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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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Is power saving mode on? It won't display notifications and live tile updates if PSM is on.
I would like to, but my wife wouldn't approve.
You mean the phone itself right? Nah, I get a Whatsapp message only in once in a blue moon but I never get notified so I always miss those messages.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
lol, we are the exact opposite, I'm getting a Nexus 4 as my android play thing. And I think the 520 will be a nice cheap replacement for your quantum. I always thought that phone was underrated, my wife owned it and liked it. LG did a decent job on it, but the Nokia Lumia will be a big upgrade.
brotkasten
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I have a Galaxy Nexus and I'm thinking about getting a 520 as a WP toy. But I fear it might be an upgrade in some way and I stop using the GN.
brotkasten
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Here's how we solved it in the dark age.
Too complex for the focus groups to figure it out? We'll never know.
I really miss old school Windows Mobile. I used to have a Dell Axim back in the day (before I wanted to pay for a phone bill), it felt so futuristic back then. I remember I could play Age or Empires on that thing where I went. Where the fuck can I play Age or Empires now?Here's how we solved it in the dark age.
Too complex for the focus groups to figure it out? We'll never know.
What I'm saying is that MS needs to put AoE or AoM on Windows Phone.
NeOak
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I really miss old school Windows Mobile. I used to have a Dell Axis back in the day (before I wanted to pay for a phone bill), it felt so futuristic back then. I remember I could play Age or Empires on that thing where I went. Where the fuck can I play Age or Empires now?
What I'm saying is that MS need to put AoE or AoM on Windows Phone.
RIP Ensemble Studios
:'(RIP Ensemble Studios
campfireweekend
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I really miss old school Windows Mobile. I used to have a Dell Axis back in the day (before I wanted to pay for a phone bill), it felt so futuristic back then. I remember I could play Age or Empires on that thing where I went. Where the fuck can I play Age or Empires now?
What I'm saying is that MS need to put AoE or AoM on Windows Phone.
Ughh. Why'd you have to remind me that that was a thing.
Microsoft says Windows Phone 8 increased app downloads by 100% and paid app revenue to developers by 140%
And new comScore data for the US:
#Soaring
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Here's how we solved it in the dark age.
Too complex for the focus groups to figure it out? We'll never know.
I always thought that WinMo was kind of like having a small piece of Windows 3.11 in your pocket. I loved to have so many options to fiddle around, but my goodness, WM was truly a study on fuck-you usability.
Microsoft says Windows Phone 8 increased app downloads by 100% and paid app revenue to developers by 140%
And new comScore data for the US:
#Soaring
Miniscule increase is better than a drop at least? #reaching
brotkasten
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Everyone is reporting different numbers. This is so confusing.
We should just make up our own.
Although I believe none of them see WP dropping, so that's good... I guess?
brotkasten
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It's dropping in Germany and I blame you for that.
Fjolle
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Actually if we compare against last month...
Feb-13 Mar-13
51.7% 52.0%
38.9% 39.0%
5.4% 5.2%
3.2% 3.0%
0.5% 0.5%
But it's a 3 month rolling average and it's Saturday, so i have no idea what that means.
I'd say it means it always uses the average over the last 3 months.
So last month it was Dec-Feb, this month it's Jan-Mar.
So basically, it's bad :-(
Facebook beta has been updated...
http://wmpoweruser.com/facebook-beta-app-updated-to-version-5-0-1-1/
http://wmpoweruser.com/facebook-beta-app-updated-to-version-5-0-1-1/
brotkasten
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Butchered design for VZW? Must be real.
The Faceless Master
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Possibly real 928 billboard spotted.
someone needs to tell them about the HTC One...
920 is already better than HTC One. 928 will be better.
Anton Sugar
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Tell them what, exactly?
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You might wanna recheck that.
i thought the 920 was still better in low light.
campfireweekend
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If we're talking about design, you can totally make the call that the Lumia 920 is better designed than the One. I don't know how much I'd agree with that, but its a valid opinion to have.
