Windows Phone is Microsoft's smartphone operating system that replaces the Windows Mobile platform. However, these two operating systems are still not compatible with the old versions due to the rapid development time.
Windows started to be officially launched in February 2010 at the Mobile World Congress exhibition held in Barcelona, Spain, until October 2010, the first 10 Windows Phone devices from HTC, Dell, Samsung, LG has been launched and sold worldwide for some time since then.
The name of the first version of the Windows Phone operating system was Windows Phone 7, then Microsoft launched small upgrades as Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Phone 7.8, Windows Phone 8 and currently the latest Windows Phone 8.1. Currently, most smartphones running Windows Phone 8 when they first shipped were up to 8.1.
Windows Phone 8.1 is a major update for phones running on Windows Phone 8. On April 2, 2014, Windows Phone 8.1 was officially announced and the Developer Preview released. on April 10, 2014 Windows Phone 8.1 officially updated for a number of Nokia devices (Currently Microsoft) in Vietnam.
Windows Phone 8.1 is adding many new features compared to Windows Phone 8, here are a few main changes:
+ Upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer 11.
+ Ability to customize with 3 columns Live Tiles (medium size).
+ Customize Live Tiles with background images.
+ Virtual assistant Cortana.
+ Support typing Vietnamese by typing Telex or Vni.
+ Settings and personalization - Action center, sound, sync.
Windows Phone's milestone is February 11, 2011, when Microsoft officially cooperates with the Nokia phone brand , which means that Windows Phone becomes Nokia's main operating system, replacing the aging Symbian. , starting the war with Android and iOS, two operating systems that were holding the highest market share at the time.
Windows Phone has a user interface that Microsoft calls it "Metro". The main screen, called "Start Screen", is composed of "Live Tiles". These Tiles link to applications, features, functions and other things (such as contact names, bookmarks, music files, ...). Users can add, sort or delete Tiles, but it doesn't mean removing the app from the device.
Advantages:
+ The interface of the phone is almost like on the computer to help users feel familiar and easy to use.
+ Ability to synchronize contacts, emails well.
+ Here Maps is available quite well for users, maps can be viewed offline.
+ Support NFC, 4G LTE (but not yet used in Vietnam).
+ SkyDrive cloud storage integrated.
+ Windows Phone devices often have the function of taking beautiful pictures.
+ Good battery, strong waves.
Defect:
+ Live Tiles interface, new to use, feels familiar, quite beautiful, but later on, it will be very boring. Windows Phone does not allow interfaces, themes (themes), can not install Laucher. So using WP8 you accept to live a "lifetime" with those Live Tiles.
+ The application store is quite poor, free apps are very few.
+ Until now Windows Phone can not JailBreak yet.
+ Some features still make users uncomfortable such as lock screen rotation, the volume of all applications such as music, calls, messages ... is always the same, the phone does not have both ring and vibrate mode ...
+ Can not change DNS (or IP) to access some blocked websites.
The market share of smartphones running Windows Phone appears to be "modest", ranking third after iOS and Android in the smartphone market. Hope the future will increase.
Currently, only Microsoft continues to release smartphones running Windows Phone ( SAMSUNG + HTC also release the model ATVI S, HTC 8S, HTC 8X but not currently produced).
In Vietnam, phones running Windows Phone have added the presence of Vietnamese mobile phone company Q-Mobile. The platform is also present in most price segments, from low-cost phones to high-end phones: Q-Smart Storm , Q-Smart Storm W510 , Lumia 530 , Lumia 630 , Lumia 535 , Lumia 625 , Lumia 730 Dual SIM , Lumia 830 , Lumia 1520 , Lumia 930
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