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ElGroucho posted:Windows Phone - All I Wanted Was a Zune Phone This, basically e: wait, Windows Phone - No Flagships Or Snapchat Chasiubao posted:My 920 is on its last legs, and I'm sticking with AT&T because grandfathered unlimited data is pretty awesome. My options are basically M8, 1520, or 1020. But I'm really not liking the idea of being locked into a 2 year contract when new phones could could be announced soon. Goddammit Microsoft Quit signing contracts. Get out from under AT&T's thumb and buy whatever phone you want. How much mobile data do you ACTUALLY use. Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Jan 5, 2015 |
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Factor Mystic posted:This, basically 3 - 4 GB a month. Long bus commute with no WiFi. I don't think I've ever bought a phone off-contract / non-carrier. Is there an IYG thread I can read?
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Chasiubao posted:3 - 4 GB a month. Long bus commute with no WiFi. I don't think I've ever bought a phone off-contract / non-carrier. Is there an IYG thread I can read? You still might be better off with a NEXT plan with AT&T, they are really working hard to gently caress over their unlimited data customers, and if you're not already getting throttled, you probably will be. Or comedy "pick up a 635" option.
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Is "buy an iPhone and flip it" still the most financially beneficial option? I thought it was a few years ago.
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Chasiubao posted:My 920 is on its last legs, and I'm sticking with AT&T because grandfathered unlimited data is pretty awesome. My options are basically M8, 1520, or 1020. But I'm really not liking the idea of being locked into a 2 year contract when new phones could could be announced soon. Goddammit Microsoft
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ratbert90 posted:The 1020 is 200$ on eBay. There's one on Swappa for $249. Has a qi back, charger and camera grip. I'm the seller
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Maneki Neko posted:Or comedy "pick up a 635" option. I wonder why it's a comedy option? I got a 635 in September, after my HTC-8x screen cracked (due to baby damage) and I love it! Reminds me of my fun old Nokia days in the late 90s.
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ljw1004 posted:I wonder why it's a comedy option? I got a 635 in September, after my HTC-8x screen cracked (due to baby damage) and I love it! Reminds me of my fun old Nokia days in the late 90s. He is replacing a 920, which is/was actually a really really nice phone. If the software stack was where it is at now when the 920 came out I think Nokia would have had a huge hit on its hands. Even now a lot of the lineup is a clear step down. Making the suggestion comical in a sort of sad way~~
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While it would be nice to go back to windows phone the main thing that is keeping me away from it is actually the music app. I was fine with everything else as I am currently using my android phone for mostly social media things (including snapchat  ) and music but I disliked it on windows phone. Even Spotify felt wrong on it but that just boiled down to no developer giving a poo poo about WP! Everything else I loved, including Cortana and the fact that it could read out texts whilst I was driving.How is the 930? I never used the QI thing on the 920 but I liked glimpse and its a feature I actually miss from WP. Is it a worthy successor to the 920 or is it more so-so?
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MyFaceBeHi posted:While it would be nice to go back to windows phone the main thing that is keeping me away from it is actually the music app. I was fine with everything else as I am currently using my android phone for mostly social media things (including snapchat The awful music app I hear is pretty decent.  The 930 got pretty drat good reviews it looks like: http://www.engadget.com/products/nokia/lumia/930/
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MyFaceBeHi posted:While it would be nice to go back to windows phone the main thing that is keeping me away from it is actually the music app. I was fine with everything else as I am currently using my android phone for mostly social media things (including snapchat If by glimpse you mean glance, congratulations the 930 is I think the one phone that can't do it. 
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MyFaceBeHi posted:While it would be nice to go back to windows phone the main thing that is keeping me away from it is actually the music app. I was fine with everything else as I am currently using my android phone for mostly social media things (including snapchat You and 75% of this thread, man. Have you tried all of the goon-made music apps? That's plural! So many goons mad about how bad the music experience is on Windows Phone, there's literally more than one homegrown solution to come out of this thread.
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QuickPlay pro from BitApp Studio can play music through folders (like Folderplay) or tags like any other music app, it also plays videos. For me is the best out there.
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OldPueblo posted:If by glimpse you mean glance, congratulations the 930 is I think the one phone that can't do it. Yeah, that thing. It is the one thing I don't get. If the 930 is supposed to be the ~*~flagship~*~ phone then why take away the things from the previous phone, like glance? Regarding the alternative music apps I still have my 920 so I may just fire it up again just to dick around with and see what denim is like whenever they feel like updating that! Edited because apparently the 930 does have QI charging? I didn't know that, and I don't know why I thought it didn't. MyFaceBeHi fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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MyFaceBeHi posted:Yeah, that thing. It is the one thing I don't get. If the 930 is supposed to be the ~*~flagship~*~ phone then why take away the things from the previous phone, like glance? Cost-cutting, for Glance you need a display that supports panel self-refresh. They've taken a lot of flak for that, so I hope that they won't make the same mistake twice, at least with the high-end handsets.
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Being a lazy butt and not wanting to double-tap to wake or press the home button.  It's handy when I just pull my phone out of my jacket pocket, can glance at the time, and then get to shove my hand back into my pocket. I do have the glance background app installed so it's not just the time, date, and notifications.
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 The first release could barely do more than display the time, but the current release is more customizable. Handy to check if there's been any new messages. As for the battery power consumption, it's insignificant, on the order of 1-2 percentage points per day for OLED screens if you keep it on 24/7. It also uses the proximity sensor to turn off the screen if it determines the phone is in your pocket or a bag.
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Christ all day meetings suck. At least it was in Studio A so you could hit up the
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I've run into some weirdness with my 1520. Apparently it's been pocket dialing people but the calls aren't showing up in my call log, but it's also picking up calls while it's in my pocket and I know the screen is locked. It's in a Belkin case with a flip cover so it's not like the screen is exposed to anything when it's doing this. Is it just a fluke thing or could something actually be wrong with it?
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Ev posted:I've run into some weirdness with my 1520. Apparently it's been pocket dialing people but the calls aren't showing up in my call log, but it's also picking up calls while it's in my pocket and I know the screen is locked. Cortana knows you're a trickster and is trying to relate to your roguish ways.
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Glance is awesome and it was enough to make me hold off on wanting to pull the trigger on an RM-1045 (unlocked 930) for $385 to be used on AT&T. However I had an epiphany, my MS band provides the same service as glance while sitting on my wrist, so I went ahead and placed the order. I'm told that all I'll be missing is LTE, and since I spend a bunch of time on fast 4G anyway I'm thinking I won't miss it. Visual voicemail, tethering, and MMS are all supposed to work, I'll report back. Edit: It looks like I'm not the only one, stumbled across this when looking up what speeds I'd be expecting. http://winsupersite.com/windows-phone/i-bought-new-windows-phone OldPueblo fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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OldPueblo posted:Glance is awesome and it was enough to make me hold off on wanting to pull the trigger on an RM-1045 (unlocked 930) for $385 to be used on AT&T. However I had an epiphany, my MS band provides the same service as glance while sitting on my wrist, so I went ahead and placed the order. I'm told that all I'll be missing is LTE, and since I spend a bunch of time on fast 4G anyway I'm thinking I won't miss it. Visual voicemail, tethering, and MMS are all supposed to work, I'll report back. Godspeed! How are you liking the MS band with Windows Phone? I really liked all the sensors, but mine had clasp issues and sync issues with iOS, so I ended up returning it. 
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Maneki Neko posted:Godspeed! How are you liking the MS band with Windows Phone? I really liked all the sensors, but mine had clasp issues and sync issues with iOS, so I ended up returning it. Love it, wife has one too. I don't mind the size, I wear it display side down and like my wedding ring its just faded into the back of my mind now. I only notice it's there when I hit it against something or think about it. I can understand why some wouldn't like it though, I'm guessing regular watch wearers may not mind so much. The excercise stuff is cool and it's actually motivated me to sleep better after I saw how poor my sleep habits were. There are some cool WP apps out now (linked below) that let you add custom wallpapers or access sensors that aren't available in the health app, like your external skin temperature. I don't know why I need that but it's cool! https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/band-sensor-monitor/68f97b41-de2f-4579-a473-5d476a5c5196 https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/pimp-my-band/9966b6e7-bb20-4b53-9b3c-8701a271c66c I have to say though that my favorite unexpected feature is I can be driving in the car with my stereo blaring at top volume and still set reminders or give music commands to my wrist and it gets the text right every time. It must have a good MIC on it with limited range to filter out noise, and it doesn't stop/interrupt the song either which was previously mildly annoying. It's why I don't have texts auto-read to me in my car because then the music just cuts out all the time. So this: *music playing* *push head unit button* *call cortana* *voice commands* *cortana acknowledgement* *music returns* Went to this: *music keeps playing while I give commands to wrist like James Bond nerd, and cortana silenty obeys* This is evolution. Also coincidentally both the health app and band just received updates today, nothing major though it seems. OldPueblo fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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I was reading this: http://winsupersite.com/windows-phone/i-bought-new-windows-phone Thurrott mentions: "I choose, prefer and recommend Windows Phone. I just like it better. By a wide margin." I'm wondering if any of the goons here feel able to recommend the platform to anyone. I used it for nearly 3 years and though I liked it, I never felt able to recommend it to other people. Unless someone doesn't care about apps and wants a reasonably-priced off-contract phone, it's really difficult to suggest it over Android, especially with the likes of the Moto G available.
