It's gonna be spammed to hell once Rambo or Jumbo is announced.
And man, WP devs are BEASTS. Joe Belfiore should do a Ballmer and jump around like a monkey in the next conference to honor them.
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It's gonna be spammed to hell once Rambo or Jumbo is announced.
And man, WP devs are BEASTS. Joe Belfiore should do a Ballmer and jump around like a monkey in the next conference to honor them.
lastflowers
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Yep, I don't know a whole lot about the Bluetooth sector. What experience I have is with my senior embedded capstone where I was trying to get two Bluetooth devices to talk to each other and via the android stack. What research I did showed how little the hardware manufacturers adhere to the SIG standard, especially the pricy brands. But I do know the Bluetooth team is working nonstop to test devices and hardware out. There's just such a large matrix of devices that it's difficult to easily test them. <Speculation> The issue becomes what BT stack you use and how it's integrated into the OS and hardware on the phone client. This stack changed from 7->Apollo with the NT switch, and I think a lot of the pain has come about because of it. The CE stack probably had 10 years of work integrated with it, whereas the NT stack might not have. </Speculation>
brotkasten
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What are you two trying to say? Everyone here convinced me that quad-cores and 1080p displays are bullshit and that no one would need them, so why wouldn't they go with a dual-core SoC and a 720p display?
Wasn't that half a year ago when the best selling phones had 720p displays (or lower res) and (mostly) dual cores?
Anyway, I'd be surprised if the next true Nokia flagship didn't have both a higher resolution display and a quad-core processor. Half a year after Samsung and HTC, but then they do release their flagship phones at the end of the year while Samsung and HTC release them in May/June.
Also, let's not forget that the iphone is in a similar position. Only with a lower resolution display.
brotkasten
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No, that was 3 months ago, back in April (after HTC announced the third phone with those specs and Samsung was about to launch the S4). But I'm sure everything is different now and the market has changed rapidly and those specs are much more relevant now.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I've been pretty consistent that my next phone will be 1080p, and I've said that these new 3d games we have been getting show the need for beefier specs as well.
Well yeah, things have changed. When the Lumia 920 came out it had one of the highest PPI densities on the market iirc. Now it doesn't anymore. Since they don't release a new generation handset twice a year it was obvious that we wouldn't see them catch up again until October or November, no matter the perceived restrictions of WP.
Personally, I still feel 1080p vs 720p or 768p doesn't make too much of a tangible difference on a 4.5 inch screen for me to really care, but what I feel doesn't matter. Specs matter and they also sell phones. For me it makes no difference, because I'm not in the market for a new phone until the end of the year anyway, but for people looking to upgrade now I can see how it would.
When I upgrade at the end of the year I definitely want state of the art specs.
brotkasten
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Wait, what? I was talking about April 2013, not 2012. Absolutely nothing has changed compared to three months ago. The Lumia 920 lost the highest PPI crown, when HTC released the Butterfly in December 2012, only one month after the 920 came out.
But I'll better stop now, before I'm accused of being a spec whore again.
I know which year we were talking about, but I certainly didn't care about a Japan only phone in December, I don't know who apart from the Japanese would.
The phones that matter are the current flagship releases by HTC, Sony and Samsung. The ones that people actually buy. And they didn't come out until last month, a good 6 months after the 920 was released.
brotkasten
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The Butterfly was released as Droid DNA in late November 2012 in the US, the Galaxy S4 was available in late April and so was the HTC One. Sony's 1080p phone, the Xperia Z, was released in February in Japan and then later in Europe.
Just because some phones are late in the US, because of the usual carrier bullshit, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
Fair enough.
I still think that not having a 1080p screen wasn't really relevant in February or April (end of April is a month ago, btw), while it is now.
Anyway, I fear that for those that want bleeding edge specs, Windows Phone is not the right platform. Nor is iPhone, for that matter.
I still think that not having a 1080p screen wasn't really relevant in February or April (end of April is a month ago, btw), while it is now.
Anyway, I fear that for those that want bleeding edge specs, Windows Phone is not the right platform. Nor is iPhone, for that matter.
