VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I love that I can click that link and install the app remotely. I'll give it a whirl and let you know how I feel.
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I love that I can click that link and install the app remotely. I'll give it a whirl and let you know how I feel.
thx!
update:
used this method to go from 7720 to
7.10.7740.16
7.10.8107.79
7.10.8112.7
7.10.8773.98
Samsung Update (firmware 2103.12.05.2)
took about an hour and 5 minutes total... all good.
brotkasten
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Guys, I shit you not when I say that I had two Google related nightmares, since I ordered the Nexus.
1.
I "trolled" in the Android thread and Kagarai, out of all people, banned me. WTF.
2.
I was on the Google campus and about to get robbed (pretty common there, I've heard) but then someone with a Google jacket appeared and saved me. When the thug said he didn't want to rob me, Google Man listed all his search results and browsing history, showing how he clearly prepared himself for this.
It was like Minority Report. Terrible.
Again, I'm not joking about this.
I think I've made a huge mistake.
1.
I "trolled" in the Android thread and Kagarai, out of all people, banned me. WTF.
2.
I was on the Google campus and about to get robbed (pretty common there, I've heard) but then someone with a Google jacket appeared and saved me. When the thug said he didn't want to rob me, Google Man listed all his search results and browsing history, showing how he clearly prepared himself for this.
It was like Minority Report. Terrible.
Again, I'm not joking about this.
I think I've made a huge mistake.
what? how was he going to rob you...and the thug REALLY researched how to rob people? are you knew to the campus? like maybe they stage it. how did they even know his search results, like why would the guy give him his phone.... just sounds creepy
brotkasten
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Dreams rarely make much sense. And creepy? It's Google, my friend. I expected nothing else.#
I don't know about that. The Nexus will be here very soon. What if it tries to steal my soul? What if a small Copernicus jumps out of the box and tries to rip my eyes out?
ah makes sense, this is what I get for staying up past 1am and gaming at the same time
Not yet it appears. Just works on the Focus S. But I keep on keeping on trying it just in case.
Also Brot, this'll be you...
...pretty quick here once the Nexus arrives. I'm worried.
You mean the dog, trying to shake off that horrible thing?
I have no idea. This is why I'm worried.
Can we edit playlists on browser Zune?
Don't worry too much, when Google now learns about his the nightmares he's having Google Now will schedule an appointment with the best psychiatrist in his area.
Don't worry too much, when Google now learns about his the nightmares he's having Google Now will schedule an appointment with the best psychiatrist in his area.
mescalineeyes
Banned
I can report no strange dreams since ordering and having received my Galaxy Nexus.
My Lumia 800 is a bit sad now though.
My Lumia 800 is a bit sad now though.
brotkasten
Member
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
yea yea. tell us all about it on google+
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
My phone lost 20% of its charge while I slept for 8 hours. That is some atrocious standby time.
The OS is somehow broken. Since a factory reset will probably solve that problem.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Soooooooooooooo......
Mine is worse than that, but has been that way almost from the start.
Would a factory reset really help?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I doubt a hard reset will help. I mean, battery will improve, but as you put back in apps and those apps start doing their background stuff, it should go back to being just as bad.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm gonna log off the built in facebook/msn chat and try the same experiment tonight and see if that helps.
did you keep 3g on? When I keep it it's worse than that.
Cute Dragon Here
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That's pretty strange when you think about it. I think I have to try to kill the phone battery if it's just on standby. The battery meter on my phone sometimes refuses to budge from full charge much. I think I might want to do an informal benchmark. Right now I have around 68% - I think I'll leave it on standby.
i'm sure it will be the same colors in W8.One of the few things that graphic artist that re-imagined MS's logos/image got right, the color pallet:
I'd love those colors. We've been told we're getting new colors, hope there's a bunch of them this time.
show me your skeleton
Member
really want that grey/green combo.
bloodforge
Member
I just want a color wheel so I can change it to anything I want, same for the background.
mescalineeyes
Banned
hngghhhh top left all over my bodyyyyyyy
Pink on lime, here I come! Please let me also choose the text color, so I can add some dark blue!
Really? That's the ugliest version of WP I've seen yet.
mescalineeyes
Banned
Well it's hard to compete with pink on lime with dark blue text.
Already posted?
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/07/04/n...-elop-should-be-fired-says-former-apple-exec/
Ice cold.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/07/04/n...-elop-should-be-fired-says-former-apple-exec/
Ice cold.
Wasn't he the guy that drove the Apple Dev department into the ground?
Wouldnt suprise me. Although I wonder what Nokia could have done with Android and their own custom skin. Could have been pretty sweet.
