Microsoft will provide many new unpublished features in Windows Phone 8

Let's face it, Microsoft has managed to attract most attention in recent weeks thanks to the Surface, tablet that can finally enjoy the systems to Microsoft at your fingertips, and the long-awaited Windows Phone 8, a release that will dramatically change the standard for smartphones with this OS, introducing what were the features already long overdue.

Nokia: We have 'contingency plan' is Windows Phone 8 fails expectations

Siilasmaa has defended the move to the Windows Phone operating system, practically replacing its Symbian OS which was in trouble for some years.

If Windows Phone 8 will not be up to the expectations of the company, Risto Siilasmaa, says that Nokia has an "emergency plan" 

New concept for the virtual keyboard for Windows Phone 8

It 's now been over a year from the announcement made ​​by Microsoft itself, on a special keyboard and a series of next-generation software for the long-awaited Windows Phone 8 .

Indeed, the famous corporation has tried to introduce a virtual keyboard used only with one hand, directly using the thumb of the user so as to make the writing on your mobile device much easier and straightforward.

Skull of Shogun, a cross-platform game that will allow us to play on Xbox 360, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

As we explained in several articles, Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apollo share the same "core". This means that porting an application from one platform to another will be extremely simplified and  Skulls of the Shogun it is a concrete example.

The team of software developers in the house 17-Bit Studios , in fact, has recently announced that the gameSkull of Shogun will support cross-platform gameplay , so we can play simultaneously on Xbox 360, and Tablet PC Windows 8 and Windows smartphones phone. For those who still do not know, Skulls of the Shogun is a strategy game set in Japan in which we control through a Samurai asynchronous turn-based gameplay where the player can handle multiple games at once regardless of its opponents.

New video showing Windows Phone 8 homescreen more live than usual

The new homescreen that comes with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 Phone in addition to the new setting of Tile, will display a more "alive" thanks to the many Live Tile present.

From the video shown by Microsoft's June 18 event, we can see that have been revised several new Tile like Messages, Calendar, e-mail, etc. Music + Videos. The new Live Tile show more information,such as Tile calendar that shows the different events by scrolling, The Tile Music Video + shows over the last album also heard the word "Music + Video" that flows within the picture of the artist. 

Windows Phone 8, list of new features and functionality not officially revealed

Yesterday at the Windows Phone Summit Microsoft presented some of the main features of the new Windows phone OS,however some features remain hidden ,but now according to the winsupersite.com below  you can find  the features that were not explicitly revealed at the Developer Summit yesterday.

Nokia Drive with turn-by-turn directions will be available on all Windows Phone 8 devices

Among the news more or less satisfactory spread a few hours ago at Developer Summit is also the one on Nokia Drive that's incredible, is available on all future Windows Phone device 8.

The application for GPS navigation from Nokia, therefore, will be the default on the Microsoft software platform, and ensure all users location services and voice guidance in over 110 countries, even while offline.

The Nokia maps supplied by Navteq, is currently the most complete than that offered by other smartphone manufacturers. E 'can offer a complete usability in offline mode, a fast rendering system of maps (50 fps) and a low consumption of bandwidth, only 10% compared to traditional servers that provide these services on other platforms. 

Microsoft plans a major announcement on Monday, June 18

Microsoft is distributing invitations to the press for attending an event, scheduled for next Monday, June 18 in Los Angeles, during which there is an announcement of some significance. Obviously, the motivations are completely unknown but many email invitations include the following text words to bottom:

This will be a major Microsoft announcement - you will not want to miss it

With great odds Windows Phone will not even named because, like many of you know, has already planned a summit on June 20 where they should leak out numerous reports concerning the future of Microsoft's mobile OS. Ditto for Windows 8, the Preview Release now available for some time, and Xbox, which has made quite a stir at E3 a few days ago.

Rumor - Microsoft ready to buy Yammer for $ 1 billion ?

Microsoft is ready to buy Yammer, the social messaging service for businesses, for anything close to a billion dollars, at least according to Bloomberg.

Yammer is a social network service company, primarily used in business for online collaboration among the various employees of the same company.

Nokia to produce more cheap Windows Phones to counter low-end Android devices

During a conference call held earlier by Stephen Elop, organized to answer questions from investors and analysts about the new policy actions , this morning Nokia , has reiterated its full support and the adoption of Windows Phone for its smartphones, a reliable operating system that will allow them to regain lost market share.

According to the Nokia Care the Nokia Lumia 900 will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8

Microsoft has not announced Windows Phone 8 Apollo or even communicate if any of the current smartphones can be updated. Meanwhile, although it could be an announcement very reliable, the Nokia Care team during a chat support said that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8.

So, as soon as possible we are hoping to learn something more, since then we remind you that Microsoft would be introducing Apollo to the public on June 20.

Via WMPU

Universal Search coming with Windows Phone 8?

One of the features that come with Windows Phone 8 will be to make instant searching of content, at least according to insideris.com

Already last year we heard rumors that with the  arrival of Windows Phone Tango, wp users will have ability to use universal search by simply swiping your finger left to right on the home screen. Now we know the (few) features that implements this minor update we have confirmation that this rumor proved unfounded.

Windows Phone 8 Apollo build numbers revealed

The long-awaited Windows Phone 8, scheduled for later this year, is beginning to be talked assiduously on many blogs and this time it does show the versions of the operating system that Microsoft is testing before release.

Metro reimagined - Beautiful Windows Phone 8 concept

As usual,  the guys at 1800PocketPC and like to seduce us with their concept in a big way. This time they do it by showing an interface of Windows Phone 8 really well designed and edited to perfection.

Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 concept

From the site MyNokiaBlog , where they often post portraits of concepts for future Nokia smartphones, now comes new concept for a new Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone.

This concept includes:

• 4.3″ screen
• 720p resolution
• 12MP PureView
• Quadcore
• 2000mAh battery
• 1080p video
• WP8
• (Xenon, Curved display, front facing camera)

Windows Phone 8 shows up in I'm WP7 app statistics

While we are are awaiting the Tango update for Windows Phone, Microsoft is already testing a first version of Windows Phone 8. This information comes from the application "I'm WP7" that shows us the different builds of Windows Phone from the users that have installed this application.

As we can see from the image the build running under Windows Phone 8 is signed 8.0.9662.0. Many were the doubts about the veracity of the result showed the application. The developers have promptly declared that Windows Phone 8 is running an emulator, there appears to be counterfeit because they are using on the location of the emulator by default and there is a difference in the time zone.

Moreover wpcentral colleagues claim to have had a tip from reliable sources that Windows Phone 8 has begun internal testing aka "dogfooding" at Microsoft on March 30th.

Source WPCentral

Job post from Microsoft confirming Windows NT kernel in Windows Phone?

It was speculated for a long time that Windows Phone 8 will be running the Windows NT kernel, but so far these rumors have not been confirmed.

A recently published job post by Microsoft seems to indicate that Apollo and Windows 8 will indeed share some components and that Windows CE will be completely scraped.

The full job post after the break