Announcing the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones

@Announcing the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for Phones

I'm excited to report that our first form of Windows 10 Technical Preview for telephones is accessible now for Windows Insiders! The group here has been endeavouring to get this out to you and we realize that you've been holding up tolerantly since we declared that it was impending. This is a long post, however there is a considerable measure of imperative data so in the event that you need to bounce in and introduce the sneak peak on your telephone I truly urge you to peruse it totally.

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Since we're assembling Windows 10 to be the same center stage for PCs, tablets and telephones, it ought to be no shock that taking part in the system for telephones will work practically the same way it has been working for PCs.

• Join the Windows Insider Program
• Register your device to receive builds as over the air updates
• Builds will come to you automatically as they are ready, after being validated by engineers at Microsoft and used on their own phones
• Use the built-in Windows Feedback app to send us problem reports and suggestions
• Updates will continue all the way up to the final build that goes out to all customers
• You can roll your phone back to the previous OS any time you’d like

Since it is an imparted codebase, you ought to expect that manufactures for PCs, tablets and telephones will be by and large timed to turn out in the meantime, yet they may not generally be that day or same form number, since some of the time a bug will influence one however not the other and we may take an alternate form to alter it.

The earliest preview we’ve ever done

This is the most punctual freely accessible sneak peak we've ever accomplished for Windows on telephones. This sneak peak is still all that much a work in progress and you're going to see some unpleasant edges. We're imparting it to you so you can be with us at each step, and give your criticism to help make this the best discharge ever—on the grounds that its the one made for you. You will experience bugs. You will see encounters that are plainly simply not done yet, and UX that needs clean right now. DON'T WORRY! It will enhance as we go and new peculiarities, dependability and execution upgrades, and more cleaned UX will take a swing at each one stage. 

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You will probably feel like this first review manufacture for telephones appears to be "less finish" or "prior" than the PC. That is genuine it is. Despite the fact that Windows 10 is based on imparted code that runs on both PCs and telephones, remember that Windows 8.1 for PC was done months sooner than Windows Phone 8.1, so the PC manufacture has had more prepare time. At the same time we're not agonized over getting an extraordinary last item out or the advancement we're making. A lot of our work until this point has been on stage improvement instead of the fulfillment of the UI, so a ton isn't promptly unmistakable – like the way that we have a typical OS center and application stage crosswise over PC and telephones. Anyway those "basics" speak to a huge amount of work and are going to empower a considerable measure of cool things to come, in the same way as applications that work consistently crosswise over gadgets, predictable reasonability of gadgets, and the capacity to run an entire new era of Office Universal Apps on the majority of your Windows 10 gadgets 

What’s included

There's a ton to love about this fabricate, including natural peculiarities and little enhancements, and some incredible new capacities. Investigate a percentage of the highlights for this first review fabricate:

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Who should try it?

In case you're a Windows Phone client and adoration to attempt the most recent stuff before any other person, or a Developer or IT Pro who lives up to expectations with Windows Phones, joining the Windows Insider program and going for this construct may be ideal for you. You'll be getting an insider's perspective and getting forms that typically would have just been accessible to Microsoft designs before.

• Full-size Background Image for Start: We believe phones should be intensely personal – so we’ve added another option to customize the start screen with a full-size background image.
• More Quick Actions in Action Center: We’ve increased the number of quick actions available to you. Windows Phone 8.1 has four programmable quick actions – but with Windows 10 you also get an expanded view that can now have up to three rows.
• Interactive Notifications: Notifications are now interactive, allowing you to take action directly like dismissing an alarm, or seeing images for maps. For example, for text messages, when the toast pops, you can quickly reply inline via text or voice.
• Significantly enhanced speech-to-text capability: You can talk to virtually any data field you choose. Your words show up as you speak them – and punctuation appears automatically.  This feature is smart enough to understand when to use ‘two’ – the number — instead of ‘too’ as in ‘also’.
• More powerful Photos app: From your very first launch, Photos will show the aggregated set of all your local photos and all your OneDrive photos

There are additionally a few things Joe demonstrated that will be coming in future forms. Case in point, our Office group has incorporated some awesome peculiarities with new widespread applications for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which work crosswise over telephones, tablets, and PCs running Windows 10. In spite of the fact that they are excluded in this assemble, you will see them advancing soon. In forthcoming forms we'll likewise incorporate the new Mail and Calendar Universal Apps from the Outlook group in Office, and additionally IP-based informing from Skype and others, incorporated specifically into Messaging knowledge. 

