Money still exists?
Just tried out Toshl. It has a nice webinterface and support for all kinds of systems. Very simple but seems competent enough for me.
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Money still exists?
Just tried out Toshl. It has a nice webinterface and support for all kinds of systems. Very simple but seems competent enough for me.
I don't know if I didn't notice it before or it was added recently, but Bing search is giving more info. Search a movie, get to select the movie times for local theaters. Search a company, get the stock price. Search weather in _______ get the forecast.
Anyways Bing on WP is awesome. It would be nice if I didn't have to have to use the US search setting though.
Anyways Bing on WP is awesome. It would be nice if I didn't have to have to use the US search setting though.
notworksafe
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Lumia was still expensive, even used. I just wanted a cheap phone to try out WP7 and the Focus fit the bill.
It finally arrived but since I only have a microSIM I can't use it yet. AT&T is shipping out a regular SIM that should be here tomorrow so I'll wait until then. I've had fun playing with it on WiFi though.
Any general app recommendations? I've got SkyDrive, Netflix, ESPN, and StormGlass but the Marketplace seems oddly organized.
Marketplace->Apps->all->free and top are good to go through
Some of my faves are Amazing Weather, BBC New Mobile, Prime TV, Audible, Weave, Wordament, Flixster, IMDB, Baconit (Reddit App), Mehdoh (twitter), Metrotube, Soundhound, Translator
notworksafe
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Awesome! Medoh was exactly what I was looking for from a Twitter app! AmazingWeather is great too.
Basically anything that uses Live Tiles well is really impressive to me.
Basically anything that uses Live Tiles well is really impressive to me.
So I randomly got two notifications from my ME tile. Still not everything but it looks like it may be correcting itself.
For these I prefer Weather Live, TV Show, and Carbon.
I also recommend 'burn after reading' -- a Pocket / read-it-later client -- and AppDeals, which highlights deals on the market place.
Pinning the gaf mobile site is also nice. It even has a neogaf tile.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I have both TV Show and Prime TV, and have gone back on forth on which I prefer as they both do somethings better. I prefer the layout of Prime and generally find the Live Tile to be better as well. TV Show, however seems to have a bit better performance (ie. smoother scrolling and panorama swiping) and is better at highlighting today's and missed episodes.Just tried TV Show, it will now be replacing Prime TV
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The Crackle app is on the market. A little buggy, but I was able to watch an episode of Seinfeld to test it out.
Did you have to sign-in?
brotkasten
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A valid option from The Verge's Vlad Stavov: OMG NOKIA DOOMED.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yeah, you do.
Sure, but I'd like to know what other options we have.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
I had this happen and I couldn't even get it to reflash the stock ROM.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
I'm posting from my One X! LoL
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Are you using an sd card? Could try pulling it out.
brotkasten
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Oh look, it's last years Galaxy Nexus running Windows Phone. How unexpected.
More like this years Galaxy S III (cameras, SoC) than it is the Nexus (screen size)
brotkasten
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More like this years Galaxy S III (cameras, SoC) than it is the Nexus (screen size)
I thought the GS3 had something better than a Snapdragon. My bad.
US-spec has a Snapdragon S4 instead of Exynos, due to the LTE. I think the S4 compares pretty well though, excluding the GPU.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Nope.
Oh god hope their is a soln, 200$ went down the drain
$200? When did you buy it? Anyway, I'd give Samsung a call.
Snapdragon S4 has even been beating the Tegra 3 and Exynos Quad in the latest GPU benchmark on Anandtech.
Total domination!
That is probably the S4 Pro (Adreno 320 versus Adreno 225). It is amazing how far ahead of everyone Apple is when it comes to the GPU though
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
All of the top of the line phones in America right now are running the same dual core Snapdragon S4 LTE chipset as it's the best running hardware that includes LTE. The GS3, One X, Evo 4G LTE, Moto Atrix HD etc... are all running the same chips. North America carriers refuse to release any new smartphones that aren't LTE compatible (not counting prepaid stuff). It also fails on the Nexus comparison in NA as the Nexus is running an older chipset here/
I thought you already knew this when we went over why I got the One X.
brotkasten
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I actually thought you're a masochist, but if that's the reason, okay.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
That just seems like they'll announce the phones at the beginning of October and release them in November. As expected.
Colonel Nasty
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My sister has a white samsung focus and the capacitive buttons don't work, any solutions? The touchscreen works fine.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
In the US all of the major phones are basically the exact same except for different screen types and the GS3 got that late bump to 2 gigs of RAM. Outside of that they all are running the same chipset, ICS, same screen res, all 4.3" or greater, all LTE, 16 gigs base etc... etc...
The LTE requirement has basically made it so everyone is releasing the same phone. It's rather funny seeing companies trying to differentiate since the phones are all so similar.
brotkasten
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I know that, but not all phones run Sense. And yet you picked one with Sense.
You like pain, don't you?
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
No I picked the phone with the better screen and battery life. Tests show Sense out performs Touchwiz, Motoblur, and Stock (caveat being the only phone with stock LTE is the Verizon Nexus) battery wise with them all running the same chipset. This is the exact opposite of the international shit where the GS3 has redonkulously better battery life than the Tegra powered One X ( though supposedly that OTA last week was going to help with that).
NeOak
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Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
God I hope for GAF's sake Pureview is 2012 and not 2013.
Heads will roll.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
it'll probably be a lite version of pureview this year (12mp or something), then full pureview next year.
So, my Focus is really screwing up and I decided to file an insurance claim because I didn't want to be left having to make a quick decision if it really goes to crap. It looks like I'll be getting a Focus 2 replacement. Sucks to lose my SD card, but I'll be getting LTE, a better SoC, and a FFC in return. Should hold me over nicely.
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