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claviertekky said:
I thought it was falling apart.
If anyone has deep pockets (and don't want to wait), the HTC Titan has US 3G bands (850/1900):
http://www.clove.co.uk/htc-titan
http://www.clove.co.uk/htc-titan
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my pockets are like my personality.DrFunk said:
shallow.
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A Mango-updated Arrive doesn't appeal to you I take it?claviertekky said:
As much as I prefer a hardware keyboard over a touchscreen keyboard, I want a touchscreen only device for reliability.XiaNaphryz said:
I owned a Touch Pro 1 before owning the Touch Diamond. Within a month, the TP1 wouldn't stop spastically flipping horizontally and vertically every two seconds because it kept thinking the keyboard popped out, but it wasn't. I feel the same issue will apply for any phone using a slide-out keyboard. Those phones aren't meant to last as those mechanical triggers indicating horizontal/vertical screen position can wear out any time.
Luckily, for my TP1, it was insured by squaretrade, and I received all my money back minus the warranty purchase.
Man, this facebook generator video thingy for Windows Phone people hub is pretty cool.
http://www.au-windowsphone.jp/
http://www.au-windowsphone.jp/
kharma45 said:
You can hardly blame them though. Microsoft are doing fuck-all to support the platform in the UK. There's no advertising, no hype. My experience of dealing with the piecemeal Windows Phone customer support from Microsoft was abysmal and full of misinformation.
You can't expect vendors to do the hard work for them, not when Apple have another mega-hyped phone on the horizon and the Android phones have the budget sector catered for.
Without proper support, WP7 has no place in the market. It's ironic really. For years Microsoft struggled without a decent consumer phone platform. Now that they have one, they are screwing it over with the way they sell and support it.
Sorry if this was already posted but I found it interesting. W8 to run WP7 apps?
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/windows-8-will-run-windows-phone-7-apps/22539/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-8-successor-to-windows-7-will-run-windows-phone-7-apps-2/
Apparently NVIDIAs CEO Jen-Hsun Huang let it slip. I think this would definitely be a boon for both WP7 and W8 (tablet at least).
Coincidentally (or not) ... check this out
http://wmpoweruser.com/phonegap-html5-development-framework-comes-to-windows-phone-7-5/
MS has helped Nitobi bring their PhoneGap HTML5 developer framework to WP7 Mango. It allows developers to use a 3rd dev alternative. So now instead of using either Silverlight or XNA, one can use HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Interestingly ... the same languages/scripting environment thus far announced for non-desktop W8 apps.
hmmmmm ....
http://www.1800pocketpc.com/windows-8-will-run-windows-phone-7-apps/22539/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-8-successor-to-windows-7-will-run-windows-phone-7-apps-2/
Apparently NVIDIAs CEO Jen-Hsun Huang let it slip. I think this would definitely be a boon for both WP7 and W8 (tablet at least).
Coincidentally (or not) ... check this out
http://wmpoweruser.com/phonegap-html5-development-framework-comes-to-windows-phone-7-5/
MS has helped Nitobi bring their PhoneGap HTML5 developer framework to WP7 Mango. It allows developers to use a 3rd dev alternative. So now instead of using either Silverlight or XNA, one can use HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Interestingly ... the same languages/scripting environment thus far announced for non-desktop W8 apps.
hmmmmm ....
It ddoesn't help users, developers or the platform to run touch optimized phone apps on a a bigger screen touch tablet/ mouse drive desktop.Raistlin said:
Now this would be a boon.Raistlin said:
Any word on more websites giving wp7 mango the proper webpages? I'm honestly wasn't expecting the difference between after google flipped the switch to be so dramatic. So my wishlist list:
tethering (usb, bluetooth and wifi)
homebrew/jailbreak solution
download manager (background and scheduled)
notification center.
Greyface said:
USB tethering is available on some phones and it works for Mango too. Don't see the use for bluetooth tethering. Wifi tethering already shown but no one knows the unlock method yet.
There's an official jailbreak method for a small fee already being setup at http://labs.chevronwp7.com/.
The way podcasts subscription work already do both background and scheduled downloads.
The way live tiles work kind of circumvent a need for a more robust notification center, I'll say probably Apollo if we do see anything here.
