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Microsoft makes its official announcement of Windows Phone 8 to the public Windows Phone 7.8 will be available for legacy devices and the marketplace currently has a hundred thousand apps and Counting all this and more coming up right now hello everyone i'm jaime with parkin out common welcome to Windows Phone view the show we wrap up all this week's good and bad inside the world of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform now this week we're starting off a little different because we usually begin with Android revolution but there are so many good news Windows Phone 8 let's talk this week off with what's good all right so there's a lot of multi being mentioned and Windows Phone 8 so let's begin first of all you get multi-core support in the past you only got single core support so you were pretty much limited to what you could do with the phone even though it was blazing fast but multi-core includes dual core quad core it will all depend on Microsoft and the roadmap for the future side from that you get multiple resolutions being supported the fast you only got WVGA and now you'll be getting WXGA which would be 1280 by 768 and also 720p that's really good other than that you get entering Explorer 10 which supports a much better engine for JavaScript html5 it was being shown on the videos and it was extremely faster in comparison to other platforms you get microSD support in the past you didn't get expansion options on Windows Phone which was kind of limited and other than that you also get NFC support there are a lot of really good changes coming with Windows Phone 8 probably one of the biggest ones that I haven't mentioned is the new start screen and the passion were pretty much stuck with just two different types of laptops but you couldn't determine which ones were bigger or smaller now you'll be able to determine which ones are smaller bigger you get three sizes of shoes from they're all really good kind of a little cluttering might taste probably but I'd like to hear what you think in the comments down below tell us about it but there's just so much to talk about Windows Phone 8 that hit the link down below with the description it'll give you all the details of everything that's being launched with Windows Phone 8 as of whenever they get it launch and that's probably what we're going to be talking about in the bad section now let's put all the rumors to arrest one of our biggest concerns of Windows Phone 8 was legacy devices and Microsoft does have our back the list of Windows Phone 8 features that are coming don't make any sense to be supporting legacy devices because they don't have multi-core they don't have NFC there are a lot of features there that Microsoft's pretty tied up with hardware limitations to be able to bring these features to old devices but Microsoft's gonna be launching Windows Phone 7.8 and they're gonna be bringing the same Windows Phone 8 uy and user experience to the Windows Phone 7 devices legacy devices but you won't be getting the features that are Hardware specific like NFC multi-core support etc etc so apparently even applications that are ported from Windows Phone 8 specifically won't be backward compatible but we're not really sure if that's only you know multi-core dependent or what's gonna be the case there but again you're still gonna be getting the same UI it's just gonna be limited to the things that your device will be able to support or not not sure what's gonna happen with tangle devices but these are really good news so one of the biggest things here is that the rumors are that we are gonna be getting Windows Phone 7.8 on devices like the Nokia Lumia 900 very soon next couple of weeks means a lot so we're not sure what soon means but hopefully we will be getting it before you know July August not sure what the timeframe is gonna be but it's gonna be really cool to get this update really soon for legacy devices now I left one of the coolest features of Windows Phone 8 separately for obvious reasons it's cool enough to have its own segment and the reason why is because Microsoft is building this new speech recognition service that's far superior than Siri and even s voice in my opinion the reason being is because Microsoft is not only porting the service for the device itself but also is bringing these API Steudle Apella pers can create specific commands for in-app services of speech that are currently not being supported for other you know iOS for example with Siri only supports launched with iOS 6 and S voice is kind of a mixed bag Microsoft is bringing the services we haven't really seen in an action other than within the demo so it's going to be really interesting see how microsoft plans to handle this because obviously there is a new type of multitasking coming to Windows Phone 8 so not really sure how are you gonna be able to control music on a separate app like for example Spotify with their specific commands and having that not come in conflict with other commands with other applications time will tell but again it's really cool to see that Microsoft is really changing things here because definitely those api's are gonna be quite useful the only problem will be having to memorize this I hope that Microsoft figures out a way for this to be artificial intelligence for the device to actually learn the commands that you bring and not necessarily focus I'm giving you specific things that you'll have to memorize but time will tell now there are two different integrations coming with Windows Phone 8 that are definitely unique first of all Skype is gonna work as it should you'll now not be able to tell the difference whether you're getting a Skype call or a typical voice call coming from your device now not really sure how they plan to make things happen whenever you want to make a call for you to be able to select within Skype or the phone line I really hope they make it better with than Android for example we're in Android you have to be selecting where you want to make the call from I hope it's a simple switch within Windows Phone and you can actually just switch it back whenever you want something different not sure how that's gonna happen but hopefully that's gonna be really cool when it comes out another interesting note coming out is the fact that Nokia Maps and NAVTEQ are pretty much gonna be the new map service coming to Windows Phone 8 so we will be getting turn-by-turn navigation natively you don't require a Nokia phone from now on to be able to have this service not sure if that's coming to Windows Phone 7.8 but hopefully that will be the case now obviously that means that Bing Maps is gone I'm not sure why Microsoft is canning it and not bringing turn-by-turn to Bing Maps but interesting to see those kind of joint ventures whenever you least expect that you'll be hearing the voice saying hey we just bought Nokia but why not they just come out with their service tablets so why not and speaking of service let's end the good section talking about it Microsoft is finally launching another product like they did with the Zune no comment on that one but like they did with the Xbox now we're finally getting a computer from Microsoft and it's going to be called the Microsoft Surface not the old table this is gonna be a tablet but it's gonna be a really unique tablet because first of all you're gonna have a cover that's actually also a keyboard don't think about the iPad because this is coming directly from Microsoft and it's totally a different technology you're also getting this really cool kickstand at the back so you can be able to use your tablet in different ways without depending on accessories to make it work the way it should now what's interesting is you will be getting a Windows RT version Windows 8 RT sorry you will be also getting an enterprise version that's gonna be much more expensive apparently the windows RT version is going to be slated in prices around where the iPad is and then you'll also have the enterprise version and prices that are gonna be leveling around the laptop way kind of interesting because this is pretty much a new form factor for a laptop if you could consider it not sure how Apple is gonna react to that with their future iPads or whatever you know laptops they release eventually because probably my biggest concern with Microsoft is launch dates release dates you never get them they take months to happen and they give competition that good heads-up on what to do and honestly this surface device is really cool all right so that does it for the good let's continue on with what's bad and again as I mentioned in the past segment what really gets us worried about Microsoft this timeliness its release dates we never get him always get us the fall the holiday season they never come out with a specific date of when we'll be getting a product and you know what the problem with that is competition you know Android for example is gonna take very little time to come out with that little keyboard cover and we've already seen the Logitech keyboard cover with the keyboard coming to the iPad so the problem of Microsoft is specifically that they take too long from when they announce something to when they launch it and they're pretty much a notorious for being late in some of the things now I do understand the purpose of being late for it to be great that's fine but the problem is competition is so fierce that Microsoft's innovation goes down the drain with competition pulling it out first and then calling it bears you know what I'm talking about so sadly surface is a really great product I have a really good impression on it so do I have for Windows Phone 8 but sadly it's gonna be pointless if everything happens with competition at the same time you know the iPhone 5 or whatever is gonna be launched in the fall with the Windows Phone 8 and what are people gonna choose that's really the problem with Microsoft lately they take too long and I really do miss the old Bill Gates days when they wouldn't make announcements when those 95 was already out before they announced it that's really the way they should go back to the roots the innovation is so good don't announce it just launch the thing I know you'll be successful that's it for today's show thank you very much for watching I'm high memory that I remember to give us a thumbs up if you like what you saw that's it for now