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Watch the Nokia Lumia 920 lock screen get real-time updates from the Facebook Live App in WP8

Watch the Nokia Lumia 920 lock screen get real-time updates from the Facebook Live App in WP8

Posted: 30 Oct 2012, 04:01, by Daniel P.

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Watch the Nokia Lumia 920 lock screen get real-time updates from the Facebook Live App in WP8

Windows Phone 8 comes with one of those features for which Apple's Scott Forstall and Google's Matias Duarte might be slapping their foreheads and exclaiming "How didn't I introduce it first!", and it is Live Apps pushing real-time updates to your lock screen wallpaper.

Well, Scott Forstall is gone now, and we exaggerate, but the idea is pretty neat, and you can set the lock screen now to display your most needed info before you have even entered the phone - real-time Facebook updates, scores from the Sports app, news, weather, and other notifications that 3rd party apps come up with.

If you want to see the live lock screen feature of WP8 in action, look no further than the video demo of the new live Facebook app for Windows Phone 8, which is pushing some info on the lock screen of a Nokia Lumia 920. What do you think?

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posted on 30 Oct 2012, 04:15 13

1. GeekMovement (unregistered)

I'm happy to see more diversity when it comes to mobile platforms.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 04:22 9

2. eisenbricher (Posts: 973; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)

Not Scott Forstall now... poor guy got kicked out of Apple.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 04:32

3. phil2n (Posts: 487; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)

i was wondering what Lumia 920 can do?

I was hoping for Superiority

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 07:02 4

10. ChiX017 (Posts: 308; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)

it's WP8 in it, not Nokia's OS, of course it can do what the other windows 8 phone's can do!

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 05:24

4. StreetNerd (Posts: 836; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)

its the carllzeis lens not gorilla glass

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 06:08 1

5. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)

good design, bad UI, bulky device.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 06:53

9. No_Nonsense (unregistered)

Yup 10.7mm and 185g is way bigger and heavier than a brick.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 07:02 1

11. ChiX017 (Posts: 308; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)

lol,, like the new *toy* iPhone feels better!

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 15:53

14. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)

thumbs down for me ok ,but admit it:this phone is brick and just imagine it would have 8mm thick and aluminum construction

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 06:37

6. FranksGT (Posts: 167; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)

Windows 8 will be the death of me!

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 06:38

7. Leo_MC (Posts: 2685; Member since: 02 Dec 2011)

HTC's lock screen has that since Sense 3.
It's a great thing that Nokia has that too.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 06:45 3

8. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)

really amazing phone!!!

this just play on my mind... i think WP8 has some BB element with it.... coz BB is the master of social networking...but WP8 is now doing the same thing!!!

i love them both! :)

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 07:41 2

12. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)

Very neat, Can't wait to see the other apps coming out taking advantage of this lock screen.

posted on 30 Oct 2012, 12:49

13. PhoneCritic (Posts: 926; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)

Correct me if I am wrong but this feature is not new to WP8 and again I am not starting any flame wars here just stating what I have been doing already- My Samsung Galaxy S 2 skyrocket has this feature already using a third party app that's been available for ages. Can't remember its name but it allows me to have live widget updates on my lock-screen Weather, e-mail, FB and Twitter Updates etc..

I am happy that WP has this feature but how can the writer say that Android should have thought of this first? is it not suppose to let its app developers hook into the Os to create such useful features if not then there would not be developers making apps and propelling the platform ( a catch 22 I suppose). Any way this feature has been available on Android since gingerbread.

posted on 31 Oct 2012, 10:22

15. Dm092 (Posts: 1; Member since: 31 Oct 2012)

Got a lumia already and I think the Windows UI is awesome! Only draw back, there is no EQ on 7.5, anyone know if there is a built in EQ on windows 8?