8.1

i have owned my nokia lumia 620 for a year.. at the time that i bought that smartphone, it ran operating system windows phone 8.. now i've upgraded it to windows phone 8.1.. and it has so many improvements on many lines.. it is great because since i bought that phone my friends always mock that smartphone as dumbphone, because it had so many limitations if you compared it with android or ios.. every single day, they mocked me.. but now, the day to pay them back has come.. hahaha..

i didn't say that wp 8.1 is the best mobile operating system in the world, but they go to the right tracks.. to compete with android and ios.. i remembered exactly the limitation when it used wp8 version.. a lot of limitation on that phone, and lack of apps was the biggest downfall of this new os.. but now i'm pretty proud with this os.. i mean that they can fulfill my basic needs of smartphone.. if i compare with my previous phone.. i choose this one..

it has impressive update because a lot of changes.. i mean a lot.. really a lot.. and it's a huge update.. so many new features that impress me.. now, on this chance i tell you top 5 new features on wp 8.1 that i like most.. *ps: i'm not promoting this phone, fyi

5th background image

blue and light theme

if on the previous version, we only could choose background image with the 16 colors from the system.. now we can use any image to become our background.. it's really great because you can make your home screen beautiful.. with background image added on this update.. live tiles should be transparent to show this image.. if they are not transparent.. those image will be blocked on selected tiles.. but overall, i really love this new feature.. it's really great.. wonderful..





4th separate volume control

vibrate off

since my volume button broke.. i rarely changed the volume, because i needed extra effort to change it.. but now i can adjust the volume by using volume control feature.. on this feature you can easily change volume between notification + ring tone and apps + music volume.. it's really convenient because you just need one step to change both of them.. in the previous version you can't change notification ring tone without changing apps volume.. and another feature on this separate volume control is vibrate mode.. you can change vibrate mode by touching it.. in the previous version you need to go to setting and set vibrate off.. really convenient..


3rd quiet hours

automatic reply

quiet hours is really good feature.. it will turn off all notification on your phone.. if you just want to silent the ringtone you can set volume to 0, but the notification will be popped out on the screen if you're phone is on the sleep state.. but with this feature, pop up notification won't appear anymore.. and your phone will be on sleep state.. and in the glance screen there is no other information but clock.. another features on glance screen will be hidden, even battery status.. so it makes you focus on what you want to do, without worrying about some unread notifications,, well it sounds like infoglut.. but the best feature is that you can select who can break through your quiet hours.. it's called inner circle.. you can set your inner circle to be able to reach though it's on your quiet hours.. and it has automatic message reply if you're busy.. pretty cool, right?


2nd notification center

neat notification center

now microsoft is catching up with google.. google with its android has become number on mobile business.. what's make them to be so powerful? one of the answer is notification center.. android has beautiful notification center.. and now ios' following them with create their own notification center.. and now microsoft create notification center on wp 8.1.. it looks alike sony's notification center, my previous phone.. it's simplicity is beautiful.. and wp 8.1 is well known as metro ui.. simple but powerful.. on notification center it shows "all" notifications.. only apps that support notification center.. telegram, whatsapp, message, email are supported on notification center.. i love this notification center.. it's very great.. and message and email notifications are so powerful.. on message notification or email notification, if you swipe to the right, it will dismiss the notification on both notification center and live tile.. live tile's gone, glance will be gone too.. another features on this notification center is 4 actions shortcut.. you can choose 4 features that you want to be added on this notification center.. pretty great isn't it.. and it's customizable.. :D


1st cortana

hello cortana

cortana is samantha-wannabe.. of course it has a loooonggg way to be like her.. but it was great.. or should i say she, because i used female voice on cortana.. cortana is personal assistant that became popular by halo game on xbox.. if google has google voice, and apple has siri, now microsoft has cortana.. cortana maybe not powerful as siri.. but i still like her.. i can't boast cortana too much.. but really, she was great.. she can answer our absurd question.. of course it's already added by programmer, she's not that smart yet.. but she can answer our question about song, weather, traffic, or just remind us to do something.. well, i think the limitation is i have to speak in english.. it hasn't supported bahasa yet.. but i think that she has a chance to be powerful.. with the full support from microsoft and bing,, she could reach samantha.. hahaha.. great job microsoft..