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We're talking about the camera.
campfireweekend
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I thought comparisons still put it above in lowlight? 920 still beats the S4 in that regard also.
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Menelaus linked me comparisons in some other thread and 920 was inferior.
-Pyromaniac-
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I think that was this camera shootout: http://connect.dpreview.com/post/92...axys4-vs-htcone-vs-iphone5-vs-lumia920?page=4
I've only read one other one besides that here: http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/HTC-One-vs-Nokia-Lumia-920_id3276/page/3
Both conclude the same really. The One wins in lowlight. I was actually gonna make a topic (a serious one) about what happens if WP8 never really catches on and Windows sales continue to decline. But then I decided not to because it will 100% turn into a trolling thread but it's interesting that MS seems to be rebranding their whole company and putting all their eggs in this basket and yet consumers so far at least seem to be kind of rejecting it aren't they? I think enough time has passed that it's not inaccurate to make that early assessment. But what happens? Are they so invested in this direction that they will go down to the end, even invest every last dollar into making consumers want it if they have to. Or can they ever change things drastically again and rebrand.
It's an interesting position. Maybe it isn't I don't know. Is it still too soon to even talk about such a thing?
I'll say that the Lumia 920 produces better looking low light images to me. I don't know that the images it produces are accurate though.
http://www.neowin.net/news/cameras-htc-one-vs-nokia-lumia-920
Look at the night photo for instance.
http://www.neowin.net/news/cameras-htc-one-vs-nokia-lumia-920
Look at the night photo for instance.
campfireweekend
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Hmm, the one I watched from Pocketnow didn't seem to overwhelmingly indicate that. I'll look into it more.
I wouldn't agree with it to be honest. My first 920 was practically falling apart. Second started gathering dust in the FFC. Still in for repair. Not overly impressed with Nokia at the moment.
Do they? Only gave the second link a quick look, but "For night images, both cameras have the advantage of capturing a lot of light. The Nokia Lumia 920 does much better when light is scarce, capturing realistic colors and with balanced noise levels. The HTC One captures sharp well-lit photos with little noise, but it has the tendancy to burn brighter spots of image in low light and in certain conditions colors were yellowish." doesn't sound like the One really wins here.
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ah yeah you're right, I was reading the video part. One does better low light video. First link still stands though, and I think that's the more important one given the site
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I think the One, released six months later and also including ois, does in fact rival the 920 in low light. We probably won't determine which is objectively better, but you get a higher resolution low light image on the 920 regardless, so if the results are close, and they will be with these two devices in low light, I'll take the higher resolution image.
Design wise, I'll take the One. Less bezel, front facing speakers, and unibody aluminum. We will have to wait a few months to see if HTC has finally sorted out their build quality issues, but they built a heck of a beautiful phone.
Design wise, I'll take the One. Less bezel, front facing speakers, and unibody aluminum. We will have to wait a few months to see if HTC has finally sorted out their build quality issues, but they built a heck of a beautiful phone.
MS are definitely onto something with the Metro UI, looking at how Apple and Google are both now going with flat design. I hope they don't just throw in the towel and try another OS approach. Shoving it into Win8 was a bad idea but Metro is a perfect fit for smartphones and tablets. I attribute WP8's glacial rate of adoption to a couple of things: MS advertising kinda sucks, and they're also really late to the party; most iOS/Android users are entrenched and they're generally not looking to jump.
I think the challenges MS faces won't go away if they just do it all over again. I think their strategy isn't bad, they're just lacking in the execution. They're late, they would be even later if they scrapped Metro, and getting faster is the only short-to-midterm option they have.
brotkasten
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And there could've been a WP8 version of the One, but nooo ...
campfireweekend
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Off-topic: You have a galaxy nexus right? Is it true now with jelly bean that apps can't be installed to sd cards anymore? Why would google eliminate that option?
brotkasten
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The GN doesn't have a SD card slot. The N1 was the first and last with one.
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