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Wheezle posted:Clearly you've never been to WPCentral. Maybe I have low standards, but I find their reporting to generally by pretty fair. They complain when they should complain. The main difference between them and a "real" news site s that they pick up even the most insignificant bit of news/rumor and after complaining they tend to put a more positive spin on thing. My wife's phone received an OTA update yesterday. For moment I thought it was an early release or something but nothing seems to have changed.
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MyFaceBeHi posted:Their reporting is ok. Their forums though, let's just say they that by the sound of things they are F5ing every news source even remotely related to WP8.1 whilst waiting for this developer preview to come out! Wheezle posted:They're okay. I was referring more to the community there. The kind of people who respond to comments they agree with by saying "+920/1020/[some other Nokia model number]". Ah, that explains that. I occasionally glance at the forums/comments and quickly back away. It seems to be inhabited by fanboys for the most part.
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If I read it correctly here the me tile doesn't give updates anymore? Does it even have any use left?
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Apr 16, 2014 12:03
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General E posted:Nope! They also removed the ability to post one update to multiple social networks. To be fair, I don't use the me tile all that much. My friends and family have their own tiles, so I wasn't dependant on it for updates. Any posts I make were usually pictures or images which I make from the photohub.  Links I find and share are sometimes shared from the website itself.As long as we can remove the Me tile from the frontpage I'm not sure if I will miss it.
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Apr 16, 2014 13:57
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LifeSizePotato posted:Or just turn the ringer/volume off? My phone sits 12" from my head every night and with the volume muted, it doesn't disturb me at all. If it lighting up is a big deal, just set it face down. So you're asleep, the phones sounds are all off. Why keep it on than?
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Apr 20, 2014 10:28
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Martytoof posted:Serves as your alarm? Caller breakthrough? Could be any number of reasons. At least in 7.8, if the sounds are off, everything is off. So no reason to keep it on. I turn my phone off, I have a real alarm clock. And depending on usage I can get through the weekend on a single charge. 
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Apr 20, 2014 19:31
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A mobile phone game where you tap things? How innovative. Without joking though, the multiplayer tapping game sounds intriguing. Anyway, thank you for this and further posts, it was very interesting to read.
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May 19, 2014 10:23
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Yesterday I saw my first ever commercial that had a windows phone marketplace logo next to the Itunes store and Android store.
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Jun 17, 2014 07:39
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the verge posted:Microsoft is planning to release its first update to Windows Phone 8.1 soon, and the company has started detailing some of the upcoming features to phone manufacturers. One of the main visual changes with Update 1 is the introduction of folder support, allowing Windows Phone users to drag one Tile on top of another and create a folder to organize apps. It’s a feature both Android and iOS have had for years, so it’s encouraging to see Microsoft is finally closing this gap. Nice,but how about first rolling out 8.1 to everyone.
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Jul 28, 2014 09:29
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Yeah, lets have all the programmers sit idle and contemplate the AT&T rollout process in silence, that seems the more appropriate route of action. Not everyone has to go through American providers but still have to wait.  Still, I do look forward to see how quick they can get this out. I wonder if they've been ramping up the speed.
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Stick100 posted:No no no, Win Mobile had to die. Everything ran all the time and required massive management of processes. It also was still pen focused which would have been completely inappropriate for a touch based OS. I'm still running a 710. I was holding off on buying a replacement until some decent announcements. (Un)fortunately no such luck, so I'll stick with my aging phone for another year at least. I'm really starting to notice the age now though, it's even refusing to load embedded youtube movies these days. Not that I used that feature much anyway, it's just a bit annoying whenever I do want to use it.
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Maneki Neko posted:I find myself missing my Lumia 900 from time to time. How much stuff (app wise) still supports 7.X? I have no idea. I don't use that many apps. I occasionally watch some netflix on it, I have a few games but the only ones I ever play are text games from delight games for when I have to wait for the bridge to close, a tv guide and when I´m on holiday I rarely boot up Nokia Drive. Oh and Whatsapp of course. Whatsapp still updates their app. This all works at least. I tried the awful app, but found just using the browser easier.
