{"id":45114,"date":"2013-07-12T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=45114"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:19:07","slug":"minor-windows-phone-8-update-coming-no-major-features-until-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/minor-windows-phone-8-update-coming-no-major-features-until-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Windows Phone 8 update coming, no major features until 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"windows phone\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/windows-phone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone<\/a> 8 users can look forward to a minor operating system revision but the real changes won&#8217;t come until 2014. Microsoft announced minor changes in version 8.0.10327.77 of its Windows Phone 8 operating system, which only really includes bug fixes and minor revisions.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"xbox music\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/xbox-music\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xbox Music<\/a> has been redesigned a bit to make it easier to select and download music to your device. There&#8217;s also a new FM radio feature in the Music + Videos hub of the app. If you&#8217;re on a data plan with a cap, you can look forward to the Data Sense feature, which provides a breakdown of how much data each app uses. Users can set a limit to make sure they don&#8217;t go over the cap.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you&#8217;ll find improvements to <a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/skype\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype<\/a>, <a title=\"Internet Explorer\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/internet-explorer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Explorer<\/a>, and the camera. IE gets better HTML 5 compatibility and Skype gets performance boosts. Users can also set different &#8220;Lenses&#8221; to open up by default. Lenses are basically camera applications that can replace the stock camera interface.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Windows 8.1 update that&#8217;s rolling out some time next month, Windows Phone 8 users will have to wait until 2014 to get a more substantial features and improvements. When 2014 does roll around, you can expect an improved mutlitasking system, new notifications, and updated first-party apps. Microsoft is also working closely with hardware partners to support 1080p resolutions, reports <em><a title=\"the verge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/7\/12\/4516894\/microsoft-windows-phone-8-updates\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, Windows Phone users can look forward to the minor updates in version 8.0.10327.77. Be sure to visit the source link for all the info on this update.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a title=\"windows phone 8 update history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-US\/how-to\/wp8\/basics\/windows-phone-8-update-history?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone 8 update history<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Phone 8 users can look forward to a minor operating system revision but the real changes won&#8217;t come until 2014. Microsoft announced minor changes in version 8.0.10327.77 of its Windows Phone 8 operating system, which only really includes bug fixes and minor revisions. Xbox Music has been redesigned a bit to make it easier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/minor-windows-phone-8-update-coming-no-major-features-until-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor Windows Phone 8 update coming, no major features until 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":45131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-45114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332624,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45114\/revisions\/332624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=45114"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=45114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}