Leaked GDR3 features...

[safeer2222]

I am not sure about this

So here?s what?s coming in GDR3:

1.Orientation Lock
2. Driver Mode, will turn on automatically when you connect it via Bluetooth. Can reject phone calls / sms and send auto reply back
3. Ability to have 3 medium sized tiles in a row
4. 1080p / new SoCs, which we knew for quite some time now

Other features that are currently being tested and are likely to be pushed to GDR3:

80% chance

-Ability to actually close the apps via multi tasking

60% chance

-Silent NFC (meaning no more constant confirmations for pairing something)

Source:wmpoweruser

 

[Jason Drum]

3. Ability to have 3 medium sized tiles in a row

I don't follow. If there is currently space for 2, how would 3 be possible? Would they scroll left and right off the screen? A new 4th size option?

 

[BlobDude]

I don't follow. If there is currently space for 2, how would 3 be possible? Would they scroll left and right off the screen? A new 4th size option?

Could be tied to the higher screen resolutions or be an option for larger screens/phablets.

 

[Dk92]

I don't follow. If there is currently space for 2, how would 3 be possible? Would they scroll left and right off the screen? A new 4th size option?

This pertains to higher resolution screens (1080p). Higher resolutions makes the tiles appear smaller. Therefore, more room becomes available for a 3rd row.

 

[AngryNil]

When WMPoweruser's "exclusives" are terrible photoshops, I'm not sure what their predictions could possibly hold.

I don't follow. If there is currently space for 2, how would 3 be possible? Would they scroll left and right off the screen? A new 4th size option?

 

[Samst22]

The source comes from Reddit. Tom Warren on the Verge has also posted the same features saying that he has been contacted by a reliable source. Glad for rotation lock, should have been here from the start. I wish they could work it into the volume keys somehow, rather than the pain of having to go back to settings.

 

[AngryNil]

Glad for rotation lock, should have been here from the start. I wish they could work it into the volume keys somehow, rather than the pain of having to go back to settings.

Or, as the competition has done, provide an interface for easy access to settings toggles.

 

[Pete]

The news stories on the photochop pictures are six months old. The nanotube one is from the Register in February.

Of course, it's possible to hack old photos with visualisations of new rumours, but I'm not reading anything into this.

-Ability to actually close the apps via multi tasking

Doesn't really seem plausible, since apps are tombstoned when not visible (i.e. not running).

 

[Samst22]

Or, as the competition has done, provide an interface for easy access to settings toggles.

Yeah, even better.

 

[Jaskys]

I heard GDR3 will feature holograms aswell.

 

[inteller]

Yeah, even better.

no not better....it breaks UI conventions. Just because someone else does it one way, doesn't make that way better.

 

[DreadVenom]

Nice features, looking forward most to being able to kill apps via multitasking. Also, hope that MS implements a task manager like solution so users can check cpu n memory usage.

 

[Samst22]

Some sort of quick access to settings menu doesn't necessarily have to go again UI conventions. I'm not saying the should copy. If Microsoft can come up with a way of doing it while keeping it metro, then that's only a good thing and would only improve the user experience.

 

[Chregu]

Windows Phone update in testing, includes rotation lock and text syncing to PCs | The Verge

 

[Doohickie]

2. Driver Mode, will turn on automatically when you connect it via Bluetooth. Can reject phone calls / sms and send auto reply back

I hope that isn't an automatic mode that can't be overridden; what about people who use Bluetooth headsets?

Will GDR3 fix the problem that GDR2 bricks some phones?

 

[borasar]

when are they going to implement sound profiles, having the same profile for headphones, speakerphone and ringer makes no sense

 

[hopmedic]

It also features a hologram mode, in which the phone hovers and spins rapidly while projecting an image around it, giving a 3D holographic "image". This is not a rumor - I've seen it myself.







:wink:

 

[realwarder]

Or, as the competition has done, provide an interface for easy access to settings toggles.

You could use the camera button as a orientation lock toggle.

After all it does nothing other than when 'long-pressed', or in the camera app.

 

[tungha]

It also features a hologram mode, in which the phone hovers and spins rapidly while projecting an image around it, giving a 3D holographic "image". This is not a rumor - I've seen it myself.







:wink:

WOW! Anything else besides that?

 

[hopmedic]

WOW! Anything else besides that?

Nothing that I can reveal at the moment. :wink: