Windows Phone – PROS and CONS

Windows Phone, formerly known as the Windows Phone 7 Series is latest and most advanced system developed by Microsoft. Launched in the fourth quarter of 2010, the latest Bill Gate's innovation has already taken a meaningful market share.

USER INTERFACE

Extra-large group of live icons in vibrant color makes the windows interface significantly different. The screen has a lively appearance with superb graphics and multi-touch technology. User is also able to pin any person from social networks and obtain present status and images of that person all over the day.

WEB BROWSER

Windows Phone provides its user with tiles on the Start screen linking to web pages. It supports multiple browser windows all of which can work in parallel. The text is presented in a way that is easy to read. Microsoft Office is connected to Cloud for over the air syncing.

MULTIMEDIA

Xbox Music and Xbox Video allow users to access podcasts, music and videos. In fact windows phone is the only phone that has built-in Xbox. User can buy or rent music, TV episodes and movies by directly accessing links to the Xbox music and video store.

Users can upload photos, tag others or comment photos of others uploaded in social networking sites and also can view uploaded albums with the help of the Pictures hub.

MICROSOFT OFFICE MOBILE 

Windows Phones allows viewing and editing most MS file formats with pre installed Microsoft Office mobile tools. With being accessible through a single Office Hub, MS Office has turned Windows Phone into a precious presentation tool.

WORD FLOW KEYBOARD

Windows Phone introduces Word Flow Keyboard, the fastest and most instinctive keyboard. It recognizes user’s writing style and contact name of people, and has bigger word library for quicker and easier typing. You can even slide your finger over the screen with the shape writing feature.It also features word prediction and spell checking. 

ACTION CENTRE

The “Action Centre”, a drop down notification bar enables to see notifications from any app in just one swipe. Also it enables a rapid access to the personalized quick actions like Bluetooth, Rotation Lock, Air-plane mode and Wi-Fi.

Outlook Life Tile

Being one of the best features of WP, the tile lets the user quickly view important emails and flag them.

CALENDAR

The calendar portion allows you to coincide your personal and work schedules in multiple calendars.

ROOM

This Windows phone feature acts as a powerful source of social interaction allowing user to select his contacts. The following features are available in this app-

1. Room Chat: Allows room members to chat with each other.
2. Shared Calendar: Room members can view and update calendar as well as make events.
3. Shared Photo Album: Photo and video album sharing is possible with other members.
4. Shared Notes: Allows sharing of Onenote notes.

DATA SENSE

The feature detects and limits the amount of data the user uses.

WI-FI SENSE

The feature handles connecting automatically to a free Wi-Fi network once you are within range of one.

BATTERY SAVER

You can make the most of your battery life with the help of battery saver app when you’re running low. When turned on, this feature monitors and manages apps and turns off any apps or things that may drain phone battery.

CUSTOM VOLUME SETTINGS

Volumes of apps, notifications, ringtones or music can be set to different levels with Windows Phone.

CORTANA

Considered as a digital personal assistant, Cortana keeps track of your habit and interests and helps managing your daily activities. The app keeps a notebook to keep all your information. You can check news headlines, traffic, weather and many other things in the interest section. It also features voice recognition services. You can talk to your phone about what you are looking for, and your phone will convert your speech into text and search for the information.

BLUETOOTH

The following BT profiles are supported by Windows Phone

• PBAP 1.1

• A2DP 1.2

• HFP 1.5

• AVRCP 1.3

• OBEX

• HSP 1.1

PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS PHONE

LIMITATIONS OF LIVE TILES

Though the vibrant live tiles are a great source for easy access to information, it has some limitations. Notifications from Facebook and Twitter can never be gained from these live tiles. Also for many other apps, live tiles act like only an icon rather due to lack of updating information.

WINDOWS PHONE MARKETPLACE

Significant disinterest of the developers has been observed towards the Windows Phone Marketplace. This may be due to Microsoft’s lack of efforts to promote their products.

PROBLEM WITH MAIL

Email threading sometimes stops working. Problems occur sometimes while deleting emails from within the Gmail inbox.

