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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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I wish Android had better tablet app support, still lacking compared to iOS. Was tempted by the new N7 but the new iPad mini when it comes plus student discount will be hard to beat i think.
juliushandle
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juliushandle
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Hope the 1520 has wireless charging. Curious to hear about the supposed 20mp sensor too.
Plus I think you can get the grip attachment for free if you get it from the MS Store. Good to see a bit of a price drop before it comes to Canada.
juliushandle
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off contract price down to $609 too.
brotkasten
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It clearly needs more tiles on the screen.
I can put 66 tiles on that screen. That's like all WP apps at once.
What are these dots at the top? Speaker? Doesn't look like the wireless charging cover connection on the other phones.
Wide tiles are the whole problem with this new layout, because unless you put a column of 2 small tiles on either side of a big tile, it'll always be unbalanced.
juliushandle
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Damn, if only this had the 41mp, I would have bought it as one of the last Nokia branded phones. 6" 1080p screen would have been amazing for viewing those 41mp pics.
lastflowers
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There would be virtually no small tiles on my screen if there were a 3 column layout.
Interesting enough, MS employees get a discount at the Apple store. Conversed with a fellow in a blue shirt there for a little while the other day.
Interesting enough, MS employees get a discount at the Apple store. Conversed with a fellow in a blue shirt there for a little while the other day.
juliushandle
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exactly my thoughts, if it were all wide or large square tiles it would look far better.
I imagine we will see one of two more Nokia WP's before the sale is finalized.
edit: I think it is funny when Android/Google fans call MS the devil or evil..see the 1020 price drop thread. Both companies can be shady (as well as Apple).
juliushandle
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yes, gimme a 5" 1080p, quad core, 2gb ram, 64gb, 41mp, qi charging, and I'd be completely satisfied for 2 yrs.
You'd also be paying off that credit you're gonna have to take out for at least two years ;-)
That would be pretty sweet. For me though I don't really want to go that big of screen. Also unless the qi charging is built in, I don't think I would bother.
Spectral Entity
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Finally had GDR2 hit on my T-Mobile HTC 8X yesterday.
Still unsure on how to free up space in "Other", but it did reduce from 10 gigs to 8.5. I have both the "Shrink Storage" and "Make More Space" apps, btw.
Where do you think Apple borrowed the design philosophy from?
That's okay though, WP folks knew this would happen. It's not cool for MS to receive credit for anything these days.
Still unsure on how to free up space in "Other", but it did reduce from 10 gigs to 8.5. I have both the "Shrink Storage" and "Make More Space" apps, btw.
Where do you think Apple borrowed the design philosophy from?
That's okay though, WP folks knew this would happen. It's not cool for MS to receive credit for anything these days.
It's brotkasten. His avatar is basically a real life sarcmark.
Already stealing from Moto X.
Where'd you read this?
Yeah, posted about the earlier. Also the touch settings has something about the Windows key. Not sure what that would be for?
From the looks of those little dots at the top I doubt it will.
Happy days, it'll actually be useful then.
Yep and I'll add
Snapdragon 800
Smaller and Lighter than any Lumia ever made
Water resistant
It now says so in the settings.
No idea what the windows keys could be.
edit: maybe gestures?
Anton Sugar
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Fuck, so tempting. I want to see what their next batch of phones is first.
Well, if there has to be trolling, I'm glad we are trolling ourselves.
NeOak
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Still getting benefits from those 150 millions Microsoft invested in Apple in 1997, huh?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm clearly not needed there. You guys got it under control. I do love the one guy who said the 1020 wasn't pocketable while pimping the Sony clip on lens.
Spectral Entity
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frontieruk
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I was going to say they'll just be rehashes, then realised that's the summer release, I may be back on wp8 sooner than i expected
don't you need to activate it in the settings?
Yah, everything is checked. If I set it to 'always on' it'll speak to me, just not through the car Bluetooth. Weird
it is in a weird place. Under ease of use or accessibility. Something like that. Figured it out for someone a couple weeks back.
Steelyuhas
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Hmm?
lol AT&T go fuck yourself
The Faceless Master
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worst of both worlds
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57601766-75/for-microsoft-and-nokia-fewer-secrets/
"There are real-world examples of situations where Nokia was building a phone and keeping information about it secret from us," said Joe Belfiore.
“We would make changes in the software, or prioritize things in the software, unaware of the work that they’re doing. And then late in the cycle we’d find out and say, ‘If we had known that we would have done this other thing differently and it would have turned out better!’"
"In developing countries, end users share files over Bluetooth commonly, and in the US people just don’t do that," Belfiore said. "We didn’t even have that feature, and we didn’t even understand or appreciate the degree to which it was critical."
Amerika Phone 8
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
It's true, until NFC came with my 920, I don't think I'd shared a file over Bluetooth in five years.
I use WhatsApp because all my family there.
The Faceless Master
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indeed. i used to *occasionally* send pics via BT before NFC, but now with NFC and S-Beam and Superbeam i do it all the time!
actually i am now reminded of a Youtube video i recently watched... The best ways to share pictures between iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
lastflowers
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uh, IIRC, NFC is only used to initiate the exchange between phones. Bluetooth is still the channel in which the photo/song is swapped.
Could be very wrong on this. NFC would be a very inefficient way of sharing that large amount of data though.
The Faceless Master
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yeah, it's only used to initiate, but that was the biggest hassle! adding this phone to that, etc... and with S-Beam and Superbeam using Wifi for the actual transfer, stuff goes soooo fast!
lastflowers
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it is a really novel way of making that initial connection so much easier. Very bright bit of engineering.
frontieruk
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57601766-75/for-microsoft-and-nokia-fewer-secrets/
Snip long piece about Microsoft being out of touch
Amerika Phone 8
Haven't we been saying something similar about Xbox?
'America Fuck YEAH!'
antiquegamer
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It work for me but occasionally Bluetooth would get confuse and stop notify me of the message and I have to reconnect.
More GDR3 snippets
Picture of the ability to close off apps and rotation lock
http://www.wpcentral.com/alleged-screenshots-gdr3-and-nokia-bittersweet-shimmer
Picture of the ability to close off apps and rotation lock
http://www.wpcentral.com/alleged-screenshots-gdr3-and-nokia-bittersweet-shimmer
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