Calculator Toolbox getting bumped to Windows Phone 8

The popular Windows Telephone calculator app, Calculator Toolbox, has been updated to version 2.0 and brings Windows Phone eight support to the table. The version was submitted to the Windows Phone Store for certification the other day and should start to push out in the next few days.

For those not familiar with Figurer Toolbox, it is a i cease source for your calculating needs. The app offers thirty-five unlike calculators that span six unlike categories. Y'all take the traditional styled calculator, a reckoner to make up one's mind discounts, one to make up one's mind Adult BMI (Body Mass Alphabetize, half-dozen different mortgage calculators, three different financial calculators and many more.

Version 2.0 of the Figurer Toolbox is optimized for Windows Telephone eight with support for the following features.

Supports Enhanced Voice commands
Supports Text-to-spoken language. Can enable/disable through settings page.
Supports all iii Screen resolutions
Main App Tile supports all three Windows Telephone live tile sizes and secondary tile supports medium and small tile sizes
Improved Help section
Ability to display "Favorites" in a horizontal or vertical view through settings page
Ability to search Saved Mortgages, Auto Loans and Automobile Leases
Added Sales Tax deduction for Trade-In to the Auto Loan and Lease calculators

It's our understanding from the programmer that the new version of Calculator Toolbox uses a completely unlike database than the current version. Every bit a result, any saved mortgages, auto loans and car leases won't be ported over to the new backend. They are working on the ability to backup the saved information to SkyDrive which should be added in the next update.

Once more, the update was only recently submitted for certification and nosotros should come across version 2.0 of Reckoner Toolbox available in a few days. In the meantime, if you lot haven't already tried Calculator Toolbox at that place are ii versions bachelor for version 1.12 in the Windows Phone Store. There is Computer Toolbox Complimentary which is add supported and Calculator Toolbox which is running $.99 and is ad complimentary.

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