The phrase "taking on features" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when describing something that is adopting or incorporating certain characteristics or traits.
Example: "The new software is taking on features that enhance user experience and improve functionality."
Alternatives: "adopting characteristics" or "incorporating traits."
As clouds incorporate, corporations take on features previously assigned to people.
More recently, he argues that regulatory political institutions at the global level could be effective only if they take on features of governance without government, even if human rights as juridical statuses must be constitutionalized in the international system (2004, 130 31).
The outcome of these interactions is often a hybrid gene expression program, for example, allowing cells to take on features of more than one effector or to adopt a suppressor phenotype with a polarized homing activity.
More and more, the functionality of e-mail took on features of conventional correspondence.
Through the influence of the dualistic thinking of Zoroastrian religion during the Babylonian Exile (586 538 bc) in Persia, Satan took on features of a countergod in late Judaism.
Expect to see operators, device makers and content companies roll out new takes on features that go beyond talking, messaging and Web browsing, such as location-based services, mobile TV and video, social networking and mobile commerce.
Despite early diagnosis and treatment with doxycycline, his illness progressed and took on features of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).
Spotify is adding video features, taking on Netflix and YouTube by putting streaming clips alongside its music catalogue.
The mobile version features Dante taking on a series of missions based on the Devil May Cry 2 console game.
One scene towards the beginning of the film features Lorraine taking on several corrupt cops.
