It would appear that some details have been leaked on the next
generation of Microsoft’s mobile platform, Windows Phone 8, the platform
is apparently codenamed Apollo, something we have heard before, and it
will be released after the Windows Phone Tango update.
The details were revealed in a video from Microsoft’s Windows Phone
manager Joe Belifoire, and
the video was intended for Microsoft’s
partners at Nokia, although they guys from Pocket Now seem to have got access to the video.
According to the report, Windows Phone 8 will support multi-core
processors, a total of four new screen resolutions and the addition of
removable SD card storage.
Windows Phone 8 will also offer support for Near Field Communications
(NFC), and it will come with some sort of contact less payment system which Microsoft calls the ‘Wallet experience’.
It looks like the individual mobile carriers will be able to control
Microsoft’s NFC payment system,. by a secure element on the devices
actual SIM card or by the build in hardware of the device.
Microsoft also intends to have Windows Phone 8 fully integrated with
their next generation PC operating system, Windows 8, and developers
will apparently be able to use the same code that is used in Windows 8
for Windows Phone 8, with heavy overlapping in security, multimedia,
networking stacks and more.
So this would mean that Microsoft intends to release Windows Phone 8
at the same time as Windows 8, and as it is expected before the end of
the year we suspect we will see Windows Phone 8 before the end of 2012
as well.
