More WP8 Features Leaked: Multi-Select Photos, SMS/Photo Backup, Storage Selection, Smart Glasses Support…
And the leaks keep on coming, last night we reported about the leaked WP8 SDK, and some of the features those who got it to run were able to spot; including BT transfer support, Hot swappable SD cards, Lock screen notification and extended Camera API access. Well here’s a whole boatload of more features the brave warriors of truth were able to uncover:
- Ability to select multiple photos in the gallery (presumably for mass deletion/moving to SD card)
- Ability to edit photos from within the gallery including crop & rotation
- Improved Bing search, bringing the latest headlines, events and showtimes when swiping to the left of the screen
- New Keyboard Emoticons (once again the same Lumia -like device with the Windows 8 button)
- New IE10 with ability to customize address bar, Block cookies, and use the Datasense feature to limit your data consumption
- Ability to back-up apps, picture & videos and SMS
- Greater control over available storage, allowing user to select which storage to save to (phone/memory card) as well as moving pictures from one storage location to another
- The Bing search wallpaper is the default setting for the phone wallpaper, updating automatically (like Bing Desktop- which is pretty cool BTW)
- Sorry to disappoint you folks, but the apps list is the same as before
- Automatic download of Updates/OTA updates
- Users have the ability to chose what apps can notify you on the lock screen
- Xbox SmartGlasses support (allows you to view music & Videos playing on your Xbox)
- Maps app shows Nearby local hotspots (the layout of the maps app looks identical to what’s currently available for WP7.5 even-though the WP8 should be running Nokia maps)
- “SMS Interceptor” which could be used to update twitter and Facebook statuses VIA SMS without the need for a Data plan
- Save Appointments to calendar options (I assume you can save an emailed invitation to the calendar)
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- WP8 SDK leak - Alle WP8 Neuerungen im Überblick » NOKIABLOG.CH | July 27, 2012
- Nokia Lumia 900 - Page 124 - www.hardwarezone.com.sg | July 28, 2012
i cant wait
Still no screenshot, and still nothing about seeing appointments older than 2 weeks in the calendar…
These are just leaks; Microsoft will present, hopefully soon, all of the new features to come to WP8.
A week ago, there was an article on WPCentral regarding screenshots, though; I can’t remember if it was rumor or confirmed.
IIRC it was pretty much confirmed.
And its there, natively:
http://wmpoweruser.com/confirmed-wp8-does-have-a-native-screen-shot-feature/
Screenshots are there, here are pics:
http://www.wpcentral.com/native-screenshot-functionality-demonstrated-windows-phone-8-sdk-emulator
ugly
that useless swipe ui can worth more than all the new features in wp8 combined.
YESH! Multi (is it only “all”??) select pictures!!! AND, the language selection button on the qwerty has been moved to the left!!! YES YES YES!!! My two most important change wishes have been covered!! Yes, I am easy to please (don’t need USB OTG, Micro SD, BT file transfer, full file access etc. such “basic” features that are some important to some others).
Yay! I’m looking forward to the rest, although I would have purchased a WP7.5 device already – but I just had to reason with myself over and over again to ‘wait’
Anyway, glad your requirements are covered. I’m really looking forwrd to the new Nokia Lumia devices.
Well, I don’t mind all the other improvements either, quite the contrary, a lot of useful looking stuff here and in the SDK for sure. But, in my daily use I never really missed any big features on my L900 so far. Those two things pretty much covered my biggest niggles to date.. lol.
Hopefully many of these will appear in the WP7.8 too of course.
What about HDMI out? Acer supposedly had a phone coming out with it last year but it never happened. If PureView makes it out, they better have HDMI on the phone. None of that MHL crap.
It does have it. You can google for the WP8 developer summit, they showed the new resolutions and the new outputs (I think it was micro-HDMI though).
Smart glasses? Nokia?
The scrolling app list is so irritating. just give me a grid of icons. i hate scrolling through lists
I agree. And this big useless headline that always takes big part of the screen.
It used to bother me too when I looked at pics and videos of WP bit oddly enough now that I am using WP ot does not bug me much, if at all. I guess the rest of the clear lay out, uncluttered looks and fluid UX more than make up for it for me.
Yeah it can be a bit daunting IF you have lots of apps AND you don’t remember the name of the app you want. Otherwise it is pretty easy to go to an app nquickly using the alphabet grid.
The quick jump list using alphabets is much better than a crappy grid of icons.
If you can’t even remember the first letter of the app you are looking for you mustn’t be using it much – then why still have that app? That’s just surcumming to app hype.
Is there the possibility to change the font and make it bigger!?!?!?
yes u can change fonts and sizes in texts and all yes
its supporting full bluetooth stack now so dont worry on that front but side loading will still be some what restricted.
some one wrote in other post about outdated ha ha funny enough…. Logistics all set now
New camera app for WP8 or the same one as of WP7?
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