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We realize that a few things will likewise resemble a venture back. This incorporates Cortana. Due to the work we're doing to join crosswise over PC and telephones, Cortana in this fabricate will be restricted to US-just and English-just and a portion of the gimmicks you use in Windows Phone 8.1 aren't yet empowered in this new codebase. At the end of the day, DON'T WORRY! Cortana will be more influential and fit in Windows 10 than at any time in the past, with more abilities and dialect help than at any time in the past. Windows Insiders will see those progressions wake up in future forms. You can see all the more about Cortana in Windows 10 here.

Known issues

This is still an early form keeping in mind there are numerous things that work awesome, there are likewise known bugs and things that simply don't work right yet. Keep in mind that you're seeing a work in advancement, and an immense objective of the Windows Insider project is to work with a huge group of individuals to give input. Here are the huge issues that we contemplate for this construct. As a rule a fix is arriving in a future form, yet a couple have workarounds you can attempt meanwhile.

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Issue	Workaround
Existing alarms will not be migrated to Windows 10	Reset alarms after upgrade
Wi-Fi settings don’t roam when phone is upgraded to Windows 10	Manually set Wi-Fi settings when on Windows 10
VPN not available in current Windows 10 builds. Setting will fail to launch. Coming in a future update	-
Additional language keyboards may not be present and may not be able to install on US builds after upgrading to Windows 10	Reopen the Windows Insider app and re-select Insider Fast/Slow again. The download of keyboard packages will then work
Photos app will fail to launch periodically when attempting to add a photo attachment to an email, OneNote or Facebook item.	Try again. Succeeds after a few attempts.
Quiet Hours is missing the automatic rule that enables Quiet hours during calendar appointments marked busy. Also the setting “Anyone breaks through if they call 2 times in 3 minutes” us unchecked but enabled.	-
Apps are not displayed in Battery saver after the upgrade.	-
Access Point Names (APNs) in recovery images can fall out of date. For some phones/networks, this will block the cellular data and MMS capabilities of a phone when recovering back to the base image.	Before using the Windows Mobile Recovery Tool to recover, record the specific APN settings on your phone.  Set manually once phone restored
Cellular data not working while roaming, despite enabling data roaming	The setting doesn’t work the first time it’s enabled. Turning off and then turning on again will enable data while roaming
Using a Bluetooth headset while playing back video results in low frame rate for video, due to a bug in the interaction between video playback and Bluetooth.	Use wired headset for listening to audio when playing videos.
Sync to Microsoft Band doesn’t work after updating to Windows 10. If you have your phone synced to Microsoft band, it will not pair after the update to Windows 10.	After upgrade to Windows 10, go to Bluetooth settings, un-pair the Microsoft Band device and re-pair it.
DataSense resets data use history on upgrade to Windows 10.	No workaround. Will calculate correctly after the reset.
Trying to set lock screen picture will fail at times	Re-attempt the operation.
After upgrade, tapping on “Playlist” from start screen or from within Music App fails to play music. Playlists are greyed out.	-
Cortana tile and settings are missing on the start screen after upgrade	Go to app list and re-pin the tile

Eligibility

The most imperative thing for us is that we need to verify that any individual who tries this early review has an approach to return to their former OS if something happens. So we're just supporting telephones for the sneak peak that have a recuperation picture accessible. We made another instrument called the Windows Phone Recovery Tool that will restore that picture if important. 

