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Windows Phone 8 Apollo Features Allegedly Leaked [Rumor]
A tipster on Chinese WPXAP.com forums has revealed that his friend has been testing the upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS on his Nokia Lumia 800 in the US. While this story still doesn’t hold up as a substantial fact, some of the features he mentions that are on the OS are yet to be heard off. Apparently, the UI remains relatively unchanged to that of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango but touch sensation and speed have allegedly been improved.
On top of that he mentioned that the default browser for Windows Phone OS has been completely overhauled to better support the Chinese language and has a new feature he describes as “gravity sensing” which apparently means that it is able to lock the screen orientation. Another thing that has allegedly been including on the so-called test unit is Virtual Private Network (VPN) but that along with everything else is not confirmed but seeing as VPN is something that seems to be sought after by many Windows Phone users, who know what can happen.
Now for the obvious question, if the alleged tester in the US is running the update on a Lumia 800, this can only mean that the Microsoft Evangelist, Nuno Silva who told Portuguese media that all Windows Phone OS devices would be able to run it might have been telling the truth even if his statement was later challenged by two other sources saying otherwise. Like all other rumors, we urge you to take this one with a pinch of salt and until the OS makes its way to the public reportedly around the month of October, it looks like we’ll just have to wait and see.
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.