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benitocereno posted:Yep - pretty sad. I understand why (some) developers like the convergence because it makes life easy, but it's good to have competition. I like IE11, but the change is probably for the best I guess. It's also interesting that companies still work to implement iPhone specific sites when Android almost always carries more traffic (you think they'd make "data driven decisions"). Yeah, the mobile market is kinda crap. Developers prefer iPhone due to easier standards and most having an iPhone themselves. Meanwhile 70% of the population has Android ensuring that it is hard for competition to gain a foothold. It's either go with google or pay extra for the brand and get an iPhone. I would love the HTC phone, but I think that I would miss the camera button too much. It's my most used function. The moment my hand goes in my pocket I push the camera button ensuring that the camera app is ready to go by the time I've leveled it.
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Aug 20, 2014 12:01
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LifeSizePotato posted:I keep thinking/hoping that waiting will be worth it because the next flagship phones will be set up for Threshold which will have so many awesome new features and capabilities...but then I remember it's Microsoft and to never be excited about anything. Come on man give them the benefit of the doubt. You know they will deliver something awesome sometime within the next 10 years. 
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Aug 27, 2014 07:37
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I always have my ambient lightsensor turned off. The thing drives me crazy. I'm reading at perfect when suddenly everything either brightens or darkens depending on the clouds in the sky. It's distracting.
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:At IFA, Nokiasoft announced the 730 and 830, which you can read about in their blog: http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/09/04/morelumia/ They look solid for their price points. Also the 735. The biggest question though, why isn't there a camera button on those things. 
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My wife's phone for some reason turns the speaker on when she boots Whatsapp. You always hear a faint sound of static when she's using it. Does anyone else have this?
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Sep 22, 2014 07:30
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LifeSizePotato posted:I was concerned when he mentioned that 10 is the new Windows Phone OS, and also that 10 is due "late 2015." I thought we'd be getting flagship "Threshold" phones in the spring. I don't understand how that is going to work with the chipsets. We now have 8.1 RT/WP for ARM and 8.1 for intel. Will we get a 10RT which will run on Phones and Tablets? On the bright side, that's one OS less.
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Oct 1, 2014 08:52
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The Lord Bude posted:Ladies and gents, the Microsoft Lumia 535: Is there a camera button. 
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Nov 11, 2014 13:11
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The Lord Bude posted:No, but if you look at the second pic in the gallery there is a built in folding lid/cover for the screen - If they add this to a more expensive phone I could see it hosting a keyboard like surface tablets have, but in the mean time this looks like a great first phone for a kid - harder to get a cracked screen. I want my camera button. 
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Nov 12, 2014 08:32
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The Lord Bude posted:It was 5 units by 11AM - the store opened at 9. Though I can't give you sales impressions, it's pretty much the same where I live. There are a lot of ads for cheap Lumia's and while most stores sell Motorola I've never seen one in the wild. Motorola just doesn't have any real brand awareness here. Not that I see so many Lumia's, but I do see them occasionally. Majority is Samsung.
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Uthor posted:The Play Store is how Google controls Android. The OS is open, but the store is not and more and more of their apps are becoming Play Store apps. That means they can update the apps without updating Android (yay!), but also means that you have to meet their criteria to get access to the Play Store and the Google apps (boo!). I keep waiting for the EU to act on that deal considering they same to enjoy targeting Google at the moment. My old 7.8 phone is starting to act up. Does anyone have any experience with the internet connection becoming unstable? Every instance of an app that needs internet needs to be refreshed before it can access it and it's really starting to interfere with Whatsapp.
