Feature Suggestions
Welcome to the Windows Phone Feature Suggestion Box! Please vote for a feature suggestion or submit your own!
We’ve created this site as a tool to help Microsoft understand how customers use Windows Phone and we welcome your feedback.
Standard Disclaimer – our lawyers made us put this here ;-) Please note that the Windows Phone Feature Suggestion Box is moderated and is a voluntary participation-based project, and if your submission is not a product feature suggestion it may be removed. Please do not send any novel or patentable ideas, copyrighted materials, samples or demos which you do not want to grant a license to Microsoft. See the “Terms of Use” link below for more information. Please limit your suggestions to 25 words or less.
CAST YOUR VOTES! – community feedback is active and growing … thanks! As a result, we are going to increase the number of votes you have available on your favorite suggestions from 10 to 20. Keep those suggestions and votes coming!
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Add option to keep WiFi alive while the phone is locked
It would great if the wifi keep alive while the phone is locked. Adding an option in WiFi configuration screen.
4,436 votes -
Add EAP-TLS Authentication support for WiFi
Many organizations use EAP-TLS Wireless authentication using certificates and right now Windows Phone 7.5 does not support it.
2,801 votes -
Manual IP Configuration
Allow the user to manually specify the IP, subnet mask, DNS servers, etc.
2,445 votes -
rSAP Support
Win Mobile 6/x and Android support rSAP, why is Mango/WP7 being left behind?
1,815 votes -
File transfer without zune
Would LOVE to be able to copy files to and from the phone without using zune software, just like with regular USB stick (like WM6.5)
975 votes -
Allow first gen phones to tether
Widely anticipated in Mango, but eventually unimplemented, the USB/wi-fi tethering function available to all second gen phones must be made available to early-adopters.
972 votes -
tethering for nokia lumia 800
Needed to compare to any iPhone and any Android device
888 votes -
WP8 VPN
Windows Phone needs VPN connectivity. Need I say more? Android has it. iOS has it. ****, even BB has it. If WP is to succeed in this increasingly "on the go" and mobile market, its users have to have VPN connectivity.
882 votes -
Built-in VOIP (SIP)
Built-in SIP protocol would be very useful.
833 votes -
Bluetooth file transfer updates for WP 7.8
File transfer facilities ( be it media file or document files viz. Office file and *.pdf files ) should be provided for existing WP 7.8 Users as an update.
663 votes -
Enable ADC and MMS configuration within the OS!
Allow all phones to fetch connection settings when SIM is inserted and allow manual mms configuration from within the OS. Unlocked/Int devices need this! Thx!
625 votes -
Support Printing
I would love to be able to print from my phone. Over WIFI it should be able to connect to my networked printer. I'm not sure how this works when on the cell network.
598 votes -
BT support for SIM Access Profile (SAP, SIM, rSAP) for p
Add rSAP BT profile to allow connection to premium car handsfree sets.
521 votes -
519 votes
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447 votes
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Usb tethering
In the future you should have to be able to use windows phone ( lumia 920) on usb-tethering. the existing internet sharing is very unstable.
426 votes -
Proper Bluetooth SPP support for Pebble Smartwatch and other accessories.
Please allow SPP support so that WP users can use many different types of bluetooth accessories. iOS and Android both allow this, and there is no reason (I know of) why Windows Phone 8 shouldn't have it either.
381 votes -
bluetooth file transfer and usb mass storage.
please allow bluetooth file transfer and a usb mass storage mode with the next update. dont go the apple way microsoft. u'll surely lose customers and i am one of them!
356 votes -
Packet data (traffic) counter
We need the possibility to count the used packet data. So we can organize our consumed volume!
281 votes -
257 votes
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