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Windows Phone |OT3| Apollo has landed
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Looks like Xbox Music apps on iOS and Android as well as free web streaming. I'd make a new topic but don't really feel like it
http://news.xbox.com/2013/09/ent-xbox-music-ios-android-free-streaming
Some other web and Windows 8.1 details in there too. Looks like 'Radio'/Smart DJ is coming later in the year.
If any Xbox Music subscribers have iOS/Android, I would loooove to hear how the app is. Maybe it'll give us a hint into what the updates coming to WP will be like.
According to The Verge it doesn't support offline yet, but they expect to update the apps every 4-6 weeks. They better decouple the WP version so they can just update it through the app store as well!
Cool, wonder if the xbox music account will work on WP and Android? Still waiting on Google music in Canada. If I can use Xbox music on both I will sign back up.
Downloading the Android app now.
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App is not bad. Its syncing my music from my collection but wont play it. "due to media rights none of these songs can be played on this device" Weird. This is my music synced with Xbox music.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Is there a snap chat app for windows phones?
killer rin
Member
I've heard good things about the third party Swapchat app. The official one should be coming soon though.
Swapchat is good, but I think it got pulled from the Marketplace?
I don't think those are the reasons, or at least not the main ones.
I think the main reason is to have their flagship out with Blue to generate "momentum" (I hate that word) and I'm pretty sure they also want to release it a bit closer to the next HTC and Galaxy flagships, so to not be quite as far behind spec wise as they were this time around.
But if it allows them to be relatively close in specs, have the pureview "lite" camera in there and also manage to squeeze in a 5 inch display into a phone the size of the 920 (while staying thinner), I'm all for it.
It's just going to be a painful wait.
edit: but of course I agree that spacing out the release of phones also has a lot to do with it. It wouldn't make sense to release the phablet and the new flaghsip phone at the same time.
I'm not sure about that. WPcentral talked about a July release back in April(?).
Same here.
First time I have had to use the Internet sharing feature of Windows Phone today as my work ADSL line is down.
It works perfectly - I'm getting full 4G speeds with my phone broadcasting the network to my laptop and 3 other colleagues laptop without a hitch. Very impressed. Download speed of 28Mbps, upload @ 5Mbps - awesome stuff.
It works perfectly - I'm getting full 4G speeds with my phone broadcasting the network to my laptop and 3 other colleagues laptop without a hitch. Very impressed. Download speed of 28Mbps, upload @ 5Mbps - awesome stuff.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
All the first party apps need to be decoupled from the core OS. People, IE, Xbox Music, Pictures, and the store. This absolutely has to be a part of windows phone blue.
The Xbox Music web player looks nice to me. And the two songs I bought from MS are there :-D
Any limitations on the free streaming? Are there ads?
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I see.
It's a bit basic, but really fluid and clear.
The first thing they should implement is suggestions in the search.
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I chuckled
Any limitations on the free streaming? Are there ads?
Edit:
I see.
It's a bit basic, but really fluid and clear.
The first thing they should implement is suggestions in the search.
Edit 2:
I chuckled
brotkasten
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Windows 8.2 to be released in 3 years.
Shocking.
I just bought Europa Universalis IV, soon there will be only almost Germans in my alternate history.
HTC 7 - currently the most beloved Windows Phone.
frontieruk
Member
Tried to add Xbox music to my HTC, failed... apparently not a supported device nor is the S4 :-S
José Mourinho
cocknose
Once an artist picture is added can it not be replaced?
So the 1520 will have a wireless charging cover too, it seems:
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/377358212342636544/photo/1
Hope they manage to squeeze it back into the 9**, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, unfortunately that's apparently a limitation of the OS. Once an image is there it can't be replaced. But of course you can delete the artist, re-sync (or download) the stuff again and then use a custom image, if you want.
For me it's mainly for the artists that don't automatically have a picture anyway, for the most part the "official" ones are alright, apart from a few that are low-res and shitty.
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/377358212342636544/photo/1
Hope they manage to squeeze it back into the 9**, but I'm not holding my breath.
