You should take a look at the 'Collection's section in the Store. It provides curated lists of the more popular apps under the categories you might be interested in.
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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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You should take a look at the 'Collection's section in the Store. It provides curated lists of the more popular apps under the categories you might be interested in.
VanMardigan
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Nokia has an app called App Highlights, its in the Nokia collection section of the market and its a good place to start.
Anton Sugar
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Yup, it's actually my fav. You can filter by rating, price, and category.
My fav apps:
Amazing Weather HD: excellent weather app, live tile and lock screen support
App Highlights: helps app discovery and easy to find/filter/search apps
Battery Status: battery app
Connectivity Tiles: shortcuts to wifi, airplane mode, etc.
FFFFound: live tile and lock screen support, finds random art from the FFFFound site
Flashlight XT: no frills flashlight app
Nokia's HERE apps: Drive is most important here for me, great navigation, offline maps
IMDb
LastPass
Mango Transit: HERE Transit doesn't support DC
So I use thisMetrotube: Best Youtube app
Newser: Great news app, live tile and breaking news alerts. I choose this over something like Weave because it shows the headline on the live tile, not just the image
Nextgen Reader: Best Google Reader app
Office
OneNote
Pageonce
Photosynth: excellent 3D panorama app
Podcast Lounge: best podcast app, IMO--WP's podcast support is bad
Rowi: good twitter app
SkyDrive
Skype
Speedtest.net
Talking Alarm Clock: I use this to turn my phone into a clock/alarm clock at night
TVShow
Vimeo
Wikipedia: GREAT 3rd party wikipedia app (yellow icon, if you have trouble finding it)
WPCentral: WP news source
YouTube
Good, since the last update it's draining my battery.
Hmm, what has your battery life been like?
Quite good, it lasts about a day and a half or 2 days with heavy usage (though usually I just put in on the wireless charger for an hour or so in the afternoon).
When the last update for amazing weather came out last month all of a sudden my battery started draining like crazy (like 40 % in a few hours), same on my gf's phone. Blocked the background task and it went back to normal. Both 920's btw.
Don't think I see that level of battery drain with Amazing Weather, but I also don't get the battery life you describe. I generally get 14-16 hours of moderate use. Playing games can really sap battery, but that is not unusual I think.
Yeah, when I'm playing games the battery does drain very quickly depending on the game (oddly enough even wordament drains the battery like mental).
Other than that I'm happy with the battery. It's a lot better than my old phone despite me using it a lot more and for more things. In the evenings I am constantly on it, I hardly ever use my PC anymore.
Other than that I'm happy with the battery. It's a lot better than my old phone despite me using it a lot more and for more things. In the evenings I am constantly on it, I hardly ever use my PC anymore.
Wordament has always been a battery hog, even on my 900. They need to give that game an update but they are too bust whoring it out on iOS
As an aside, when I play Wordment I thought the number of players would have seen a big increase. On average there are about 600 more players when I play.
Anton Sugar
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I think I am going to add a "New to WP" area to the OT with app recommendations for popular apps that someone may want if they're switching to WP OR just to serve as a listing for people wondering "Does WP have X app?"
What else?
- Instagram: not available
- Pandora: Official Pandora app; MetroRadio Pro
- Spotify: Official Spotify app
- Twitter: Official Twitter app; Rowi; Mehdoh
- Facebook: Official Twitter app
- Youtube: Official Youtube app (redirects to mobile site); Metrotube
- Google Maps: gMaps
- Dropbox: ?
What else?
brotkasten
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Wordament has always been a battery hog, even on my 900. They need to give that game an update but they are too bust whoring it out on iOS
As an aside, when I play Wordment I thought the number of players would have seen a big increase. On average there are about 600 more players when I play.
Leave them alone. I love playing Wordament on my iPad and I can't wait for the Android version.
dorkimoe
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Great idea
brotkasten
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I'm really glad you made the OT. You update the OP more often than Microsoft updates the OS.
