Showing posts with label cortana for windows phone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cortana for windows phone. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

How to Set up Cortana alpha ( India, Australia, Canada)

Meet Cortana
Yesterday, Microsoft has pushed the Windows Phone Update 1 (GDR 1) for all the Windows Phones that have been registered with the Developers Preview program. This update includes a lot of new features like Live Folders support, Live Store Tile, Cortana (for China, UK, India, Australia and Canada), IE enhancements and a lot more.
For China and UK, Cortana is released as a beta version while India, Australia and Canada get her as an “alpha” or an “early preview”. This post will help Windows Phone users who have updated their phone to Update 1 (GDR1) setup Cortana alpha.
NOTE: Make sure that you have installed Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 (GDR1) on your Windows Phone before proceeding with any of the below given steps.
1. Swipe left on the Start screen to go to App List.
2. Go to Settings -> Language
3. select one of the below based on your language preferences:
 - English (Australia)
- English (Canada)
- English (India)
When you select a language different to the previous on your Windows Phone, you may need to restart your phone.
4. The go to Settings -> Region.
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Friday, 18 July 2014

“Cortana can help make life a little easier”, says new official video from Windows Phone

Cortana
Cortana, powered by Bing is Microsoft’s new digital assistant similar to Apple’s Siri. However, Microsoft says Cortana can do a lot more than Siri. Cortana works on smartphones running on Windows Phone 8.1 and is available currently only in the U.S.
Since Windows Phone 8.1 is now official and has been rolling out to Lumia 625 and Lumia 925 windows phone handsets since three days ago, Windows Phone group has posted a new video ” Getting started with Cortana” on Thursday and showed how Cortana can help a Windows Phone user in his daily life activities. The video emphasizes on key features of Cortana like sending a text message, setting up alarms and reminder, scheduling, making a call ..
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