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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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HollovVpo1nt
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Question, can you change the size of the keyboard letters in windows phone?
brotkasten
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I can't wait for Microsoft's Instagram on Windows Phone announcement in the coming months, now that "no one" wants it anymore.
like Pandora, nobody cares now but at least the naysayers can get off instagram and bash something else about WP. "bububu no 1080p."
Dual quadcores, so hip.
brotkasten
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So today Apple released iOS 6.0.2. to finally fix the WiFi issues. That's 3 months after release, to fix one pretty annoying issue.
So, is Microsoft really that slow?
So, is Microsoft really that slow?
Doesn't matter the WIFI issue was a feature to the Apple fanboys.
Nope.
To be fair, looking back when they announced the resolutions that WP8 would support, I thought they knocked it out of the park. At that time, I don't think many of us were expecting 1080p to arrive for screens so quickly. But apparently HTC is going to ship a 4.7" 1080p screen next year as a flagship. I think they should just quickly change things so they support 1080p and perhaps even the next 16:9 resolution (I mean shit... at this rate you never know) so that any Android phone thats released can be re-purposed into a WP8 phone.
I know they want to 'stand out' and all that. But at the moment, it might be wise to begin focusing more on permeating the world market rather than being a special snowflake. Having WP8 go live and have next to NO devices on a lot of carriers running it is inexcusable. I don't feel that there is any good reason why any Android flagship should launch without a WP8 version of that same phone launching right behind it. If they achieve that parity, then they make the consumers choice about preference of OS and ecosystems, whereas right now, they dont even have flagship presence on some of the carriers.
I wonder how many people had to sign-off on that update.
Fatal Futanari
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Ah...damn. I wonder if it is the infamous 922
Oh sweet! Never signed up under BB though. How would that work interms of plans and such?
Ya know, I never got a clear answer from Verizon when I asked. Will I be able to keep my unlimited plan with Verizon when I upgrade? Some tell me no but my friend was able to when he upgraded (but he went through Best Buy) and now has unlimited LTE.
jossueinacoma
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IDK I would go in and ask.
Last I heard, Verizon was kicking off anyone who upgrades to a new phone from their unlimited plans.
Fatal Futanari
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I did but one literally told me "I dunno, I would ask my manager but he is out at lunch" -_-
Yea, that's what I heard too.
killer rin
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Ditto
Triple that...but with the pace Rogers moves I doubt it. I mean, hell; we're still waiting for their 4G LTE Secure Sim cards to come out to enable mobile payments from Windows Phone and Android.
antiquegamer
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My hat is off to Microsoft and Nokia if the rumor Portico update starting tomorrow is true. I can said I am impress at the speed they move to fix this phone breaking issues. I am glad they take this issue seriously and that how it really negatively impacting Windows Phone perception.
Next update, I am hoping they will clean up the Xbox music and video mess and improve the user experience.
Next update, I am hoping they will clean up the Xbox music and video mess and improve the user experience.
Separate media and notification volume FFS please... who seriously thought this was a good idea?
"Hay guys lets link the media and notification volume so you get your ears blasted off when you play your music and forget to turn the ringer down"
Idiots.
killer rin
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Actually, I have been wondering lately why they didn't make Xbox Music/Video just a regular app that just so happened to be bundled with the OS and couldn't be uninstalled. If they did, it would have allowed them to easily update Xbox Music/Video through the marketplace without needing an OS update. They would have also been able to put a separate team on Xbox Music/Video and updates would be able to come out more frequently.
no, just developer and Rogers versions. Oh, and Rogers phone is locked.
cuz market research says too many options are confusing, according to Microsoft. Yet the OS has the most confusing way to sync, manage apps in background, manage playlists, etc.
Widnows Phone App is now in Preview 2
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/windows-phone-app-for-desktop?wa=wsignin1.0
No word on what has changed
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/windows-phone-app-for-desktop?wa=wsignin1.0
No word on what has changed
killer rin
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God I hate that thing with a burning passion. I ended up moving back to Windows Media Player because the "Sync Tool" was shit as bringing in my Album Art for songs.
Iced_Eagle
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If the update is coming tomorrow, it will likely be for unbranded and pre production devices. Nokia reiterated that the update isn't being released until early next year (likely just waiting for carrier sign off which takes a while).
Says AT&T handsets.
http://www.wpcentral.com/att-nokia-lumia-920-820-os-update-tom-dec-19th
Along with the 8X on T-Mobile
http://www.wpcentral.com/t-mobile-us-htc-8x-getting-portico-update-starting-tomorrow
You have to uninstall the current one to try this?
antiquegamer
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The rumor comes from leak Att memo to employees, the new OS and firmware are both on Nokia server and you can flash it yourself using Nokia NaviFirm tools. The next year update you are confusing it with is for 7.8 update for the Lumia 7.5 devices (900, 800 etc).
I just installed it on top.
Cool, worth it?
No, I can't even tell the difference. I stopped using it actually, I have just been restoring to drag and drop. Much easier for me since I normally work with full albums.
Thanks, I'll stick with wmp for now.
Nokia. The only OEM that gives a shit.
Trademark that before Nokia makes money off of you.
antiquegamer
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Well it's not ike they have any choice, Nokia is the only OEM that exclusively using Windows Phone OS.
lastflowers
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muhahahhahaha, my shitty WP app is coming together!
What are you coding?
frontieruk
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An app that randomly generates rumours for wpcentral, to be started on gaf...
NeOak
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But Kotaku already does that without an app!
lastflowers
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it's a digital journal that acts both passively and actively to help 'log' your life. The hope is to allow you to basically have a personal Journal of your everyday encounters, but not to make you actively sit down and write it all out. Log location, time, interactions between your friends. You'll be able to write notes and tag people with them.
The hope is also to help 'remind' you of your close reactions with the people you've encountered throughout the day. Say we recognize when you were near him/her that day and remind you to reminisce about your time together. That can be stored and you can look back at that day a year from now.
I, along with three people in my group, worked on an embedded system->smartphone->web backend->web frontend project as our senior project.
I'm working on fleshing out the smartphone aspect to get completely rid of the embedded system (which was really just a dummy GPS+Bluetooth box).
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece549/spring12/team20/index.html
Check out the rad video we did during crunch-time: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece549/spring12/team20/videos/lifelogger_movie.mp4
I'm not really expecting to publish it to the marketplace, but rather to act as experience in making a somewhat decent application. At the very worst, I want to make it available for myself to use and be able to store the information without breaking. It's a learning experience overall.
The hope is also to help 'remind' you of your close reactions with the people you've encountered throughout the day. Say we recognize when you were near him/her that day and remind you to reminisce about your time together. That can be stored and you can look back at that day a year from now.
I, along with three people in my group, worked on an embedded system->smartphone->web backend->web frontend project as our senior project.
I'm working on fleshing out the smartphone aspect to get completely rid of the embedded system (which was really just a dummy GPS+Bluetooth box).
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece549/spring12/team20/index.html
Check out the rad video we did during crunch-time: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece549/spring12/team20/videos/lifelogger_movie.mp4
I'm not really expecting to publish it to the marketplace, but rather to act as experience in making a somewhat decent application. At the very worst, I want to make it available for myself to use and be able to store the information without breaking. It's a learning experience overall.
show me your skeleton
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i'm sure i've had more updates in the month or so of having a wp8 device than i did in the 2 years of wp7. not quite the 30 a day my android-wielding girlfriend receives, mind you.
HollovVpo1nt
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Should I trade my Omnia 7 for a Lumia 800?
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