Yeah, unfortunately that's apparently a limitation of the OS. Once an image is there it can't be replaced. But of course you can delete the artist, re-sync (or download) the stuff again and then use a custom image, if you want.
For me it's mainly for the artists that don't automatically have a picture anyway, for the most part the "official" ones are alright, apart from a few that are low-res and shitty.
I wouldn't either. After so many reviews complained about how heavy and thick the 920 was I can't see it coming back until they can improve the tech to fit into thinner phones.
Yeah, I'm not sure that they'll be able to miniaturise the coil by much, without it having an effect on the speed of charging.
It is a heavy fucking thing, I noticed it when I swapped it over to my new case.
But for me the convenience of it more than makes up for the extra weight.
It is a heavy fucking thing, I noticed it when I swapped it over to my new case.
But for me the convenience of it more than makes up for the extra weight.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Apple is gonna brag today about some minor improvements to its camera. Topolsky's review will call it the best camera on a smartphone. The 1020 will remain the best camera in a smartphone by a country mile. All of these are facts.
killer rin
Member
Reviewers' ruin everything. Though I do hope they can find some way to fit it back in. It would be awfully hard to find cases/Holsters that fit a phone with a charging cover on it
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
Apple is gonna change the game. For ever.... Again.
I'm sort of looking forward to the event and the reaction to it. Last years "shut up and take my money" by the Verge a few minutes in after they'd revealed absolutely fuck all that was any good was hilarious.
The 5c could spell trouble for WP if they're pricing it accordingly and the specs are somewhat ok.
I can see it being a big hit if they do, because it will definitely capture the imagination of the budget concious girls.
The 5c could spell trouble for WP if they're pricing it accordingly and the specs are somewhat ok.
I can see it being a big hit if they do, because it will definitely capture the imagination of the budget concious girls.
It will be interesting to see where the 5c fits, they will obviously stop selling the 4 (which is £320 sim free) and I guess the 4s as well unless they want 4 models on the market now (would be nice to have 3 models all called 5) so is it more or less expensive than last years 5? Either way I can't see how it will be below £400, probably with last years 5 going to £300...
Not exactly a bargain.
Yes, I think that's exactly what's going to happen.
Unless they keep the specs deliberately shit to make sure there's a significant difference between the s and the c.
But even then it will sell ridiculous numbers I suspect. Up until now people still think that Apple can do no wrong and that's not about to change just yet.
Yeah that would be very high, I was thinking more around 350 or so.
400 or more would be too much even for Apple I think.
NSA gets a database of tens of millions of fingerprints.
Apple makes the world a safer place. Thank you based Jobs.
I looked again at the prices and maybe the 5c could end up being their cheapest phone (with the 5 in the middle), still would be surprised if it came below where the 4 is now though (£320) I think maybe this restructuring just sets them up to attack the cheaper market better next year and the year after that.
To be fair I'd definitely want a more convenient and more secure way to unlock my phone instead of a bloody pin code.
Preferably one that won't cost me a finger or an eyeball when I get mugged, but I do like the idea of biometrics on my phone.
Btw, what are the odds of Apple announcing kids corner today. I could so see that being their big surprise that everyone will go mental for.
Preferably one that won't cost me a finger or an eyeball when I get mugged, but I do like the idea of biometrics on my phone.
Btw, what are the odds of Apple announcing kids corner today. I could so see that being their big surprise that everyone will go mental for.
DNA test, spit/swab to unlock.
And much easier to crack if you steal the phone.
Still, Lick to Unlock is to good a slogan for this idea to be thrown out.
Wanna do a startup?
Considering all the data I have on my phone (access to email, my lastpass account which contains every single one of my passwords, wallet access, my personal details, other people's personal details) there's no way that I wouldn't lock it.
Of course it was never yet necessary but if you lose your phone your fucked. Yes, it can be remotely wiped, but only once you notice that you've lost it, at which point it may well already be too late.
I'm up for it, we're gonna be fucking rich!
Of course it was never yet necessary but if you lose your phone your fucked. Yes, it can be remotely wiped, but only once you notice that you've lost it, at which point it may well already be too late.
I'm up for it, we're gonna be fucking rich!
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