{"id":2687,"date":"2014-04-03T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T00:27:17","slug":"big-update-to-windows-phone-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/big-update-to-windows-phone-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Update to Windows Phone 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Belfiore at the Windows Phone Blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Whew, what a day! What a week! I\u2019ve just gotten off the stage at Build in front of 5,000 of our beloved developers talking about the future of the Windows platform. And now I\u2019m here to tell YOU about the stuff we\u2019ve been working on to delight all our Windows Phone users and fans!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More personalisation options on the lock &amp; start screens, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/04\/microsoft-announces-windows-phone-8-1-with-cortana-coming-in-april\/\">Cortana<\/a> (a Siri-like voice assistant), a new notification pane, a Swpye-esque keyboard and a slew of smaller changes. This looks like an impressive update.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Elop also jumped up on stage to <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/04\/02\/nokia-introduces-the-lumia-930-designed-for-windows-phone-8-1\/\">announce a bunch of new Nokia phones<\/a> running Windows Phone 8.1, to be launched in May and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Belfiore at the Windows Phone Blog: Whew, what a day! What a week! I\u2019ve just gotten off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Big Update to Windows Phone 8.1","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[43,114,613],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}