Windows Phones With Children Friendly?

Windows Phone SDK expose the new features dozens of Leaked Windows Phone 8 last week,, regardless of major changes or minor changes, new discoveries are continuing every day. Recently some new features of WP8 found in Bluetooth support, including improved SMS cloud backup and greatly enhances the Internet Explorer 10.

However, not all changes are obvious, requires the user to be patient exploration and keen found. In the the WP8 registry, there is a very interesting finding is likely to add a "child-friendly" mode - the WP8 phone operating system.

In the registry under "Software> Family" option you can see a "KidZone" sub-options of Windows Phone Hacker Web site that, under the name of the configuration data, "KidZone" is WP8 "child safety" mode foundation. KidZone search in a web page showing Android applications with the same name trademark information, which indicates that the registry key names may be a temporary placeholder.

KidZone features of other brands or SDK contains functions are not examples of child safety mode, so we can not accurately know the safety of children in the Windows Phone model is, but these registry entries exist intriguing, perhaps this is found new clues to the characteristics of a yet to be announced, and this feature is likely to appear in the updated SDK or still in development stage.

What we can confirm is that the Windows Phone on your phone, Windows Store will use the optional password protection, to prevent children from inappropriate or unauthorized purchases. Included set up a broader and more powerful parental controls in windows phones system. In this connection, Windows Phone Hacker said this approach has a big speculative.

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The Miraculous Month For Nokia

Previously, China's local phone after three to imitate tide: the first round by the appliance manufacturers to launch around 2000, can become a paste shell imitation cottage; the second round of MediaTek collaborative Shenzhen many cottage small factories, the Design House have launched can be called a workshop custom cottage; the latest launch of a mainly Chinese, cool, together, the four manufacturers led to the use of Spreadtrum, MediaTek chips and the Android operating system expansion.

Although they are imitating, but the domestic manufacturers, or have been self-transcendence. The first generation to imitate machine to seize the new market, especially the four-tier cities and below market, the second generation to imitate machine has been customized to seize LG, Samsung and their low-end market, while the new generation of custom machine has become the number one killer of Nokia are, they have strong channel capacity and better R & D capabilities.

Therefore, when Android and MediaTek have the stage to build a good, smart-phone Happy Valley field is no longer technology as barriers, with the enterprise of this stage, the final competition is the marketing channels, cost control, as 10 years before the domestic appliance industry, thousands of small manufacturers of home appliances, far more than the cottage phone number of vendors.

It is in this context, marketing, channels, and cost control advantage of the business is also expected to succeed, for example, China, cool, together, they all have at least two of the three, that is to have at least two-tone can QUICKER. Lenovo since into the original ZTE, Huawei and take advantage of the channel operators, sales achieve a multiplier.Similarly, millet, OPPO their main technical marketing, advertising through traditional advertising or Twitter virus, Brain Washing, occupy space in a particular market segment; while the number of Internet phone play, it is stimulating with low-cost mobile phone value-added services to make money.

However, when the Lenovo began hoisting, copy the success of the PC field, the "red tide" of this industry is coming, there is no advantage in the channel, marketing, and cost is difficult for enterprises to survive. For example, the control of the second generation of the cottage manufacturers have three or four-wire channels by the impact of channel operators and electricity suppliers will be greatly reduced, it is difficult to copy the success in the past. 

So, all I can see about this”red tide” is the world of electronic gadgets is elusive. And the only we can do is enjoy low price from the development of digital electronics.  

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The New Functions of Windows Phone8

The Windows Phone SDK preview allows us has a better understanding of Microsoft's best windows phones. The SDK includes a simulator that can access the Windows Phone 8 new features.

The new version of the beginning screen can change the size of active tiles allow users to customize the Start screen. Developer Summit in June, Microsoft Windows Phone 8 supports custom colors, but now it seems that the user only in the Settings menu select it provides a number of theme colors - There are approximately 20 bell available.

In addition to custom colors and start screen, here are two new features Microsoft hasn’t introduced. The first is the Data Sense (traffic monitoring) - one allows you to monitor Windows Phone 8 traffic usage of the built-in applications. Use it for the first time will ask you to set restrictions on the types of each, monthly or indefinitely also can be set to the reset date. We can also see the Data Sense can detect how much traffic. You can also nail it to the start screen, traffic is about to reach the limit it will be released to remind.

