Windows Phone Central app v3.8/9 now available!

Here's the big one folks, we present to you the v3.eight update to our official app, alive now in the marketplace.

Available on both Windows Telephone 7 and Windows Phone eight, this update is the product of several months of work migrating to WP8 natively, simply nosotros've also thrown in a few new features to proceed things fresh and exciting.

This update supports Windows Phone eight fully, including the 720P screen resolution (which should make HTC 8X owners very happy), as well equally total support for all 3 tile sizes on Windows Phone seven.8 and viii. Information technology's taken a fair amount of time to bring the codebase over to Windows Phone 8 in a way that allows us to fully support version vii wherever possible. Hopefully you will never encounter the production of that work as everything will announced seamless, in which example we can now focus on bringing some very cool stuff to version iv.

Windows Phone 7 users you will discover that v3.viii now supports double sized tiles, also as featuring the problems fixes that are part of this release, and the college definition icons. Windows Phone viii users should encounter v3.nine available, with the same tile support but also featuring lock screen notification support. Delight note though, that for lock screen notifications you volition take to customise your tile to use the plain tile count style - this is a limitation in the Windows Phone SDK and one that we cannot piece of work around.

You can find the full changes, and an image preview of the new wide tile above:

New live tiles including Double broad tile
New Wallpapers!
Full Windows Telephone 8 Support
Using high definition icons
Support for lock screen notifications
Re-wrote the forum link enrichment code to correctly find all forum links
Fixed the app title not retrieved issues
Several other smaller bug fixes

As always we really appreciate your feedback and so please annotate, post on forums or generally get in impact through the app to let u.s. know your thoughts and suggestions.

Download the official Windows Phone Key app hither in the Store. (Recall, the app has an "unlimited trial" making information technology free. It only costs $0.99 to remove the ads and add bonus features. The choice is yours!)

Annotation: The app is just freshly published, so if you're using our app now, try and use the download link within the app (searching may still show v3.4). If yous don't run across it, as usual, hold on for a few hours!

United nations-pivot: Y'all may also demand to unpin and re-pin your Live Tile to run across the new doublewide, requite it a get, it works!

QR: WPCentral

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