Surface Phone and updates moving even slower until WP slips off into irrelevancy. MS will be content with their Android patent money.
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Surface Phone and updates moving even slower until WP slips off into irrelevancy. MS will be content with their Android patent money.
Speedy Blue Dude
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Does Microsoft pay Nokia to stay loyal to Windows Phone? They should.
Yeah they do, they get 'platform payments' of 250 million a quarter.
VanMardigan
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No, seriously, are we jealous of that shitty blackberry conference now?
I must be missing something, because between what MS and Nokia have planned for gdr2, it seems to be at least on par with what bb10.1 is bringing in terms of features.
I must be missing something, because between what MS and Nokia have planned for gdr2, it seems to be at least on par with what bb10.1 is bringing in terms of features.
Thread has a case of the verge. Positive news followed by a slap in the face.
I think it's because they are sponsoring Mercedes and have Hamilton. Nokia obviously needs to sponsor Lotus and secure Räikkönen.
brotkasten
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VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I didn't say we are getting the same features, I said we are getting at least as many new features. Also, speedier and less buggy we can count out, hdr is available through apps, I don't know what pin to pin messaging is, and the search improvements sound like the only cool part of the update.
I'm with you. It is actually kind of annoying at times.
Honestly I'm just happy that I can use Skype now. I was scared it'd be like WP where it took forever to come to the platform. BB10 got it after 3 months. Now I only need Instagram and Flipboard (or an equivalent) and I can move entirely onto BB10. Those two are never happening any time soon though.
Well I guess we'll see, they have the developer event today so they usually announce a few new apps there.
920's 7 months old. Verizon is a bunch of dicks.
This seems like a serious enough update to warrant AT&T Carriage. We all know Verizon's a pipe dream because they're a sack of dicks.
The point is that it's a serious concern that Nokia still can't launch across multiple carriers with a major release. The 8X launched across AT&T and T-Mobile, but they could only get the last place carrier with this device.
brotkasten
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Maybe it's because I like this thread as the BB Live Event thread in the Android OT.
VanMardigan
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Somebody should have warned me that tumblr allows adult "art". I have the tumblr app set to the wide tile cause I enjoy the photos and just now some bent over lady with vagina juice dripping out of her flipped on to the tile. This is bullshit.
dorkimoe
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They arent the iphone though, do they really need to be exclusive? I for one would buy that phone on day 1 if it were coming to ATT...been waiting for the next device since people said hold off on the 920 since its older now
The Faceless Master
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I'm sorry? The 920 was exclusive to AT&T, the 928 is a variant for Verizon and T-Mobile gets the 925.
It's basically the same phone, but carriers in the US don't want consumers to know that, so they demand stupid little changes.
Not different than this, except for the time exclusivity of the 920 on AT&T.
Every carrier got a Galaxy S2 with its own name, look and little differences.
that was 2 years ago, even HTC has One flagship across 3 US carriers this year.
:lol doh
brotkasten
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Nokia can't force one model on all carriers, like Samsung or Apple and yes, even HTC is bigger in the US than Nokia. But I'm sure you knew that, so I don't know why you act that dumb.
Are you trying to tell me Tumblr got a different usage?
Sony doesn't.
The Faceless Master
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Path and Vine
we're talking about companies who have multiple variants of a handset on several US carriers.
Gmail.
Excuse my ignorance but what is the benefit of the GMail app?
VanMardigan
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Yep, you can see even more of the image because its set up in a portrait orientation, smh.
If it does, I honestly didn't know. I'm just glad I saw it and not my 6 year old daughter. She usually just uses the kids corner, but sometimes she grabs the phone from me and just scrolls down to Xbox games.
ActiveSync support for Gmail will be pulled in a month for new syncs (so you're fine as long as you've set-up prior to that date with your device).
Using Gmail with IMAP doesn't support Push, so you have to use Fetch instead. This is actually what they complain about the most with WP.
The Faceless Master
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^^^ called it ^^^
The Abominable Snowman
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CardDAV, CalDAV support is imminent.
We're talking about the actual MAIL component of Gmail.
CardDAV is for contacts.
CalDAV is for calendar.
Although it is hilarious that Google announced they were going to pull CalDAV and start using a proprietary GCal protocol just a few weeks after that announcement.
VanMardigan
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I don't follow anyone! I don't know what criteria the live tile uses to determine what its going to show.
Pretty much, but with more and better features.
http://www.zdnet.com/nokia-lumia-92...-is-holding-back-nokia-innovation-7000015352/
At this point I'll be surprised if we get a pure view camera because of how slow Microsoft is supporting new hardware features.
At this point I'll be surprised if we get a pure view camera because of how slow Microsoft is supporting new hardware features.
Funky Papa
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VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I like that you can choose to launch the new app rather than the regular camera app. That potentially opens the door to the wild west of android app launching customization, so I hope they figure out a way to manage that so that its hidden from regular users and yet accessible to advanced users. I do not want a pop up asking me what browser to open a link with or a pop up asking me which photo app to open a photo with. But if I want to change the default app for an action, let there be a menu.
Fjolle
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There's IMAP for that...?
brotkasten
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I'm usually not the one who comments all bitter on this, but come the fuck on.
Nokia pushed this innovative hardware bundle
640 × 360 pixels nHD (16:9 aspect ratio)
680 MHz ARM11 processor (ARM v6 architecture) (not even v7!)
256 MB RAM
Broadcom BCM2727 GPU
in form of the Nokia N8 against the iPhone 4 in October 2010.
What good is a fantastic camera if the rest of the phone is shit?
HollovVpo1nt
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Not to mention the nokia N97 mid 2009.
Steelyuhas
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Yep, each new version looks cheaper than the last.
Gotta satisfy those journalists with tiny little baby hands though I guess!
Data Sense, about time.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
We are through the CrackBerry glass, gentlemen.
brotkasten
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Please understand, Instragram for WP is not ready yet.
antiquegamer
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I spit out my coffee. Thanks. So true however.
Fake. And Nokia following them is not a big deal, Nokia follows 70K other random accounts.
antiquegamer
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Check to see the stuff you have running in the background. If you have to many apps using live tiles sometimes that kinda mess it up.
Also I am in the same boat the last update make my connection worst than ever. It was suppose to fix it but I never have problem with the 2nd update on AT&T, now I constantly lost connection on 4G and my wifi connection always crap out with result in several podcast stuck in download.
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