The Faceless Master
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How did that work out when HTC tried it?
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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How is the Android world treating HTC?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yeah, HTC is doing great since they cut off Windows and went exclusive on Android. Gangbusters. Why would any company want to get off that gravy train?
In all seriousness, it behooves a technology company to spread the bet around. For Samsung, that means Tizen and WM10. MS probably kicks in some resources anyway, it's not an expensive gamble to take a done design and slap wm10 on it, they probably get it for free.
juliushandle
Member
cortana on andriod help. looks like google now hijacked my home button up swipe from cortana. can't seem to get it back. even uninstalled cortana and reinstalled and it didn't ask if i wanted cortana for the up swipe gesture, hmmm.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
So HP will be launching an all metal W10 flagship at the MWC...
Poodlestrike
Banned
This sounds like something HP would do.
All this supposed secret stuff getting revealed at MWC?
Trying to buy Lara Croft GO while it is on sale and the damn payment screen pops up and disappears immediately. Did it on phone originally so I figured I would just go to the computer and do it there. Turns out it does the exact same damn thing. Universal bugs platform.
Trying to buy Lara Croft GO while it is on sale and the damn payment screen pops up and disappears immediately. Did it on phone originally so I figured I would just go to the computer and do it there. Turns out it does the exact same damn thing. Universal bugs platform.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Secret sauce?
frontieruk
Member
Settings / apps / cortana / clear defaults
Next time you swipe up it should add what you want to launch and do you want that as default
juliushandle
Member
tried that, defaults are clear. the option to use cortana won't appear anymore.
google fuckery likely.
google fuckery likely.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Just listened to Sam's podcast, looks like something is up.
We are starting to get hints, of NOTHING. The next thing that will save WP LOL
but in all seriousness, as I said it before this year could be a year where we see what Nadella is planning to do with Mobile. Last year Ballmer's strategy was not working and they changed the it to three model devices, but I don't think he knew the magnitude of how fucked they are in mobile space. So I am guessing they will either kill it or some genius strategy where they can sustain profitable but Mac like business going.
I just don't want to get excited at this point. But looking forward to next couple of months where stuff leaks out.
We are starting to get hints, of NOTHING. The next thing that will save WP LOL
but in all seriousness, as I said it before this year could be a year where we see what Nadella is planning to do with Mobile. Last year Ballmer's strategy was not working and they changed the it to three model devices, but I don't think he knew the magnitude of how fucked they are in mobile space. So I am guessing they will either kill it or some genius strategy where they can sustain profitable but Mac like business going.
I just don't want to get excited at this point. But looking forward to next couple of months where stuff leaks out.
Okay, so Microsoft Store kindly let me return the busted Fitbit even four months later. No hassles! Awesome! I picked upa Band 2 for $199, so it cost me like $50 or so. More than I wanted, but my Fitbit was 100% useless so it was worth it.
We will see how this works out. The Microsoft Health app is so bad though. Ugly, not intuitive and so so slow.
We will see how this works out. The Microsoft Health app is so bad though. Ugly, not intuitive and so so slow.
Some weird stuff. It doesn't seem to connect very well to Cortana. Says it's busy, or it can't connect.
Also what is the point of the keyboard and typing messages on this thing. More time coding connection issues and less that, please!!
NeOak
Member
Must say, Windows hello is so much faster lately. Starting to use it more and more now.
Though, it simply does not work in the morning when I wake up, pick up the phone and try to unlock it (while still in bed). Wondering how it'll work when you're superdrunk.
Why the hell does that have a (fake) metal rim and the 950 does not? MS, you still baffle me...
Though, it simply does not work in the morning when I wake up, pick up the phone and try to unlock it (while still in bed). Wondering how it'll work when you're superdrunk.
Why the hell does that have a (fake) metal rim and the 950 does not? MS, you still baffle me...
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Moving Windows Phone to a Mac scenario in which Microsoft makes great hardware with some unique features would be an interesting idea. I could honestly envision a future in which Microsoft makes most of its money from Microsoft apps and services for iOS and Android while keeping a few halo devices such as the Surface Phone focusing on enterprise and offering a few unique features.
Alas, that would mean doing away with the mass market and killing any interest in developing mobile first apps and missing the boat on whatever becomes the next big thing. Instagram, Tinder, WhatsApp... nearly all the most influential apps of today were mobile born. And good luck retaining support for those that were already released for Windows once you kill your already small user base by going the pro route.
The Windows mobile situation has never been more dire.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
My next phone for $30 on Black Friday.
Yup. Just missing the camera button.
Hopefully going forward the designs are more like that rather than the 950 series (although I don't mind my xl).
2016's flagship right there.
brotkasten
Member
While I still don't know what the tease is (haven't read anything about it), I highly doubt the 650 is it, because that phone was leaked to hell and back, incl. the metal rim.
Obviously not, we knew about this phone for months.
LostMyNarbles
Member
Damn, $200 sure is a lot of money for a phone that's pretty much exactly like the $30 640 except for the better build quality.
brotkasten
Member
Oh, no. It absolutely is, there's no doubt about that. Bu it's not because of the 650.
The 650 is still a total cookie cutter phone. There's nothing remarkable about it.
Dat Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 processor though!
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
It's borderline insulting that MS is putting that proc in a $/199 device.
michaelius
Banned
How to safely remove any private data from WM phone before selling it ?
Is there any kind of data cleaner that would write 0s and 1s few times over whole flash storage to make data recovery problematic ?
Is there any kind of data cleaner that would write 0s and 1s few times over whole flash storage to make data recovery problematic ?
AMOLED screen though!
brotkasten
Member
The Moto G 3rd Gen 8GB/16GB is 145/202 here and has a bigger battery, too.
brotkasten
Member
Until the next build.No apps, no battery problem
brotkasten
Member
What is it going to do that you can't get otherwise?
runningjoke
Member
What exactly is the search bar supposed to do within settings? I wanted to look at the setting for nl-alert (a cell broadcast service in the Netherlands) so I typed alert in the searchbar, but no results. Had to google where the option is hidden, it was under system > messaging > 'Change emergency alert settings' > NL-Alerts.
noticed the 650 doesn't have the silly and ugly little hole on the bottom part of the bezel for the microphone either. Instead a wide rectangle opening...
Seriously, it looks a lot better than the 950.
Besides, I've had some crap (think it's sand or something) stuck inside the microphone hole of my 950 since a few weeks after I got it, and it's been annoying the shit out of me.
Seriously, it looks a lot better than the 950.
Besides, I've had some crap (think it's sand or something) stuck inside the microphone hole of my 950 since a few weeks after I got it, and it's been annoying the shit out of me.
Yeah, it's basically a SD400 which is 3 years old at this stage.
so i did a hard reset on my phone thinking that it would help. Now i cant get stuff back on my phone because its not recognized at all when i plug it into my windows machine. Mind you i backed it all up manually onto my windows machine before i did the hard reset. The phone is recognized that its plugged in cause it gives me the "your device is charging too slowly" error message.
Gotta go lower!
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm not trying to scare you, but my 930 died unexpectedly and I was never able to recover it. My PC recognizes it, but the screen doesn't come on and the recovery tools didn't work. I'd take it to an MS store, that's an option I never had since it's an international model.
im not scared i have everything backed up and the phone is working fine, im just trying to get stuff back on the phone. Which im doing through one drive. Would be faster if i could just you know, plug it in via USB.
If you let it sit for a while does anything pop up? I had this issue with a busted Lumia 820 and eventually it found something and restored it somehow but it never showed that it was a 820 during this. Just some internal model num