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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
- Thread starter brotkasten
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I ended up using the small version. It is slightly better than it was earlier but still not great.
juliushandle
Member
i don't think i have a bluetooth button (i think), i just have the stupid "speak icon" button that activates my in car commands, not cortana.
Because PEOPLE ARE CIRCLES, brot, What is so hard to understand.
That's the button I meant, when I hit that it says Cortana on the DIS. I'll test it again to make sure when I get a chance and I remember.
I used to use that one too. Now I've moved over to TV Blaze. Similar enough and has decent live tile functionality with the paid version.
What, in the name of fuck, Facebook?
Also, is anyone else getting around 5 absolutely useless FB notifications a day now? Fucking annoying.
Well, do you know him?
My cars (well car and van) are like that as well, and neither will connect to Cortana directly using it. However, when you connect to your vehicle it should add a Cortana entry in your phone book. If you call it (I set it as a quick dial in my vehicles) then it will trigger Cortana to listen for your commands. It's not quite a one press Cortana button, but it's close enough.
Someone will be single in the new year.
juliushandle
Member
Awesome, gonna try this
Oooooooooooooooooo
Probably.
Steelyuhas
Member
HarryDemeanor
Member
Only the black 950 is available unlocked?
Why Microsoft, why?
Why Microsoft, why?
I laughed too hard at this.
LMAO
Cue the PS4 stability gif.
Anton Sugar
Member
hankster
Member
Oh your gonna get one of them haht Mozo back shells anyway....
Where did you order, any good deals? (I want to do the same thing but I know I will come back with a blue eye...)
It's about the same price from the UK MS store if you factor in the 5% Quidco cashback.
Forgot about that. Was just looking at Amazon.de and the XL was £506 to pre-order with them.
With a new build just around the corner, I have to say that I'm still really happy with the last one.
Ordinarily, you wouldn't expect builds to deteriorate in a weeks time (because that's fucking mental and not even Android goes to shit that quickly), but since it happened before it's good to see that the last one hasn't at all.
It has been stable outside of a few app problems (Audible starts stuttering until a restart for instance, though that may be the app rather than the build) and battery life has been far more predictable and much improved.
There's still some bugs, but they all seem quite minor now. Edge could certainly be faster and there's more polish needed in places, but I think it's fair to say that the thing is finally almost ready.
Ordinarily, you wouldn't expect builds to deteriorate in a weeks time (because that's fucking mental and not even Android goes to shit that quickly), but since it happened before it's good to see that the last one hasn't at all.
It has been stable outside of a few app problems (Audible starts stuttering until a restart for instance, though that may be the app rather than the build) and battery life has been far more predictable and much improved.
There's still some bugs, but they all seem quite minor now. Edge could certainly be faster and there's more polish needed in places, but I think it's fair to say that the thing is finally almost ready.
Yeah I'm real happy with the most recent build. I've been waiting for performance to take a shit but thankfully it hasn't happened yet. Oddly the only app I have a problem with is Pinball FX, which is a W10 app.
Also noticed some nice improvements to the maps app last night. Cortana's voice took over as the new default, they offer multiple routes to choose from, and finally they let you know if the destination is on the left or right side.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
lastflowers
Banned
Still not a huge fan of many of the animations. They all seem very bad to me, lacking the beauty and polish of the earlier releases. That being said, I'm only using the OS on a bad piece of hardware, which probably accentuates animation frame rate issues.
I'm looking forward to finally stealing a coworkers' more up to date engineering device and playing around with it for a while.
Pretty sure I'm moving to T-Mobile, as they'll eat my Verizon cancellation fee
I'm looking forward to finally stealing a coworkers' more up to date engineering device and playing around with it for a while.
Pretty sure I'm moving to T-Mobile, as they'll eat my Verizon cancellation fee
On desktop/laptop I don't care to use an app vs a web
browser. On mobile I'd rather use apps.
+ Xbox One
Yes please but 950.
What phone do you use now?
I'd imagine that around half the people are like you in that they don't use apps on a desktop or laptop.
The other half will at least use some apps, though. Mail, Weather, maybe Netflix and a few other things like casual games etc. and maybe around half of those will use apps quite a lot.
Obviously that's just a complete guess, it would be really interesting to see MS release some actual numbers.
If I'm right or in the right ball park, that's a huge number of people that could already be using app A,B,C but can't because it's not there and that number is quickly growing. If it's around 60 million now, it will be 100 million at some point next year.
To not target an audience as large as that strikes me as strange. If it doesn't happen Windows 10 has failed.
lastflowers
Banned
Qualcomm reference device. Trust me, you don't want it...perfect for engineering though