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Our complete Windows Phone 8.1 feature list, so far..

Over the last week, theres been a flurry of information about Windows Phone 8.1, due to be announced in only five weeks at Build. Its been overwhelming, so wed like to direct your attention to our continually updated feature list page for 8.1

Action Center (Leaked Video)

• Notification center – Alerts, non-Toast notifications, update history, more
• Quick-access to customized actions, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Plane mode, etc.

Apps + Store

• Apps can capture audio/video from themselves; be limited for copyright concerns
• App and Game data stored on SD cards
• Apps on SD Cards are only allowed from ONE originating phone. If it detects that apps from another phone are installed on the SD Card, then it will ask to delete those first
• App Suggestions by location
• Backup of App + Game data to OneDrive (if developer enabled)
• Facebook app comes with OS, updates independently, hooks into OS
• Filter through installed apps by usage/install date
• Manual Update checks
• Option to update store apps automatically
• Option to update store apps when only on Wi-Fi
• Single sign-in for apps (like on Windows 8) with Microsoft Account; sign in will persist across devices + apps with permissions prompt

Calendar

• Google calendar support, with multiple calendars
• Weather in calendar
• Week view in calendar

Camera

• New layout

Bing

• Podcast app powered by Bing, full featured

Browser

• IE 11 to save and remember your password for websites
• JavaScript and HTML for app development
• Upload files through Internet Explorer 11
• Tabs now show up individually in multi-task window
• WebGL and Normal mapping support
• YouTube Player including HTML5 video support

Developer

• XAP replaced by APPX
• ??Audio/video transcoding thats hardware accelerated
• New dev tools including: SemanticZoom, DatePicker, TimePicker
• Actionable notifications for apps
• Silent/ghost notifications for apps

Email

• New Email sync options with accordance to usage patterns (i.e. If you get a lot of mail on particular days and if you dont check mail every day).
• Option to always download emails and pictures within them

Enterprise and Office

• Password protected Office document support
• Office Lens support for scanning documents with camera, import into Office with OCR
• Rebranding of SkyDrive to OneDrive
• VPN support built in
• S/MIME to sign and encrypt email
• Access to corporate resources behind the firewall with app aware
• Auto-triggered VPN
• Certificate management to enroll, update and revoke certificates for user authentication
• Enhanced MDM policies to lock down functionality on the phone for more enterprise control, in addition to richer application management such as allowing or denying the installing of certain apps.
• Enterprise Wi-Fi support with EAP-TLS

General User Experience changes

• Back button no longer closes apps, instead it suspends them
• Double-Tap to unlock your phone (Feature from Lumia devices on Amber Update and newer)
• Double Tap to Power Off
• Favorite photos by tapping a heart icon
• File picker
• Kids Corner – Password wont be displayed (bug fix)
• Live Tiles – mark as red by swiping from the left over the Tile
• Live Tiles – Three column support (maybe)
• Navigation bar for phones without physical keys on the front
• Notification if charger isnt of adequate power
• Quiet Hours – Disable notifications during pre-selected timeframe
• Screenshot button combination is now Power + Volume Up
• Search button will be the new way to open Speech (aka Cortana)
• Separate volume controls for ringtones/notifications and music/media
• Set default Voice Navigation app for the OS
• Swipe down to close apps in multitasking view
• Voice Narrator for Accessibility

Keyboard (Leaked Video)

• Swipe keyboard option – "Write, when I swipe through letters".

Media

• Media editing:  audio and video; Audio effects, video effects; Slow motion video
• Xbox Music and Xbox Video as standalone apps instead of the Music + Video Hub (allowing more updates to be pushed)

Messaging

• Mute Thread - Optionally silence text threads, no longer receive notifications or Live Tile updates

Phone + Contacts

• Call duration (press and hold reveals a "details" menu in call history)
• In-call speech commands. Youll be able to say "Call XXXXXX".
• Inner Circle of contacts. Up to 40 contacts can be in the inner circle.
• Operators can also install certain applications once a SIM card is detected

Sense

• Battery Saver (under Battery Sense) will have an app exclusion list
• Data Sense – Operators can now control Data Sense limits remotely
• Wi-Fi Sense – Sharing secured WI-Fi Networks with contacts if they have Wi-Fi Sense. They dont get to see the shared password though
• Wi-Fi can auto re-enable after a set duration of time
• Wi-Fi Direct

System

• Chkdsk for SD cards to ensure card health
• Geofence monitoring support. Geofence is a boundary around a place of interest to you. Location services can monitor geofences to tell your apps when youre entering and leaving them. This would be really good for IFTTT
• Miracast, PlayTo, mirror and project via wireless display or USB-out
• Mouse and keyboard support (HID)
• Stereoscopic 3D support
• The phone will have to update to the latest version before you can restore it to factory settings
• Trusted app list for NFC that will remove the need for asking whether you want to open a particular app
• Virtual SmartCard support
• Wallet supports tickets and membership cards
• Windows Phone 8.1 apps wont run on 8.0 devices until they upgrade

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