Minor patch for the Windows Phone Central app available

Yous may have noticed an update bachelor for our app this morning, and perchance you lot're curious as to what has changed? Information technology'southward non the most exciting patch just we are aware of issues that users of 512MB devices have been experiencing with the app and are working difficult to try and ready these issues. Patch 4.one.iii is intended to fix said problems by reducing the memory footprint of the app with slightly lower quality prototype when running on the lower spec devices such equally the Lumia 520, 620 or 720.

If you have been experiencing whatsoever kind of crashes with the app please update to this version. Nevertheless if that still doesn't piece of work for you it would be incredibly helpful if you got in touch via app@wpcentral.com. As much as the i star reviews in the shop get in clear yous have a problem it makes it incommunicable for us to diagnose and fix that problem! At present that we've cleared that up, at that place were a couple of other things in the patch that were set up at the time, encounter beneath for the full changelist.

Low memory devices (512MB) at present use lower quality images to reduce memory footprint and fix crashing bug
Added NFC sharing selection for articles
Sharing via e-mail or SMS at present besides includes a direct WPCentral app link
Sharing link option now copies the link directly to clipboard
Youtube links in WP8 at present open directly in the app rather than via Cyberspace Explorer
Fixed a problems in the forums where the incorrect thread would load when another had been exited role way through loading

What's coming next? Well unless we have to piece of work on any more issues fixing patches then you can hopefully wait lock screen wallpaper support in the next update, and if you lot follow me on twitter yous'll have already seen a few very early on drafts at what I'm planning. As always please get in touch via email, comments or the forums if you want to requite the states feedback.

I also need to say a special cheers to everyone in this forum thread who helped me diagnose the low retentivity issue in less than 24 hours, yous guys make every frustrating bug worth fixing!

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