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Today Microsoft took the wraps off windows phone 8...
All in all I am very impressed with what I have read, it ticks every box I wanted, with the exception of properly optimising for quad cores (even if in theory it can support 64!!)
Also no word on an extended form of multitasking which is disappointing, as is no upgrade path from mango devices
The plus points are many and push wp8 above ios in features,style, ui innovation and all round interest...in my personal opinion.
Micro sd card support, hd displays,multicore support,nfc, skype baked in. Better customisation of the live tiles to make it more usefully and appealing.
Shared kernel from w8 which makes porting apps a doddle, also it uses native code for games and full dx compliance which should allow for some desktop like experiences not seen on mobile (I think it's already very good)...indeed the havok physics engine will be coming to the device which will be awesome.
Internet explorer 10 will come with it which will be a massive improvement with quoted sunspider scores in the 1200's and java script 5x better...those results were obtained apparently on a dual core Nokia test device...likely snapdragon s4..so take with a pinch of salt....never the less browsing performance is only slightly behind ios and android in real world hands on, even if benchmark test show wp7 to be miles off the pace, so we can expect blistering performance.
Other features like security were mentioned, although no mention from the brief read I had about the proxy server web compression feature..something that I have used on opera browser and is very usefull.
For a full round up here is a couple of links..
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/windows-phone-8-to-support-multi-core-cpus-hd-resolutions/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6027/microsofts-windows-phone-summit-in-san-francisco-were-there-
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6028/...-core-socs-higher-resolutions-microsd-and-nfc
All in all I am very impressed with what I have read, it ticks every box I wanted, with the exception of properly optimising for quad cores (even if in theory it can support 64!!)
Also no word on an extended form of multitasking which is disappointing, as is no upgrade path from mango devices
The plus points are many and push wp8 above ios in features,style, ui innovation and all round interest...in my personal opinion.
Micro sd card support, hd displays,multicore support,nfc, skype baked in. Better customisation of the live tiles to make it more usefully and appealing.
Shared kernel from w8 which makes porting apps a doddle, also it uses native code for games and full dx compliance which should allow for some desktop like experiences not seen on mobile (I think it's already very good)...indeed the havok physics engine will be coming to the device which will be awesome.
Internet explorer 10 will come with it which will be a massive improvement with quoted sunspider scores in the 1200's and java script 5x better...those results were obtained apparently on a dual core Nokia test device...likely snapdragon s4..so take with a pinch of salt....never the less browsing performance is only slightly behind ios and android in real world hands on, even if benchmark test show wp7 to be miles off the pace, so we can expect blistering performance.
Other features like security were mentioned, although no mention from the brief read I had about the proxy server web compression feature..something that I have used on opera browser and is very usefull.
For a full round up here is a couple of links..
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/windows-phone-8-to-support-multi-core-cpus-hd-resolutions/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6027/microsofts-windows-phone-summit-in-san-francisco-were-there-
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6028/...-core-socs-higher-resolutions-microsd-and-nfc