I'm a bit torn about this. On one hand I'm absolutely sure those reskins will all be shit. On the other hand, I guess as a handset maker I wouldn't want an OS without customization either. The way it is right now, it's way to difficult to set yourself apart on the market.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
It's certainly stupid to assume that Nokia would've been better off going Android. Not all Android OEM's are doing well. In fact, many big name ones aren't (Sony, LG, and HTC has had a rough year). What IS true, however, is that Nokia would've been able to iterate faster on Android. They would've had a dual-core Lumia out by now, and possibly a Pureview by fall or even this summer, given the hardware freedom of Android. Would that have made a difference for Nokia? It's not certain, but MS' handling of WP7 devices was bad news for Nokia. Now they, like many of us, are in a holding pattern. Meanwhile, customers don't have the luxury of waiting around, contracts expire and phones break down all year long, not just in Spring and Fall.
Edit:
I disagree, Nokia has shown that all it takes is the will. If Samsung or HTC gave a shit, they'd differentiate, and if the only way they know how is shitty android skins, that's their problem. Which brings me to this page.
How is it that a page on Windows Phone 7.5 news ONLY call out Nokia? Simple, they are the only ones that care. Samsung put out a firmware that fixed a very basic bug (keyboard lag when you used key press sounds) with the Tango update. That's more than half a year after the phone was released....for a simple bug! These guys don't care, and honestly, if you don't own a Nokia device, its not worth buying into Windows Phone. I wish I had known that last November. Samsung released about a half dozen custom apps and their own version of Tango video calling app, but Nokia has done about 3 times as much in less time, and they're the only ones committed to supporting WP7.5 devices, as evidenced by that official page I linked to from Microsoft. Nokia's commitment is the only reason I don't tell someone who just bought a Lumia to return it. Anyone buying a WP7 device from any other manufacturer? Yeah, Imma tell em to take it back.
I think Nokia could have made their phones really stand out with their own UI and all the services they already have. And like you said they could of released a flagship phone with dual core and the works to compete with Samsung etc. Not to mention low end phones that would likely have sold like crazy, especially with the google play store behind them.
They could come up with something better than that no? heh.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
You can say Nokia would've been better off in Android till you're blue in the face, it won't make it true. It's still speculation, and they've sold millions of Lumia phones. How many Xperia phones has Sony sold? (Honest question, I don't know the answer). HTC is struggling to sell One X phones in the US (and I think they're frickin' gorgeous), have they released sales figures for those? How about LG's top of the line Android phones, what are their sales?
I'm not saying it's inconceivable that Nokia would break out on Android and join Samsung as a heavy hitter and big seller, I'm just saying its far from the slam dunk android fanboys think.
Oh, I agree, who knows what would happen. But I don't think it would have been as big of a departure going from Symbian to Android as it was to WP7. Its all speculation at this point. I am not hating on WP, I really like it to be honest. Former owner of Optimus 7 here.
The Faceless Master
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people who sell phones for a living said they could have sold more Lumias if they ran Android.
Being able to iterate faster is a HUGE benefit though.
Nokia basically wasted an entire year (all of 2011) transitioning to Windows Phone. They've been forced to wait on Microsoft in order to release low-end (Tango) and high-end (Apollo) phones. And now that they've actually got a product on shelves, it's been sorta sabotaged by not getting the Windows Phone 8 upgrade. So 2012 has basically been wasted too for them.
They would've had none of those problems on Android.
This is from Nokia.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
It's settled then. Fucking speculation, how does it work?
And what about the problems they WOULD have had on Android? Do we ignore those? Oh yeah, we're gonna pretend there are no hindrances to astronomical Android sales cause we like that platform a lot.
No, it is not.
Souldriver
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Right now Nokia is the big fish in a small pond, while on android they would've been a small (?) fish in a big pond.
Who knows what would've been best for them. I'd say the move to WP is a big gamble, in that it could destroy them or have a very big pay-off if things turn out well (i.e.: WP becomes a viable platform).
However, considering Nokia was the mobile phone brand in the world up till, say, 2008, the present seems to suggest Nokia possibly made a huuuge mistake.
Who knows what would've been best for them. I'd say the move to WP is a big gamble, in that it could destroy them or have a very big pay-off if things turn out well (i.e.: WP becomes a viable platform).
However, considering Nokia was the mobile phone brand in the world up till, say, 2008, the present seems to suggest Nokia possibly made a huuuge mistake.
Not officially, but it is from a Nokia employee.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
No, the only thing the present demonstrates is how far the brand had already eroded and how much ground they lost fucking around with Meego and Symbian.
Whatever the outcome for Nokia, the ONLY thing we'll ever settle is whether moving to Windows Phone was the right move. Even then, the counter argument could be whether even THAT move came too late for them and whether being a launch partner for WP while they had both more capital and a healthier base of dumbphone sales would've produced different results. But that scenario, along with the Android one, is just speculation and there are counterfactuals to those scenarios that android fanboys will never acknowledge, so instead of a balanced conversation, you end up with "derp, they'd be selling a billion phones a day if they had chosen Android, the dudes that sell phones at the carrier said so".
Wrong again.
Souldriver
Member
How about actually telling us what it is then instead of pointing out everyone's faults without correcting them.
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