New Windows Phone 8 unveiled by Microsoft

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New Windows Phone 8 unveiled by Microsoft at At Nokia’s press event on September 5, Wednesday.



According to the report from Tech Crunch, the FX Suite lens, built by two MSFT summer interns, shows four different effects in various windows. Once the picture is taken, it’s automatically captioned with the appropriate “lens.” As has been the case with WP for a while, you can scroll straight into your camera roll from the viewfinder. He also showed off a Photosynth app, which lets you engage with a panorama shot. Remember, these are third party apps being fully integrated with the system.

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Windows Phone 8 will share the same kernel with Windows 8, and developers will be able to use the same programming code to write for both platforms, so the growth in apps and interoperability between the two will likely be exponential from now on, not to mention DirectX games will shuttle back and forth.

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