The Windows Phone 8.1 Beta SDK has revealed a number of new features for the WP8.1 system, but these new features are not guaranteed to be reflected in the final consumer version, after all, it is only the SDK version. Recently, foreign media wpcentral summed up a WP8.1 system of the current exposure of some new features.
Activity Center
• Notification hubs-reminders, notifications, update records, and more
• Quick Control Center-custom actions including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, flight mode, etc.
App + Store
• Apps can capture audio and video files, but copyright is limited.
• App and game data can be stored on SD
The app on the • SD card is only allowed to run on one original phone, and if it detects that the app is running on the SD of another phone, then the app on the first phone's SD will be requested to be deleted.
• Provide recommended applications based on geographic location
• App + game data can be backed up to OneDrive (Developer support required)
Facebook Application Pre-installed system, can be updated independently, and the system is closely related
• Application sequencing can be sorted by frequency of use and installation date
• Manually check for updates
• Auto-update app selection
• Can be set to update apps only in WiFi environment
• Separate application login to Microsoft account (similar to WINDOWS8); Login to save device + app permission prompt.
Calendar
• Google Calendar support, and more calendars
• Add weather to your calendar
• Add a week view to your calendar
Camera
• Burst mode additions, including the deletion of burst photos
• New Interface Layout design
Bing
• Bing Smart Search (similar to the Windows 8.1 search system, consolidating local and network search results)
• Standalone full-featured podcast app supported by the Bing team.
Browser
IE11
Ie11 Browser can save your website password
• Application-developed JavaScript and HTML support boosts
Ie11 can upload files
• Multi-tabbed pages are displayed separately in the Multi-task window
WebGL and standard drawing support
YouTube Playback support HTML5 mode
Developers
• New background tasks: Bluetooth signal strength, chat alerts, device connectivity changes, device usage, multi-column information alerts, location, near field communication, system events, timers, etc.
• Changed from XAP package format to APPX package format
• More Audio/video API to support hardware accelerated transcoding
• New development controls: Semantic zoom controls, date picker controls, Time picker controls (controls from WIN8/RT and WP toolkit, respectively)
• Controllable application Notifications
• Silent App Notifications
Email
• Email support for encryption and signing
• New mail synchronization mechanism to match usage patterns (if there are many messages in a certain period and no daily view)
• Download improvements to email attachments and images, which are always available for download.
Corporate Office
• Passwords and locks can be changed remotely by a mobile phone that binds to a corporate account
Office support for opening encrypted documents
• New Office filter to provide OCR text recognition
SkyDrive renamed to OneDrive
VPN Support
• Email support for encryption and signing
• Support for application firewall links
• Auto-triggered VPN
• Certificate management, entry, upgrade, certificate revocation required authentication
• Enhanced policy locking feature phones for more enterprise control and rich application management, such as allowing or denying installation of certain applications
• Enterprise EAP-TLS protocol WiFi support
Common user Experience changes
• Can modify the main screen background picture
• The back key no longer closes the app, but the background hangs.
• Double-click the Unlock screen (features on the Lumia device amber and above)
• Double-click the screen to shut down
• Add photos to "My Favorites" by clicking on the heart-shaped button
• New file Picker (document selector)
• Children's playground-no longer required password (bug fixed)
• Turn on three-column tiles
• Virtual keys available
• Notify when charging current is unstable
• Silent Moments-no interruptions during a given time
• Shortcut key combination for power key and volume plus key
• The search button will replace the Start button to open the Voice attendant feature (aka ' Cortana ')
• Independent control of the volume of bells and reminders, music and media
• Default voice navigation app for the system
• Multi-task interface sliding down program
• Voice narration Assist function
keyboard
• Normal keyboard enhancement, display emoji expression when typing
• Slide the input keyboard and slide the letter input.
T9 Keyboard Support
Multimedia
• Audio and video format conversion, hardware acceleration support
• Multimedia editing: audio, video, audio effects and video effects, slow-motion video
Xbox Music and Xbox video apps stand out from the Music+video hub for easy maintenance updates
News
• You can set the default text messaging app and change whether the SMS program displays notifications.
• Mute Calls-you can choose Quiet mode and no longer accept notifications and tile updates
Phone + Contact
• Contact List mobile phone number sorting
• Call voice commands can say "call xxxxx"
• Increase the maximum number of groups to 40 people
• Operators can install specific applications when a SIM card is detected
Perception
• Battery awareness-can detect the most power-hungry applications
• Traffic management awareness-can limit traffic remotely
WiFi Sense-share a secure Wi-Fi network without leaking passwords
system
• Bluetooth 4.0 Low power
• SD card Chkdsk tool to ensure good card
geofence monitoring support. When a user enters or leaves a specific area, the technology triggers the program to perform certain actions
• Wireless screen sharing, remote playback, mirroring or projection via wireless or USB output screen
• Mouse and keyboard support (HID)
3d View Support
• Automatically updates the software to the latest version before resetting the phone to factory settings
NFC List of trusted programs, asking whether to open a specific app before deleting it
• Virtual Smart card support
• Wallet support tickets and membership cards
Applications developed for WP8.1 will not be installed on WP8 systems, and existing WP8 applications can be run on WP8.1