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Osaka said:
I dont know if this is the right thread for this, but I've had an issue with the chat functionality with my Lumia 800 all day, it won't connect. I still get the peoples feed from Facebook fine and everything, but I can't get online on Facebook/MSN chat.

I've tried all the tips I could find. Resets, power saving on/off, connecting accounts in live.com.. You name it. Tried it.

Is this a wider issue or is something fubar with my phone?
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yeah i have the same prob today
must be a server problem
 
I started using the Carbon trial and I like it a lot. I was thinking of buying it but I heard the dev is moving to android and is going to orphan the app. Anybody know if that's true?
 
VanMardigan said:
I started using the Carbon trial and I like it a lot. I was thinking of buying it but I heard the dev is moving to android and is going to orphan the app. Anybody know if that's true?
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Yeah, he is moving to android and abandoning WP

http://www.wpcentral.com/carbon-windows-phone-leaving-android-not-looking-back

https://plus.google.com/110456813491619030792/posts/5x7JGAsCMnd

I still think we didn't build a piece of app that I'd be proud of with Carbon for Windows Phone, but we made a good impression and raised the bar for Twitter apps that almost all of the Twitter clients on the platform were forced to bring their 2.0 versions in order to compete. But still, there weren't enough number of users, and that's because of the small user base of Windows Phone then. Still no home.

What I'm trying to get at here is this, Carbon was meant for only one platform. Given the team that works on the product is a one man army(except for the WP7 version) it'd be tough to support multiple apps, specially if it wasn't financially rewarding to keep on working on them.

Another reason is, you can only focus and do your best on a platform that you use. I stopped using webOS long ago, and then stopped using Windows Phone. The shift to Android is everything now. I use it and love it, and even though I wasn't planning on coding for Android, I am now and I've come a long way.

In an ideal world, had webOS stayed around and became what Windows Phone has become now, Carbon would've stayed a webOS-only app. But that didn't happen. Carbon finally found its home on Android though, easy to say before even launching? Yea, launch is in a few days.
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VanMardigan said:
I started using the Carbon trial and I like it a lot. I was thinking of buying it but I heard the dev is moving to android and is going to orphan the app. Anybody know if that's true?
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It's true.

We had big plans for Carbon on Windows Phone, we listed some of them in our previous posts. Yet, given the state of volume of sales and Twitter’s continious pressure on third-party client developers it has become less encouraging, and given that we barely covered costs(no profit) with Carbon on Windows Phone we slowed down development and re-evaluated our next steps. Then came our re-write plan for Carbon, decided we had to re-write the app as it was based on a slow base & it was non-performant. That was the time we were in looks for WP talent here in Dubai to rewrite and start over, that turned up to be costly and not even feasible given the volume of sales.

Most of the other apps that are on sale(paid apps) on Marketplace are of a side-project nature, our products are not side projects and they are actually our bread & butter.

Blogs jus’ jumped the gun with News about us pulling the app off of the Marketplace, without even a line of e-mail for at least a simple clarification, which is a bummer given that we have been in direct contact with them before.

Since we stopped updating the app long ago, it is the best way to stop sales, there are no options for us to keep the app in the Marketplace and only stop new Purchases, so to further stop dissatisfaction of new users who won’t get support or updates we pulled it out of the Marketplace.

We did the same with our webOS version of apps in April, discontinuing an app is never a happy act, it’s never even hardly a good choice, but developers need to move on too, specially a small app shop that builds products for a living, not just experimenting with side projects.

In the end, many talented and brilliant people supported us in getting the app out there, a great number of users and members of the Windows Phone community supported us even in our short comings, we appreciate each and every one of you, pulling the app out of the Marketplace and calling it an end to a product is in no way us trying to let you down, it’s a necessity before we go way outdated and having even more users who won’t get support.
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http://carbonwp7.com/blog/
 
Milchjon said:
That ould be awesome, I think around the three minute mark he's talking about the weight and how it feels in the hand, which I'm very interested in.
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He says the weight seems like it might be a lot, but its not that different from a 900, but most importantly it feels very durable and feels like a high grade product
 
Osaka said:
I dont know if this is the right thread for this, but I've had an issue with the chat functionality with my Lumia 800 all day, it won't connect. I still get the peoples feed from Facebook fine and everything, but I can't get online on Facebook/MSN chat.

I've tried all the tips I could find. Resets, power saving on/off, connecting accounts in live.com.. You name it. Tried it.

Is this a wider issue or is something fubar with my phone?
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Do you have the battery saver option turned on?!?!?
 
The 920 looks way awesome in that video.

- I still don't think the glossy yellow looks bad at all.
- the display looks wonderful
- It's so fluid, I'm gonna die!
- NFC still looks useful to me.
 
Yeah. Glossy is not that bad, sure it may look really bad on photo if the angle is bad and matte looks way more classy, but it would not hinder me from buying it if I like the color.
 
I'm looking forward to the reviews. If the 920 pureview is vastly superior to the 8X camera I'm probably going to suck it up and get the black 920. Fucking Rogers! It would be nice if you could at least get different colours online.
 
