A successful heart-changing procedure-Windows Phone 8 released

Microsoft officially released the Windows Phone 8 operating system codenamed Apollo at the launch of the Windows Phone developer summit. Although Microsoft has hardly mentioned Apollo in public before, the general direction of new system changes has long been leaked. However, the entire press conference was still full of surprises. Microsoft demonstrated the new features for more than an hour, not just what it said before: "sneak peek )".

　　SwitchWindowsKernel

Three and a half years ago, Microsoft began to develop new mobile systems to replace Windows Mobile, which could not compete with competitors. The Windows Phone 7 system launched in 2010 introduced the metro user interface to completely overturn the user interface of the old system.

However, Windows Phone 7's kernel is still wince, which is as reusable as Windows Mobile's user interface. Windows Phone 8 will discard the wince kernel and use the same NT kernel as Windows 8. At the conference, Microsoft announced that more than 1.3 billion people are currently using the Windows kernel.

　　Comprehensive hardware Improvement

Windows Phone 8 with the new kernel has abandoned the wince restrictions and started to support dual-core and more kernel processors. The desktop version of Windows kernel supports a maximum of 64-core processors, but Windows Phone 8 is obviously not so much.

Qualcomm is currently the only chip vendor supported by Windows Phone 8. The new flagship launched by Nokia two months later will apparently adopt the krait kernel's Yunlong S4 processor. The new system also began to support SD card extended storage.

In terms of resolution, Windows Phone 8 supports three resolutions: 800x480 (), 1280x720 (), and 1280x768 ). The previous generation only supports 800x480 resolution. Microsoft promises that application developers do not need to repeat development for multiple resolutions. 1280x768 is currently the highest mobile phone resolution, the same as the BlackBerry 10 testing machine.

HugNFC, Released Microsoft wallet

NFC is also supported by the new system. Unlike Google Wallet, Windows Phone 8 supports Secure SIM solutions that are easily accepted by carriers. Yves Maitre, vice president of France Telecom (orange) equipment, appeared to support Microsoft in the live video. The company is the first carrier to support the Windows Phone NFC solution.

Microsoft also launched its own e-Wallet service wallet hub, which is equally important to office and people. Microsoft will open interfaces to allow third-party applications to access Microsoft wallet.

In addition to the credit card account, the Microsoft wallet demonstrated on site also includes airline travel cards, PayPal accounts, library debit cards, and other accounts.

In addition to mobile payment, Windows Phone 8 also supports rich NFC interactions:

• You can share the content displayed on the screen with your Windows Phone 8 tablet.
• When you touch the Lexus NFC advertisement in The April journal wired, the system immediately prompts you if you want to collect content.
• Take a taxi, and use a cell phone to swing in front of the NFC billboard at the door of the bar.

　　Improve the metro user interface

The Metro user interface is a design breakthrough that Microsoft is proud of. It is indeed different from its competitors. Windows Phone 8 has improved its design while maintaining its original style. For example, the starting interface supports live tile, Which is 1/4 of the original size.

The new start interface makes it easy for you to place more application icons. the blank space originally located on the right is also filled up, suggesting that you should drop all the required applications into the main interface, just like Windows 8. This change roughly solves the problem of too many Windows Phone 7 Applications and too long main interface-the game is thrown into the Xbox hub, the payment application and various membership card applications are integrated into the wallet hub.

　　Open native code, the API is the same as Windows 8

Probably to maintain compatibility after changing the kernel, Microsoft previously only opened native code and APIs for a few key software developers. Most developers can only rely on Silverlight, Which is inefficient and has limited functions.

Windows Phone 8 with a new kernel is used to open native code (C and C ++) to all developers. The performance of applications will be improved, and games will be based on DirectX for ease of transplantation. Microsoft demonstrated the 3D ball rolling game marble maze on the mobile phone and panel, saying that the game only needs to modify a very small amount of code to move from a tablet to a mobile phone.

To demonstrate the power of Windows Phone 8 game consoles and physical effects, Microsoft even moved out of AMD's Havok hardware acceleration demonstration for the desktop platform in 2008:

Microsoft said that Windows Phone 8 uses the same API as Windows 8, which reduces the porting pressure and shows that Windows Phone 8 has far less restrictions on application functions than Windows Phone 7, giving developers more freedom. Spell it games used for NFC demonstration have also been easily moved to Microsoft as an example. It takes only two days for developers to port their applications to Windows Phone 8 and add the NFC function.

　　Modern BrowserIE 10

According to Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 browser sunspider scored more than Galaxy s iii, HTC One S (dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4) and iPhone 4S (dual-core A5, the system is the latest iOS 6 beta ).

IE 9 is not slow, but its compatibility is quite bad. Microsoft said Windows Phone 8's ie 10 browser not only has four times the performance of JavaScript, but also has two times the HTML5 standard support than IE 9. Internet Explorer 10 has the same dangerous website alarm function as the desktop version to help users avoid malicious websites.

　　Pre-installed Nokia map and navigation applications

Nokia map logged on to Windows Phone with Lumia at the end of last year. Nokia map has been pre-installed on Lumia phones since the beginning of this year, but Windows phones of other manufacturers still need to be downloaded separately. Now all Windows Phone 8 phones will be directly integrated with Nokia Maps and navigation applications. The latter was previously exclusive to Nokia mobile phones and is part of its differentiation.

Integration of navigation into the ecosystem has advantages and disadvantages for Nokia. On the one hand, its services are completely integrated into the windows core experience, and on the other hand, Nokia has lost a differentiated perspective.

Offline maps of Symbian and Nokia are also added to Nokia Maps of Windows Phone 8. This function is convenient for traveling abroad.

　　Improve Enterprise Management

Bitlocker encryption and secure startup are also added to Windows Phone 8. Microsoft said that the enterprise IT department can manage Windows Phone 8 like a Windows computer, and the new system can also facilitate the deployment of enterprise applications. Enterprises can use internal servers or SD cards to distribute applications without official marketplace.

Microsoft has even launched Microsoft it dynamic magnets to integrate users' enterprise applications, notifications, and major messages within the company.

　　Voice platform

In Windows Phone 7, applications can be started by voice. The new voice platform (Voice platform) allows calls from any third-party applications to allow users to control applications by voice.

Microsoft demonstrated audible, an audio book application under Amazon, which can control paging, pause, and redirect chapters. The voice platform is not limited to the Windows Phone 8 system. Applications in Windows Phone 7.5 can also use this function.

Windows Phone 8 is like a heart-changing operation. On the basis of the new kernel, it fixes many shortcomings of Windows Phone 7.5 in the aspect of generosity, and God's performance has reached expectations. This month, Microsoft has received heavy news.

For me, the only question is whether the various details of Windows Phone 7.5 have been corrected.