Nokia s Windows Phone 8, 4 little known things

ows Phone 8-based devices are populating retail stores. The latest to arrive is the much-hyped Nokia's flagship smartphone, Lumia 920, launched last week. HTC 8X and HTC 8S also run on Windows Phone 8. They have a fewremarkable features that will give a good competition to the seemingly runaway popularity of Android-based devices.

Space for kids on your phone
How often children have taken your phone, and without your knowledge changed the ringtone, dialled your boss, downloaded games, and worse, strayed into murky corners of cyberspace? Kids Corner, an innovative feature of Windows Phone 8, lets you stay in peace. From the Start screen go to the Kids Corner. Choose the features and apps the child can access. The home screen remains password protected.
Click in the dark
Thanks to Nokia Pure View imaging innovations and floating lens technology , Lumia 920 users will have some photo to show off, even if they click in very poor light without using flash. That is because the camera takes in five times more light than those in other smartphones.

Video in a photograph
There are two lens applications that bring in a new dimension to photography. One is the Cinemagraph. It adds movement to still photography, yet it is not a video. It's like the GIFs. As you click, the app will detect areas of movement in the frame, and you can pick the areas you want to animate. This works best while clicking a photo which has continuous motion, like a waterfall. With Cinemagraph, your photo will show the water flowing, giving the impression of a video.

Choose the right frame
The second app, Smart Shoot, solves two problems we face when we take pictures -- you realise one of your friends closed her eyes when you clicked; and two, there was a stranger walking behind your friend when you clicked her photo. But with Smart Shoot app, you end up taking a sequence of photos . So, it doesn't matter if your friend closed her eyes. You just pick the right frame.

The app also allows you to remove unwanted people or objects from the photo. This is of great help when your friend is posing on the beach and there are people walking in front of and behind her. All that you have to do is just mark them out and erase. And you have just your friend all alone in the beach, with the sea waves and the setting sun behind her.