brotkasten
Member
That's sad. I mean, it's... it's so Blackberry. Truly a sign of defeat.
e: But it's not all doom and gloom! Even Blass (@evleaks) says Microsoft is planing to launch the new flagships in September.
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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That's sad. I mean, it's... it's so Blackberry. Truly a sign of defeat.
e: But it's not all doom and gloom! Even Blass (@evleaks) says Microsoft is planing to launch the new flagships in September.
The Cowboy
Member
This is the one game i am truly sad that isn't on WP, i do love a TCG and i could spend so much time on this.
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Question.
I have a Lumia 640, on a couple of racing games (Asphalt 8 & SBK15) i use the tilt to steer but its clear my tilting sensor (or whatever it is) is not quite central, with the phone perfectly level the bikes or cars steer to the left and i have to tilt the phone slightly to the right to drive strait.
Is there no way to calibrate the tilting on WP?, i looked in the settings and can't see anything to do it and that weird figure of 8 twisting thing (to calibrate) doesn't seem to do anything to fix it (if that even works on the phones) - Its only off by a few degrees (used an app to test it).
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
That app is garbage no matter what platform. Just more crap software from Sony holding back a promising concept.
Any tips on how to import photos from my phone with Windows 10?
I did it initially, and while it took a while - using Photos app - it doesn't work on follow up plug-ins. It scanned my entire phone again, took ages, and wanted to re-import everything... Someone know a way to re-install the Win8 app?
I did it initially, and while it took a while - using Photos app - it doesn't work on follow up plug-ins. It scanned my entire phone again, took ages, and wanted to re-import everything... Someone know a way to re-install the Win8 app?
Tom says October
No, was reading reddit.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The Faceless Master
Member
it used to be trash despite it doing nothing. they recently made it suck less.
It's not a difficult app yes, but some apps like Casper (Snapchat third party app) runs well.
It's pretty good for an old build of this project.
lastflowers
Banned
Astral/H3X
Member
It can have it's uses! I'd like to have it for usage when I need it instead of having to whip out my Razr M haha.
Is this the thing you are working on?
lastflowers
Banned
Astoria is the thing I'm working on: (https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/android)
Not going to say anything else about it, unfortunately.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Is... is it cool?
http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-10-mobile/373836-5.htm#post3189869
this
so basically I tested this out, found some problems, fixed those problems and then couldn't find any apps that I actually wanted to download. guess the app gap is a lot smaller than it used to be
this
Are you porting Fling?
lastflowers
Banned
reading the speculation and conversation is interesting. The project is the most technically interesting thing I've ever worked on.
Was thinking the same. Though maybe I might use a Scoutmob app. I doubt it though, since my wife has an Android phone and we don't use it on hers.
Yeah, I remember you mentioning you were working on it, so I was curious if you'd respond at all!
I am sure it's neat, and always nice to see people commenting on what you've worked so hard on, but of course there's that part of you that wishes they had the newest tools, to really see it.
Hope it's been fun for your team to finally see some public comments on your work though.
It sounds very neat.
If the bank apps are coming back to windows phone using this... then don't reply to this message..
Oh and I appreciate MS making this effort to level playing field finally
brotkasten
Member
"This" is entirely down to preference. You can't tell the people who need banking apps that the gap has closed. And the other primary issue, aside from the lack of apps, is the quality and feature parity. When it's fine for you, that's great. I could switch back to WP without many issues (Pocket Casts is now there, yay!), but some apps like Spotify would definitely annoy me.
So apparently the dev behind Casper is looking into Casper on Windows Phone thanks to Astoria.
Facebook page.
Facebook page.
I thought snapchat was shutting down all 3rd party apps? or is it only 3rd party apps on WP?
As Brot says, it's no longer all about the "app gap", which is still there, but not as huge of a problem as before, but now it's about feature parity. My most used app being Spotify still hasn't gotten feature parity with the other mobile OS', and this after being available on Windows Phone since around 2011.
brotkasten
Member
I'm not sure if it helps, but Groove is getting Sonos support.
That does sound interesting. Will it be complete integration or similar to 'send to' which ive seen elsewhere?
I do remember an article somewhere a while back saying that sonos was in alpha/beta, just not heard anything for a long time so I thought maybe its dead.
brotkasten
Member
I understand you can't say anything, but I do hope someone at MS goes more in-depth about this and project islandwood. Interested why you guys went for a wrapper or emulator approach with Android apps but recompile IOS app code.
frontieruk
Member
I'm using grove on my sonos, but I'm still on android for the app
Its integrated, so you add it like any other service.
brotkasten
Member
I thought about it and then forgot it again. I have no reason to replace the Google Now Launcher and I'm not sure what Microsoft's launcher brings to the table.
However, the news about Cortana is exciting. I hope they can get voice activation to work. At least once the screen is turned on.
Sky Interloper
Member
I saw the APK loader during the weekend. Impressive work, but the real problem of the Windows ecosystem is keeping developers committed to the platform. Just look at the state of Instagram for an example.
I believe there's a limit of 10 per device if you don't have a developer account.
Lucky I do have a dev account, just have not been keeping up to date. Although I can only think of 2 android apps I want to side load
Went ahead and loaded w10 mobile on my backup 635.
Interesting.. after running w10 on surface and PC for a week I feel the symmetry but man it was a tough adjustment for me... my beloved segue fonts ... circles? Circles? really?
Not a fan of only having light theme for email want dark options throughout please...
After a few more adjustments it's all starting to grow on me. Contact interaction feels neutered compared to 8.1. not as able to edit from all instances of name as we were in 8.1 afaikt.
Also ...is it a known Issue that when composing a text that the text entry box does not expand to display the message you have typed? Mine stays on the bottom and to see what I'm typing I have to scroll through the little box 2 lines at a time to read what I have written. Assuming a bug?
Otoh, allegedly a new release jumping 151x may come this week according to Tom warren
Also concerned larger phones will suck for one handed use with the submission to the top hamburger menus instead of being optimized for bottom and one hand (people didn't like them with pivots? Really?) this is worse
Thank god they listened and put URL bar on bottom of Edge
Interesting.. after running w10 on surface and PC for a week I feel the symmetry but man it was a tough adjustment for me... my beloved segue fonts ... circles? Circles? really?
Not a fan of only having light theme for email want dark options throughout please...
After a few more adjustments it's all starting to grow on me. Contact interaction feels neutered compared to 8.1. not as able to edit from all instances of name as we were in 8.1 afaikt.
Also ...is it a known Issue that when composing a text that the text entry box does not expand to display the message you have typed? Mine stays on the bottom and to see what I'm typing I have to scroll through the little box 2 lines at a time to read what I have written. Assuming a bug?
Otoh, allegedly a new release jumping 151x may come this week according to Tom warren
Also concerned larger phones will suck for one handed use with the submission to the top hamburger menus instead of being optimized for bottom and one hand (people didn't like them with pivots? Really?) this is worse
Thank god they listened and put URL bar on bottom of Edge