Stay up to date with the WP8 Preview Program Alerts app

Before this week, the big news for Windows Phone users was the refresh for Update three. More specifically, if you're participating in the Preview for Developers program, you not only get the latest access to the Windows Phone eight OS, but you likewise get updates.

That update was fascinating only because it was speculated that Update 3 preview was the final release. Technically, this is true as the Lumia 1520 shipped with Os 10517. But Microsoft had some OEM fixes and small-scale tweaks to add for other phones, then the latest version is 10521. No new features are present, so yous tin finish looking yesterday.

This news means Microsoft may on occasion push out patches for the Bone, although we're not expecting that to happen too frequently. Still, if y'all desire to keep beside of the latest info, you just caput to Windows Phone Central, right? The one problem is, we tend to publish a lot of articles, and many of you may miss that post (by the amount of tips we received after our story, that's more than than obvious).

Luckily, there's a free app called WP8 Preview Plan Alerts that can assistance solve your problem. Developed past AdvancedREI and more than specifically Robert McLaws (who's well known in the Microsoft tech world), the app serves as a sort of filter for Preview Programme news.

The app initially started equally a tongue in cheek reminder to Microsoft about the hope of a Preview Program. That was mode dorsum in June 2022. Now that Microsoft has delivered (later on merely 480 days) the app has taken on a new function, which is to just bring news on that program.

In the app, McLaws gives a little headline and summary of the news, which inevitably links back to the top news site for Windows Phone news aka WPCentral. What'south also actually great is you tin can even enable notifications for alerts on that news, which admitting rare, should go on yous on pinnacle of the latest happenings. The app even has a doublewide Live Tile, which flips with the latest mail.

The app is free, has no ads and similar a nail, it has a very specific purpose: keeping you up to appointment on the Preview for Developers program. And so all in all, information technology's pretty crawly. Demand info on that program? Read our commodity on getting the app.

Pick up WP8 Preview Plan Alerts here in the Store or scan the QR code beneath!

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