It's free with ads or $4.99 for the ad-free version on iOS. They can't or shouldn't charge a premium, just because they're the first multi protocol messenger on Windows Phone. This is ridiculous.Tomcat said:
brotkasten said:
Not with the current browser. You should try it, though. The results were pretty funny, iirc. This should change with IE9.Earl Cazone said:
The real problem is that the standard IM+ app is free on iOS. The Pro app might be just as expensive, but the standard IM+ app offers all the functionality you need, for free. On WP you get a gimped version for the same price as IM+ Pro.Charred Greyface said:
Back then the IM+ Pro iOS version was gimped as well. iOS had no multitasking when the instant messaging apps launched on the platform and many of the apps didn't support all the protocols. The first one I bought was Beejive and it cost $16 and didn't support facebook chat. Even now, Beejive costs $10 and it doesn't come in a universal version so the iPhone and iPad apps cost $20 in total. Apart from the xbox live games, which I rarely buy, I haven't found the apps on WP7 marketplace to be as expensive as their counterparts on other platforms.brotkasten said:
Windows Phone doesn't even support Japanese in any way right now and I haven't heard much of Japanese carriers being excited about WP Mango. The Fujitsu Windows Phones might change that, but I doubt there will be a big impact.MCD said:
It's just the N9, nothing to see here.PG2G said:
Gillian Seed said:
Cerebral Assassin said:
Gillian Seed said:
There are "Wallpaper apps" on the marketplace. But just google some pictures, it is much better and easier. Regarding games I would recommend:Gillian Seed said:
XI've been waiting for an IM messenger since the day I got the phone. However, there's no way in hell I'd ever pay 8.99 for it. I don't even know if it's any good, if they'll support it in the future, if everything works good enough for me to use, etc. They should at least give us a trial.brotkasten said:
I watched the event (shoutout to mango at ~36:30, N9 stuff starts at ~43:20). There's some interesting stuff there. The N9 is gorgeous, I much prefer that curved look to the boxy iPhone 4 (the dude also got in a dig at the antenna haha). The phone's 960 x 540 resolution is the highest on an Nokia phone so far, and gives me hope that a WP7 manufacturer might go beyond the 800 x 480 requirement. The N9 has NFC built in and Nokia has made NFC headphones and NFC stereo speakers to work with it, pretty cool. One more interesting capability of the phone is the low powered screen mode so the the time is displayed when locked. I'd love to see any of those features in a WP7 handset.brotkasten said:It's just the N9, nothing to see here.
Like I said, it's way too early to announce the Windows Phone, especially after the "we're going Apple-secrecy style" comments or something like that.
I understood it to be that 800x480 is Microsoft's minimum and Nokia is allowed to do anything they want. I'm not holding my breath but I have some hope now. That N9 screen is certainly impressive anyway, i don't think even samsung makes amoled (or is that samoled?) phone screens with resolutions that high (yet).NotTarts said:
I'm not entirely sure, but I'm still pretty certain that it's the required resolution, not the minimum. Like with the rest of the hardware, Microsoft is trying to keep it consistent across devices.Greyface said:
I'm sure the guys at XDA-Developers will do everything they can to make it available to everyone.derFeef said:You need to tell us everything and we will bombard you with questions and requests. This will be no fun for you!
When Elop and Ballmer announced the partnership in February, Elop said they'd still release a MeeGo device this year. I thought it would be a tablet, since Microsoft doesn't have anything, but I guess I was wrong (as usualthirty said:
). Maybe the device was too far in development and they put too much money in it and MeeGo?
I see it as fulfilling a contractual obligation, as well as testing the waters of the market. The phone design is unique and kind of cute. I hope to see it in WP7 form one day.thirty said:
