Does anyone use that giffgaff network? I saw an ad on tv and it looked pretty good for the price.
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Does anyone use that giffgaff network? I saw an ad on tv and it looked pretty good for the price.
I've not used GiffGaff but have seriously considered it.
The value equation is superb on those offerings and it runs on the O2 network (which I have no issues with normally). I really should switch...
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Well, fuck me.
Edit: This bit is important
Crappy phone is crappy.
Edit: This bit is important
Crappy phone is crappy.
brotkasten
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It has the old Windows logo, of course it's a 7x device.
Cute Dragon Here
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I wonder whether we'll see the 410, 310, 210 and 110 down the pipeline.
Verizon to get all the big Windows Phone 8 phones?
http://www.wpcentral.com/leak-roadmap-verizon-get-nokia-lumia-920-htc-8x-and-samsung-ativ-s
http://www.wpcentral.com/leak-roadmap-verizon-get-nokia-lumia-920-htc-8x-and-samsung-ativ-s
I wonder what makes the 510 worse than the 610, the specs look the same?
Awesome news. People have been saying Verizon will be backing WP8 in a big way. Hope their push carries over to marketing and staff
Awesome news. People have been saying Verizon will be backing WP8 in a big way. Hope their push carries over to marketing and staff
brotkasten
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That's what they said earlier this year. They wanted to push WP as third eco system. Only the 920 in that lineup is new, because the Lumia 822 was the only new Nokia that was listed in their systems.
Come on, the 510 doesn't look THAT bad.
Sleeplessnights
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I don't want to upload each file to Skydrive before watching it. Something like Plex but free would be nice.
I already purchased Plex on Android and I don't want to repurchase it on WP knowing I'll only use it once or twice.
I didn't really expect them to basically offer all Windows Phones.
Now if they present the phones nicely in the stores with all WPs next to each other (preferably with all colors), they'll surely draw some attention next to all the Android phones and the iPhone.
They also have to get the marketing right an give the sales people some training/incentives...
With the Skydrive desktop app installed you don't really need to upload each file to Skydrive, not manually at least. You have folders on your PC that are synced with Skydrive, so you just need to add files to the monitored folders and they will be automatically synced. I've never done this for media, but I've done it with Word/Excel/PDF documents many times.
big news if true. wp8 must have some pretty awesome features for carriers to support it like this. or, the android offerings this year are all pretty unexciting after the GS3.
NeOak
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I read this and couldn't believe it.
Topolsky said:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3363238/iphone-5-review#wrap-up
RIP Jesus phone status
NeOak
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Probably 5 for ecosystem. 100k apps is just "too few" for him. Having a million fart apps is important, you know...
Funky Papa
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I don't think there is going to be a massive amount of new apps by launch date, although having Instagram from day one would be tits.
frontieruk
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I've used it, it's good as its word, just expect issues getting wp7 playing nicely, not being able to manually enter apns was a nightmare, HTC connect could get data working but never had mms on it, because it's a MVNO it's settings aren't on the sims which is where wp7 takes its settings from. My mate couldn't get data or mms on his lumia 800 but admittedly that was at launch and Nokias settings app wasn't available. Hopefully things are better now, I'd suggest checking their forums about connecting your particular handset before plunging in.
brotkasten
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Come on, this is not WMPoweruser. Lets not pretend thay important apps arent still missing.
Very true. Still some highly notable marquee apps still not available, especially bank apps, and Pandora/Instagram, even though we do have some decent alts for those. What else are we missing? Also on the flip side, there's still a stigma that people immediately dismiss WP's app store because of app count, but don't realize just how many of the high profile apps that are actually there. I know I was surprised almost two years ago to find most of the apps I'd need were available. Honestly all MS has to do is make sure the top 1000 apps on both Android and iOS are there.
VanMardigan
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The 920 review from the Verge will be the exact opposite of the iPhone 5 review. They'll praise the hardware innovation but say the ecosystem is still lacking. I do think they'll find Windows Phone 8 to be a huge upgrade compared to ios6 but nobody there uses WP devices as their daily driver, so they'll miss a bunch of the little things that the OS does. Like cut and paste from email.
It'll get 7.9'd.
It'll get 7.9'd.
