Microsoft recently released a new set of Emulators for Windows Phone 8 development for both Update 2 and Update 3 release which has been done a month before for developers. These emulators are specific if your app are targeting a larger screen resolution and having much higher capabilities. Windows Phone 8 update 2 and update 3 has a separate set of emulators that are available to download which targets different range of devices starting from 720P, WVGA (+ 512MB) WXGA.
Windows Phone Update 2 and Update 3 will be applicable to be installed on the system which has Windows Phone 8.0 SDK installed with Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 or Visual Studio 2013 RTM that has released a month before. So where can you download the emulators from, both the set of emulators are to be downloaded separately and can be installed or if your Visual Studio is 2013 RTM, then the Windows Phone Update 2 is already available inbuilt so you can download the Windows Phone Update 3 straight away.
Where to download?
Below are the direct links where you can download the update and install to the development environment
Download Windows Phone Update 2 Emulators
Download Windows Phone Update 3 Emulators
Windows Phone Update 2 has the below set of Emulators installed with the update.
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 (10322) WVGA
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 (10322) WVGA 512 MB
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 (10322) WXGA
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 (10322) 720p
Windows Phone Update 3 has the below set of Emulators installed with the update.
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 Update 3 WVGA
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 Update 3 WVGA 512 MB
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 Update 3 WXGA
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 Update 3 720p
- New Windows Phone Emulator 8.0 Update 3 1080p