Very nice!
Now give us local music/video sharing and a better UI because default black is boring.
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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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Very nice!
Now give us local music/video sharing and a better UI because default black is boring.
That too. It makes me appreciate having a Nokia, but its not good for the platform as a whole imo.
Windows Phone already runs on ARM.
Tweet it to Joe!
Nokia, and similarly other OEMs, have an interest in keeping some goodies to themselves. Verizon, however, does not. No one is switching carriers to play Halo Mobile a few weeks early. People may however choose Nokia over HTC if Nokia has some cool exclusive apps.
But when people scream about Android's fragmentation problem, there really isn't one. As a consumer I want fantasy football on my smartphone. On Android it doesn't matter whether I'm on 2.3 Gingerbread or 4.2 Jelly Bean, but I have my fantasy football app.
Do you also have Chrome, Google Now and all the other latest stuff that Google issue?
Nope.
Those are core apps. And there's hundreds of other things that won't work on 2.3. I remember it well from when I had an Android flagship phone that didn't get updated anymore after 10 months because the manufacturer couldn't be arsed.
That's actual fragmentation. On Windows Phone you'll get all the Nokia exclusives after a timed period. Apps that wouldn't be there at all if Nokia weren't paying developers for them.
Steelyuhas
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ESPN Scorecenter (the one made by ESPN) is much better than the Nokia one IMO.
Core apps vs apps doesn't matter to me - an app is still an app. Google Now is nice to have, but I gave it up to try out Windows Phone with the Nokia 920 only after I found out there is an official fantasy football app. Different apps matter to different people, and fantasy football is bigger than all of us.
What? Garbage app running on 2.3 versus a newer app running on 4.2 are exactly the same?
the live tile never works.
Steelyuhas
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Oh yeah, I bad it small and forgot about that.
I pretty much just use it to check scores, and it's perfect for that. Loads up instantly, keeps my league spot on the last one I had open (MLB) and puts myESPN favorite teams right at the top.
Never said they were the same, just said available on both.
i just use mlb.com for mlb scores.
lastflowers
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yeah man, it's really inconvenient to use the mobile site when I could be using a nice web-wrapper. Especially when ESPN's mobile site is garbage.
juliushandle
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I think if the 1020 had an updated cpu/gpu and a 1080p screen I'd sell my 920 and upgrade. At $699 though, I can't do it.
crazy as it sounds, if they made a Lumia with the EOS tech and a phablet sized screen I'd easily pay $1000 off contract.
crazy as it sounds, if they made a Lumia with the EOS tech and a phablet sized screen I'd easily pay $1000 off contract.
killer rin
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Supposedly they are making a Windows 8 Pro Tablet
Here is a link to the 1020 announcement.
I said whoa: https://vine.co/v/h7lQHeZUJZp
Also just to share for any interested, the whitepaper technical summery of 1020. Just skimmed it myself, pretty lengthy document. (.pdf)
LINK
Also just to share for any interested, the whitepaper technical summery of 1020. Just skimmed it myself, pretty lengthy document. (.pdf)
LINK
Unknown Soldier
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Clearly they need to port Windows Phone to x86.
NeOak
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Add 8GB of GDDR5!
brotkasten
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For the nth time, if Nokia has exclusive apps or games, you can be sure they also paid for the development. The apps and games are going to be available for other phones later on.
This. The majority of the high profile apps being released are because of Nokia.
ESPN Fantasy Football was available last year, but as far as I know it's still exclusive to Nokia.
VanMardigan
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I hope they release a ESPN fantasy football app this year. I was very disappointed that there was no mlb app this year.
Cute Dragon Here
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Hey. Well said. If Nokia didn't pay and help develop the apps, the apps won't exist in the first place.
I'm actually glad that we've got Nokia onboard the Windows Phone train. Without it, we might be seeing Windows Phone canned.
brotkasten
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The exclusivity period can be 18 months or longer.
José Mourinho
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Any users (perhaps only UK) having trouble updating apps? I checked the error code and folks on WPCentral who had experienced it before seemed to all get hit at once. So I assume it's a problem on MS end. Just wanted to make sure.
I'm experiencing errors when trying to install apps. From the good 'ol US, by the way.
Same
José Mourinho
cocknose
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Bad timing on the marketplace errors. I could really use the HERE updates on this Puerto Rico trip, MS! *shakes fist angrily*
If you happen to live in the US.
NeOak
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If you happen to live in the US.
Pretty much. The rest of the world cares about the football where the ball is actually played moved with feet all 90 minutes.
Or like MURICANs like to call it: Soccer.
To be fair, I do like (American) Football even though I don't live in the US, but I haven't played fantasy football in a while and I'm sure there more than a few people outside of the US that wouldn't care about it either.
Yeah I wonder what the price will be?
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Have you heard anything about when it's coming to Canada?
Nothing yet.
As an aside I can't wait to get the amber and GDR2 updates. Hopefully Rogers will deliver the update.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
My guess is $399, which may be worth it for me if they include the camera grip like the rumors state.
killer rin
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Well, we got GDR0 the day we found out about it in December. It took a couple of weeks for GDR1 in march. So we may be getting it come August.
juliushandle
Member
dammit, where are the 1020 video samples? i'd kill to to see a 1080p vid of that bee demo.
The bee demo looked really amazing. I'd gladly take the 1020 over any quad-core full-hd phone out there.
NeOak
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I live in the US. Never was able to get into it. The whole "egg is moved, measure how many yards, moved again, measure again" mechanic is just... Nevermind, too off topic.
Even with 64GB, Its still too small. That phone needs a microSD slot with UHS-1 support.
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