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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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brotkasten
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If you're in the US.
Steelyuhas
Member
Are there other places?
In all seriousness, I used voice for nearly all my texts today and it's pretty damn excellent now.
Unknown Soldier
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Coincidentally, the Xboned is also basically designed as a US-only console!
Why on Earth would I want to live there, amirite?!
antiquegamer
Member
Yeah, use it today to reply to my wife and for the first time it actually got it the first time. Now they really need to fix the blu-tooth.
killer rin
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It works amazingly well in Canada too. I just put it through some tests and it could understand me 100% when I spoke in a couple of different languages, when I spoke some absurd words and even a couple of the completely made up words I use in my sci-fi universe.
TTOOLL
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It will be embarrassing if MS allowed it to happen.
There's about 0% change of this happening, especially since a hostile takeover doesn't seem to be an option.
What's WP8's solution?
I just tried the same pic as a background, it basically tones down the colors a bit to make it more visible. More grey-ish than the original. Although you wouldn't notice if you don't compare it side by side.
Makes the image darker? Maybe not the best, but a decent enough solution.
60% black transparent layer. I think that's applied to all backgrounds.
It's like your text disappears, sort of like magic. :x
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Is it me or have they vastly improved the quality of photo uploads to facebook through the built-in "share" menu? I always avoided using the "Share" to facebook function because the images would be tiny when uploaded, but either FB or MS made some changes and now the images are uploaded pretty big and detailed. And since its way more reliable than using the official or beta FB app, I'll be using it every time now.
antiquegamer
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I don't know I think the picture quality is still pretty bad. I only use the build in upload if I don't really care about picture quality.
brotkasten
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We're back to zero, guys.
"Starting from Windows Phone GDR2, system updates will be provided directly by Microsoft to OEM manufacturers, OEM manufacturers to join in with your own function to update, and then the OEM vendors push their customers ."
"Starting from Windows Phone GDR2, system updates will be provided directly by Microsoft to OEM manufacturers, OEM manufacturers to join in with your own function to update, and then the OEM vendors push their customers ."
Unknown Soldier
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Welcome to Android Carrier Update Delay Hell, gentlemen.
I would offer you a handbasket, but you're already here!
I would offer you a handbasket, but you're already here!
Steelyuhas
Member
Well that's some bullshit.
What happened to the clear promise of at least 18 months of updates straight from the horse's mouth?
What happened to the clear promise of at least 18 months of updates straight from the horse's mouth?
Ugh.
Cute Dragon Here
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Source?
Either way, I get my phones for what they are, not for what they will become. Lower expectations for everything means that I rarely get angry about what I have. I know that my phone's camera is junk, but I am also aware that you can only do so much on a phone... without starting to go off from "phone" territory, that is. (I'd rather use my real camera if I can.)
antiquegamer
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How is this any difference than what they are doing now? I have yet to see update push out by Microsoft independent of At&t. I would think this is a good thing no? Nokia will get update and able to do their firmware and tested before it all get push out and not end up with patch after patch like last time. Or am I missing something here.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yet another reason to buy a Nokia if you want windows phone.
brotkasten
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I dont think ita any different. Perhaps instead of having to download seperate Microsoft and Nokia updates, now it is in one big package. It makes sense due to the dependencies.
The WP team's office
They move at a pace that screams we're at the top and have no competition. When it's should be we have 0 market share we need as many people on this team as possible to make this ship move faster than the competition. Instead the competition is moving fast and controls 90+% of the industry.
The WP team's office
They move at a pace that screams we're at the top and have no competition. When it's should be we have 0 market share we need as many people on this team as possible to make this ship move faster than the competition. Instead the competition is moving fast and controls 90+% of the industry.
Playing around with iOS7 on my friend's iPhone 5 made me realize once again how superficial those changes are. I think at its very core WP is still ahead of the competition, it feels much more connected and alive.
Where they are really lagging behind is all the "quick access" functionality. Notification center, control center, or even true multitasking are things that really make a difference, especially when efficiency is one of the key principles with all those hubs and "glanceable" info.
And none of these things should really collide with what WP is all about. Make the Me tile a full blown notification center, give me quick access from anywhere, and it's all good.
I think live tiles don't lose their value simply because the notifications are collected elsewhere. There are many things that make sense on a live tile that would be annoying as a notification.
The Faceless Master
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because that's what some people hate about Android?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The WP team's office
They move at a pace that screams we're at the top and have no competition. When it's should be we have 0 market share we need as many people on this team as possible to make this ship move faster than the competition. Instead the competition is moving fast and controls 90+% of the industry.
Well, Google had i/o and Apple just had wwdc, so now its MS' turn at Build. And I really didn't think either Apple nor Google had a strong showing, so there is an opportunity for MS to catch up with Rambo and also innovate with new features. Whether they will deliver is questionable. WP7 blew me away when it was introduced, but Mango and Apollo have been refinements, so I hope MS can spark some new ideas in mobile again. I refuse to believe that we've plateaued in mobile innovation and features, as the google and apple presentations seemed to indicate.
BUILD won't have any phone news.
soo it is the same as we get now?
Fjolle
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Why not?
no idea, windows phone team is slow I guess. Anyway just about everyone that would know is saying they don't expect to see anything.
lastflowers
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yeah, I doubt there will be news, although it would be nice to get beta dev tools out there so there isn't a repeat of tools out when product is out.
Seriously WTF
I mean, we sort of know that WP ain't getting an update 'til 2014.
Fjolle
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That's stupid.
It's not like Apple or Google are capable of producing phones that are more attractive for me, but get your shit together WP team.
yep. Good thing I only use my phone for phone calls and web browsing.
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