can create ROOM of
Family, Friends, and Office/Colleagues.
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Skydrive Integration
Skydrive is the Microsofts cloud-based storage
that is well integrated with the Windows Phone.
User can easily store photos, documents, and
other data of his phone to Skydrive and access it
from a PC or Windows 8 tablet (or vice versa). So
its easy to backup important documents and
obtain back as and when required.
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Multi Resolution Support
Windows Application supports multi resolution
functionality that gives the facility to develop
an application for single resolution and it will
be easily adjustable to another resolution. The
size of the application is reduced by using multi
resolution functionality.
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Multilingual App Toolkit
The Multilingual App Toolkit helps you to
localize windows phone apps by providing
translation support, translation file management,
and editor tools. So now its easy to create
multilingual application with Windows Phone.
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Maps and Navigation
You can use maps on your Windows Phone to see
where you are, find where you want to go and get
directions from there. You can even reach to
nearby shops or restaurants that might be of your
interest, with review ratings posted by other
users.
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Wallet

• Windows Phone 8 introduces the Wallet, which can
  be used for the following
• Collect coupons, credit cards, memberships,
  loyalty cards, and other information in one
  place.
• Manage the payment instruments that they use in
  the app and music store.
• Link items in the Wallet to apps on their phone.
• Make contactless transactions using Near-Field
  Communication (NFC).

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Near-Field Communication

• Windows Phone 8 introduces a new API, the
  Proximity API that you can use to create apps
  that does the following
• Send data between devices using NFC.
• Use a phone to interact with NFC tags.
• Establish a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection between
  your app and an instance of your app on a
  proximate device.
• If two phones have a Near-Field Communication
  (NFC) chip, app users can perform the above
  scenarios simply by tapping their phones
  together.
• All the listed and many more unique and amazing
  feature helps Windows Phone to cover large market
  space in very short of time. Not only the
  smartphone usage but also the number of
  applications developed for windows platform is
  increased. There are some statistics that shows
  how quickly the Windows Phone becomes a choice of
  thousands of users.

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