The month-by-monthn view within the new Photos app helps you find shots quickly. They are, however, more neatly organized, especially with a new by-month view that allows you to quickly find your vacation photos from last August. Microsoft’s Photos app has evolved into a universal app that will eventually straddle PCs, tablets, and phones, and it looks like it: The thumbnails are a bit smaller than you may be used to on Windows Phone 8.1, and they load slowly. The new build also showed me two identical Search and Phone apps in my app list, leaving me to wonder which one was “wrong.” Following Apple’s unveiling of improvements to Siri with iOS 9, it’s now Microsoft’s turn to improve Cortana, and build 10136 does just that. Google Now, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana continue to elbow each other aside as the three digital assistants compete to be the most prescient and helpful. Here’s the overview of what Cortana thinks you need to know. I can certainly chalk these up to preview software, but let’s hope Microsoft solves these problems soon.įirst, the good news: Cortana looks great Mark Hachman

What’s not so terrific in this build: an inability to pin tiles to the home screen, multiple Search (Cortana) apps, Live Tiles that either wouldn’t work or simply stopped working, and the like. But Cortana’s the star attraction for Windows Phone, and the app looks and feels terrific. There’s also a number of other random, minor UI improvements scattered throughout. Microsoft also delivered a lovely update to the Photos app, organizing your photos thoroughly-and, even better, adding the Lumia Camera app to phones like the Nokia Icon. That proved fortuitous, because build 10136 adds a one-handed mode for straphangers, covert texting, and other scenarios where you can’t hold your phone with two hands.

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