New Features Arrive with Windows Phone 8.1 Update

[exfileme]

Windows Phone 8.1 Update will arrive in the next few months.

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[therogerwilco]

They've come a long way. After having each phone from each OS over the years, WP8.1 ftw!

 

[jacobdrj]

2 steps forward, 1 step back. There are aspects of older versions of Windows Phone that many Windows Phone users loved, and now miss, with the updates.
*With Cortana, came the loss of 1 tap access to the Bing Vision. Its still there, just harder to get to scanning QR codes and the like... Which makes it that much less intuitive and helpful when you are trying to do quick QR code scans...
*With 8.1 DP we got additional tiles columns, image backgrounds, and the access center. But we lost facebook integration, which was a wonderful stripped-down view of facebook, that actually made me want to use facebook to keep in touch with my contacts. No longer.
*Quiet time, a concept that had to reside as an app on my blackberry and android phones, are now built in, but only if Cortana is enabled (which is just too slow on my low end Lumia 521.
*Apps can now be moved to SD card, but, the limited map-moving to SD now works worse (I have to keep maps on my main phone memory, otherwise they won't load, where as before, the maps were on the SD card and worked fine in 8.0).

In generally, I am quite happy. My wife generally has no problems with the phone (she was the one who picked it out). I am actually going to try a Lumia 928, which is a more adequately powered phone, to see if some of the quirks are less. We shall see.

 

[soldier44]

Waiting for Win 9 next year not even wasting time on 8.

 

[SchizoFrog]

They need to release a full on top end phone with the full works camera to tempt me. I waited for years for WP8 and now it just seems like they have taken their foot off the pedal. The phones were ace but the OS (WP7) was good enough, now they have the OS the phones seem out of date.

 

[sykozis]

Waiting for Win 9 next year not even wasting time on 8.

This has nothing to do with Windows8.... This article is about Windows PHONE 8.1....

 

[back_by_demand]

we lost facebook integration, which was a wonderful stripped-down view of facebook, that actually made me want to use facebook to keep in touch with my contacts. No longer.

Actually, its more integrated, toasts for FB now appear in the notification area

And using Cortana already I can tell you it isnt slow at all

 

[pbrigido]

I would love to jump on a WP8. I just depend on some apps for my job that don't exist in the Store yet.

 

[carlcamera]

Yes Windows Phone has come along way but Tom's still thinks it's still 2010. That photo you're using appears to be an extinct Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7 -- a stock photo from about four years ago.