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Odd question. With the whole "unified" (wrong word I know) appmarket think they want to have for windows 10. How is the appmarket in windows desktop 8.1 doing?  Is it such a booming business, because I just can't imagine it being such an app magnet. With every PC coming with several perfect browsers and plenty of screen real estate and no battery worries. That's not even going into how many normal programs there are where people don't have to pay MS a small hosting fee.
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Uthor posted:What do you Windows Phone users think of Microsoft investing in Android ROMs? Any worries? In addition to what's already been said you could also see it as an attempt to get goodwill. There is a good reason why people are rooting their devices with Cyanogenmod. I don't think anyone will ever see it as good will though.
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loquacius posted:I'm not sure how a forked Android that doesn't get Google Play is better for Microsoft or WP users than WP actually Aren't they going to have those coders "left over" anyway? Windows 10 is supposed to be for all platforms at the same time, so I assume that there isn't a separate phone team anymore.
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How fast is the 930's camera and how good is it at catching images of kids bouncing around doing kidlike things?
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Pipski posted:It's good, but I don't know that it's any faster than other mobile phone cameras. It's got a burst mode though, which allows you to take a rapid sequence of shots and then magically remove moving objects from the foreground, swap people's heads from one frame to another etc. until you've composed a shot you're happy with. It's pretty neat, but at the end of the day it's still a phone camera. Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know. I have a dedicated camera, but I don't always have it with me but I find myself using my phone camera regularly to take quick shots of him or my wife when something fun happens. My current phone can't keep up at all. I need to replace my current phone, but the way I see it the 930 is one of the best to replace it with currently due to camera and specs. I'm worried about win10 since it gives a big bump to the minimum specs that 735/830 will immediately become sluggish upon update.
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ratbert90 posted:In that aspect, my 1520 can last almost 2 1/2 days with moderate usage. But why are you only using it moderatly? Can we also complain here about how you login to outlook.com? I don't understand whose idea it was that you press login to get a pop up to fill out your emailaddress to get forwarded to a different page to enter your password. It's a failure of usability and the extra pages and clicks bother me.
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Factor Mystic posted:??? (same on my phone) That is not the page you arrive on when you type in onedrive.com or outlook.com. ljw1004 posted:I hate this. I think it has to do with the fact that there are two completely unrelated "identity services" at Microsoft... At least that's a reason beyond terrible usability designers.
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Factor Mystic posted:I opened up a new window, typed outlook.com, hit enter, and that's what I saw. Now that I try it again, it still does that when I type in onedrive, but not when I do outlook. Progress! Or have I been imagining things and it always only does that for onedrive?ElGroucho posted:So, I'm trying to replace the Room functionality with another calendar. I made a separate calendar in Outlook.com for my wife and I, but it doesn't show up in the app. I have a shared outlook calendar. All I did was add a separate group to my Calender called family, added her as co-owner and gave it a nice gaudy color. It showed up in her phone not much later.
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I know it''s not customary to say something positive here, but here I go. My 930 was delivered last Thursday and I've been toying around with it since then. It's like night and an early summer morning compared to my 710. It's not exactly night and day, but it's great and fills me with joy. The screen is gorgeous, the camera is pretty much what I hoped it would be (though I still need to learn to use it properly) and 8.1 has filled up the holes I had using WP7.8. (finally I can fill my phone with geek sounds again) Going from holding my 710 to holding a 930 it feels like I swapped a toy for a tool. I could probably kill someone with this thing.  I just wish the corners weren't quite as sharp, it's not the most comfortable phone to hold but a cover should fix that.
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nielsm posted:Considering getting a replacement for my Lumia 620, the 735 seems interesting. (Apart from the "perfect for selfies!" marketing.) Does anyone have experiences with it? Two weeks ago I purchased a new phone and I spent a long time considering the 735 as well. I didn't buy it and went for the higher model (930). The 735 just didn't seem like very good value for money for me. It has outdated internals and we know the minimum amount of RAM for full W10 is going to be 1 gig so I personally feared that the 735 would go from fast to only average in the span of a year or whenever W10 is released. It is also missing the camera button one of my favorite things about the lumia phones.