Cute Dragon Here
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Better than 7.0. Heh. Still an improvement from 900.
http://www.noknok.tv/2012/09/20/nok...ne-5-samsung-galaxy-siii-note-ii/?sf6199976=1
Internet polls, I know. But still, encouraging signs!
Internet polls, I know. But still, encouraging signs!
That and Pinball FX2. I expect them to be WP8 launch games, hopefully.
brotkasten
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Green Embers
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I think your overall score is right, but I think the review will go like this:
WP8 allows you to do this awesome thing that other phone OS can't. And this awesome thing and this awesome thing and this awesome thing, all only found on WP8. And look, it can do all this stuff it couldn't do before!
Final verdict: It now reaches parity of other phone OSes but does not exceed.
brotkasten
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Who cares about the review score. Isn't it more important what the editor personally thinks?
If we had a timeline for Topolsky's opinion, it would be like this:
Around launch: Mango is better than iOS 5
Some time later: Mango is definitely on par with iOS 5
Few months later: Mango is still lagging behind iOS 5. Not enough updates and the evolution is too slow. Please, tell me how you know more about technology than I do.
Like?
Green Embers
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I feel like we're saying the same thing but using different words.... lol.
Fjolle
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Instagram. Useable Facebook app, Carcassonne, Whatever bank people are using, whatever social game people are playing right now, that pinterest thing.
The apps which are there tend to be poor. Facebook, Twitter, Mint, various banking apps, and others are either lacking features now or way behind in getting new features, on top of being shoddy implementations as-is.
The games story is basically pathetic.
The most important thing though is whenever something new comes out. It happens countless times per year - some unexpected fast rising app hits cultural zeitgeist and takes the world by storm. Whether it's Instagram or Draw Something or Angry Birds Space or something else. Whether it sticks around for a week or a month or years. Windows Phone never has it, or gets it late after no one cares anymore.
It doesn't matter for everyone, but it's undoubtedly important to millions for those apps to be there at launch or close. Microsoft's making a big deal out of getting some Zynga games and Angry Birds at the launch of Windows Phone 8 (or whatever it is), but by that time few will care anymore and the world will have moved onto something else.
It's very important to prospective buyers, and the situation absolutely sucks right now. What I'm hoping is that the enablement of native development and popular engines like Unreal (probably) and Unity (confirmed) will make it much more likely for more apps to come to Windows Phone, and faster, and the Silverlight platform won't make them suck anymore.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Nokia is listing higher 3g talk times, dramatically higher standby times, and 20 hours more of music playback.
IPhone is rated at 4 at whole hours more of video playback though.
Dat screen! Looks like the higher refresh rates and larger size compared to iPhone are gonna take a toll.
IPhone is rated at 4 at whole hours more of video playback though.
Dat screen! Looks like the higher refresh rates and larger size compared to iPhone are gonna take a toll.
brotkasten
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I wasn't disagreeing with you. I just remembered how Josh treated it the last time and I expect him to do the same with OS 8.
FUBAR McDangles
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My girlfriend was up for a new phone a few weeks back, so before she went and bought another blackberry(what she had been using for years, since before I met her), I showed her what else is out there, including Windows Phone, Android, and what Apple had. She did not like the Androids, and only wanted the iPhone for Siri. She really, really liked the Lumia line that we saw at the Microsoft store. I told her the new ones were going to come out in the next 2-3 months. She went and bought the Cyan 800 anyway. Her mom is getting an 800 as well, just in Black.
So, two new WP customers. Hopefully, and I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but, hopefully Sprint can bring something to the table and I'll be able to buy it. I'll wait until Christmas, probably, before jumping ship I think. That seems like a good time-table date, IMO.
So, two new WP customers. Hopefully, and I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but, hopefully Sprint can bring something to the table and I'll be able to buy it. I'll wait until Christmas, probably, before jumping ship I think. That seems like a good time-table date, IMO.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
You sure you don't mean that they bought 900's?
guess we are all buying Huaweis
http://wmpoweruser.com/rumour-huawe...handset-competitive-with-the-nokia-lumia-920/
http://wmpoweruser.com/rumour-huawe...handset-competitive-with-the-nokia-lumia-920/
FUBAR McDangles
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Yeah that's what I meant. Good call. Thanks
I didn't mean the difference between total phones sold.
So is this like the nokia version of wmpoweruser and crackberry?
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