We haven't bricked a solitary telephone amid the majority of our inside testing, yet it is NOT IMPOSSIBLE, so you ought to be mindful that there is some potential danger for you. Also, bugs could forestall access to critical gimmicks for you, including telephone dialing and other center usefulness. 

We are beginning with a constrained set of gadgets backed for this first review. Windows 10 will drive advancement crosswise over screens of all sizes and we will have new equipment from Microsoft and our accomplices, including new leader telephones. The lion's share of Lumia telephones, from our most progressive to the most reasonable, can be moved up to Windows 10. That said, for this specialized review, we have to begin with a little subset of gadgets so as to disconnect OS issues from equipment or board help bundle issues so we can balance out the stage. This is a typical piece of the building procedure, yet you would not have seen it in the past on the grounds that we haven't done an open see before—so those fabricates were Microsoft just. (In the initial 4-6 months of improvement, our group would regularly concentrate on one and only particular gadget then we'd grow.) 

Help for more telephones will be staged in with every new form, and we'll declare which gadgets are being included when the assemble turns out. Anticipate that the rundown will become gradually at the outset yet grow extensively after some time. For this first review assemble these are the gadgets uphel

Lumia 630	Lumia 638
Lumia 635	Lumia 730
Lumia 636	Lumia 830

For these gadgets we help setups from pretty much all portable administrators far and wide, the most outstanding special case is China which isn't yet upheld for the first see. 

Some setting on why we picked these and not higher end telephones like the 930/Icon or 1520: We have a peculiarity that will be impending soon called "allotment sewing" which will permit us to change the OS segment alterably to make space for the introduce procedure to have the capacity to upgrade the OS set up. Until this comes in, we required gadgets which were designed by portable administrators with sufficiently estimated OS allotments to permit the set up update, and a significant number of the greater telephones have tight OS parts. 

Note that this doesn't imply that Windows 10 will consume more plate room than Windows Phone 8.1, its simply a capacity of the update process right now. When the part sewing peculiarity is finished, numerous more gadgets will be upheld. 

The Windows Insider Program is an universal program and we're eager to have help for the accompanying dialects for this review:

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Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Catalan (Spain) Czech (Czech Republic) Dutch (Netherlands) English (UK) English (US) Finnish (Finland) French (Canada) French (France)

German (Germany) Hindi (India) Italian (Italy) Japanese (Japan) Korean (Korea) Polish (Poland) Portuguese (Brazil) Russian (Russia) Simplified Chinese (China)

Spanish (Spain) Spanish (Mexico/LatAm) Swedish (Sweden) Thai (Thailand) Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Turkish (Turkey) Vietnamese (Vietnam)

How to get started

Instructions on how to join the Windows Insider program and get your phone set up are available on the Windows Insider website at http://insider.windows.com Likewise with this post, I prescribe that you read the guidelines precisely so you can overhaul effectively and agreeably.

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Share your feedback !!!

Once you're up and running, utilize the Feedback application to send us writes about any issues you hit and additionally recommendations for things that you think we ought to include or change. In case you're utilizing Windows 10 on your PC this application will look super recognizable to you, following as an Universal App its literally the same code you've been utilizing as of now. 

You can dispatch the application from the tile, yet the simplest approach to get to it is basically to press and discharge the force + volume down catches to dispatch it from anyplace. 

The Windows Insider Community discussion at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider is an awesome approach to associate with others, get tips and guidance, and help tackling issues.

Thank You !!!

We keep on being humbled and amped up for the energy that we've seen from our Windows Insiders since we propelled the system. Your criticism is helping us improve items in view of your needs and goals. We're unbelievably eager to grow the project to Windows 10 for telephones, and profoundly admire your inclusion and backing as we fabricate Windows 10. 

Stay tuned to the Windows Blog for declarations on anticipated forms for telephones and PCs, and tail me on Twitter @gabeaul for more news and tips. 

Much obliged,

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Source : WINDOWS BLOG

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