The home screen has a third column of customized Live Tiles, plus a feature introduced with Windows 8.1 allows consumers to use a photo as a background image on the Start screen. The People Hub also gets even better, and is the one-stop shop to the address book and social networks. Action Center, is the key to all settings and with one swipe it acts as a mini dashboard to make the Lumia experience even faster. Consumers can now easily customize settings and app notifications as well as change settings such as Wi-Fi and Flight mode.
Wi-Fi Sense automatically connects a Lumia device to free Wi-Fi hotspots around the world and even takes care of the annoying part of putting in personal details automatically.
Word Flow is the most intuitive smartphone keyboard out there. When gliding a finger over the letters on the screen and the new keyboard will do the rest. Word Flow will also correct words as consumer’s swipe and predict most frequently used expressions.