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Today Windows Phone 8.1 released for developer preview and I immediately upgraded. I was happy to discover The "Siri Killer" assistant Cortana is equally capable in doing text-to-speech as the old system, which is all I previously used. The notification center is yet another new feature I don't really need on account of live tiles, but the central location to find alerts is handy, and the quick toggle buttons at the top are nice for bluetooth/wifi battery savings. Project my screen is so far my favorite new feature, displaying my phone on my projector for mobile games feels excessive, but I'm worth it! The Wi-Fi Sense feature caught me off guard when I connected to a hotel network and it started accepting the agreement. I was convinced Steve had hacked into my phone and was downgrading me to iOS but then the internet connection completed and I remembered it was a feature. Amazingly, the upgrade seems to have increased the benchmark score significantly. UPDATE:
Looks like Cortana is a snoop. After granting her access to my email, she told me about Lisas flight and told me it was time to leave for a reminder I setup.