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nielsm posted:Comparing the specs and prices of 735 and 930 I just don't see the higher specs to be worth a 115% higher price to me. I might miss my camera button, but can probably live without it. "Fortunately", in my case I didn't need spend quite that much more than I would've had to spend to get a 735.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:No Snapchat is kind of stupid, but my current phone doesnt have it either so I guess its not the end of the world. Cortana apparently is not available in this country, either. I don't have Siri on my phone now so I don't know if Ill miss it, or if they'll spread it through the EU when Win10 comes out or if I can just set my region to the USA or something. Cortana isn't available in my country either. However I set my country to the UK, my regional format to my own country so the currency and time looks correct and OS language to English which enables it. You can set the keyboard language to your native language as well. So far it has been really good at understanding my English and contact names, but most town names are a lot more difficult for her. I really like having her though since it means I don't have to touch my phone at all while driving and making reminders works well. Her attempts at parsing messages in Dutch to read it to you are hilarious. I still have no idea what a Batish hub is, but it probably isn't related to someone getting well soon.  Setting it to US means that you get PM/AM times and no way to change that to proper 24 hour settings. The only annoying part is that the already fairly unreliable Bing has become worse and Google also seems to look at my phone settings to provide suggestions. Not that I ever use search suggestions, but it just annoys me when it starts suggesting completely wrong locations. Why yes, I'm near Amsterdam obviously I'm trying to find the Starbucks in Milwaukee which is apparently located in the UK.  I don't know which country you're in, but they are beta testing in several European countries such as Germany and I think France. You can get it via the developer preview app. I've had no problems with the Skype app. SMSing and Whatsapping works perfect for me which are the only ones I use. As far as I can tell though, Cortana can't access Whatsapp to send messages.  Wordflow was my first encounter with Swype and I have to say that it works really great, the phone has so far been almost perfect at getting the right words based around my erratic swyping in both languages I use. It does make texting a lot faster. Mapping works good, for the limited capacity that I use it. I have a 930 and I really like it, it's fast, it feels like you can use it to build a house and the screen makes WP look stunning enough that several Android users have commented on how good it looks compared to their phones. But it's the first high end phone I've ever had so my opinion is probably skewed since I don't have proper reference material and a screen is in my opinion not the best reason to buy a phone.
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The Lord Bude posted:Microsoft is apparently planning to bring Cortana to iOS and Android: I don't really see the problem here, not like Cortana will be able to do everything she foes on WP. She just an app on the other systems.
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UHD posted:Don't really understand the griping about no official YouTube app when MetroTube exists. It's easily the best YouTube app I've ever used, and it's totally free (you can buy the app for a dollar but the trial has no restrictions at all; I went ahead and bought it because it's great). I think I use youtube wrong, because I have no need for a youtube app at all and the browser suffices for me. All I know currently is that it annoys the hell out of me on my tablet when I click a youtube video and the thing asks me first if I want to play in browser or leave the browser and go to the youtube app to play it. What benefits are there for me to start using metrotube?
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I wish Cortana had a separate volume setting. While driving, to comfortably hear Cortana it needs to be in the 25-30 range, whereas any music I want to listen to needs to be in the 15-25 range depending on speed of the vehicle.
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Guillermus posted:drat it, I completely forgot that is april fools, in spain is the 28th December when we do all the silly jokes. I was about to try DOS on my lumia because I wish there was a dos ap, imagine all the odd badly optimized crap you could play with that.
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Drastic Actions posted:The filterable search box now works on Windows 10 for phones. This looks really neat Drastic!
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RVProfootballer posted:Windows 8+8.1 has ~15% market share, meaning tens of millions of users, and the store is a wasteland. Why is adding the minuscule WP userbase going to change that? Linking the desktop Windows wasteland to the phone Windows wasteland doesn't get you an amazing app store.
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