So from the 920 video:

-hardware: flash is really powerful, screen is really nice, weight makes it feel high quality, not heavy

-software: NFC on Nokia vertical charger could be useful for stuff like toggling volume/WiFi/etc (you just got home so you want WiFi to be on for example)
 
Milchjon said:
The 920 looks way awesome in that video.

- I still don't think the glossy yellow looks bad at all.
- the display looks wonderful
- It's so fluid, I'm gonna die!
- NFC still looks useful to me.
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Seriously. It reminds me of commercials for electronic products where they've obviously made some fake smooth UI animations to sell the product.... But with WP it's real, haha.
 
It's weird. Nokia Canada deleted peoples comments complaining about the lack of colours coming to Rogers. They also removed the specifications page from 920 on the Nokia Canada website. Hopefully they realize what they are doing. Releasing additional colours 4-6 months down the road is stupid.
 
Now that would be funny.

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The news does suggest that, contrary to those rumours, the Surface phone may not be high-end after all – Mediatek is well known for the SOC solutions which are widely used on very low end smartphones mainly in China. Similarly Huawei’s main distribution is in China, a price sensitive market.

The suggestion is that we may be looking at the KIN Generation 2 – a low-end smartphone which may or may not be binary compatible with Windows Phone 8 handsets, which is unfortunately rather typical of Microsoft MO.
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Tomcat said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...&feature=iv&src_vid=D7N6YcthFaI&v=Cj-1bHcuFvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D7N6YcthFaI

do we have any french people in here?:p
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About 6 minutes into that video it shows the wireless charging pad, set upright so the phone can charge standing up. I'm really interested in an accessory that's made for in the car to do that. Charging in the car, wirelessly seems like a much better fit than charging in the home. Plus having the option to keep the display on, so if I'm playing music in the car, or using Maps/Drive to get somewhere, really hoping there will be a good option I can buy that'll give a good car experience.

Maybe I'll just have to get that wireless pad, and place it into the back end of a good car holster if there's nothing good out there at launch.
 
brotkasten said:
Now that would be funny.

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Seems like the only way they can pull off making a phone themselves is to focus in a specific function for a specific audience, like a Windows Phone designed more for gaming, or lower end device to access different markets. Given the rumored manufacturers, comes off as them making a low end device to break open worldwide markets. Maybe trying to get a unified approach along with Nokia to tackle Android's massive takeover of the lower end markets.
 
Brettison said:
That might not be totally accurate, but I can say basically everyone in this thread could say "I told you so".... :/
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I actually don't care about this.....so long as the updates are available to everyone regardless of carriers. You can't release a buggy product if the carriers can block the fix.
 
VanMardigan said:
I tried gleek and didn't like it. I'm giving rowi a shot now. Mehdoh lost me cause it just seems slower and I can't figure out how to view images without having to open it in the browser.
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Van, if you haven't given twabbit a try, it's the client I've been using for the past 3 months or so after it seemed the Carbon dev was bailing. Consistent updates, inline image in feed, read it later (pocket) support nice layout, lots of customizing options, and still keep track of where I am in my feed better than any twitter client I've ever used.
 
There have been previous issues with Facebook APIs in the past (FB slightly tweaking them months ago or something. I haven't heard of anything around here, but I also haven't been searching for it. If there is an issue, I'm sure someone is working on it.




EDIT: "There was a temporary service outage with Messenger today (10/5), but things should be working again. " So I'm sure it should be fixed soon.
 
Now I see just MSN people online, but when I log in to live.com I also see my FB friends.. Almost there :lol
 
Oh fuck Rogers. Black only? Jesus. So now I either have to deal with importing an AT&T branded phone and unlocking or go with the only electronic device I don't want in Black. This is infuriating considering Nokia's marketing.
 
Firestorm said:
Oh fuck Rogers. Black only? Jesus. So now I either have to deal with importing an AT&T branded phone and unlocking or go with the only electronic device I don't want in Black. This is infuriating considering Nokia's marketing.
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They're really doing it? Suicide mission. So damn stupid.
 
Firestorm said:
Oh fuck Rogers. Black only? Jesus. So now I either have to deal with importing an AT&T branded phone and unlocking or go with the only electronic device I don't want in Black. This is infuriating considering Nokia's marketing.
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Are you fucking kidding me? I'll wait, I don't want it in black....at all.
 
Firestorm said:
Oh fuck Rogers. Black only? Jesus. So now I either have to deal with importing an AT&T branded phone and unlocking or go with the only electronic device I don't want in Black. This is infuriating considering Nokia's marketing.
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The carriers should really embrace the colors and ideally show them all off in their stores. Putting black Windows Phones next to all the other black phones is just dumb.

AT&T will apparently only sell the black Lumia 820 and the different shells, but maybe they'll at least show off the shells next to it.
In Germany the HTC 8X will only launch in black and blue. Not that awesome yellow.
 
From the 920 video you can see that the WiFi still works the same. It reconnects when you open the screen. Many people won't like this.
Did anyone count the tabs at the multitasking menu? I think they have raised the number at 7.
 
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