It's very nearly the same browser as Internet Explorer 10 without plugins of course , making it very capable - although design wise it's quite different from its desktop brother. We found very few places where Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8 doesn't match IE 10 on Windows 8 ; the main one is that it doesn't support inline HTML 5 videos — you can play them in the media player by tapping to open but they don't play inside a web page. IE even runs standard browser benchmarks and gets a reasonable score too.
All of those features, including the hardware acceleration of JavaScript and everything on the page, is available to applications that use the browser as well something that's still not true on iOS. This means there's a greater feeling of 'strength' throughout the phone as apps become more impressive as a result, rather than the 'us and them' vibe you get from Apple's own offerings and the rest of the App Store.
Like IE10, IE on Windows Phone 8 turns on Do Not Track by default; you can change that if you want, although in the web privacy stakes this is something that's likely to attract consumers who don't want their information shared with all and sundry. Another important upgrade in IE 11 is the option to remember passwords and sync them to other devices. You no longer need to type in the same usernames and passwords over and over again. The Internet Explorer 11 web browser, just like the overall UI, seems to be faster, with excellent page load times and scrolling performance.
We've enjoyed the new version and we think you'll like it too. GSMArena team , 21 April Major league Windows Phone 8. Connectivity, Internet Explorer Connectivity The connectivity department of Windows Phone got a major boost with the 8. Internet Explorer 11 Internet Explorer 11 has lots of new features - private browsing, reader mode, unlimited tab support with new UI, saving passwords, tab and bookmark sync across devices and support for inline videos to name a few.
Next Page » 8. App package. However, if I was too sloppy with my swiping, I'd get a lot of misspellings. In my experience, using Swiftkey's Flow gesture typing for about a year, the Windows Phone gesture typing is just slightly less accurate. Your phone can now automatically connect to open public wireless networks with the help of Wi-Fi Sense. This feature is tucked away in Wi-Fi settings app, and will passively agree to the terms of service that most public Wi-Fi hotspots ask you accept before you can connect on your behalf.
You can also enter in other common details that networks ask from you, including your email and phone number. Wi-Fi Sense also allows you to share private wireless networks with your friends, without needing to give them a password. You can share the network with your Outlook contacts, Facebook friends, and Skype contacts, but they'll only be able to connect to the network you share if they have a Windows Phone and also use Wi-Fi Sense.
The newest version of Microsoft's mobile browser, Internet Explorer 11, makes its debut in 8. It gets just a few new features in the update, most notably Reading Mode and InPrivate browsing. Reading Mode strips out ads and other design features on a webpage so that you can read with fewer distractions. InPrivate browsing is similar to Chrome's Incognito mode and Firefox's private browsing, in that it won't track your browsing history or cookies while you move around the Internet.
Another interesting addition to IE 11 is that you can now pin websites to your Start screen. The live tile shows the most recently published articles and headlines from that website, which is particularly helpful on news sites. The downside here is that if you tap the live tile when it is showing a particular headline you want to read, IE11 will only open to the website's homepage, not that particular article.
Windows 8. However, it also shows Microsoft is still late to the party with the top features that smartphone users have come to expect on their phones, including a notification center and a voice assistant. What's more, while 8. But those are mere quibbles compared to the app deficit. Even though in the six months leading up to 8. Meanwhile, other must-have apps are cobbled together by third-party developers -- or worse. You'll find a decent Dropbox app , but it was cooked up by a developer named ly Want a dedicated Gmail app?
You'll need to sort through this list of spammy apps -- with no official Google version to be found. It's not all bad news though. Windows Phone remains a great choice for first-time smartphone buyers because it's both easy to use and has enough customization options without being overwhelming.
The settings menu offers the usual options like location, allow cookies, delete browsing history and you can set a global preference for mobile or desktop site versions. Internet explorer mobile. The browser makes the controls in web pages look just like their equivalents in native apps.
So, a web app can look just like a native app with practically no extra effort from the designer. In-browser options. The Windows Phone 8 browser is certainly a capable performer, and uses hardware graphics acceleration to provide smoother graphics and animations.
It topped our SunSpider benchmark charts, but scored disappointingly low in BrowserMark. When you search on Bing, one of the things that might be offered as a relevant result is an app from the Marketplace.
For example, searching for "travel" will offer a travel tool app. This feature is called App connect. Bing also offers song recognition and a barcode scanner. The new feature here is Local Scout. Thanks to the dedicated app and its provided service, you can search for various points of interest near you.
The camera scanner can also snap a photo of text, run OCR and translate it into another language. Of course, Bing does regular web searches for pages or images and can look for interesting locations nearby.
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