Microsoft Announces About-face to Windows 8 for Windows Phone

Microsoft expects the aboriginal Windows Phones with the Windows 8 operating arrangement to become accessible after this year, the aggregation appear today at its Windows Phone Summit for developers in San Francisco.

The next bearing phones will action a revamped Start screen, bigger multitasking, agenda wallet and NFC wireless functionality (tap to pay), adapted accent functionality, action accessory administration and aegis features. Windows Phone 8 will aswell acquaint a development archetypal based on C++/C and DirectX to facilitate cipher administration with Microsoft's accessible Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 is accepted ancient this abatement on Microsoft Surface tablets, appear on Monday, and Windows-based PCs.

The Windows Phone Developer Tools, are accepted after this summer. SQLite will be ported to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 so that developers can download the cipher and use it in both platforms, according to Microsoft.

With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft is afterlight the Start awning to action added user customization of reside tiles in agreement of size, color, adjustment and content. Windows Phone 8 aswell supports added HTML5features in areas such as blow and faster JavaScript performance.

Windows Phone 8 is declared as a above absolution that marks a bearing shift. It runs on multicore technology , adds two awning resolutions , and offers a disposable microSD agenda for accumulator and agreeable administration a part of Windows 8 accessories .

Microsoft appear today that OEM ally Nokia, Huawei, Samsung and HTC are architecture Windows Phone 8 devices. Nokia has alien the alarmingly acclaimed Lumia alternation of Windows Phone devices, but the aggregation has struggled in contempo months, and downgraded the angle in 2012 for its Services and Accessories division.

The next bearing accouterments aswell supports NFC wireless technology, enabling a new Wallet hub and Wallet UI that developers can accommodate with third affair apps. Developers can use it to abutment in-app purchases, which action addition access for monetization. The defended SIM is accurate by the carrier so that it moves with the user, according to Microsoft Senior Vice President Joe Belfiore, who active the Windows Phone program, instead of placed anon in the accessory like Google Wallet. Microsoft aswell expects to abutment ISIS ancient next year.

Windows Phone 8 integrates Nokia Mapping technology with NAVTEQ data, enabling abutment for turn-by-turn admonition in abounding countries and use of mapping abstracts offline. It aswell has Internet Explorer 10 congenital with Smart Awning Filter technology for phishing and malware protection.

At the Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft appear several adaptable app developers that accept agreed to anchorage their adaptable apps to the Windows Phone 8 platform, including Chase, whose cyberbanking app was acclimated to authenticate agenda Wallet acclaim and debit agenda features, PayPal, and Zynga's Words with Friends and Draw Something applications.