PROBLEM WITH ROOMS AND OTHER FEATURES

Many Windows Phone features are exclusive for itself, which means they can only be accessed with WP.

PROBLEM WITH SPEECH RECOGNITION

Speech recognition feature is not as good as Apple's Sir or Google's Android voice control.

7 Minimal Blogging Platforms that You May Choose

Blogging platforms can be complicated to use due to featuring a multitude of plugins and widgets. Choice of suitable platform is necessary to build carrier on blogging as well as to promote products or services.

Here we are going to discuss on 7 minimal blogging platforms and their basic focus and purposes.

Postagon

An easier way to blog is Postagon, a well -known simple blog equipped with the basics only for a pure writing and reading experience. Postagon is not ad-supported which makes it appear clean and prevents from being messy. The blogging platform features RSS feeds, Retina display support, visual and markdown editor, posting via e-mail and Google Analytics. Post can be shared on a wide variety of social networking sites requiring no separate app.

Svbtle

Svbtle generally provides an easy platform to collect and share ideas concentrating mainly on writing being the so-called “invite-only network”. The platform appears with a sleek design, and the dashboard inspires the bloggers to share ideas into draft posts. A custom domain and avatar can be used by bloggers. Readers can only rate posts as unlike many other blogging platforms comment feature is not available in Svbtle.

Ghost

Ghost was introduced in an attempt to bring blogging back to basics. It is free to use, appears sleek and simple and comes with a split screen writing function where live preview is on the right and Markdown editor is on the left. The beautiful dashboard have drag-and-drop feature and holds all the essential information about blog in one place. Ghost is completely free to share ideas and concepts.

Wardrobe

Another simple and free-to use blogging platform is Wardrobe, which too concentrates on writing. The theming system being powerful, blog designs matching to blogger’s own business can easily be created. Blog posts can be scheduled and tagged for grouping and categorization.

Postach.io

Postach.io works by literally converting Evernote into a content management system, thus claiming to be “the simplest blog ever”. People other than Evernote user can use Postach.io by creating account through this blogging platform. It supports Google Analytics, Disqus and Markdown. Themes are easy to create and custom domain and avatar can be used. Posts can be embedded to YouTube and Vimeo videos and shared on a wide range of SNSs.

Medium

Medium is a simple yet great way for bloggers to gain exposure. This blogging platform is much professional, requiring no tools or widgets to master and essentially contain no distraction for the audiences. Readers can easily find their topic of interest by looking up in the categories and can also leave comments for feedback purposes. Ideas can be reached to thousands of people without directly concentrating on blogger’s own services or products.

Jekyll

Jekyll works by transforming dynamic components into static websites, and thus known as “static site generator”. Switching to the platform from another blogging system is lot easier as compared to other platforms. It is mainly a parsing engine requiring no internet connection and having the ability to host freely on GitHub Pages.

Nokia X Series: Nokia X Dual SIM

Nokia’s recent initiative is Nokia x series with Nokia x duel SIM. It will really improve the real Nokia user experiences. Many people in the world love Nokia blindly, but this is awesome Smartphone that can steal the heart of the users. All the phones of Nokia x series have very impressive look, first time that can attract any people. Its design is also very attractive, slim and obviously beautiful. I especially like its some alluring different colors. 

Now we are just going to look on the basic features of the Nokia x series. 

It has excellent dimension. 

• Very noticeable length – 115.5 mm 
• Perfect width – 63 mm 
• Smart thickness – 10.4 mm (you like it) 
• Your preferred weight, slim – 128.7 g 

Now see on the display area, do not worry – you will obviously like Nokia x series. 

• Perfect display size for Android – 4” LCD 
• High quality resolution – WVGA (800x480) 
• Screen – Nokia glance, double tap and wide viewing  
• Sensor – orientation, control brightness 
• Color – Eye catching Truecolor (24bit/16M) 
• Obviously great aspect ratio – 15:9 
• Pixel – 233 ppi (density) 
• Capacitive 2-point touch screen technology 
• 3 types of sensors – Ambient light, accelerometer and Proximity sensor 

Keys, From Factor and Input methods: 

It has very sensitive user touch screen. Other hardware keys are volume keys, power and lock keys, back keys. It has monoblock touch ‘form factor’. 

