IT admins can also white-list trusted apps, black-list apps or block the Windows Store completely.Įmployees can sign and encrypt email directly from the Outlook client and IT can also force S/MIME policies. These can be pushed to devices, updated, deleted or defined as mandatory. It now has a "week view" and weather is integrated at the top, and you can tap on indiviual days to bring up more information about meetings.īusinesses can sign up for an enterprise account to distribute apps to Windows Phone 8.1 handsets. The built-in Calendar app has undergone a redesign to look more like the desktop version. The feature also registers the words users type regularly - so it will predict words faster. It has a Swype-like functionality so users can slide their fingers along the letters to make words instead of typing them out manually. The Word Flow keyboard has two core features. Windows Phone already had one of the best default keyboards on any mobile device and Microsoft has improved this. When you search for something on your phone, it will not only scour the Bing search engine but also look through your messages/emails for the relevant keywords. Windows Phone 8.1 also allows users to set a different alert, depending on the incoming notification. It's possible to customise these quick settings and choose exactly which noticiations you want to show up in the Action Center. Microsoft has finally introduced a drop down list displaying the latest notifications and allows users to quickly toggle features like Wi-Fi, screen rotation, flight mode and Bluetooth on or off.
There is no definitive date as to when exisiting Lumia devices will be updated to the Windows Phone 8.1 OS. The forthcoming Lumia 630 will be the first device to ship with Windows Phone 8.1, followed by the 930 in late-June/July. However, this is exclusive to the US for now but there are still a number of important interface and backend enhancements to the mobile OS for UK users.
The most eye-catching feature of the Windows Phone 8.1 update is the introduction of the Cortana personal assistant for smartphones.
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