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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radical78" data-source="post: 16543157" data-attributes="member: 272036">Windows Phone 8.1 is official, here are the new featuresMicrosoft officially unveiled the latest revision of its mobile platform  - Windows Phone 8.1. The new release brings a lot of new features and  improvements to the OS. Most of those you already know from the numerous  leaks through the pre-release SDK, but here's the full list.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_001.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Cortana – Windows Phone’s personal virtual assistant<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_002.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Windows Phone 8.1 brings its own virtual personal assistant called  Cortana. With Android having Google Now and Apple boasting Siri, it was  about time Microsoft also joined the native personal assistant to  Windows Phone.  The Bing-powered Cortana plays an important role in WP 8.1 letting  you set reminders, calendar events, call people, give you information  about places you have or plan to visit. She also knows sports, gives  weather info and basically everything you would expect from a virtual  assistant. She’s going to be accessible through the Search key and  features advanced voice recognition. This allows you to ask Cortana to  search the web as well.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_302.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Cortana is also able to feed you custom notifications based on your  personal information and usage data, should you allow it, much like  Google Now. At launch, Bing and Foursquare are going to be feeding  Cortana with information for places and events, but more online services  will follow soon.  Joe Belfiore confirmed Cortana will be available in the US at first  with the UK and China second. Other countries will follow later on.  Action Center  Windows Phone 8.1 finally gets a dedicated notification center called  Action Center. It holds customizable quick setting toggles, which  include brightness adjustment, location settings, rotation locks, Wi-Fi  and Bluetooth on and off among others. Below that you get a notification  drawer with a full list of ongoing notifications such as email, text  messages, missed calls and even notifications from Cortana.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_303.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Updated lockscreen and custom tile backgrounds  Thanks to new open APIs, Windows Phone 8.1 allows applications to  take control over the lockscreen and change the theme or alter its  functionality altogether.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_304.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Joe Belfiore demonstrated a bunch of cool lockscreens, which displayed custom calendar entries with nice designs.  The other great customization feature is the option to set up custom  backgrounds for the Start screen tiles. Small, but totally needed  feature to make Windows Phone truly personal.  Another UI change means that you will now be able to select whether  to have a third live tile column on the Start screen. Previously, this  was set only by the phone manufacturer, so it's cool Microsoft lets the  user make this decision in WP 8.1.  Internet Explorer 11  Windows Phone 8.1 ships with the latest version of Internet Explorer.  IE 11 brings reading view, which grabs websites and extracts their text  for easier reading. It also comes with a tuned up password manager,  which will sync your passwords across multiple devices.  There’s also an InPrivate mode enabling incognito browsing. It  doesn’t make you invisible on the web, but rather disable history  storing and cookie information is deleted once an incognito tab is  closed.  Users are now able to upload files through IE 11, with the browser also supporting WebGL and YouTube’s HTML5 video player.  Enterprise and security  The latest instalment of Windows Phone comes with VPN support. Now,  you can punch in your VPN settings into the phone and surf the way more  securely. WP 8.1 also supports S/MIME, which allows you sign and encrypt  your email.  Sense apps  Microsoft hasn’t forgotten about its Sense apps and has added a few  cool features to them. Battery Power Sense is the familiar app that  tracks what software uses the phone’s resources most and gives you a  handy overview of how your phone’s battery gets drained. Naturally, you  can do something about it thanks to the Battery Saver option, which has  app exclusion list.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_306.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Data and Wi-Fi Sense will give you greater control over how you use  your network. Wi-Fi Sense is a cool new addition that  gives you the  ability to share the internet connectivity of your secured Wi-Fi  networks with your Skype, Facebook and Outlook contacts without having  to give the password. It also allows you to find and connect to free  open Wi-Fi networks automatically.  Misc features  On-screen keys  Just as a couple leaked screenshots suggested earlier, Windows Phone  8.1 now features on-screen software keys – Search, Start and Back. This  means the requirement for hardware keys below the screen is a thing of  the past   Quiet hours Now in Windows Phone 8.1 you can set any period of the day when  you want only a certain group of people to be able to reach you. This  feature is called Quiet hours and is accessible from the Settings.  Wordflow Keyboard A new option in the Windows Phone 8.1 keyboard is called Wordflow  - a Swype-like input method allowing you to quickly input words by  swiping through the letters. Joe Belfiore says it's so good that in fact  it has set the new Guinness World Record for fastest writing on a  smartphone, dethroning the Galaxy S4.<img src="http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/newsimg/14/04/windows-phone-81-new/gsmarena_105.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Availability  The Windows Phone 8.1 update will be officially released in a few  months (that's as specific as Microsoft got), while new devices running  it will start shipping in late April/early May. It's not specified which  WP8 handsets will be treated to the update at this point, but we guess  the list will be quite extensive.  And if you are registered Microsoft developer, you will be able to get an early glimpse on the update as early as April 10.</blockquote>

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