Windows Phone 8.1 is no point update. In fact, if it wasn’t so keen on keeping in naming step with Windows on the desktop, Microsoft could probably have called its new smartphone OS version something more impressive: what started out as an aim to bring the virtual assistant Cortana and the useful Action Center to the platform blossomed in the process to include a whole flurry of tweaks and additions. Question is, has Windows Phone kept its crisp, clean charms while still gaining abilities? We’ve been in deep with the Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview; read on for our impressions.

If the “developer preview” branding wasn’t clear, this is pre-final software. Microsoft gave us early access to Windows Phone 8.1 on a Verizon Nokia Lumia Icon but, just as with the version it will seed to registered developers from today, there are still likely to be changes between now and the consumer release. Still, the core functionality is there.
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