With Ms windows Red and a arriving Ms windows Cellphone 8 upgrade, Ms will begin the entrance for smaller-screen pills and bigger-screen mobile phones from a variety of device creators, such as itself.
With Ms windows Red and a arriving Ms windows Cellphone 8 upgrade, Ms will give legs to its plan to allow OEMs -- such as Ms itself -- to back up a burgeoning category of tweener gadgets, such as small pills and big-screen smartphones.
Just a season ago, Ms professionals were pooh-poohing the advantage of small display dimensions for Ms windows gadgets, claiming small displays wouldn't allow users to handle adequately both creation and consumption tasks. But in the face of robust demand for small pills from its competitors, Ms professionals changed their tune. Now the message is that Ms windows 8 was developed from the outset to run on small and larger displays at different resolutions, primarily thanks to its new app model.
While Microsoft's new positioning is in place, at the moment, Ms windows Cellphone and Ms windows PC/tablet creators don't have great options in the mid-range. Ms really doesn't have Ms windows versions that are optimized for for gadgets with display dimensions between four and eight inches wide.
With Ms windows Cellphone 7, Ms didn't allow handset creators to put the Ms windows Cellphone OS 7 on gadgets with displays above 4 inches wide or so. That's one reason PC creators never came out Ms windows Cellphone OS-powered pills and had to license "full" Ms windows for these kinds of gadgets, instead.
With Ms windows Cellphone 8, Ms moved to a screen-resolution limit to control which Ms windows variant OEMs could install. Currently, the Ms windows Cellphone 8 os supports a maximum quality of 720p. Putting the OS on larger displays would create the tiled UI look worse, some have argued.
But, as the Brink noted earlier this week, it looks like Ms is poised to modify this, and will be including assistance for 1080p with an upgrade to the Ms windows Cellphone 8 os later this season.
One of my connections confirmed that, as the Brink reported, the so-called "GDR3" (General Submission Release 3) Ms windows Cellphone 8 upgrade is where Ms will create this modify. My contact said GDR3 will add assistance for five- to six-inch gadgets with 1080p assistance. Along with the greater quality, GDR3 also could include changes in the begin display and core Ms windows Cellphone 8 applications, such as probably including a third column of applications in the begin display, my source added.
GDR3 is predicted to be the last Ms windows Cellphone 8 OS upgrade Ms releases before it introduces Ms windows Cellphone Red. Ms windows Cellphone Red is predicted to arrive a number of months after Ms windows Red, a k a Ms windows 8.1, probably as late as early 2014.
It's not just a case of Ms windows Cellphone OS specifications going up, however. Ms windows specifications are arriving down, too.
Windows RT doesn't really scale well below eight inches wide, one of my connections told me, because the buttons and the interface get too small. Additionally, it's not well developed for symbol method, which is how most small pills tend to be used. But with Ms windows RT 8.1 ( Ms windows RT Blue), there apparently will be improved assistance for symbol method and higher-pixel-density gadgets, which is what would create small screened gadgets -- such as a 7-inch or 8-inch Surface, for example -- truly usable.
(Related aside: I'm going to be very curious to see if said 7-inch or 8-inch Surfaces are the same as the said "Xbox Surface." I wouldn't be surprised)
All of this maneuvering is going to allow Ms windows and Ms windows Cellphone creators to field everything from Ms windows Phones with up to six-inch displays, to Ms windows pills with seven-inch displays. It apparently doesn't begin the entrance for OEMs making phoneless Ms windows Cellphone gadgets or Ms windows RT gadgets with phone assistance built in. But maybe one day....
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