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I suspect the PPTV app broke IE somehow. the app probably has malware.

friends at a party were showing off the app so I downloaded it and tried it trying to show the cool kids WP7 has streaming pirated content in some funky Chinese language app too.
 
Just got a focus flash. Love this thing. I am new to smart phones and my bro offered to pay for an iPhone for me since i got a data plan now. Should i keep this or go for the iPhone 4? Is there a jailbreak for windows phone 7?
 
nick nacc said:
Just got a focus flash. Love this thing. I am new to smart phones and my bro offered to pay for an iPhone for me since i got a data plan now. Should i keep this or go for the iPhone 4? Is there a jailbreak for windows phone 7?
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Depends on what you like about WP7 and what you're looking for. Focus Flash, for all intents and purposes, is a budget/low end WP7 phone, so in terms of hardware, it's completely outclassed by the iPhone 4. If you have the option of upgrading, I'd take a strong look at a Focus S or HTC Titan, or the Lumia series (their high end model, the 900, comes out in March, but the 800 has gotten fantastic reviews and is Nokia's current "flagship" phone).
 
Was bored so I decided to complete the early GAF app design I did:

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You know what? While that's great work, I actually prefer the old webapp to that, especially after turning off the iOS icons.

I think this is one of the cases where Metro is a bit style over substance. It looks great, but it's less readable, and a bit confusing.
I do like the navigation, though.

The new webapp, I don't know. It's a shame that the ads will make it look much worse, but it was inevitable.
 
Anton Sugar said:
Depends on what you like about WP7 and what you're looking for. Focus Flash, for all intents and purposes, is a budget/low end WP7 phone, so in terms of hardware, it's completely outclassed by the iPhone 4. If you have the option of upgrading, I'd take a strong look at a Focus S or HTC Titan, or the Lumia series (their high end model, the 900, comes out in March, but the 800 has gotten fantastic reviews and is Nokia's current "flagship" phone).
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thanks man! Yeah phones were the tech area i didn't really care about because i could never afford a data plan. It blows me away that this is a lower grade phone its so damn zippy. I haven't done much to test it yet with games and such.

One thing that has bugged me is that i wanted to start playing words with friends with my wife. But it wasn't in the marketplace. I feel like i might run into that pretty often since the apps are still pretty limited.
 
nick nacc said:
thanks man! Yeah phones were the tech area i didn't really care about because i could never afford a data plan. It blows me away that this is a lower grade phone its so damn zippy. I haven't done much to test it yet with games and such.

One thing that has bugged me is that i wanted to start playing words with friends with my wife. But it wasn't in the marketplace. I feel like i might run into that pretty often since the apps are still pretty limited.
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Use Words by Post. Cross platform, and actually seems to be a better app than Words with Friends. I play with my gf, who has a 4S.
 
Tweet It! dev has just sent out beta of the revised app, it's more Metro now has tweet filtering to hide things like Foursquare etc that works, lists and favourites are visible options but not yet implimented, can switch on live tiles and toast notifications, toasts can have a window of time set for them to be active in IE 5pm - 10pm so as not to disturb you while at work or asleep.
 
Milchjon said:
You know what? While that's great work, I actually prefer the old webapp to that, especially after turning off the iOS icons.

I think this is one of the cases where Metro is a bit style over substance. It looks great, but it's less readable, and a bit confusing.
I do like the navigation, though.

The new webapp, I don't know. It's a shame that the ads will make it look much worse, but it was inevitable.
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I'm with you on this one. The original mockup without gradient a little bit back was best.
 
Anton Sugar said:
I like this, but can you try a white theme? Or something a little less contrasty? The font looks a little too big, too.

I wonder how difficult it would be to create this...
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I think that's one problem I have with many apps on the marketplace currently. Way too many developers have the idea that metro design is all about black backgrounds and high contrast, it's a lot more than that. Kind of funny, but the most visually stunning apps are food-based ones such as Epicurious, Pizza Hut, and the newly released Dominos Pizza app (hopefully that gets released in the US sooner than later). For native apps/hubs the best examples of apps with light backgrounds would be the xbox live hub and office hub. These apps I listed scream metro design, but don't go so far as using such high contrasty colors.
 
I'm beta testing two apps right now. The first is an update to the TWIT app. Its a redesign, with some performance tweaks, but I'm not seeing drastically better stuff on 3g, where it still lags behind YouTube etc. Hopefully there's some more updates for when you're not on WiFi.

The second is trapster, an app I remember using years ago on iPhone. It uses Bing maps now instead of google maps, and it looks nice. I also got a pretty quick lock on from the GPS, something other apps struggle with, like yelp for example.

Also, since loading ICS on the touchpad I noticed something I had forgotten about: android and ios apps update at a much more rapid clip than on windows phone. I've gotten a few updates to kindle and bouncy mouse on android, while their wp7 counterparts haven't gotten updates in that same time frame. Unfortunate.

That said, I have noticed an uptick recently on the amount of updates for the apps I have on my phone, so it does seem like the platform is getting increased attention from devs.
 
Sean said:
That all sounds good except for Tango which is IMO a horrible idea. It'd be one thing if they launched WP7 devices with 256mb RAM and then later upgraded the minimum requirements to 512mb, but cutting things in half after all developers were counting on a certain amount of RAM is just going backwards.
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To be fair, 256 MB was always the minimum in the hardware requirements.
 
Back when I got my Titan I wasn't really that impressed with the look of those Nokia phones but now that they've been around for awhile I'm starting to really like them.

Speaking of my Titan, I think the reception for both voice and data get worse every month. I can hardly keep a connection to the various web apps unless I'm at home on wi-fi. In love with it otherwise, but not having a good connection sort of kills it.
 
Sean said:
That all sounds good except for Tango which is IMO a horrible idea. It'd be one thing if they launched WP7 devices with 256mb RAM and then later upgraded the minimum requirements to 512mb, but cutting things in half after all developers were counting on a certain amount of RAM is just going backwards.
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What I wonder is does 256 RAM verses 512 RAM really save that much money considering Tango really isn't even hitting till Summer anyways?

I liken it to putting 1 gig of RAM in a laptop. Would you really save that much money putting a gig of RAM in a cheap laptop these days verses just throwing 2 gigs in there?

Plus it seems like 512 is the mass market sweet spot for RAM these days in most phones so you'd think since they are pumping out 512 that it would be cheaper by an economy of scale. Maybe I'm wrong on all of this though. I just feel like the current baseline of 800 x 480 screens and 512 RAM aren't exactly cutting edge tech. Considering you'd have to go back to an older screen res for smart phones of say 3 years ago with half the RAM I just wonder how that's really saving that much cash.

I don't know the specifics on these things like I said though.
 
I wouldn't even worry about Tango's 256mb. in the US, we probably won't see any phone with 256mb. carriers cover the cost of phones with their contracts.

in countries like Mexico, where phones are purchased at full price, it is a big deal. plus, angry birds is all they seem to care about anyway.
 
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