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25.05.2019 news

Many applications for Windows Mobile 10 allow you to turn a smartphone from a multifunctional phone into a portable computer - a real assistant to a modern and business person.

Let's consider what programs for this should be downloaded to your device in order to greatly expand the capabilities inherent in it and turn it into an indispensable tool that always remains with us.

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UC Browser HD

The Chinese Internet browser, ported from its own engine to Chromium, still has the features inherent in Webkit Trident: the latest traffic compression technology, instant display of pages with lots of graphics and complex structure.

Night mode will help you work with web content in low light, and data compression that exceeds compression will save wireless traffic.

"Heavy" pages load much more smoothly and consume less than in other browsers.

The start page contains icons of popular and frequently visited resources with their icons instead of thumbnails and supports editing of this list of resources.

Customize the appearance will help themes and backgrounds for the browser.

It also already has plug-ins for working with the buffer, a scanner, an ad blocker and a download manager.

The Chromium port allows you to get any mobile UC Browser plugin released for .

Hotspot Shield Free VPN

After numerous blocking of hosts for free file sharing and social networks, programs that allow you to enter an inaccessible site are more relevant than ever.

It was developed using the latest technologies in the field of integration with other services, gesture and gaze control, and increasing the level of compression.

Free 8 Zip only supports , but its full edition does a great job with a dozen other compressed data formats.

Not all such programs are able to open huge files for preview right in the window, including those located in the cloud.

The archiver supports printing text and graphic files, and sending them by mail or via social networks.

Gismeteo

The weather is very changeable, and you should not hope for the best without knowing what nature has prepared for the near future.

With the Gismeteo program, any owner of a smartphone based on even the slowest Internet will receive a reliable weather forecast that modern meteorologists are only capable of.

It will display accurate information about the current situation in the atmosphere and the weather for the next hours and even days.

And this applies to any city, town or village, and the settlements of Ukraine and Russia are listed in the database, in fact, all.

Gismeteo automatically updates the forecast when the Internet is available at user-specified time intervals and will show:

temperature at any time of the day;
air humidity;
chance of precipitation;
Atmosphere pressure;
wind direction and strength;
dynamics of temperature change;
the highest and lowest recorded temperatures.

With a home screen widget, all information will always be in front of the user's eyes.

Bookviser Reader

The best option for reading books and articles in popular formats with realistic page turning animation.

A lot of settings for the interface and behavior of the program allows you to personalize and make reading as convenient and enjoyable as possible.

Font size and type, indents, margins, intervals - everything is set, as well as parameters are adjusted, the screen orientation changes.

Read and remaining pages indicators always keep the reader up to date on progress. Controlling the brightness of the screen and the presence of a night mode will help you read in any lighting conditions.

Quick access to a huge library, including free literature, and popular online stores, and give you the opportunity to purchase your favorite books and access them from anywhere.

whatsapp messenger

A free application for communication that can save the user's mobile communication costs.

Registration in the program takes place by phone number, eliminating the need to come up with a login and password. The contact list is automatically pulled from the phone's address book.

Unlike the standard SMS program, there are no charges for international calls or messages. To the latter, in addition to text, you can attach photos, videos, documents and geotags.

Also available to users following features:

exchange of contacts;
group chat;
forwarding the history of correspondence by e-mail;
sending messages to multiple users at the same time.

Ever since the announcement of a future update from Microsoft, the name of which was not yet known (we are talking about Windows 10 Mobile), there have been rumors on the network that users will be able to install Android applications on their Windows Phone devices, for which Microroft will release a special emulator . As time passed, various disputes over this controversial possible solution grew, and this lasted until official details about Windows 10 Mobile became known, which does not have an emulator, but does have a developer program with which you can easily port their applications from competing platforms on Windows.
Today it became known that the latest build of Windows 10 Mobile contains all the tools for installing and running APK files (Android applications have this permission), and at the same time, instructions were written on how to install and use applications for OS from Google on your Lumia. Below you can see detailed instructions for this.

ATTENTION

All further actions that you do following our instructions, you do at your own peril and risk. We do not recommend performing these shenanigans due to the fact that the method is new and not yet fully understood, and the pre-release version of Windows 10 Mobile is not stable. But, due to the fact that there will probably be a large number of geeks among the readers of the Threshbox, we simply have to publish this instruction.

Necessary

To perform these methods, you will need a computer with Windows 8 or higher on board (although for some users these methods work on earlier OSes), a smartphone running Windows 10 Mobile of the latest versions. Also, the developer of this manual says that only the following smartphones are currently supported: Lumia 435, 635 (1 GB RAM), 730, 820, 830, 920, 925, 928, 929, 930 and 1520.

Method 1 - installation through the APKToWin10M program

The first method is much simpler than the second, you can install Android files in the truest sense of the word “in 2 clicks”.

Instruction

Download and install a program called APKToWin10M
On your smartphone, go to the following sections: "Update and security" -> "For developers", where you must put a "bird" in front of the "developer mode" item, and then activate "Device detection". Remember the pairing code that appears.
Run the program downloaded in step 1, where in the second column select the type of connection (via USB or Wi-Fi) and enter the code shown to you in the second step of the instruction.
Drag the downloaded file with the .apk permission (the installation files of Android applications have this permission), drag the program into the third column, and then click the "Install" button.

Method 2 - manual installation

Instruction

Currently, there is no guarantee that absolutely any Android application will be compatible with your smartphone, what level of integration with the system and notifications it will have. We recommend, if you still decide, to try installing Twitter. If you have any errors or incomprehensibility, then you can read the possible solution to the problems.

In February 2015, Microsoft officially announced the release of a new version of its mobile operating system - Windows 10. To date, the new "OS" has already received several global updates.

However, with each major addition, more and more old devices become outsiders and no longer receive official “feeding” from developers.

Official installation of Windows 10 Mobile

Officially, this OS can only be installed on a limited list of smartphones with an earlier version of the operating system. However, in practice, the list of gadgets that can take Windows 10 on board is much wider. Not only owners of Nokia Lumia can rejoice, but also users of devices with a different operating system, such as Android.

Windows Phone models that will receive the official update to Windows 10 Mobile:

Alcatel One Touch Fierce XL,
BLU Win HD LTE X150Q,
Lumia 430,
Lumia 435,
Lumia 532,
Lumia 535,
Lumia 540,
Lumia 550,
Lumia 635 (1GB),
Lumia 636 (1GB),
Lumia 638 (1GB),
Lumia 640,
Lumia 640 XL,
Lumia 650,
Lumia 730,
Lumia 735,
Lumia 830,
Lumia 930,
Lumia 950,
Lumia 950XL,
Lumia 1520,
MCJ Madosma Q501,
Xiaomi Mi4.

If your device is on this list, updating to a new OS version will not be difficult. However, it is worth considering this issue carefully.

Video: Update your Lumia phone to Windows 10 Mobile

Unofficial installation of Windows 10 Mobile on Lumia

If your device is not already receiving official updates, you can still install a later version of the OS on it. This method is relevant for the following models:

Lumia 520,
Lumia 525,
Lumia 620,
Lumia 625,
Lumia 630,
Lumia 635 (512 MB),
Lumia 720,
Lumia 820,
Lumia 920,
Lumia 925,
Lumia 1020,
Lumia 1320.

The new version of Windows is not optimized for these models. You take full responsibility for the incorrect operation of the system.

Make Interop Unlock (unlocks the installation of applications directly from the computer). To do this, install the Interop Tools application: you can easily find it in the Microsoft store. Launch the application and select This Device. Open the program menu, scroll down and go to the Interop Unlock section. In this section, enable the Restore NDTKSvc option.
In the Interop Unlock section, enable the Restore NDTKSvc feature
Restart your smartphone.
Launch Interop Tools again, select This Device, go to the Interop Unlock tab. Activate the Interop/Cap Unlock and New Capability Engine Unlock checkboxes. The third checkbox - Full Filesystem Access - is designed to enable full access to the file system. Don't touch it unnecessarily.
Activate the checkboxes in the Interop / Cap Unlock and New Capability Engine Unlock
Restart your smartphone.
Turn off automatic app updates in the store settings. To do this, open "Settings" and in the "Update" section next to the line "Update applications automatically" move the lever to the "Off" position.
Disabling automatic updates can be done in the "Store"
Go back to Interop Tools, select the This Device section and open the Registry Browser.
Navigate to the following branch: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Platform\DeviceTargetingInfo.
You can install Windows 10 Mobile on unsupported Lumia using the Interop Tools app
Write down or take screenshots of the PhoneManufacturer, PhoneManufacturerModelName, PhoneModelName, and PhoneHardwareVariant values.
Change your values to new ones. For example, for a Lumia 950 XL device with two SIM cards, the modified values will look like this:
- PhoneManufacturerModelName: RM-1116_11258;
- PhoneModelName: Lumia 950 XL Dual SIM;
- PhoneHardwareVariant: RM-1116.
And for a single SIM device, change the values to the following:
- PhoneManufacturer: MicrosoftMDG
- PhoneManufacturerModelName: RM-1085_11302;
- PhoneModelName: Lumia 950 XL;
- PhoneHardwareVariant: RM-1085.
Restart your smartphone.
Go to "Settings" - "Update and Security" - "Insider Program" and turn on getting preview builds. Your smartphone may need to be restarted. After the reboot, make sure the Fast circle is selected.
Check for updates in Settings - Update & Security - Phone Update.
Install the latest build available.

Video: Installing Windows 10 Mobile on unsupported Lumia

Installing Windows 10 on Android

Before a full reinstallation of the operating system, it is strongly recommended to determine the tasks that the updated device should perform:

In case you still need to have a full-fledged "ten" on board, before installing a new OS, make sure that your device has enough space for a new heavy system. Pay attention to the characteristics of the processor of the device. Windows installation is only possible on ARM (does not support Windows 7) and i386 (supports Windows 7 and above) processors.

