brotkasten
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The app looks great on Android (Material Design) and iOS (ivy Gradients), syncs across all platforms and has a web player, too.
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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The app looks great on Android (Material Design) and iOS (ivy Gradients), syncs across all platforms and has a web player, too.
lastflowers
Banned
lovely! New podcast app here I come!
They need to know if he h4x0r, so they can ban the app
Yay, good news!
The official app is lame. (I was using a 3rd party app, it was "ok" though)
Looks nice, but what does it offer the Podcast Lounge might not?
I only have 2-3 podcasts that I every really listen to and Podcast Lounge works well to automatically download them at night for me.
brotkasten
Member
Like I said, the biggest appeal is probably the cross-platform sync capability. It's available on iOS, Android, the web and soon on Windows. As someone who listens to podcasts on multiple devices, a service like this is really neat.
But to me it's just the fact that it looks really, really good. I could never stand how incredibly bad podcast apps look, especially on Windows Phone. I'm weird like that, as I've proven multiple times already.
The biggest downside is that it's a very premium experience, if you want it all. The iOS app is 4.99, Android 3.99 and the web player is $9 (one time free, no sub, 14 day trial). No cross-buy either. You don't need all of them and I'm sure it's too much "just" for podcasts.
But it's so pretty and polished.
http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2015/03/05/its-finally-here/
brotkasten
Member
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/in-depth-with-the-snapdragon-810s-heat-problems/
Snapdragon 810 throttling/heat test.
Snapdragon 810 throttling/heat test.
brotkasten
Member
Anyone else excited for a Windows Phone flagship now? You don't want that
I'm not exactly sure what you mean with variable speed playback on podcasts.
offs, I might as well dig up my Sony Ericsson K800i again, there'll never be a perfect phone
Listen to a podcast at 1.5 or 2x speed without affecting pitch. iOS has supported it since pretty much the beginning, so I listen to podcasts on my iPod Touch right now. Especially on news-driven podcasts this is a godsend. Just as listenable as ever, but I can listen to twice as many episodes in the same amount of time.
killer rin
Member
Oh FFS, we just have terrible luck. Always get the previous years CPU... and when it looks like we might actually get a top of the line, this happens. We finally get confirmation of a new flagship and then it comes out that the top of the line CPUs is worse than previous models due to wanting to just throw a product on the market to catch up to apple.
That said, the article mentioned a battery hit, I wonder how much it actually is
I wish I could get a 930 (Damn you Robellus!)
I'm upgrading to an Android phone if that's the flagship CPU.
1 year, 4 months, 4 days after the iOS release Cut the Rope 2 finally hits Windows Phone.
Cut the Rope 2
Where's your god now, CrackBerry?
Cut the Rope 2
Where's your god now, CrackBerry?
Cool, never played it (but I liked the others).
Where is the Xbox label though? Please ID@Xbox, you have to restructure this.
For real, that's messed up. You are the one who are making videogames and Gamecenter (and the gaming service on Android, I forgot its name) have a better integration than Xbox on WP...
Where is the Xbox label though? Please ID@Xbox, you have to restructure this.
For real, that's messed up. You are the one who are making videogames and Gamecenter (and the gaming service on Android, I forgot its name) have a better integration than Xbox on WP...
It's quite sad that a third party publisher is becoming more efficient with publishing Xbox enabled games than Microsoft.
Gametroopers got two games out there already with another 4 just around the corner.
frontieruk
Member
Can't really count that though, that was just us buying 635's to throw wp10 preview on next quarter will be back to stagnant...
lastflowers
Banned
brotkasten
Member
Quick knee jerk reactions to the quarterly results.
Surface revenue up, dat accessory margins
Xbox is dying, selling less of everything than last year (serves them right for offering nothing compelling in the first half of the year)
They keep selling more Lumia phones for 0 dollar
Windows is going down, down, down
Cloud to the rescue!
Surface revenue up, dat accessory margins
Xbox is dying, selling less of everything than last year (serves them right for offering nothing compelling in the first half of the year)
They keep selling more Lumia phones for 0 dollar
Windows is going down, down, down
Cloud to the rescue!
antiquegamer
Member
While I don't think Microsoft is near death, but Brot has a point, the downward spiral of Windows licensing is really tell tale sign. Let hope all their other ventures can quickly replace the lost in revenue from licensing of Windows.
Lumia sale look OK until you see the profit margin, Xbox is pretty terrible consider all the momentum they have at the end of last year.
Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.
5 billion ain't half bad either, and the margins may not be Apples, but still seem healthy enough.
juliushandle
Member
T-mobile will sell the 940 for $89. That's a damn good price and will probably hit $60 sale prices in a matter of weeks. Will the 940XL be priced around $130?
You wish!
juliushandle
Member
Whoops, I meant 640 and 640XL.
Why the duck do you want that?
brotkasten
Member
I see. I've asked the developers and Pocket Casts definitely does that ("of course, no one likes chipmunks!") and if you have an Android device, you can try Podcast Addict (free app, using it right now). It does that as well, I think.
Cool, I'll give it a shot when it's released.
The cross-platform aspect doesn't matter to me as I only listen on my phone, but I like apps that look good and function well so I might as well give them a few dollars to try it out.
runningjoke
Member
So you can have a small on screen keyboard with swype support, I don't want to type with 2 hands when I'm sitting on a couch
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Bought a note 4. I'll keep an eye out for the next lumia, but I'm bowing out of the platform for now. I've had a windows phone continuously since wp7, so it's kinda sad, but the app situation finally got too bad for me. I'll still post here just like the other former wp users who no longer own the phone.
lastflowers
Banned
and right before //build!
It's not like everything is going to change during Build. And if MS announces a legit flagship device it will probably not be available until late November.
I also expect the majority of software from Microsoft to be released on other platforms.
Microsoft insider confirms new flagship to be announced at build.
brotkasten
Member
Props to you for buying a Samsung before they fixed TouchWiz.