 Hey guys this is Tom from the Verge and we're just looking at the Windows Phone 8 emulator today. So the first thing you'll notice is obviously the new start screen tiles that Microsoft introduced at the Windows Phone Summit in June. Now you can move the tiles around as normal but you can actually shrink the size of them now. So this is the small tile which you can then obviously move it back to the normal tile. Some of the additional tiles like the messaging or the calendar or the mail tile here, you can actually edit this one so that you've got the really large tile or the medium one and obviously the small one as well. So it's quite easy to edit the tiles there. If we move into the settings, the settings are very similar to the existing Windows Phone but we've actually got a notifications setting here on the lock screen that allows you to just set any app to provide notifications on the lock screen. So that's a change from Windows Phone 7.5. You've also got the NFC tap and send sharing here which you can toggle on and off. And the next thing that's really new that Microsoft hasn't really detailed is the backup settings. So you can see here you've got an app list and settings which will store your Internet Explorer favourites or your list of apps in the cloud. So you just simply sign into your Microsoft account for that. Text messages will also be stored in the cloud here so you can turn that on and off. And Microsoft is also adding options to control video and photos uploading to SkyDrive. Next up there's a new data sense feature and this allows you to basically track your data usage. So you can see here you can set it up for one time, monthly or unlimited and the specific day of the month that that data resets. So say you've got 512 meg from your carrier you can track to see how much you're actually using and when your limit is going to reset. You can also pin data sense to the start screen and it has a live tile that will warn you when your data is finished. Microsoft has obviously done some work on the start screen to improve it but they've also improved the themes as well. So you can see here there's a colour picker that allows you to pick a variety of colours and if you pick one it obviously changes the colour throughout the whole operating system. So we're also expecting Microsoft to improve its mobile internet explorer. Some signs of that are here in the SDK. So we've got an address bar setting here that allows us to swap the buttons from tabs to refresh and to favourites. What you'll notice if we go back in the bottom left there's a tab button now that allows us to control the tabs rather than the refresh button that's typically there. You can also change that obviously back to favourites. So you can have the favourites there to access your mobile favourites on the go. The SDK also gives us a look at some of the camera functions that Microsoft's planning to integrate here. So you'll notice there's an apps button which immediately gives us access to Bing Vision within the actual camera application. If we go back there's the option to find more lenses which are basically app extensions for the camera. Alongside some camera improvements Microsoft's also adding some functionality to its photos app. So you can see here there's a select button down the bottom which allows you to multi-select photos which you can then favourites, delete or you can also share. So we're hoping to see more share options, they're fairly limited right now but it's a good sign to see that you can actually multi-select photos in the app now. There's also some edit features that have been added as well. So you can go into a single photo and then hit the edit option and there's some cropping, rotating and obviously the standard auto-fix. You also get an aspect ratio option here so you can pick whatever aspect ratio you want for the crop but you've also got the ability to control it yourself. In Microsoft's Bing application the company's also adding theater information, top videos and top headlines that you can swipe to reveal. There's also some changes to the built in Xbox application here. Now these changes are mainly visual and they appear to resemble the Xbox smart glass that we saw at E3 this year. Microsoft's also changing its music and videos hub. Now this looks like almost identical to the Xbox hub now and there's even access to the Xbox music store from within here. It closely resembles the Zune experience, as you can see you can go in and play songs or obviously download and purchase them. Most of the store isn't functional through the emulator but you can obviously see that it's very similar to the Windows Phone marketplace. Okay so that was a quick look at Windows Phone 8 running on the Windows Phone 8 SDK emulator which we're expecting to be available in preview soon.