Steelyuhas
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Is there a consensus on the best twitter app? I just downloaded birdsong and rowi.
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Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
People hub is fine for just checking your feed. It sucks for # stuff.
I'm not big into hashtags, so it's not a big deal for me. It's also kinda a bummer it seems to only go back as far as 3 hours or so, depending on how many tweets there are.
Steelyuhas
Member
I was using the official one, but I really was live tile and notifications.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
The official one always lags out for me, and I get errors when trying to do more than just check my feed and post.
Guess I'll send a inquiry in tomorrow about that and ask if we could get an update with more features and bug fixes.
foodtaster
Banned
anyone else thing WP7 should be renamed to something simple? Perhaps "Metro?"
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Anything that doesn't have the word Windows in it works for me. The most difficult part of getting people to give the OS a chance is the name. A co-worker already switched and a few family members are considering the switch from ios.
Leona Lewis
Banned
That makes so much sense. "Windows Phone 7" sounds too workmanlike, too enterprise-y, and it doesn't reflect the interface's carefree and inviting elegance.
I've been using Birdsong for awhile now. It seemed to have the best performance over all the apps I tried (ie. smoothest scrolling).
Gonna bring the heat after using rowi and bingsong each for a long time. Best WP7 twitter app right now is mehdoh. Only twitter app that effectively saved my last read location and spit out my feed from oldest to newest instead of backwards from latest tweets to where I left off. Plus I really like opening a link/video/picture within the app or saving it via Read it Later. Easily the best twitter app I've used so far.
http://www.mehdoh.com/
Darth Tigris
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Unless you look at Live Tiles as little windows into the apps and the info they contain. Then the name Windows Phone makes more sense than anything else with the name Windows.
Leona Lewis
Banned
So maybe they can call it Windows Live? It catches both metaphors at once :-D
somuchwater
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I just downloaded Mehdoh. It's $0.99 and it seems good. Live Tiles, checks for new mentions/DMs in the background etc.
I've said they should rebrand windows completely.... The live tiles have nothing to do with "windows" anymore. I've seen some suggestions but the best one I've seen is to simply rebrand it "tiles". (the live tiles would make a ton more sense and would tie into live.com and xbox live better)
Rebrand Windows 8, Windows Phone 7/8, xbox etc to Tiles 1.0 (of course they would never do this because they have some odd fascination with the word windows).
I downloaded it, but it is so damn plain. Metro apps can have color.
As promised there are some pictures of the cyan version of the Lumia. I am seriously impressed with the feel and build quality of this phone. The only phone really to match my impression for the first iPhone (aluminium back).
When you first hold it, you'll be nicely surprised by the matt texture of the high quality plastic, it almost feels like metal. Then when you look further, there are no seams or gaps. It is perfect. It is also nicely weighted. I like my electronics to have a bit of weight to it, makes me think it has been built with high quality.
Then you turn on the screem, and it is absolutely beautiful. The black backgrounds of Windows Phone just melt into the screen, the text and images look like the are floating on top of the surface. OLED really is the only way forward from now on. Ive tried in my pictures to bring out how images float on the surface. I was worried about the pentile subpixel matrix beforehand, and while at times i do notice it, its not an issue at all frankly and won't hesistate again.
Some small negatives on an overall impressive phone: Charging takes a while, although there is an update out that supposedly alleviates this, with another down the road. The screen picks up fingerprints quite easily. Apart from that i seriously recommend this phone to anyone on the fence.
Brightness of phones: WP7 Auto, iPhone: 50% auto
Damon Bennet
Member
looks super hot in cyan
Frustrated_me
Member
That is such a beautiful phone. Since the first day I saw the 800 I wanted one. I use a Iphone 4s in an Apple eco-system at home, but the flagship device thats supposed to be coming early next year might get me to swap at my next contract. The Windows metro OS is just awesome and with a phone like that? Pfft.
brotkasten
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It's a great looking device, but I'd love it even more without the polycarbonate case. Imagine the front just being the curved glass. Smaller, lighter and it would fit even better in the hand. Right now it looks like the phone I described, with a bumper/case.
Psychotext
Member
Nice photos.
Frustrated_me
Member
Yeah any brighter and those photos would have a Verge feel to them 
Yeah any brighter and those photos would have a Verge feel to them
Probably some influence there.
Because it's what I have lying around the house...?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
If that 800 comes to the US with an FFC and an improved camera, I will regret purchasing the Focus S.
That's probably all he had available.
Damon Bennet
Member
No he chose that over iPhone 4s to give the lumia a fake advantage over the other phones. I am sure that is the reason!
If the 900 comes out with an even more refined design, I too will have a small sense of regret with my purchase.
Psychotext
Member
It was that mentality that had me hold onto a phone for the last 4 years. 
I did a test photo of the Lumia. The lighting conditions are not perfect but the same as all the pictures above. I need more time with it though.
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brotkasten
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They promised to improve the cam with a fw update or two. I hope they can deliver.
Damon Bennet
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It was that mentality that had me hold onto a phone for the last 4 years.
i could not do that.
I am happy with the way I do it. Buy the best phone of a wave shortly before the new wave of phones is coming, because that is when that phone has a perfect balance of still current tech and a cheap price point. Thats why I bought an Omnia 7 this August and am greatly happy with it. When I see all those shiny focus s and lumia handsets I am a bit jealous, but the next phone I will buy will be in mid 2013, probably one of the first gen WP8 handsets.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I can't buy a phone until 2013 either......on contract. The contract stuff didn't stop me from having 3 different phones on 3 different ecosystems last year. Although I'm not proud of that, so my aim is to only buy one new phone next year: A Nexus S on eBay to replace my Nexus One as my backup phone.
In a way I'm almost glad that my contract has another 8 months or so before renewal - I'd imagine the 900 would be available then!
Pandora gets an unofficial release in MetroRadio. Free app, i've just tried it and so far so good, pretty good quality too.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/0caac4aa-962f-483b-9c26-76a3d8a1fd10
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/0caac4aa-962f-483b-9c26-76a3d8a1fd10
brotkasten
Member
Not in Europe, lol.
Well I do hope Scandinavia gets the 900 early since we have been left out in the cold when it comes to the Lumia 800 (Nokia Norway has said that they believe Lumia 800 would hit Norway around February 2012).
Well the unofficial explanation behind that is that Scandinavia got the N9 and Nokia wanted to make sure as many countries as possible got at least some kind of Nokia flagship phone for the holidays despite the limited availability. There's no countries atm with both N9 and 800 available.
Realistically speaking, to design a phone from ground up, probably takes around 18-24 months with all the testing etc.
The deal with nokia was done in Febuary and considering everything inside the phone is different, it is quite impressive that they manged to get a phone out this year.
I suspect the Apollo phones will be mightily impressive, although i am slightly sceptical of Nokia additions beyond applications (which is what they should stick to).
The deal with nokia was done in Febuary and considering everything inside the phone is different, it is quite impressive that they manged to get a phone out this year.
I suspect the Apollo phones will be mightily impressive, although i am slightly sceptical of Nokia additions beyond applications (which is what they should stick to).
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