Although that was announced in late October smartphone Nokia Lumia 1520 had not yet hit the market, the web is beginning to emerge about the company’s future products under the unannounced OS Windows Phone 8.1. Evleaks account in the microblogging service Twitter has recently announced the code name of the first Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1 – Goldfinger and Moneypenny.

Resource The Verge , in turn, notes that while Goldfinger is the flagship model. Sources familiar with the plans of Nokia, claiming that the model will be different Goldfinger support a unique technology called 3D Touch, which Nokia has developed over the past few years. It provides a new experience of interacting with a smartphone through gestures.

Two years ago, in an interview with the resource of The Verge former Vice President of Design at Nokia Marko Ahtisaari has hinted at the development of pilot gestures, calling them “a key direction in which Nokia will continue to innovate.”

Nokia has started experimenting with these gestures in public, when the updated function Glance, allowing users to learn Lumia smartphones, thanks to a simple gesture – a wave of your hand over the screen.

It seems that the first smartphone running Windows Phone 8.1, Nokia tries to step much further. New gestures allow users to control your smartphone without touching the screen. It is worth noting that a similar interaction experience in the smartphone offers Samsung Galaxy S4 – function Air Gestures.

Microsoft is currently making the final touches on Windows Phone 8.1 and is likely to tell in detail about the new features in the exhibition MWC 2014. It is expected that Windows Phone 8.1 is improved multitasking and notification center and will voice assistant Cortana .

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The idea of ​​a digital assistants has long stirred the big companies , and the most famous of these assistants , no doubt , are the Google Now and Siri from Apple. Despite the similar purpose , these programs have been quite different principles , but , in addition, do not forget about the many third-party offerings , ranging from relatively small to large , such as voice command S Voice from Samsung. Microsoft also does not want to keep up with the listed companies and is going to present its own digital assistant named Cortana.

On the establishment of such a tool in July he mentioned Steve Ballmer : ” Our shell is excellent in providing precisely the information that users need , and will even anticipate what they need before they will be asked .” Sounds fantastic , and the plans of Microsoft really grand . This is evidenced by at least that Cortana ( artificial intelligence in a series of Microsoft Halo) will use the database Satori – the same as the search engine Bing, also owned by Microsoft.

Unofficial sources claim that the digital assistant should be formally presented together with an update to the mobile operating system Windows Phone , code-named Blue, which should be available in early 2014. But what is most interesting is that Microsoft is not limited to : promises that later Cortana will be available (or available ? ) For Windows and console Xbox One.

It will be very interesting to see what exactly we prepare by Microsoft, and as far as her assistant is an intelligent solution from Google and Apple, but also what he will get the distinctive features – agree , after all, copy one of the services is not the level of Microsoft and way to winning the attention of buyers .

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