Poindexter
Member
Same here. My 920 is showing its age. I got it day one but there is no new flagship for me to go to. I might do the 1520. Might.
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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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a Master Ninja
Member
Will it ever get Cyan?
Probably not anymore.
RIP Windows Phone
Some sample shots taken with my 1020 in Hakone Tokyo:
http://a.pomf.se/jqhowx.jpg
http://a.pomf.se/niavaw.jpg
dat helicopter zoom.
http://a.pomf.se/jqhowx.jpg
http://a.pomf.se/niavaw.jpg
dat helicopter zoom.
Well it looks like I'm dropping Verizon once my two years are up. Between them not updating phones and actively trying to dissuade people from buying windows phones in stores, I'm fuckin done with them.
runtastic
yankeehater
Member
I feel the same way. Verizon gets the best signal where I am in Vegas, but I cant stand how much they have halfassed everything WP related.
Yup, this is the last draw. The last two times I went into a store to buy a WP, the staff tried to talk me into buying an Android phone. I've read enough stories to know this isn't an isolated incident, so it's no wonder the phones don't sell as well as expected.
I have no idea how AT&T's service compares in mid-Ohio, hopefully it's good enough.
If Cyan is off the tables for the Icon then fuck this shit. I bought the phone for the prospects and considering the experience I've had with the DP along with general app functionality, I now know I shouldn't have gotten the Icon. And I'm stuck with it for another year and half.
So Expansys got back to me, the RM-984 does not work on T-Mo LTE.
ExpansysUSA said:
FFS this. How hard is it MS. Of course you're not gonna have any marketshare if no one can buy your phones (and if the few that could cant get updates...)
We're just reading the fact's given to us.
juliushandle
Member
Come on ATT, give us a price on the 830 already.
You got a date, Nov. 7th. Same day as the M8 release.
juliushandle
Member
I understand, I want the price now. For the 830 to make the slightest impact I say ATT has to price it at $299.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Is Alpha only for Preview? If yes then it might just be the Alpha.
I hear that she can now pronounce aboot correctly.
Then I guess it's nice that it's included out of the box now, but the US (Beta) version is really much better. Other than the weather being F by default and distances being Imperial, it really works fine in Canada.
Not sure on about... but hopefullly she can begin to use Eh.
NeOak
Member
MOGA support please.
yankeehater
Member
How comes contona on my phone sounds nothing like she does in the commercials or the Halo games? I have a 920 running dev preview 8.1.
show me your skeleton
Member
cortana's cortana voice is for America only.
just let that sink in for a bit.
yankeehater
Member
I am in the us and my phones language is set to American English.
brotkasten
Member
It's still in beta and parts that are not recorded or done yet are voiced by a generic computer voice. If it never sounds like Cortana, then it's really weird.
yankeehater
Member
I will have to pay more attention but when I ask it something the reply is always in the horrible weird siri type voice. I dont think it has ever sounded like it does in the commercials.
NeOak
Member
I would change my phone to Japanese if they did that!
That actually sounds like a brilliant plan. To brilliant for them to do though.
killer rin
Member
That would be one way to rapidly grow market share in a region for which you have none,
Been using it on mine for a while. A couple things are a little slower, like loading search takes a second or two, but for the most part it works incredibly well. Web browsing is faster, and all the new features work pretty much perfectly.
Cool, thanks! Do you feel like you need to upgrade with the 920? I'm going from the HTC 8x since it's broke. Had the Icon for a few days but it's just too big for me, the 920 is slightly smaller but makes the world of difference to me.
I absolutely want a new phone. The second something that's not a 6" phablet is available on AT&T, I'm going to jump on it.
Mostly though because my phone has some physical defects due to me dropping it a number of times and replacing broken glass at a fairly crappy repair shop. The camera isn't as good as it used to be, I've used faster phones and want something faster, I want a bigger screen, and a thinner/lighter phone, and other such features that come with newer phones.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Even with the recorded voice it doesn't sound like Cortana because it's compressed as all hell
I'd kill for a new flagship's and not this affordable flagship bullshit.
Astral/H3X
Member
Its a Windows product, so it must be a disaster, is my guess. Personally I'm really looking forward to it.
Dunno, I find it kinda hard to buy a somewhat weak phone before we know what Windows 10 will look like on a phone, how it will run, how and if the update will work etc.
I don't think MS and its carriers have a great track record when it comes to these things.
NeOak
Member
How many Android phones have you used?
brotkasten
Member
Why does it matter? Why not look at the iOS devices instead?
Not a great time to bring up Apples update prowess when a few weeks ago they killed some users networking ability with one of them.
Wouldn't be surprised if some carriers were seriously considering some action.
NeOak
Member
I'll just eat this gingerbread cookie then ;-;
Yeah lets.
It's fucking crippled my iPad.
Every major update is fucking buggy.
Some of the feature pullbacks seem arbitrary.
I went from the 920 to the Sony Z3 - there are a few things I miss, such as built-in text speech for bluetooth setups in cars (I know Android is meant to have this, but apparently in the latest versions has broke it for many users), but on the whole I'm glad I've jumped ship. The much better notifications, app support and maps are winners in my eyes.