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AtomD posted:I switched to iPhone last month and it's been a really unpleasant experience, to be honest. That's obviously down to me being on WP since 7.1 and not being used to iOS at all, but still. I switched back to Windows phone because I can't stand the iPhone keyboard and the settings are absolutely a mess. There really were two places for app settings and they were not the same thing but in two convenient locations. Also, the lack of a back button made navigating apps awkward for me. I don't mind getting used to new things if they're better, but iOS seemed like a boring step backwards. I got the criticism that early Windows phone fans would say, it's an app launcher OS. I miss the apps, most of those were stable and there were so many of them. Apple pay was rad. I don't know that I'll go back to iPhone if Windows phone dies. I might see what this cyanogen thing is like. Google is the main reason I'm not using Android.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:38
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Ah, man, unimpressive internals, but otherwise it sure would have been more interesting if this had been Microsofts Lumia take instead: All I can see is "ANUS"
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Dec 1, 2015 15:35
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joebuddah posted:As for Droid, we bought a cheapo tablet 5 years ago and it soured the Droid experience. ALL tablets were poo poo 5 years ago (I bought arguably the best Android tablet at the time and it was awful) and cheapo tablets are poo poo still.
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Uthor posted:ALL tablets were poo poo 5 years ago (I bought arguably the best Android tablet at the time and it was awful) and cheapo tablets are poo poo still. I still have my Transformer Prime (TF 201 from 2012) and only use it as video player when I'm traveling because it always was so drat sluggish thanks to the awful Nvidia Tegra 3 and horrible NAND. I'll end some day just buying a Toshiba tablet with windows or something since Android sucks at anything that isn't 7 to 8 inches and 16:9/16:10 aspect ratio. I own the probably best android tablet made, a Nexus 7 2013 wich still works flawlessly.
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benitocereno posted:Just for my own curiosity - for those of you still using WP, why? My wife is still using her 1020. Her only annoyance was losing visual voicemail after we moved from AT&T to Cricket. Perhaps kind of standard and what you'd expect. What's harder for me to understand is my mother-in-law. My wife convinced her to get 1520 which over the course of a coupleof years broke, was replaced, and then lost. She replaced it with a 640and seems to be perfectly happy with it as a phone and camera. It's kind of hard for me to comprehend why. My wife and I live out of state and she has much closer proximity with her other daughter and that daughter's extended family who are all iPhone. My MIL has no allegiance to Microsoft or WP and for her the path of least resistance would be to go iPhone. And yet she sticks with WP. 
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I'm mainly a Microsoft guy and use a lot of their products, so I'm confortable with a Windows Phone. It's a happy medium between paying a premium to have a phone virtually everyone else has (iPhone) and having to deal with a cluttered mess (Android). The UI is fantastic, the keyboard and spellchecking are top-notch, and my Icon/929 does everything I need it to do. It kinda sucks not having specific apps once in a while (Fallout Shelter, an app for my bank and credit card, etc.), but mobile sites for the latter work just fine. There's a decent selection of games and even an NES emulator to play something like Monopoly on when I'm extra bored. I'm with this ship until it sinks.
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Dec 1, 2015 19:10
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Charles Martel posted:The UI is fantastic,
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Dec 1, 2015 19:31
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As a Embedded Linux engineer who has developed a Android Tablet as well, I will never ever use a Android device again. Every single revision is a major rewrite of the code in someway or another. The ART/Dalvik/JNI/HAL layer is a mess. The handling of SD cards is basic at best. The build system (was) a complete mess. Android is to Linux as OSX is to Unix.
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Dec 1, 2015 19:41
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benitocereno posted:Just for my own curiosity - for those of you still using WP, why? I never want to spend > $100 on a phone. It's too easy to lose them or break them. I'm sure I could be content with an iPhone, and I do look enviously at everyone on the bus who can swipe and tap their phones and they respond instantly, but I figure I'm never going to get that at my price point.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Uh which one, WP8 or 10 I'm still on 8.1, but our laptops have been on Windows 10 since the first day I could upgrade them. Is 10 still that jarring on WP?
