For all you guys who like me hang off every piece of update from Windows sphere, you’ll be glad to know that some upcoming features about the next update to Windows Phone are leaked. Windows Phone 8.1 (codename ‘Blue’) is the next major update to the Windows Phone platform. While it is being anticipated that the OS will be officially unveiled at Microsoft’s BUILD conference in April, Microsoft have secretly made available a new SDK for some premium developers. Even though the developers had to sign in for a non disclosable agreement, features of this new OS have already came out onto the internet – probably on Reddit.
Some of the features include, the renaming of skydrive to onedrive across the OS, swipe down on the multitasking page to close background apps, a new revamped HTML5 YouTube player which now plays inside your browser, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) can be easily configured and the ability to save applications onto the SD card.
It is interesting to note that some rumoured major features like the voice assistant called Cortana, a Siri-like feature and a new Action Centre, a notification centre is missing from this build. In fact, almost all Bing features are either removed or are not working which shows Microsoft are trying to keep the major features behind the curtain.
You can check a full list of changes on the Reddit post in /r/windowsphone. Additionally, a number of screenshots in added a following video. The screenshots have been taken from the Reddit post and a Twitter user, @AngelWZR who posted screenshots.
