Microsoft
revealed the first (but not complete) details on the upcoming Windows
Phone 8 (WP8) at the Windows Phone
Summit in San Francisco:
- WP8 will be based on the desktop Windows 8 kernel
- WP7 and WP7.5 devices (Windows Embedded Compact 7 kernel) will NOT be updateable to WP8
- WP7.8 will provide some features of WP8 to WP7 and WP7.5
- However, WP7 and WP7.5 apps will run on WP8
- multicore processor support
- NFC-chips for mobile payment and data transfer
- Multiple screen resolutions: WVG (800x480), WXGA (1280x768) and 720p (1280x720)
- MicroSD support
- Memory will be Bitlocker encrypted
- Enterprises can deploy apps outside of Marketplace
- Metro-Style UI will be further customizable:
- Scaling of tiles
- More tile colors
- Developers can further customize tiles to better fit their apps
- Deeply embedded Skype calling
Have fun!
2 comments:
Good decision for Windows Phone. But this means Windows Embedded Compact is dead...
Hi Anonymous,
thanks for your comment, but I disagree with you about Windows Embedded Compact being “dead”. Check out Microsoft’s current roadmap that includes some cool feature updates to Windows Embedded Compact: Post
Have fun!
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