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hey there this is Adam Lane for packing.com I'm going to show you something new about Windows Phone 8 let's check it out in this video we're going to take a look at the new Xbox games hub the music and video hub and the new Windows Phone 8 store so first off here's the tiles I expand them and we can add the full width tiles let's go to games and see this is as a new design and we see the collection there is no search if you have a ton of games here and they don't show up in the programs listing search so that's might be an issue we can see the Xbox extras is still a separate download so that'll go launch a new app for changing the avatar but we have some new animations for our avatar here and that's you've got a message that's kind of old one but if we shake them there we go now oh you broke the glass if you shake them hard enough you might fall down and I was going to the prop here we have the next panel and there's an Xbox SmartGlass button that's quick access to that again it's a app that you have to download separately there's your friends there's your game store and here's a nice new feature the notifications bar panel rather we see the friends who are sending messages or inviting you to games or maybe it's your turn or there's a message or here's a beacon notification they all show up here now which is really nice and there's your spotlight just the usual stuff and back to collection now let me show you how quickly one of these programs opens there's done brothers and if you use this on Windows Phone 7.5 you may remember it takes a very long time to launch but you just saw that happened really quickly next up let's look at the Xbox music and videos hub so here's my tile tap that and we have the music collection there's your history and here's new and I was kind of surprised to see all this stuff show up in the music and videos hub just by signing into my Microsoft account I didn't connect it to computer or anything they just started appearing there and the reason for that is we have a cloud collection now so let's look at songs and up here at the top I can filter by what's on the phone or what's in my cloud collection so let's see now you see the lot little tiny icon there the little dot would be weaves around it that means this is going to have to stream in order to play it so all these songs here are things that I bought on soon over the past couple years or so and I can just tap it and it will start playing over the internet so there's our music player looks pretty much the same but we have a new menu here there's more in store you can download it I can save it as a playlist and I can share it and there's NFC so I can share that song via NFC make sure of your messaging and here's Xbox if I hit that it will start playing on the Xbox over there of course there's music and here's one that I've been looking for social networks so say I want to share this song I can there's a link to it I can type a message with it I can choose which social networks I wanted to go to LinkedIn Twitter and Facebook and I can even choose who is going to be able to view it on Facebook now if I go back we see the background changed based on what artists I'm listening to so while song is plain if I go to my tile look at this cool animation I got the artists going on in background I got text flying over it it's pretty cool however if I stop the music it goes back to this really boring green icon that's different from previous Windows Phone music tiles that used to keep the artists image there which is kind of unfortunate because it looks really bad this way now let's go back to the music library and here's playlists now this is a playlist that I saved on the Xbox 360 using Xbox music and it did sync the playlists but it didn't think any of the songs in the playlist so I think that's a bug of course you still have videos and podcasts here videos do not sync with my cloud collection so anything that I bought on Zune or Xbox video does not automatically show up here which is unfortunate and here's the store so we can choose apps games music and podcasts notably missing is videos I was kind of hoping for that but no you don't get videos so there's all the different panels now let's go to apps and there's something new here we have kind of tile shapes for the categories and here's a new one picks for you this is going to use kind of your usage that keeps track of and you know what other apps you download and it tells you the reason why it thinks you might like this app so here's one that says a bunch of my friends really liked this fuse app it tells me the names of them and so maybe I should try that too and we see others that say you know you downloaded the Microsoft Store app maybe like this so that's pretty neat feature and as your categories and spotlight now that picks for you is also in the games store there it is so maybe it'll suggest some games that I might like and it tells me which my friends really like these programs those are friends on Facebook and now to the music store oddly there is no picks for you button now that picks feature kind of urgent the Zune which allowed you to know find music that you might like based on what music you listen to unfortunately it did not make it to Windows Phone 8 and podcast does not have a panoramic thing but of course they're there and you can subscribe to them so that's a look at the new Xbox games hub the Xbox music and video hub and the new Windows Phone 8 store be sure to give this video a thumbs up and that's it for now