And now let's go directly to the installation:

Download the sdl.zip archive and the special sdlapp program in .apk format.
Install the application on your smartphone, and extract the archive data to the SDL folder.
Copy the same directory to the system image file (usually c.img).
Run the installation utility and wait for the process to complete.

Video: how to install Windows on Android

If your smartphone receives official updates, there will be no problems installing the new OS version. Users of earlier Lumia models will also be able to upgrade their smartphone without too much trouble. Things are much worse for Android users, because their smartphone is simply not designed to install Windows, which means that when a new OS is forcibly installed, the owner of the phone is at great risk of getting a fashionable, but very useless “brick”.

Windows 10 Mobile is a mobile version of the system from Microsoft, which is much better adapted for mobile devices, especially if they are with a touch screen.

Microsoft is famous for its operating systems and office products. However, recently she has also started working on mobile versions of the OS and released Windows 10 Mobile. This is not the first experience of the company in this direction. Prior to that, there was a mobile OS with the prefix Phone. But not so long ago it was abolished and a newer and more advanced version was put into development. It is about its features and some of the nuances of use that we will talk about further.

Features of Windows 10 Mobile

The steps for installing and configuring the system cannot be called complicated, and it doesn’t take much time for all this. However, there are some features worth pointing out. For example, it is officially possible to obtain a system, both directly upon purchase on the site, and as a result of the acquisition of an officially sold phone or gadget. In this case, the system itself can go as a bonus.

There are some mobile phones that allow you to update the system in an official way, regardless of how you got it. In this case, you can receive individual assemblies that developers use. This requires pre-registration on the official service, and then it remains only to download the required system.

Since some users received Windows 10 Mobile as a result of the update, they could see that many standard applications have changed in some way:

The calendar;
photo gallery;
Messages;
Xbox;
edge.

An application such as Calendar was merged with Mail and received the single name Outlook. Here, users can customize the work with letters, events and other elements in a special way. All this can be synchronized with a smart calendar.

New features in the latest version of Windows 10 Mobile

Recently, developers have made it possible to use OneDrive cloud storage to store their own photos. The information about the place of shooting and its date is now added to the pictures taken. Most of the devices on which this system is installed have a built-in camera, so this feature was logical and much needed. We wonder why it was included in the software only after a few years of the product's existence.

The user can integrate the Messages application with . It is possible to quickly respond to some messages that now appear as notifications. A special system has been thought out for notifications, which allows you not to be distracted by some notifications that are not important to you. And you don't even need to brush them off all the time. The system will remember your interests and will try to display only what is really important. Of course, errors are possible, but at the same time, you can manage all the processes manually, it all depends on your settings.

The built-in browser did not change much. However, it now has the ability to switch to reading mode so that the user can work directly with the material of the article and not be distracted by ad blocks.

Summarizing our short review of Windows 10 Mobile, we note that so far it is not yet a competitor on iOS or Android. Both competitors are head and shoulders above the product from Microsoft. However, if we compare this assembly with what it was at least a couple of years ago, then this is heaven and earth, and therefore, you can give the system a second chance if you have already used it before and you might not like it.

For those who have had experience with WM 10, we remind you that you can leave a comment or even a full review about the system, we will be happy to read your impressions about the real experience of using this product.

If you have not updated your smartphone to yet, then it's time to do it. In this version of the OS, completely new features and capabilities are available. The interface has become more thoughtful, light and concise. Confused about whether to upgrade to Windows Mobile 10? Then we recommend , which demonstrates the operation of the device with Windows 10 Mobile installed.

In this article, I will address the following question: how to update your phone to the latest version of the mobile operating system from Microsoft. But first, you should familiarize yourself with the list of devices for which this function is available.

Important! The update requires pre-installed Windows Phone 8.1 and at least 8 GB of memory. In addition, the battery level must not be less than 50% before starting the upgrade.

Lumia 430;
Lumia 435;
Lumia 532;
Lumia 535;
Lumia 540;
Lumia 635 1GB;
Lumia 636 1GB;
Lumia 638 1GB;
Lumia 640;
Lumia 640XL;
Lumia 730;
Lumia 735;
Lumia 830;
Lumia 920;
Lumia 925;
Lumia 930;
Lumia 1520;
Lumia Icon;
Alcatel One Touch Fierce XL;
MCJ Madosma Q501;
BLU Win HD LTE x150q;
BLU Win HD w510u;
HTC One (M8) for Windows;
LG Lancet.

Useful advice. To find out which build is currently installed on your device, go to Settings → About device → Information. There you will find all the information you need.

How to download updates: official video instruction from Microsoft

Microsoft understands that for many, the upgrade process can be difficult, so Microsoft created a video clip that shows the upgrade process step by step.

Video clip (Russian subtitles)

Update Assistant

To quickly and conveniently upgrade your Windows Phone to Windows 10 Mobile can be downloaded update assistant. This is a special application that allows you to get the necessary information about whether your phone needs an update and, if so, it automatically downloads the latest build of the system.

By the way, there are times when, when checking for an update in smartphones on Windows Background 8, a message appears stating that the device does not need updates. Although the 10th version of the mobile OS was released a long time ago and can be installed on supported devices. In such cases, the application in question will help.