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Dec 1, 2015 20:11
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As much as I've given up on WP, if I could get a 640 for under $50 unlocked I probably would not. But here's what's available in Canada: Why even waste the server space to host the .png
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:As much as I've given up on WP, if I could get a 640 for under $50 unlocked I probably would not. But here's what's available in Canada: At first I went  but then I saw Canada, and yeah, that's to be expected  . But even in the States, The XL is more expensive then it should be. But that $70~ 640? That's a good deal IMO.
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benitocereno posted:Just for my own curiosity - for those of you still using WP, why? I have all three: iPhone for work, a Nexus 5 which I keep around for a couple of apps you can't get for WP and because it's much, much nicer to work on Word docs from Dropbox on it than it is on my Lumia, and the aforementioned 930 which is my regular phone. There are lots of little things I like about it (especially the built-in FM antenna, because who wants to piss away mobile data by streaming radio over the web?), and more than a few that drive me bats, but the main thing I like is the lack of apps: seriously, I finally got so fed up with Android apps constantly pestering for wholly unnecessary permissions that I switched. No apps = no problem! That, and the supremely good battery life. The Nexus and the Nokia are both better than the iPhone though - on the occasions I'm forced to use that thing it just feels gimpy as hell. e; I'll probably stick with the 930 until we know how the Surface Phone turns out (and what it'll cost) or that modular Google phone project comes to fruition. There's nothing else about that seems very interesting.
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Dec 1, 2015 22:55
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All the reasons people have said, plus the OneDrive integration is a godsend to me.
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 I missed a call because of this poo poo. My Bluetooth is off but my ringer didn't work because it thinks it's still connected. I did a factory reset and that fixed the problems I've been having. Hopefully this is a one time issue.
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Dec 2, 2015 22:04
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Despite verifying that they're all set up to be shown in the notification center all my new mail notifications seem to be permanently broken in WP10. Anyone else run into this? Do you have a fix?
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benitocereno posted:Just for my own curiosity - for those of you still using WP, why? I really enjoy the simple UI. The higher end phones I've had 920/1020/950 haven't given me as many issues as I've run into on Android and everything just seems to work nicely. The build quality of the old Lumias (can't say I have much faith in my 950) was solid as poo poo, I've never had a cracked screen even after some horrible drops onto concrete. Also the Camera and OneDrive stuff is perfect, really love the "adjust the lighting" on the 950.
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Dec 2, 2015 23:50
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I'm a cheap fucker who doesn't do much with his phone, and I'm heavily invested in the MS ecosystem for other reasons so 
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Tivac posted:Despite verifying that they're all set up to be shown in the notification center all my new mail notifications seem to be permanently broken in WP10. This is a common issue on W10 desktop as well. Mail and notifications are completely hit or miss.
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I really want to know why Word on Android is so much better than Word on Wp.
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joebuddah posted:I really want to know why Word on Android is so much better than Word on Wp. WP8? Because the android version has been updated within the last year.
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joebuddah posted:I really want to know why Word on Android is so much better than Word on Wp. There are hundreds of millions of Android users. Might as well ask why the BlackBerry version of Word is so lacking. (Also obligatory "they stopped working on the WP8 version because the Windows 10 app is totally different and why keep working on a dead end app")
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What does the Android/iOS version of Office have that the WP version doesn't?
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RVProfootballer posted:There are hundreds of millions of Android users. Might as well ask why the BlackBerry version of Word is so lacking. (Also obligatory "they stopped working on the WP8 version because the Windows 10 app is totally different and why keep working on a dead end app") A little bit different as despite the bullshit market share WP is still in-house. Blackberry is both irrelevant and external. Doesn't stop Microsoft from making their own poo poo incompatible at each generation. WP7 is the best thing ever but we'll change it all for WP8! We've change the name guys, it's "Windows for Phones" now, not "Windows Phone!". Oh wait we have "Phone" back again (maybe?), PS 10 is now totally different, WP8 was still the poo poo tho! Circles are in!
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:What does the Android/iOS version of Office have that the WP version doesn't? Much nicer interface with less rooting around in menus, Dropbox support, the ability to zoom out a way so that people can't read what you're working on over your shoulder.
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My old Moto G is slowly committing suicide and I'm thinking of making the transition to a Windows Phone for price reasons (the only Android phone that looks half decent in a compact size is ~$300); anything I should know to avoid about the Unlocked Lumia 635 other than that the camera sucks? Also is there anywhere else I should be looking for deals, I like the look of the blue version but not enough to pay double the price that the black version is available for on Amazon. Currently on T-Mobile if that's relevant.