The second new feature is the data cloud backup. Microsoft has built-in Windows Phone 8 powerful backup capabilities, allowing users to applications, settings, and SMS data backup to the cloud. The images are automatically uploaded to SkyDrive is still there, now you can also upload video to the cloud.

The vast majority of the Application Center has been updated. Built-in map provided by Nokia, and supports offline download maps. In Internet Explorer address bar buttons now can be changed - This should be a lot of Windows Phone users would like to see, Xbox, and music / video center has also been updated user interface that closely matched with SmartGlass theme, or even direct access to the used to replace the Zune Xbox Music store.

The photos and the camera also been updated. Photo Center allows you to select multiple pictures to share, or delete operation, here are some editing options let you crop, rotate, or repair photos. As for the camera, Microsoft's new add Lenses feature, developers can add functionality to the need to use the camera. Now we can only test Bing Vision features, but here there is a link that lets you get more Lenses, so the future should have great use.

Now because it is no internal support for the simulator, even a Microsoft account can not test all the functions in the SDK. Microsoft apparently has plans to improve the many new features not yet announced officially. As for the more specific situation can only wait for Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 SDK officially, as well as the formal launch of Windows Phone.

New WP8 operating system, Samsung SGH-i687

In June this year, Microsoft released a preview version of Windows Phone 8 (WP8), due to significantly enhance the operating system on hardware support, the consumer demand for best windows phones are filled with anticipation, several recent exposure of Windows Phone 8 phones. Therefore, by a lot of attention. Today, a Windows Phone 8 smart new machine for the first time exposure, it is the model for Samsung SGH-i687.

From exposure the Samsung Uaprof XML documentation, we can see, this model is the Samsung SGH-i687 mobile phone with WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) screen resolution of the class, and built the Internet Explorer 5.0 browser, and IE 5.0 is the new Windows Phone 8 system comes with the browser version, to infer the Samsung SGH-i687 will be powered by Windows Phone operating system.

As for the Samsung SGH-i687 more configuration information, yet no definite information based on its WVGA-level screen resolution of view, this should be a mid-range products, but we can not conclude that this phone is not equipped with dual-core processing , Samsung SGH-i687 hardware configuration of how the near future perhaps there will be more information disclosed, we will continue to focus.

Chinese Windows Phones Manufactures—Huawei And ZTE

In this year's Mobile World Congress, Huawei released the new Ascend series of smart phones, such as quad-core mobile phone Huawei of Ascend D the quad and dual-core ultra-thin strong machine Huawei of Ascend P1, S and so on, but they are equipped with the Android operating system. Today, the news from Huawei, Huawei will launch a smartphone using Windows Phone 8 (WP8) operating system.

Microsoft has released a brand new Windows Phone operating system (Preview) in WP8 (Known as the best windows phones) of the conference, which saw the Huawei appear in the Windows Phone hardware support vendor list. While the message is displayed from within the Huawei, Huawei will join Microsoft to jointly develop a smartphone powered by Windows Phone operating system will be Huawei Windows Phone smartphone into a unified Huawei Ascend product family.

In addition, Huawei, the Huawei Ascend smartphone powered by Windows Phone operating system will be listed for sale in Europe, China, the United States and other markets, while their time to market, Huawei is not being disclosed. But you can see, in addition to the Android system, Huawei began to try to take into account more operating systems, as the Huawei terminal chief marketing officer, Shao Yang said, "It will be Huawei's product portfolio of smartphones, consumers around the world to provide more personalization options.”

ZTE V965W is a candy bar touch screen mobile phone, it is known as the ZTE by Tania. Qualcomm MSM8255 single-core processors in the configuration, the phone uses a 4.3 inches WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) grade touch screen, powered by the 1.4GHz frequency, compared to the overseas edition of the configuration is more robust and equipped with 512MB RAM and 4GB body memory, running Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, also has a 5 million pixel camera, the overall configuration is similar to the Nokia 900.

As the biggest Chinese Windows phone manufactures, they start to open up the electronic gadgets market, according to this action, we know that there is much profit in Windows phone market and their will be more competition is this market. So, for our customers, we just need observed the competition and grasp the best chance to get a high quality and cheap phone.

OPPO Can Be A Windows Phones’ Manufacture?

The first echelon of the Windows Phone manufacturers system has been identified as Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, and HTC four second tier vendors system is equally curious. Microsoft Windows Phones division has dedicated team of vendors to business, has been examined a number of local mobile phone manufacturers on the domestic, which Oppo this mysterious team certainly, it is possible to move into the Windows Phone 8 in 2013 manufacturers echelon.

