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Chase Windows Phone 8 app this year

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has confirmed that bank Chase will be releasing a Windows Phone app for the newly-previewed Windows Phone 8 platform later in the year, adding secure banking to the Wallet Hub. The app will support depositing checks to customers' accounts simply by snapping a photo of them. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 7.8 brings WP8 UI to older phones

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [11]

Microsoft has confirmed that current Windows Phone handsets won't get an upgrade to Windows Phone 8, but they will get a halfway measure: a branching upgrade called Windows Phone 7.8. Since the new platform has certain hardware demands that existing Windows Phones can't meet, Microsoft has delivered a sub-Apollo upgrade with features like the new WP8 Start Screen. Read The Full Story

Microsoft demos prototype Nokia Windows Phone 8

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft may be targeting the news at the Windows Phone Summit at developers, but there's a little new hardware on show, too, in the shape of a prototype Nokia handset. The Nokia-made device has a large, 720p resolution touchscreen along with a dual-core processor, both freshly supported in Windows Phone 8. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 Start Screen gets major reboot

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [1]

Saying that it was "the sexiest thing in Windows Phone 8", Microsoft's Joe Belfiore let the world know that it was all about to change at the Windows Phone Developer Summit, front to back. Live Tiles have been at the base of the Windows Phone 7 experience from the start, and here in Windows Phone 8, they've been given a whole new life with not one or two new sizes, but three. In Windows Phone 8 there will be a tile that's square at standard medium, one at small, and one at large "double-wide", as it were. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 adds business oriented features

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the features that Microsoft was keen to highlight at today’s Windows Phone Summit was the new focus towards business. The company conceded that Windows Phone hadn’t quite been as successful in the business and enterprise arena, and will be bringing some new features to the platform to try and rectify the problem. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 adds Nokia Maps: Offline maps, navigation, more

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Windows Phone 8 will have Nokia Maps built-in, Microsoft has confirmed today at the Windows Phone Summit, with offline mapping and turn-by-turn directions. The unsurprising inclusion means that Bing Maps has been retired on Windows Phone, with Nokia's NAVTEQ subsidiary providing mapping data for the native Maps app on handsets, as well as for third-party developers with an open API. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 goes big with DirectX and native code development

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Microsoft is pushing 8 new platform details for their new Windows Phone 8 release at the developer conference which will bring on the last several steps before the big jump - and gaming is right at the core. In the announcement of a gaming focus for Windows Phone 8, it was revealed that not only would developers be given a bit more focus than they have in the past, but Microsoft would be allowing "native code developers" to work on this next-generation operating system. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8: Multi-core, 720p displays, microSD and NFC Wallet Hub

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has addressed hardware complaints about Windows Phone, confirming that Windows Phone 8 will support not only multi-core processors but a range of display sizes. Rather than the single-core devices with WVGA touchscreens, new Windows Phones will also support chips with two or more cores along with up to 720p 1280 x 720 16:9 displays. Plus there's news on storage and NFC. Read The Full Story

Internet Explorer 10 coming to Windows Phone 8

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has announced at the Windows Phone Summit that Internet Explorer 10 will be making the jump from the desktop to Windows Phone 8 when it ships this fall. Internet Explorer 10 will feature numerous performance improvements compared to the current Internet Explorer found on Windows Phone 7.5, such as faster JavaScript performance, more HTML5 features, and an anti-phishing mode. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 get shared core

, Jun 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has taken the wraps off of Windows Phone 8 today, revealing that the new “Apollo” platform will have a shared Windows core with Windows 8. The shared basis of the two platforms means that Microsoft developers and hardware manufacturers will be able to take advantage of the same code on both Windows 8 PCs and Windows Phone 8 handsets. For consumers, it means more available apps as developers will find it easier to release software for both platforms.

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