Advertisements We got a nice email from Erick who shared the screenshot above. As you know pinning things to the start screen was the essence of WP. Erick has an idea Hey, Jay!! Â Big fan writes you from Ecuador. This wont be a long one: Have you noticed when you have pinned more than […]
When asked whether Cortana would always be listening like Xbox, Xbox One or Moto X, belfiore says not in the current hardware software combination. And not for the initial wave of phones despite new software tweaks as it would apparently need its own hardware support. e.g. own low power audio processor. Do the snapdragon 800 […]
Automatic HDR is not yet available by default on the Nokia Lumia devices. You can get HDR apps or even HDR simulations (e.g. Fantasia Painter) In the video below, we see how to use the exposure bracketing (like a DSLR) to take 3-5 shots of different exposures which you combine later to produce a HDR […]
Check out the updated phone app for WP8.1 The changes are quite subtle and are brought into the whole “why wasn’t this there from the start?”. A slight shift in appearance as the dialler now includes call and save buttons within the grid as opposed to being at a bar at the bottom. When actually […]
We’ve seen this demoed before but not quite as clearly. Here it is from another SDK emulator. You can see that files can be uploaded from the WP8.1 device, picking files from some file browser of sort. Also you can now download things, such as videos, MP3s (previously just images and .pdf). In the video […]
Found in the SDK, it appears you can search within text messages. File this under “shouldn’t it have been able to do this from the beginning”. I hope it searches names as sometimes that’s how I’d like to find the latest messages but can’t. Anyway, not to sound too jaded. It’s a welcome addition. Let’s […]
Here’s a look at the Nokia Lumia 930 with WP8.1 across all the other tech blogs. The launch took place in the US and although it’s a global phone it’s funny that Cortana is currently US only.
When Microsoft mentioned world record breaking keyboard speed in their keynote this week, I didn’t realise they were specifically talking about their own keyboard. But that’s what they did with their SWIPE like Word Flow keyboard. 15 year old Guarav Sharma uses the WP8.1 keyboard and breaks the World Record, typing 25 words in […]
If you’re lucky enough to be enjoying a leisurely Sunday but still want to hear some tech, you might want to have this in the background. Andrew Clinick, group programme manager, presents at /build the New Windows Phone App model. It’s about an hour long. He says he’s been working at this for 18 months […]
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