Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has launched Windows 10 preview for phones. To get started, you'll need to download the Windows Insider app from the Windows Phone Store. Microsoft has already released multiple new Windows 10 preview builds, but those were limited to just PCs. The new preview for smartphones comes with a slew of new features. Until now, the Windows Insider app only worked for Microsoft employees. Now, users who are part of the Insider program can install the first Windows 10 preview build, as long as they have one of the six compatible devices. The Windows 10 preview works on the Lumia 630, Lumia 635, Lumia 636, Lumia 638, Lumia 730, and Lumia 830.

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a slew of new features?

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...a slew of new features.

New to Windows, anyway. The headline of TFA declares "Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview for phones with interactive notifications, speech-to-text, and Photos app" Yes, seriously. Three features that both Apple and Android have had for how long now? We're supposed to get excited that Microsoft is almost on the verge of kind of catching up?

TFA goes on to say that the new release will present to WP users for the first time such groundbreaking features as "A new option to customize the start screen with a full-size background image", and increasing the number of "quick actions" from a total of four to "up to three rows" .

I do see that they got partition resizing, that's cool. That's something that ought to go into CWM and TWRP. Probably will, eventually. Looks like it's feasible since it's been done for a specific model before, and besides we all know that there are Linux tools for partition resizing. This permits more dirty flashes on OS upgrades. Of course, those are often a Very Bad Idea(tm) so it's not really a priority feature. People with phones with SD cards and root access don't have to care much, since they can back up apps and their big downloaded data is probably already stored on SD card, and won't have to be downloaded again for most apps. (Yes, some developers incompetently fail to detect the existing content, then download it all over again...)