Microsoft just announced Windows Phone 8 as their new heir for the windows mobile operating system at the Windows Phone Developers Summit.

Microsoft just announced Windows Phone 8 as their new heir for the windows mobile operating system at the Windows Phone Developers Summit.

The new OS will support multi-core CPUs (dual,quad or more in the future), and will also offer three different screen resolutions, 400X800, 1280X720 and 1280 x 768. Windows Phone 8 will also finally bring support for microSD cards along with Internet Explorer 10 built-in into the OS, and its rendering engine will mirror the desktop version.

Microsoft also says apps developed for 7.5 will work fine on the new resolutions too.

Go here for all the new features in Windows Phone 8!.