Anton Sugar
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I've never been depressed by a compliment before!
Brot is the undisputed king of the backhand.
And just as you say that: http://m.wpcentral.com/att-nokia-lumia-920-firmware-update-preparing-launch
That's 2 updates in less than half a year.
edit: updates for the rest of the world are already on Navifirm as well. EE is 1232.5957.1308.20
brotkasten
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What a coincidence!
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I'll wait for the official release. Navifirm updates stomp your user data, yes?
Yeah, I would just wait unless you were planning a reset anyways.
For you people in the US, United Airlines app
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=e70dd5c6-dcd1-47e6-a3ab-3fc752aa33ed
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=e70dd5c6-dcd1-47e6-a3ab-3fc752aa33ed
VanMardigan
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For Dropbox, I use a client called Kickbox. Also, Box has an official client. And in terms of big hitters, I would add that Tune In Radio and Kindle have official apps.
KillerMan91
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Thanks for answers! Very helpful. Already downloaded couple of suggestions.
Anton Sugar
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Good call, thanks. Updated:
- Instagram: not available
- Pandora: Official app; MetroRadio Pro
- Spotify: Official app
- Twitter: Official app; Rowi; Mehdoh
- Facebook: Official app
- Youtube: Official app (redirects to mobile site); Metrotube
- Google Maps: gMaps
- Dropbox: Kickbox
- Box: Official Box app
- Tune in Radio: Official app
- Amazon: Official app
- Amazon Kindle: Official app
Demo of future speech recognition improvements to Bing for Windows Phone.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4132116/bing-streaming-mode-windows-phone-demo
edit: I hadn't used voice search for a while in Bing, but it does seem better already (faster and accurate).
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4132116/bing-streaming-mode-windows-phone-demo
edit: I hadn't used voice search for a while in Bing, but it does seem better already (faster and accurate).
Not on WP8.
lastflowers
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VanMardigan
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So instead of having a super huge list, you could list whatever you think are the top apps and then link to the essentials collection on the windows phone store: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/s...ial-apps/2ac293c6-7765-4118-9c1a-8d92f714c62e
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, I'd like the list to be more of an answer to "Well, if it had X app, I'd think about switching" or "I've just switched to WP, does it have X app?" rather than a list of all official apps. I'll link to that essentials collection, though.
sweetvar26
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For the HTC 8, is there a free data monitoring App?
I don't think data sense is available in the marketplace for me right now.
I don't think data sense is available in the marketplace for me right now.
Thanks.
Just downloaded it (took ages). Background task enabled again, lets hope the battery issues have resolved themselves for me.
TheBryanJZX90
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Are there any good weather apps that aren't hard on the battery? I was thinking about getting Amazing Weather until someone said it was a battery hog. I hate that I'm afraid to try new apps because I'm scared of going back to the days of my first three 920s that only had 6 hours of juice in them. My fourth 920 finally has a decent battery, but somehow it's taken a hit in the last couple weeks, right around the time I decided to try a bunch of apps recommended on WP Central.
VanMardigan
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I dint get an update prompt. I even tried the old back out and click on the app again trick and nothing.
brotkasten
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Data sense is a carrier feature. Only Verizon supports it right now.
Anton Sugar
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FWIW, AmazingWeather hasn't been much of a battery hog for me. The only thing that I can consistently pin down to being a battery hog is WP's GPS search (due to my shitty reception/location at work).
Time to talk to your professor again.
I just came back form the Telcel store, the Lumias will be available next week, damn, I wanted mine now
lastflowers
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Moist man is correct.
lastflowers
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Or wpfans are artificially rating the app well....
Even The Verge said it was the best version.
Yeah, could be. Gizmodo really likes the app (I know it is Gizmodo, but still).
lastflowers
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That's good to hear. I haven't messed around with it at all. Rather than just having big name apps, I'd prefer them take their time and make a good product.
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