NeOak
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Hard to believe, isn't it?
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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Hard to believe, isn't it?
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
5.5-inch and priced at ¥50,000 ($424)
The mid-range flagship we deserve.
Edit: My only complain is that the bottom bezel is yuuuuge, yet it uses Windows's trash-tier virtual buttons. SMH.
Japanese Win Phone all look awesome. Thing is, they are for business market. With no consumer apps ready for the public, don't expect it to take off in Japan any time soon.
MS just loves to fuck up everything everywhere. They have cool looking devices over there and Surface is doing well too but nope, let's not do anything and focus on AMERIKA.
MS just loves to fuck up everything everywhere. They have cool looking devices over there and Surface is doing well too but nope, let's not do anything and focus on AMERIKA.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Microsoft truly is the SEGA of phones.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I'm a huge fan of the Weather app.
brotkasten
Member
But would you says you're a yuuuge fan?
Trump ruined the word "huge" for me, because his pronunciation always comes to mind.
2 versions on the store, make sure you pick the right one (don't select the search suggestion, just search for the names)
brotkasten
Member
Only the front though, which looks like every other phone (part of the criticism of the current Lumia design). The back is completely different.
brotkasten
Member
What? No. It absolutely does not look anything like the 950 or 950 XL.
The curves and lines are completely different, too.
I do and I'll still wait for a discounted 950 XL unless by the time that happens it's surface phone time.
What? No. It absolutely does not look anything like the 950 or 950 XL.
The curves and lines are completely different, too.
Looks very similar to me, similar curves and bulges.
Obviously the 950's camera is different and it doesn't have these ugly things at the top and bottom.
I was thinking the same thing.
brotkasten
Member
It's okay to believe that, as long as you know that you're wrong.
HOW
Poodlestrike
Banned
Frankly, to me at least, most phones look pretty much the same. They're all using the exact same design language these days.
juliushandle
Member
sexy
lol. I see two phones with slightly rounded sides at the back. Only differences are those strange square things and speaker holes on the back of the Sony one. Am I missing a detail somewhere? I imagine the metal would feel quite a bit nicer though.
What? No. It absolutely does not look anything like the 950 or 950 XL.
The curves and lines are completely different, too.
Reminds me of the awful HTC Flyer
JohnnyWestlake
Banned
Awful? I got that for £99 and used it everywhere in Uni for note taking and web browsing. That little thing was top notch!
It launched at £480, was a single core CPU in a world of dual cores and running android 2.3 rather than 3.0. It came out a year too late for what it was and the iPad 2 obliterated it.
JohnnyWestlake
Banned
Yeah, but, it had a reeeeeally good stylus / pen for the time. Granted I never would have bought it at £480, and I even got the 3G model!
Makes me miffed that despite Microsoft's history with stylus' there's still no good (cargo) pocket sized note taking entry from them
Steelyuhas
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10586.71 headed to the slow ring
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
You guys are crazy, those phones look nothing alike.
brotkasten
Member
Not at all. This looks like some off the shelf design from an ODM. It would be great if it looked anything like an Xperia phone.
I didn't mean it actually -looks- like a Sony phone. I meant the release itself, is the closest we'll get to a Sony Windows Phone.
brotkasten
Member
But Sony has nothing to do with Vaio anymore. I highly doubt that the "Phone Biz" was in the pipeline, while Vaio was still a part of Sony.
This is actually the closest we almost got to a Sony Windows Phone.
But Sony has nothing to do with Vaio anymore. I highly doubt that the "Phone Biz" was in the pipeline, while Vaio was still a part of Sony.
This is actually the closest we almost got to a Sony Windows Phone.
But that's what I said, VAIO isn't part of Sony, but this is probably as close as we'll get to a Sony Windows Phone (as VAIO was part of Sony up untill 2 years ago, -> closest we'll get).
I'm not sure what we're discussing here really.
brotkasten
Member
What you're saying has no meaning, because this is nothing like a Sony smartphone, not even close in any sense. I could understand it, if development began under Sony's Vaio, but this is completely different.
It's like saying this the closest thing we'll ever get to a new Amiga, because they slapped the name on it.
Vaio was Sony's PC brand. There were no Sony Vaio smart phones before this, so it naturally can't be anything like a Sony Windows Phone.
What you're saying has no meaning, because this is nothing like a Sony smartphone, not even close in any sense. I could understand it, if development began under Sony's Vaio, but this is completely different.
It's like saying this the closest thing we'll ever get to a new Amiga, because they slapped the name on it.
Vaio was Sony's PC brand. There were no Vaio smart phones before this, so it naturally can't be anything like a Sony Windows Phone.
I don't know man, I'd say that IS in fact the closest we'll ever get to a new Amiga. We'll never get a new Amiga, and that device is not even close, but it is still in fact the closest we'll ever get.
My whole point was to say just that, we'll never get a Sony Windows Mobile Device. Saying "it's the closest we'll ever get", was my way of highlighting that point.
I think you're still a bit stuck in the mindset of the argument that the VAIO and the 950 look alike (which they don't btw, Hadareud, you're wrong).
brotkasten
Member
I'm only arguing and so anal about it, because I WISH we got anything close to a Sony Windows Phone and that piece of crap isn't anything like it.
Pls, Sony, put wireless charging into your next Xperia and not in a €79,00 add-on flip cover. thx.
Pls, Sony, put wireless charging into your next Xperia and not in a €79,00 add-on flip cover. thx.
lastflowers
Banned
Lol u guys
brotkasten
Member
It's easy for you to come in here and laugh, now that you don't have any responsibility anymore. But for some of us, this is still serious business!
If it's not serious business for Microsoft why should it be serious business for us?
lastflowers
Banned
I want Soony fone I demand Soony fone.
Seriously, I would like a Xperia version on windows phone--I had forgotten about the whole Vaio sale
Seriously, I would like a Xperia version on windows phone--I had forgotten about the whole Vaio sale
brotkasten
Member
Don't worry, seeing how their phone division is doing, we might get an Xperia Phone Biz in few years, too.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I was about to joke about wanting an Amstrad Windows phone, but I'm not that mental.
Don't worry, seeing how their phone division is doing, we might get an Xperia Phone Biz in few years, too.
Now those are beautiful phones. And those actually look generally different than a 950
