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Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input. Internet Explorer on Windows Phone allows the user to maintain a list of favorite web pages and tiles linking to web pages on the Start screen. The browser supports up to 6 tabs, which can all load in parallel. A "What's New" section shows a user's Facebook news feed and a "Pictures" section show pictures from those social networks, while a "Me" section within the "People" hub shows a user's own social network status and wall and allows them to view social network updates.

Contacts can also be pinned to the Start Screen. The contact's " Live Tile " displays their social network status and profile picture on the homescreen. Clicking on a contact's tile or accessing their card within the "People" hub will reveal their recent social network activity as well as the rest of their contact information. If a contact has information stored on multiple networks, users can link the two separate contact accounts, allowing the information to be viewed and accessed from a single card.

Here, information from each of the contacts is combined into a single page which can be accessed directly from the Hub or pinned to the Start screen. Windows Phone supports Outlook. Contacts and calendars may be synced from these services as well. Users can also search through their email by searching in the subject, body, senders, and receivers. Emails are shown with threads, and multiple email inboxes can be combined into a single view a feature commonly referred to as "combined inbox" or can viewed separately.

Xbox Music and Xbox Video are built-in multimedia hubs providing entertainment and synchronization capabilities between PC, Windows Phone, and other Microsoft products. Xbox Music also allows the user to stream music with an Xbox Music Pass.

When browsing the music by a particular artist, users are able to view artist biographies and photos. This hub also includes Smart DJ which compiles a playlist of songs stored on the phone similar to the song or artist selected.

The Pictures hub displays the user's Facebook and OneDrive photo albums, as well as photos taken with the phone's built-in camera. Users can also upload photos to social networks, comment on photos uploaded by other people, and tag photos posted to social networks. An official file manager app called Files , which is available for download from the Windows Phone Store, enables users to move and rearrange documents, videos, music and other files within their device's hard drive or to an external SD card.

Users can also add custom ringtones which are less than 1MB in size and less than 40 seconds long. DLNA streaming and stereoscopic 3D are also supported. The " Games hub " provides access to games on a phone along with Xbox Live functionality, including the ability for a user to interact with their avatar , view and edit their profile, see their achievements and view leaderboards, and send messages to friends on Xbox Live. The hub also features an area for managing invitations and turn notifications in turn-based multiplayer games.

Bing is the default search engine on Windows Phone handsets because its functions are deeply integrated in the OS which also include the utilization of its map service for location-based searches and queries. However, Microsoft has stated that other search engine applications can be used.

In the area of location-based searches, Bing Maps which is powered by Nokia's location services provides turn-by-turn navigation service to Windows Phone users, and Local Scout shows interest points such as attractions and restaurants in the nearby area. Furthermore, Bing Audio allows the user to match a song with its name, and Bing Vision allows the user to scan barcodes, QR codes, and other types of tags.

Every Windows Phone has either a dedicated physical Search button or an on-screen Search button, which was previously reserved for a Bing Search app, but has been replaced on Windows Phone 8. Cortana allows users to do tasks such as set calendar reminders and alarms, and recognizes a user's natural voice, and can be used to answer questions like current weather conditions, sports scores, and biographies.

The app also keeps a "Notebook" to learn a user's behavior over time and tailor reminders for them. Users can edit the "Notebook" to keep information from Cortana or reveal more about themselves. The "Office Hub" can access files from OneDrive and Office , as well as files which are stored locally on the device's hard drive. Multitasking in Windows Phone is invoked through long pressing the "back" arrow, which is present on all Windows Phones.

Windows Phone 7 uses a card-based task switcher, whereas later versions of Windows Phone utilize true background multitasking. Syncing content between Windows Phone 8 and 8. Software updates are delivered to Windows Phone users via Microsoft Update, as is the case with other Windows operating systems. While Windows Phone 7 users were required to attach their phones to a PC to install updates, [] starting with Windows Phone 8, all updates are done via over-the-air downloads.

All third-party applications can be updated automatically from the Windows Phone Store. Microsoft has also launched an advertising platform for the Windows Phone platform. Microsoft's General Manager for Strategy and Business Development, Kostas Mallios, said that Windows Phone will be an "ad-serving machine", pushing advertising and brand-related content to the user.

The platform will feature advertising tiles near applications and toast notifications , which will bring updating advertising notifications. Mallios said that Windows Phone will be able to "preserve the brand experience by going directly from the web site right to the application", and that Windows Phone "enables advertisers to connect with consumers over time". It's a dynamic relationship that is created and provides for an ongoing dialog with the consumer. Windows Phone supports the following Bluetooth profiles : [].

Microsoft keeps a site where people can submit and vote on features they would like to see added to Windows Phone. The Windows Phone Store was used to digitally distribute music, video content, podcasts , and third-party applications to Windows Phone handsets. The store was accessible using the Zune Software client or the Windows Phone Store hub on devices though videos were not downloadable through the store hub and must be downloaded and synced through the Zune software.

As of March , the Windows Phone Store was available in 54 countries. Xbox Video offered HD movies from Paramount , Universal , Warner Brothers , and other studios and plus television shows from popular television networks. Microsoft offered the Xbox Music Pass music subscription service, which allowed subscribers to download an unlimited number of songs for as long as their subscription was active and play them on current Microsoft devices.

Later versions of Windows Phone support the running of managed code through a Common Language Runtime similar to that of the Windows operating system itself, as opposed to the.

NET Compact Framework. Registered Windows Phone and Xbox Live developers can submit and manage their third-party applications for the platforms through the App Hub web applications. The App Hub provides development tools and support for third-party application developers. The submitted applications undergo an approval process for verifications and validations to check if they qualify the applications standardization criteria set by Microsoft. Microsoft only pays developers from a list of thirty countries.

In order to get an application to appear in the Windows Phone Store , the application must be submitted to Microsoft for approval. In August , Huawei said it was dropping support for Windows Phone due to low sales. However, in version 8. For the first months, market specialists were optimistic about its adoption with IDC forecasting that Windows Phone would surpass IPhone by According to Gartner , there were 1. According to Nielsen, Windows Phone had a 1. As of the third quarter of , Gartner reported that Windows Phone holds a worldwide market share of 3.

IDC reported that Windows Phone market share, having peaked in at 3. Microsoft's developer initiative programs and marketing have gained attention from application developers. A few developers refused to develop apps while preventing third-party alternatives. A well known example was Snapchat , which announced a crackdown on third-party apps of its service and its users in November Microsoft was forced to remove third-party Snapchat apps including the popular 6snap from the Windows Phone Store a month later, while Snapchat never developed an official app for those users.

By , Windows Phone was losing share and relevance; between that year and it was reported that developers were backing out of the platform and retiring apps because of the low market share. In addition, Microsoft itself retired some of its own first-party apps. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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