Live wallpapers revealed for Windows Phone 8: ESPN, USA Today and Bing

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A new prototype has leaked out this night revealing for the first time Window Phone 8's new "live" lockscreen wallpaper feature. We have mentioned live lockscreen wallpapers before, specifically when the Windows Telephone viii SDK leaked over the summertime (and we told you most them even before then). The characteristic is not quite as "alive" equally Android where things are really moving around, wasting your battery. Instead, this is truly useful.

The epitome above, received past the site Nokia Innovation, shows 3 examples of this Live locksreen wallpaper: Bing, ESPN and The states Today. The one-time will refresh the lockscreen every day with Bing's latest background, ESPN can show you sports scores presumably of your favorite team and United states of america Today highlights news via tile images.

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Those are but iii examples as any programmer tin can add this characteristic to their application. What's more than, it can exist based off of geo-location, time and pushed updates, giving quite a unique and super useful experience for Windows Phone users. Information technology'due south "glance and get" taken to the next level, in our stance.

There'southward a lot more to these lockscreen wallpapers and you're sure to run into more than coming Monday morning when Microsoft shows off Windows Phone viii to the world. We'll of course be there covering it live.

Source: Nokia Innovation

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