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Early Windows Phone 8 Information Leaking

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Engadget Link...nice listing of the points covered.

Pocketnow managed to snag an internal video with Belfiore listing new features. Thurrott has verified quite a bit of it as well.

Highlights:
Lots of shared code with Windows 8, app porting should be a cinch
Multicore, multiple resolutions, NFC, proper SD card support
Enable inter-app communication
Skype baked in

Booyah. Sounds pretty sweet. Now if only VZW will release something better than the Trophy...
 
I am now pumped for WP8 I just hope that first gen devices can be updated. That is quite the list and should make WP8 the perfect middle ground between android and IOS. MS just crossed off most of my wish list for WP including real business support.
 
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Whats the point in WP8 when real Windows 8 will be capable of running on smartphones?

I'd much rather have a fully functional Windows 8 phone with the same display as the Galaxy Note and a Medfield SoC for full compatibility with legacy apps. If you don't need compatibility you could always go with OMAP 5 or Tegra 3 since we know Windows 8 will be coming to those platforms.
 
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Except MS won't be licensing W8 for phones. Why would you want a desktop OS on a phone. Instead you will have the underlying architecture spanning the platforms but with an appropriate UI for the form factor. Speaking of, why do you come into every post about WP and threadcrap every time.
 
I am really wanting more information on the business/enterprise stuff coming in WP8. If they can do that right it might be a way to get real foot hold in the market.
 
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Except MS won't be licensing W8 for phones. Why would you want a desktop OS on a phone. Instead you will have the underlying architecture spanning the platforms but with an appropriate UI for the form factor. Speaking of, why do you come into every post about WP and threadcrap every time.
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I figured they would restrict it although one could easily make the case that a 5.3" device is as much a tablet as a phone. Besides if it's x86 I'm not sure that Microsoft would be in any position to stop someone from making that device.

I'm not trying to thread crap, Windows 8 already has a touch friendly UI for tablets so it could work on phones just as well. Heck the Note even meets the resolution requirements to be a Windows 8 tablet. As it stands now I have no interest in Windows Phone but I would be very interested in a Windows 8 phone due to the productivity it offers.
 
Puddle Jumper said:
Whats the point in WP8 when real Windows 8 will be capable of running on smartphones?

I'd much rather have a fully functional Windows 8 phone with the same display as the Galaxy Note and a Medfield SoC for full compatibility with legacy apps. If you don't need compatibility you could always go with OMAP 5 or Tegra 3 since we know Windows 8 will be coming to those platforms.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will share the same core.... but not all apps on a phone make sense on a real version of windows (for example a dialing program).

That said I bet we see similar hardware to the galaxy note sold as a tablet and let skype act at the phone service for it. I am actually evaluating skype right now to see if it will be reliable enough to serve as my phone replacement. Then I could drop to a data only plan and use skype for calls and start using facebook/skype/google voice to replace txt messaging which would save me $30 a month per line.
 
I just want to see some phones for Verizon. It's pathetic that they only have a single, old phone on the largest carrier in the US.
 
Licensing costs are dependent on screen sizes with the magical line being 7 inches. Officially, Windows Phone cannot be used on anything larger than 7" (though that seems impractical). I would also assume that Microsoft will prevent official licensing of devices lower than 7" to avoid marketing confusion.
 
With the kind of specs they are looking to add I wonder how it can possibly run on either first gen or second gen WP7 phones. Apps are another thing.
 
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With the kind of specs they are looking to add I wonder how it can possibly run on either first gen or second gen WP7 phones. Apps are another thing.
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Concidering the next update tango is supposed to introduce low end phone specs. Why introduce new low end specs just to scrap them this fall. I think they will be able to get first gen phones to WP8. Just won't have certain functionality since they don't have hardware for things like FFC and NFC. On the app front it sounds like a very simple process to port them over even easier than porting to mango.
 
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