Connectivity Features: 

Nokia x series phones only support Micro SIM. Users can easily use Dual standby SIM. Mostly used Micro-USB charging connections are also applied here. Here is a 3.5 mm audio connector that will be used as AV connectors. USB 2.0 connection is available here. 

Bluetooth Features: 

• HSP, headset profile 1.2 
• HFP – Hands free profile 1.5 
• PBAP 1.0 – Phone book access profile 
• A2DP 1.2 – Advanced audio distribution 
• GAVDP – General audio and video distribution 1.2 
• DUN – Dial up networking 
• FTP 
• OPP 1.2 – object push profile 
• AVRCP 1.3 – Audio/video remote control profile 
• IEEE 802.11 b/g/n – WiFi WLAN 

There are also few noticeable WLAN Security features that have increased the value of Nokia x series. There is another Wireless connectivity named WAPI. 

Data and Network Condition: 

• 900 MHz and 2100 MHz WCDMA network 
• 7.2 Mbps HSDPA maximum data speed (DL) 
• 5.76 Mbps HSUPA maximum data speed (UL) 
• 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz – GSM 
• GSM maximum data speed – 236.8 kbps (EGPRS, DL) and 85.6 kbps (GPRS, UL) 

Power Management Options: 

It has excellent battery of 3.7 V with 1500 mAh capacity. Battery can be removed easily. Very noticeable talk time 13.3 hours of 2G and 10.5 hours (max) of 3G with 28 days standby time. 17 days standby time for dual SIM, 26 hours music playback, 8.4 hours video playback browsing time in average 4.5 hours – all these features can be obtainable fairly. 

Processor is Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, type of dual-core, 1 GHz. 

Memory: 

It has enough 512 MB RAM and 4 GB mass memory, MicroSD memory card. It can accept 32 GB memory card also. 

Essential Application: 

It contains all the general and essential applications including Calculator, Calendar with location, Clock, Alarm, Fixed dialing, Phonebook, Social networks, etc. 

Other Essential Apps: 

It has touch UI Game features. It supports JPEG, BMP, PNG, WBMP, GIF89a and 87a. 

Nokia X software is its operating system. Software update is FOTA, Firmware Over-the-Air. 

Some Noticeable Features of Nokia x series: 

1. It supports native email clients, Hotmail, Yahoo, Microsoft ActiveSync. Facebook, WeChat, Viber and Twitter have added extra value to this series. Users can use instant messaging, text and multimedia messaging and other important messaging features. 
2. Its excellent security features can attract more customers. It contains mobile VPN and data encryption for the mobile, firmware update, PIN code, device lock. 
3. It accepts Nokia browser, HTML, Opera. 
4. It has most used social media apps including Facebook, Viber, Twitter, Skype, WeChat. 
5. Users can share photos and videos through Social apps, email attachments, Internet and Bluetooth. 
6. It is obviously Wi-Fi enabled device. 
7. It contains very attractive GPS navigation features. It has HERE Drive and Maps. Users can be pleased with its Offline Maps and A-GPS and Cellular. 
8. Nokia x series have high-resolution camera, 2048 x 1536 pixels, primary camera is 3 MP. This fixed focus camera provides JPEG format images with 4 x zoom and 32.4 mm focal length. 
9. You can capture Still, Panorama and Video. With its automatic light sensitivity and excellent color tone modes, photos can be viewed as album and timeline. 
10. Nokia MixRadio is for playing music and audio. It supports almost all music formats including MP3, AMR-NB, FLAC, MIDI, AAC. Don’t worry, you can use Stereo FM radio. 
11. Its video camera provides 3GP and MP4 video with a good resolution FWVGA (864 x 480). Its 4 x zoom, white color balance can provide excellent quality videos. 

Note: In the sales package you will receive Nokia X dual SIM, battery BN-01 1500 mAh, charger AC-20, stereo Headset WH-108 and quick guidebook.