Microsoft Windows Phone system vendors charge licensing fees, but also from Microsoft Office to get the support of the promotion, and so if the Oppo into the Windows Phone camp, whether full payment of licensing fees, and whether it will get special treatment, being unable to do conclusive.

Oppo recently launched a 6.65 mm thick Finder known as the world's thinnest smartphone, its industrial design than other smart phone manufacturers a large part of this Windows Phone assignment by the team strongly optimistic about the Oppo's an important reasons.

Reference came before the relatively low hardware specifications wp8 device HTC Rio, Oppo the Finder powered by 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 processor and 1GB of RAM beyond the Windows Phone 8 minimum requirements. Retail price according to the the Oppo official of 2,498 yuan, according to this specification directly to the Oppo Finder 3 transition to the Windows Phone 8 platform, then the cost of the Oppo production Windows Phone devices, selling prices and profit margins will be able to get from the Finder 3 must reference.

In addition, another reason why Microsoft Oppo such a small phone manufacturers upstart value is not strong in its UI customization needs. Compared to UI customization, Microsoft would prefer to see the manufacturers to break out of the hardware, industrial design and product differentiation to avoid the formation of a differentiated way to produce re-dependent UI customization, Oppo in this regard is Microsoft appetite.

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Chinese Don’t Like Windows Phones?

Microsoft last week released the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 earnings, fourth-quarter net loss of $ 492 million, which is Microsoft's first quarterly loss since listing in 1986. , Given high expectations of Microsoft Windows Phones Mobile fell short of expectations had a negative impact on performance. In the Chinese market, the Android thousands of intelligent phones shipped impact and partners shirk, Windows Phones lost their in Chinese market.

Windows Phone Chinese high-profile debut

March 21 this year, Microsoft announced Windows Phone officially for the Chinese mainland market release, the leadership of Nokia, Samsung, HTC, ZTE and other terminal manufacturers will all be present. Before the conference, HTC also grab before Nokia released the country's first Windows Phone 7.5 platform, HTC X310e phone.

In the ensuing March 28 Nokia CEO Ai Luopu, personally came to China, to come up with a greater momentum: Nokia, together with China Telecom cloth Nokia's first Windows Phone handset - Lumia 800C's return to China CDMA mobile phone market. Yi Luopu full of confidence at the press conference, said: In an interview with Sohu IT interview with the release site selection the Yongdingmen display Nokia thick history and determination to rise from the ashes, and China Telecom Chairman Wang Xiaochu side by side through the gates of the move indicates the importance the Chinese market, Nokia.

The visit of the chiefs, the support of partners, Microsoft Windows Phone in China have a high-profile start. However, the next change, but people were unprepared.

The market share of bleak: the country accounted for only 1.6%

On April 13 this year, Microsoft's senior vice president, Greater China, Chairman and CEO Simon Leung announced his resignation, which with its Windows Phone Chinese conference presided over the appearance time of less than a month. Microsoft's entry into China 20 years Simon Leung is the sixth for Greater China CEO for nearly four years of his term. Successor Ralph Haupter, vice president of Microsoft Germany is also Microsoft's first non-Chinese person in charge of.

It is said that the Chinese market PC out of the volume comparable to the U.S., but Microsoft's royalty income is only 5% or less. Microsoft executives in China can not improve the dissatisfaction of License (copyright licensing) costs. Analysts believe that, compared with the handsome local executives more competitive with the domestic regulatory authorities, partners communication. Who just entered the Chinese Windows Phone, terminal manufacturers, operators, distributors cooperation and the strengthening of the developer contact and so on, Simon Leung's departure is a loss.

With the iOS Android platform competition, Windows Phone no longer afford. According to Strategy Analytics latest data show that Windows Phone will reach 4% this year in the United States share. Most of the Windows Phone handsets from Nokia, HTC, and Samsung. Although the 3% market share over the same period last year increased slightly, but Microsoft's more and more difficult. Nielsen data show that 51.8% of U.S. smartphone Android, 34.3% of the iPhone, 8.1% using the BlackBerry.

To enter the Chinese market, in March of this year, Windows Phones situation is more bleak: according to market research firm Sanofi data show that in June this year, Windows Phone platform for mobile phones (including a small number of Windows mobile) shipments 200 000 , accounted for only 1.6 percent of the smartphone market in the country.

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