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I hope it won't be released. I lost my Nodo backup and would have to flash the RTM rom again, which is a pain in the ass.Copernicus said:
usb tethering doesn't work with macs. i want bluetooth and/or wifi tethering by hook or by crook like i can get on ios, webos, android, symbian and blackberry os. Heck, even the wp 6.5 offered tethering.Totakeke said:
yeah, microsoft already said they were going to neuter that.Totakeke said:
add that to the browser and offer that to third party apps with an api. I should also add that I'd like a decent file management system attached to this,Totakeke said:
i prefer the live tiles to app icons/bagdes on ios but it doesn't make up for a notification center. i can't make every app a live tlle. The toasts were better than the alerts in ios but the new ones in iOS5 have almost caught up.Totakeke said:
Greyface said:
I believe the takeaway is not that WP apps run on W8, but that apps designed for such things, will be able to run on any device compatible with the ecosystem (W8/WP/etc). So you are not purchasing a phone app that can run on a tablet. You are purchasing an app that can then be run on a tablet or a phone or a desktop, depending on what device you have or are using at the time.
A presentation layer that molds to the device and communicates to a consistent business layer is pretty simple design. The only possible issue is that file download sizes might be increased a little in order to accommodate whatever number of display/input types a developer chooses to support.
I believe wifi tethering is already confirmed for Mango.
it's 'confirmed' for mango in the same way usb tethering is 'confirmed' for nodo i.e. available on a few handsets after hacking the code the manufacturer left in.JaggedSac said:
Microsoft effectively said that they'll limit what it can do. Consider it like sideloading apps on android versus rooting an android phone. it'll be like installing the amazon marketplace i guess.Totakeke said:
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Totakeke said:
No, he means that Chevron WP7 won't allow you to run native code on the device (i.e. registry editors, etc.) it will just let you dev and deploy your own XNA and Silverlight based applications without signing up to be a developer.
It will give you the ability to run homebrew apps in the same vein as the ones you find in the marketplace.. it won't give you access to parts of the system that normal apps don't have access to.
Yeah that was an earlier post regarding that from brotkasten.wwm0nkey said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30777700&postcount=11500
brotkasten said:HTC users are lucky. The final Mango roms for the Trophy, 7 Pro, HD7 and Mozart leaked.
http://www.winrumors.com/htc-trophy-hd7-and-pro-windows-phone-7-5-mango-roms-leak/
Maaaan, that stuff never happens with LG phones.(at least I can dev unlock my phone whenever I want and for free
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Cheers for the heads up! I'm going to try this on my 7 Pro :*)
Edit: Actually, it wipes the phone clean first. I might hold off and hope I can upgrade from the RTM when it officially hits.
Running phone apps on a tablet has no use? *looks at iPad and Android*Greyface said:
Having apps that can run on both is never a bad idea IMO. It gives the consumers a larger selection of SW and can work well for devs if the dev environment is well implemented and the framework/OS can handle things like resizing, etc.
The point is you create synergy between the two. That can create a dev boon for both platforms.
Yes, but I think it does tie to the former point (assuming it's true).
Not necessarily.Totakeke said:
WP7 was hacked - that's what the Chevron team was from. However MS offered them work on an official homebrew solution and patched the original exploit in NoDo.
Assuming that doesn't give what people are looking for, I would expect some other person/team will take a run at hacking Mango.
Not.true. webOS had less marketshare than WP7 and yet has a more vibrant hacking scene and more useful homebrew apps. indeed all the items on my wishlist for WP7 were provided by the homebrew patches on webOS. That's partly why it pisses me off so much that Microsoft is dicking around the chevron team and homebrew users by extension.Totakeke said:
brotkasten
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Did you miss the photo of the new internet sharing setting that was shown for the first time in the Mango RTM build? It has nothing to do with NoDo.Greyface said:
That's an OS setting, probably enabled by your carrier.
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probably NOT enabled by your carrier, as is more likely the case. sadly.brotkasten said:Did you miss the photo of the new internet sharing setting that was shown for the first time in the Mango RTM build? It has nothing to do with NoDo.
That's an OS setting, probably enabled by your carrier.
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MagniHarvald said:
In the phone app.. go to call settings (use the ...) at the very top, it should say what number you're using.
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that's what i was sort of getting at. the carriers are likely to make us pay extra for tethering. hopefully someone finds a way of enabling it. the reason it isn't enabled by default is because carriers don't want it enabled by default.brotkasten said:
because they want to charge us.
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yea its pretty bullshit.giga said:
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