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Unless someone's never owned a smartphone before, then no. There's still just too much compromise. But if they re-released the 920 with newer specs and the same design I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Unless someone doesn't care about apps and wants a reasonably-priced off-contract phone, it's really difficult to suggest it over Android, especially with the likes of the Moto G available. That's why I bought the 521 for my mom. See almost exclusively uses it as a feature phone. I don't think she's even used the camera, which I thought would be a selling point. The other point was the price. I wanted to see if she'd be okay using a touchscreen/smartphone before dropping more than $100 on a phone for her. She's happy for now, but if she wanted to get a data plan and do more internet stuff, I'd have to let her play with my Android and get some input to see what exactly her needs are. EDIT: Maybe she'd want to start Snapchatting with my sister! Uthor fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I was reading this: A few of my friends asked if I would recommend WP, but the best I could give them was hemming and hawing. Yes it's a great phone, the OS is pretty great (as long as you're running dev preview), but if you want to do anything other than call/text/web browse you have to wade through the app store which is filled with crap to find relatively few (if any) apps that do what you want.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I was reading this: I prefer using windows phone - I have a 930, and before that a 920. Before the 920 I had a galaxy nexus. My dad who gets each phone when I'm done with them also prefers the 920 to the nexus, and the 3GS he had before it. I don't have a social media presence though, I seldom play phone games, and I'm not one for a bazillion apps. The phone pretty much does everything I need out of the box - all I've added are a weather app that uses a more accurate data source for Australian forecasts; the SA app; kindle; IMDB and wikipedia apps, and the apps for my bank, and preferred airline. The later two are better than they are on other platforms - lots of care and thought went into them.
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So Verizon have now stopped selling all Nokia phones. WTF is going on?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I was reading this: Nothing has changed since this Windows cheerleader's post: http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/11/7377021/ive-given-up-on-windows-phone
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Wiseblood posted:So Verizon have now stopped selling all Nokia phones. WTF is going on? Verizon flat out told me a replacement 928 would be impossible to order. Its all bullshit. I have used all platforms and really do enjoy using my Lumia the most. For me it is the fluidity of the OS, and the seamless transitions between most app ux. The app synching in IE and the other Microsoft services is getting really good now. I am at a point in life in my late 20s where I have grown out of wanting the bleeding edge nightly, and just want something that works. Same thing with apps. I just don't have time with job and family to keep up anymore. I feel so old writing that. So I really hope Windows Phone 10, or whatever they call it keeps what I like and the unified Windows/Xbox stores attract developers. If anything for just the numbers of eyes that look at Windows and in the future Xbox every drat day.
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BabyMauler posted:So I really hope Windows Phone 10, or whatever they call it keeps what I like and the unified Windows/Xbox stores attract developers. If anything for just the numbers of eyes that look at Windows and in the future Xbox every drat day. Xbox One won't attract any developers as PS4 has huge lead in Europe due to staggered release of Xbox that gave Sony year-long head start. They don't even mention apps in Xbox marketing at all anymore. Combined with Nokia loving up their flagship product pipeline, Windows Phone is effectively dead in North Europe and only thing that even get to operators sales charts are Lumia 5xx and 6xx. I feel really bad for all my former Nokia colleagues, but I expect MS will shut down ex-Nokia division during next two years. Then again, they've seen it coming for a while now and as it is Nokia is losing talent fast.
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On a side note: I found it very confusing when Nokia sold to Microsoft at a time when it seemed like things were actually running smoothly (i.e. sales were decent and the product lineup seemed quite strong at the time, momentum seemed to be with them), but most likely the high-end hiccup we are currently seeing was already becoming visible to Nokia management at the time, and they did not feel that they could make it through this stretch. Still annoying and a bit sad.
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Yeah, I have recommended the things I like about the phone before, but there's always a massive "but..." after them. And the "but..." keeps getting larger, while the list of things I like only grows a little with infrequent updates, and sometimes gets smaller in the case of things like Music.
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Is the Moto G LTE still the best budget Android phone? My wife is tiring of not having the same apps as her friends on her Windows Phone so I'm looking to switch her over. Is there a better budget phone that will have Lollipop?
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BonoMan posted:Is the Moto G LTE still the best budget Android phone? My wife is tiring of not having the same apps as her friends on her Windows Phone so I'm looking to switch her over. Used Nexus 5, new Moto X 2013 (frequently on sale in the U.S. on ebay for ~$200), otherwise yeah, Moto G.
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