Category: Windows Phone

Yezz is one of the first new OEMs to join the windows phone 8 operating system. If you willing to try a brand other than Nokia for windows phone, it is worth buying Billy which is now on sale for $250.

Yezz Billy Specifications

4.7 inches 720P IPS screen
Corning Gorilla glass
13 mega pixel camera
Supports dual SIM, dual standby
Quad-core Snapdragon processor
Thickness of 7.2 mm
Aluminum housing.

Yezz will be offering it in three colors red, white and blue. Being a budget phone it supports 3G (HSDPA+) but not LTE. Folks at Yezz say,

Today we have launched the world’s thinnest windows phone 8.1 device with a very stylish design. It is beautiful and affordable. The phone will go on sale in late May through Amazon’s website in Europe, Latin America and the United States market.

A massive feature list for the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1.1 has been leaked by a Microsoft employee on reddit. The employee, microsoftly claims that he works for Microsoft and following features are on their bucket list.

* Interactive live tiles
* Lock screen applications will be built inside core system
* Features in Action Center
* Music controls in Action Center
* More detailed notifications in Action Center
* Dividing line in Action Center
* Application Games to be deleted and replaced with Xbox One application dealing with avatar, messages, remote and other features.
* Name to be decided YouTube application to be built completely with html 5 coding as requested by Google
* Instagram application to have DIRECT MESSAGING and better video uploading capabilities and camera fixes UI for camera to be tweaked with enhanced features from Nokia Camera application
* KIK Messenger to be finished in late June, overhauled design and html 5 support Skype with completely new design.
* Messages in bubbles and chat heads similar to Facebook messenger?
* Facebook messenger to have improved notifications, polished design and new set of fonts along with video chat, calling and improved emoji store
* OneNote to have many new features as Word.
* A possible merger Ability to set WordFlow’s guide line to accent invisible
* Give users choice to have invisible tiles on individual applications
* New lock screen gestures input and other unique, disclosed password input technique options
* Calculator upgrades to version 2 with more scientific features
* Month view drastically changed in design in calendar application
* Alarm application to feature a stopwatch, timer and splits
* Cortana to head out of beta
* Internet Explorer applications
* Give uses the choice to delete Podcasts application
* New voice memo application Backgrounds (Accent Colour 2)
* Store with wallpapers from featured applications
* Ability to favorite applications in store to better suggestions
* Unit converting applications
* Change colour of keyboard to black, white, gray, accent colour without changing background color
* Keep word suggestion bar hidden until something is typed
* Tiles to update as frequently as 30 seconds if feature is turned on by user or developer
* Music volume controls to be centered
* OneNote having abilities to use art tools
* Facebook application from official company
* Email/Outlook application to follow same design as computer base
* Photos will have description such as name, place and time

The ones that we will definitely we waiting for are music controls in Action Center; KIK messenger and direct messaging in Instagram.

Many say windows phone does not have a file explorer but in WP8.1, Microsoft made it opened somewhat more and that has allowed myriad developers an opportunity to make a file explorer for windows phone and the one we recommend getting is the Aerize Explorer.

This application lets you explorer files and folders on the device as well as on micro SD card. Like a regular windows file explorer, you can search for video files, pictures files and music files.

Notable Features:
* Move files and folders between your device and media card
* Share files with NFC, Bluetooth, Email, and much more
* Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Rename files or folders
* View file and folder properties

The application is free to download and can recognize all common file types.

Did you know that there is an easter egg in the windows phone 8.1? Discovered by a WPcentral user, all you have to say “Do you like Clippy” to the Cortana. You will get a reply that says “He taught me how important it is to listen.” Here is the screenshot of it.

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Joe Belfiore who runs the team of windows phone at Microsoft has confirmed on Twitter that 3 column time option will be available on all windows phones running WP8.1, not just on only phones with display size of 4.5 and more as said by Joe in October last year.

3 column tile option will allow users to squeeze more data on to their home screens. Many windows phones already come with 3 tile column enabled. This includes Lumia 1320 and 1520 that Nokia released in Q4 2013.

This option will be very much appreciated by the low end Lumia 520 that compromises of more than 30 percent of Windows Phone market.

According to many reports brewing across the Internet, the Nokia Lumia 630 and 635 does not come with a built in proximity or ambient light sensor, but that is not true.

Nokia has itself confirmed that both Lumia windows phones come with proximity sensor as well as ambient light one. Proximity senses objects in front of screen while ambient one controls the brightness of the display. Here is the screenshot that shows that it has both.

Continue reading Lumia 630 635, Proximity and Ambient Light Sensor