It would seem that way and the dude is calling it Gmail. Microsoft should allow this.
brotkasten
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I can only repeat what I said back in April. I'm not a spec whore, I don't care about specs, nor do I care about the number of apps. I had a better user experience with my 1 GHz single-core, 512 MB RAM Windows Phone than I do now with my Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.2 (and I get really jealous whenever a friend plays with his 920). But saying that specs don't matter and that it's irrelevant to have the latest and greatest hardware as soon as possible, is nonsense.
To increase market share and gain momentum (I love that word), it's important to have great, flexible hardware support and letting OEMs and carriers compete with it.
Then again, it doesn't explain why the fuck Nokia released only one 720p+ phone so far (excluding the other 920 variants). The Lumia 720 with a 720p screen and 1GB RAM for $299 would've been PERFECT.
brotkasten
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Completely unrelated, but this is way overdue.
Other franchises should follow asap, and I'm not talking about stuff like Fable Coin Golf.
iOS port in 1 month, Android port in 3 months!
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/4/4392674/halo-spartan-assault-windows-8
Other franchises should follow asap, and I'm not talking about stuff like Fable Coin Golf.
iOS port in 1 month, Android port in 3 months!
Good news, everyone!!!
(McDonald's Germany is teasing a WP app on Facebook)
Who needs anything else?
Edit: Screw Halo, this is the true Megaton.
The app we've all been waiting for!
I really hope not to be honest. It would nice to have some exclusives to platform and have MS show it cares about WP. Good step in the right direction though.
Interesting predictions from Canalys, a UK-based analysis company
http://www.zdnet.com/canalys-predic...nd-rapid-growth-for-windows-phone-7000016329/
http://www.zdnet.com/canalys-predic...nd-rapid-growth-for-windows-phone-7000016329/
Interesting predictions from Canalys, a UK-based analysis company
http://www.zdnet.com/canalys-predic...nd-rapid-growth-for-windows-phone-7000016329/
"So, we have Android, Apple, and BB. Shit, it doesn't add up to 100, what's that other thing, Windows 8 Phone or something? Yeah, that should work."
brotkasten
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Interesting predictions from Canalys, a UK-based analysis company
http://www.zdnet.com/canalys-predic...nd-rapid-growth-for-windows-phone-7000016329/
I hope they're better than IDC.
WPCentral has some good stuff.
brotkasten
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how are you using feedly? Do you sign up online?
I'll go for the 2017 estimate haha.
It'll not happen, but it'd be nice to get above the 10% level.
haha
But no videos though. Does anybody do video reviews for WP apps?
Oh I thought they did for the more important releases at least,
I must have missed it. WMPowerUser does some video app reviews... I'll just search youtube.
Official Adobe Reader is out.
Seems to be kinda barebones, and the comments are already pretty harsh, although they're directed against WP and its handling of PDFs in general.
Seems to be kinda barebones, and the comments are already pretty harsh, although they're directed against WP and its handling of PDFs in general.
eastx
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We do video for plenty of apps. We're just a real website and as such, not every single story gets a video.
Also, here's the best Halo: Spartan Assault article you will read today, complete with some exclusive details at the end:
Halo: Spartan Assault coming to WP8 and Windows 8 in July!
It's fast. That's all I wanted from a PDF reader. Thank god I no longer will suffer that MS crap of a PDF Reader.
Good news about 512MB devices able to run it.
campfireweekend
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WMPoweruser am cry XD
I don't understand how after all this time it's still so poor.
brotkasten
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Oh you
Oh, he gone mad.
brotkasten
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There's no sense of quality at that shithole. Just look at the design. It's pure crap. The guy who runs it is a deluded and mad fanboy. I mean, fuck, he wrote in a blog post that a journalist should kill himself, after the guy criticized WP or a Lumia. All he cares about is the ad money from clicks and the bought promotions by small and shitty developers.
I had forgotten he had written that. Surely after all this time though he's bound to have made some money from it, money that could be used to pay a competent designer. The content is another matter though.
Well thanks for that, WMPU!
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