In Janice Leung’s blog post “Windows 8 trying to become the Next Best Smartphone,” she talks about how the new Windows 8 smart phone includes numerous new features that differentiates them from Apple or Android. Some of these new features include ‘live app’. This live app will allow apps to have continuous updates streaming from their app logo without having to press into it, and can be viewed through the lock screen. Furthermore, Windows Phone 8 is also promoting the new Kids Corner. This enables adults to safely give their phones to their children without having to worry about any important information being deleted. One prominent innovative feature of the Windows 8 is the Data Sense. The Data Sense is a “new feature built into Windows Phone 8 that keeps track of all your data in real time” by compressing Web pages together so that your data will be able to last longer.
The use of technology has reinvented the Windows 8 smart phone. This relates to the class talking about MIS/BTM. Through the use of technology, it is changing the business world. As the Windows 8 phone uses a number of apps, not only are other business able to share their product/logo with Windows 8 users, but this business technology management is more efficient for increasing sales for other businesses as well as for Windows. These new features of the Windows Phone 8 is very attractive to consumers, which allows Windows to outcompete its competitors, Apple and Android. Many customers may now choose to use a Windows 8 smart phone now, rather than other competitors’ smart phones.
Windows Phone 8 demo features video here!
Sources: (Windows Phone 8, Release date info and details)