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Mo_Steel posted:My old Moto G is slowly committing suicide and I'm thinking of making the transition to a Windows Phone for price reasons (the only Android phone that looks half decent in a compact size is ~$300); anything I should know to avoid about the Unlocked Lumia 635 other than that the camera sucks? Also is there anywhere else I should be looking for deals, I like the look of the blue version but not enough to pay double the price that the black version is available for on Amazon. Currently on T-Mobile if that's relevant. Why not the 640? It's a much better phone
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c0burn posted:Why not the 640? It's a much better phone All I see available for sale are Unlocked 640 XL's with a 5.7 in. display for $299 or AT&T 640's that aren't listed as Unlocked, just No Contract; my current Moto G has a 4.5" display which is pretty much spot on for the size I'm looking for. e: Looks like I could pick a regular 640 up on Cricket Wireless for $99, and their Basic plan is about as much as T-Mobile's Goon plan ($35 vs $30) Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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Mo_Steel posted:All I see available for sale are Unlocked 640 XL's with a 5.7 in. display for $299 or AT&T 640's that aren't listed as Unlocked, just No Contract; my current Moto G has a 4.5" display which is pretty much spot on for the size I'm looking for. The jump between the 635 and 640 is so big that isn't funny while not really being much bigger since the screen to size ratio on the 635 is worse.
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The 635 was less than half the price of the 640 on Cricket. In comparison the quality of the 635 is worse, and it is worth the extra 30 - 40 to upgrade to the 640 IMO. That being said the 635 supports hotspot on Cricket, and the 640 does not. Visual voicemail doesn't work either on my ATT GoPhone one with the Cricket SIM, which is where you find out your voicemail PIN on Cricket is probably 0000 like everyone else. Something with a bit more RAM to give programs less of an opportunity to randomly close, or, where it doesn't overheat while you play Microsoft Bingo would be nice, but, that doesn't exist at the $50 - 70 pricepoint that is for sure. Make sure you're aware of the amount of LTE Data you get for the plan price versus the T-Mobile $30 plan - it is not the same as far as I am aware.
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Partycat posted:The 635 was less than half the price of the 640 on Cricket. In comparison the quality of the 635 is worse, and it is worth the extra 30 - 40 to upgrade to the 640 IMO. That being said the 635 supports hotspot on Cricket, and the 640 does not. Visual voicemail doesn't work either on my ATT GoPhone one with the Cricket SIM, which is where you find out your voicemail PIN on Cricket is probably 0000 like everyone else. Yeah, it looks like the Basic plan for $35 is only 2.5 GB of data vs. 5GB high speed on T-Mobile; seems like the consensus is that the 640 is a significant bit better than the 635 though, so I'll probably go with the 640.
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Mo_Steel posted:Yeah, it looks like the Basic plan for $35 is only 2.5 GB of data vs. 5GB high speed on T-Mobile; seems like the consensus is that the 640 is a significant bit better than the 635 though, so I'll probably go with the 640. Kupo! fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 04:06
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Build 10.586.29 just came in on my phone, I wonder if it fixes anything.
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Sri.Theo posted:Is it possible to save an old email to your phone? I don't think so, but maybe you can save it to OneNote.
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Smoke posted:Build 10.586.29 just came in on my phone, I wonder if it fixes anything. Put this on my 640 yesterday and it feels much snappier than before. From what Gabe said in release: -You will see additional improvements in upgrade experience, including devices with limited free space, map rendering on update, and RCS enabled device settings. -Improved application backwards compatibility for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight applications. -Edge performance and stability has been improved. Auto-completion has been updated to allow user to more easily edit the end of the URL in the address bar. -Additional Bluetooth stability improvements. -We have resolve issues on switching the active cellular connectivity profile on Dual SIM devices. -Data profiles are now correctly restored in the out of box experience that would prevent some devices from sending or receiving MMS messages.
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 This is the chart of unique user sessions of my Awful app. Since the release (or at least the RTM of Windows Mobile 10), the 640 and 930 have now shot right to the top. Like, nearly all users of the app are on phones, and few use it on tablets.
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