Yesterday was the day of Nokia, with a conference in London to present the first phone produced in Finland that mounts the Windows Mobile system. The Nokia Lumia will therefore try to contrast Apple and Android, especially those branded HTC and Samsung.
If Microsoft has only to gain in the absorption of Nokia, the Finnish company that has dominated the mobile market for at least 10 years, before the arrival of smartphones, it is perhaps the last chance to return to the market of more expensive phones, those more advanced and also more beautiful to use.
Microsoft therefore launched
Windows Phone 8 can be tested on a Windows PC with an emulator to be installed on the Windows PC .
Windows Phone 8 is very different than the iPhone and Android systems and shows a Metro graphic interface, made with fat interactive buttons that launch the applications.
To install the Windows Phone 8 emulator and try using a standard mobile phone from your PC, you need to download the Windows Phone emulator developer program.
To work you need a Windows 8 64 bit computer with Hyper V activated and support for virtualization of operating systems.
The guide to activate Hyper V is in this article.
To make things easier and allow everyone to be able to see and try a Lumia with Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft provides an online emulator on the Trylumiaphone.com website.
It is therefore possible to test the messaging applications such as Facebook and Whatsapp, the Office apps and all the others.
You can see all the information on Windows Phone 8 by browsing with the browser on the site www.windowsphone.com .
The demonstration shows the Metro interface and allows you to experience the basic functionality of the operating system.
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