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The Marketplace tile, for example, displays the number of updates available, while the Pictures tile is essentially a slideshow of your photos. Most Live tiles display relevant info such as the current date, pending calendar events, missed calls, unread emails and more (third party apps do it too). In order to switch from big to normal and then small you have to hit the same toggle - it would've made more sense if there were separate ones to make a tile bigger and smaller or resize tiles by dragging like in Android. To be honest, the process of resizing live tiles could've been better. If you select the smallest one though, the tile will be just a static icon (as is in the regular menu). You can opt between quarter, normal and double size. When you tap and hold on a tile, you'll get additional resize button to the unpin one. Almost anything can be pinned to the homescreen - apps, contacts, web pages and more. The Modern UI is composed of vertical grid of Live tiles, which can be reordered the way you like. Bing's beautiful background images or photos from your Facebook account) or you can let the music player change the lockscreen image to the album art of the currently playing track. The lockscreen wallpaper can also be controlled by apps - one of the installed apps can be set to choose the image (e.g. You can set one app to display big notifications ("detailed status") and up to five more apps get to show more limited info ("quick status"). Microsoft has added a lot of flexibility and functionality to the lockscreen - the Live Apps service allows apps to add notifications and images on the lockscreen. You can also press and hold the camera shutter key to unlock the phone and jump straight to the camera. You unlock the Lumia 520 with the familiar swipe up gesture. The Finns are especially inclined to do so since they are the only ones to have WP as their only plaform and as a result have delivered a lot of extras with the Lumia 520.īefore we move on to them, though, here's the Windows Phone 8 user interface on video. Microsoft's phone OS is meant to retain its general look across different devices, but manufacturers are encouraged to build new features on top of it to compete with one another. The Lumia 520, just like all Nokia handsets of late, runs on the Windows Phone 8 operating system.
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