VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The red looks fantastic. The only one I think wouldn't look better matte.
Matte cyan is still the best 920. It's held up well too, have had mine since launch.
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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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The red looks fantastic. The only one I think wouldn't look better matte.
Matte cyan is still the best 920. It's held up well too, have had mine since launch.
That's pretty good, nice to see Twitter cares now for the most part.
brotkasten
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I'm glad that Windows Phone is finally part of the food picture war.
E: How could anyone hate the 925?
I'm glad that Windows Phone is finally part of the food picture war.
E: How could anyone hate the 925?
The border looks like badly designed cutlery.
Swapchat is out.
Looks really good in those screenshots.
I'm glad that Windows Phone is finally part of the food picture war.
E: How could anyone hate the 925?
Agreed. I think it's the best looking one now.
brotkasten
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Ars reviewed the Lumia 928. Nokia seriously put a pentile 768p display into a $500 phone in 2013. :lol What a joke.
No, you look like badly designed cutlery!
No, you look like badly designed cutlery!
I'm glad that Windows Phone is finally part of the food picture war.
E: How could anyone hate the 925?
I don't hate. It's just that my 920 still works even after hitting the ground for like...10 times now and there is still no chip upgrades for WP8. It sux.
brotkasten
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It might be, but it's also 1080p.
Anton Sugar
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I'm not crazy about the 925 (though I read that in-person impressions are great), but dat matte white
I'm ignorant, what's the significance?
Going to be signing a new 3 year contract in a week or two. I'm mainly looking at getting a back up phone (currently using a BB Z10) and the Telus only carries the Ativ S in regards to Windows Phones. Is it any good at all? Or should I just pluck down the $200 and get the S4 (despite me not being a fan of android)?
killer rin
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Unless you absolutely need a phone, I'd personally wait until December before you sign any contract. Mainly because that's when the CRTCs new cellphone regulations come into play. They are definitely something worth waiting for.
Other than that though, the ATIV s is an okay phone. I've heard some good things about it. Though personally I've never used one.
It is decent from what I have seen, but like rin said I would wait for the new regs.
My battery hasn't to great of late and my phone has been getting pretty warm even without playing games so I deleted some apps including the Facebook beta. So far today it has been better. Going to see how it goes before I reinstall Facebook (which also got an update today).
Funny you say that, I also wondered if the Facebook beta drained more battery as I got that impression.
I have been using my phone lightly (bit of web, apps and Jetpack Joyride) for 8 hours already today and have 77% left. Seems much better.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I have come to the conclusion that having capacitive buttons below the screen is a mistake. Having the Windows button be an actual button like Samsung did in the Focus Flash is better, but not enough. On screen buttons are better once you have a bezel to grab.
Only Apple has it it right, with no soft keys. The amount of unintentional home screen and Bing search button presses that take you out of an app, game, email, text message, etc. cannot be considered anything other than bad design. Its shocking that something so bad for usability and such an obviously flawed design choice is the overwhelming standard for Windows Phone devices.
Only Apple has it it right, with no soft keys. The amount of unintentional home screen and Bing search button presses that take you out of an app, game, email, text message, etc. cannot be considered anything other than bad design. Its shocking that something so bad for usability and such an obviously flawed design choice is the overwhelming standard for Windows Phone devices.
NeOak
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The leaker(s) of EOS seem to have done a small "review":
http://vizileaks.blogspot.co.uk/
Not much of actual value in there, though.
http://vizileaks.blogspot.co.uk/
Not much of actual value in there, though.
Anton Sugar
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It doesn't really happen to me that often, but yeah, if I had the choice, I'd choose no soft keys.
I used to think that, but then pretty much every one I know with an iPhone has had at least one of them die because of that non-capacitive home button. Then again my Omnia's button still works after 2.5+ years.
Miss my Lumia710 for this
TheBryanJZX90
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The home button breaking on my iPhone 4 was a big reason why I switched to Nokia and Windows Phone. Of course, the 920 has had its own share of problems...
show me your skeleton
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i've definitely suffered from poor battery performance recently, seems like the beta may be the problem.
brotkasten
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Yeah, it was pretty funny from Apple. Thank god I'm prepared for both.
Fjolle
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Isn't it like every apple keynote where the technology isn't there yet to actually stream it live, so everybody follows text updates or a bad mobile stream?
Let me guess, you built a quick reply browser extension that lets you choose snarky prepared responses from a dropdown menu? Does it feature keyboard shortcuts too?
;-)
brotkasten
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It was explained many times. It got nothing to do with technology, but with catering to the press. Pretty much the opposite that Nintendo is doing. Why else do you think the press loves Apple? It's a giving and taking. If Apple would stream the events for everyone, the blogs would get way less clicks. Why else do you think the press loves Apple?
That's actually a pretty good idea. But no, I got myself covered in enough screens to follow everything.
brotkasten
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I fucking hope it's not perma.
I kinda wanna PM Bish about it, but a) I'm kinda afraid of him and b) I don't wanna get caught up in this myself :-D
I'm telling you guys, the gaming side is it's own animal. It doesn't look like he did anything to get perma'd so don't sweat it.
yeah, I hope it isn't perms either. He is pretty fair imo. God forbid you don't have a problem with Xbox one.
Wait, isn't he literally a paid shill for M$ (using a dollar sign in MS is like gaming-camo, no one will suspect I'm actually down with the One if I do that)?
The hyperbole on the gaming side is getting so dense it's about to form a black hole.
Meanwhile I'm throwing tons of money at Steam on my PCs...
The hyperbole on the gaming side is getting so dense it's about to form a black hole.
Meanwhile I'm throwing tons of money at Steam on my PCs...
He's a MS employee, and has always been upfront about it. One of his last posts contains a disclaimer about it. And I don't think his posts, while slightly passive aggressive, warrant a ban on their own.
Oh well.
They say it has optic image stabilization in it too, I think that was up in the air. The camera on this thing is sounding great.
brotkasten
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He's part of the Windows Phone team.
That's what I said, technically M$ pays him and he promotes his company within reason. "Paid shill" is strong but I was trying to be a little sarcastic.
At this point I'm trying real hard to continue to not post in Gaming threads.
brotkasten
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Except he doesn't promote the product he works on.
Temple Run Brave for WP8
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/temple-run-brave/ffd76df9-54eb-4bcd-ad0d-8c52b923d65c
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/temple-run-brave/ffd76df9-54eb-4bcd-ad0d-8c52b923d65c
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