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had to redo app for wp8, hopefully it'll be out soon
dream
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Damon Bennet
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I feel your pain.
While I really like Palm, I just cant stand those designs anymore. With all those "milk glass-see-through" stuff, and cards and whatever. I cringe when I see some design aspects in that new ubuntu mobile thing
brotkasten
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I feel your pain.
Too bad the design was never good and the interface wasn't very smooth.
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Deleted member 81567
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Why not keep the old app and just update the marketplace when the new one is out?
Sinofsky is this gens Jobs. Right?
Damon Bennet
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who is ruby
brotkasten
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Apparently the old app had stability problems on WP8.
A champion.
That only serves to remind me that Palm didn't die all that long ago.
I owned Samsungs and HTCs, neither are on Nokia's level. I've mentally prepared myself to leave the platform if and when Nokia does. I go where they go.
Someone needs to get in touch with the Verge - their response from Google was unspecific to wp8 and just said the browser didnt support WebKit therefore won't work. However a user on wpcentral has done some playing around to find that they ARE specifically blocking WP8 access:
Someone needs to get in touch with the Verge - their response from Google was unspecific to wp8 and just said the browser didnt support WebKit therefore won't work. However a user on wpcentral has done some playing around to find that they ARE specifically blocking WP8 access:
Dat retina.
Sorry guys
1:30am here lied in bed on my iPad, first time attempting to post an image to gaf from it, totally forgot about how it might not scale. Edit - Think that should have sorted it? My bad!
brotkasten
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Sorry guys
Just put it in quotes and it will scale down. Thank you.
E: Also, this totally wouldn't be a problem, if we had high resolution displays on our desks.
Sorry guys
That's cool but you should probably edit your post before you explain why you didn't do it right in the first place. It's just polite.
Done, sorry! First time posting in the WP8 thread didn't go as well as planned after lurking for weeks.
But back on topic the fact they're downright blocking the WP8 user agent is pretty bad IMO. Seems every day there's a new case of Google doing something to try kick WP8 under the mat. As someone who's soon looking to upgrade from an iPhone 4 I'm rooting for the underdog.
VanMardigan
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Yeah, I think last flowers mentioned an app on the WP market that changes your user agent. That should be useful. Or it would be, if gmaps wasn't so awesome.
Unknown Soldier
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I never understood how the people in love with webOS could have overlooked how glacially slow it was. The entire OS was literally non-native code and it was absolutely terrible and buggy and full of memory leaks. I used webOS on my TouchPad until the first CM released began to drop and then I never booted into it ever again.
VanMardigan
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Ah, that's where I remember you from. My touchpad thread.
Have you ever used a WP device for a full day? If so, what are your impressions.
Have you ever used a WP device for a full day? If so, what are your impressions.
Unknown Soldier
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Yeah, those were the good old days. Do you remember that week of the fire sale where we were all scrambling to try and order one? I actually ended up with two at the end of all the sales. The second one I sold to another Gaffer at my cost because I refused to scalp a Gaffer.
The other day, my random new hire co-worker walked in and pulled a Nokia Lumia 710 (T-Mobile) out and started playing with it. It was actually the first Windows Phone I've ever seen in the wild. I gather this model runs WP7.5 though, so it probably wouldn't be useful for gathering any updated impressions from.
lastflowers
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i'm the same. I liked the look until I actually used it. (IMExaggeratedO) It was garbage and galacially slow. Still shocked at how The Verge still remembers it fondly......
VanMardigan
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You would get an ok feel for the smoothness of the OS but I wish you could spend some time with a Lumia 920. Its a very fun experience. Not that you would switch, but you would probably understand why some of us can overlook the flaws and prefer it over any other mobile platform.
It's the best OS there. I would know, considering I now have a 920, iPhone 5 and GS3.
Unknown Soldier
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Well, the problem is that I have Verizon and the 920 isn't available. I suppose I could go to the Verizon store and play with the 822 but really the time you spend in a store isn't nearly enough to get a feel for what phones are like, especially with the employees jabbering incessantly in your ear while you're prodding their devices.
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So I just started a Xbox Music pass. Damn is the UI sexy.
lastflowers
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WP really thrives when it's fully personalized. Say for me, a really nice feature is having my family group as a double-wide tile front and center. It gets updated with facebook statuses, emails, etc from my extended family. Groups have helped me stop browsing facebook at all--as I can glean the information I actually care about mostly through those stylized streams.
The 8x is really really nice on Verizon. It may not have the amazing low-light camera performance of the 920--but it's got NFC and wireless charging. The red is stunning (my daily driver). I like it's design more than the One X. The droid DNA seemed good, but I didn't mess around with it much at all.
The 8x is really really nice on Verizon. It may not have the amazing low-light camera performance of the 920--but it's got NFC and wireless charging. The red is stunning
(my daily driver). I like it's design more than the One X. The droid DNA seemed good, but I didn't mess around with it much at all.Old app used special APIs and native code that prevented it from being able to transfer over nicely. Same issue with a couple other apps like Skype, Tango, and Photosynth.
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Deleted member 81567
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Why is it taking them so long to update it?
I would assume it's not a high target goal to get the port done in a timely manner.
I get the impression that it is more of a completely new app than an update
videogamer
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why?
If it is on purpose and google gets called out on their bullshit then maybe we'll get a proper dedicated YouTube app or something.
But who needs that when we got MetroTube? It looks great.
HollovVpo1nt
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Guys I'm about to order a Lumia 920, which color should I choose? Red/Yellow/Black ?
Blue Ninja
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Yellow man, it looks boss.
Make your own damn decisions, bro. :lol
Oh, since recently RealDownloader's been interfering with my 800's syncing. Everytime I hook it up to the PC Zune tells me RealDownloader is using my device, even though it's not open (not even in my processes). Guess I'll just boot their software off my computer, unless I can keep that converter somehow.
Prophet Steve
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I also keep doubting, I really would love a nice color, but those are only available in glossy. Except for Cyan, but they don't sell that one here. So glossy red or matte black for me. But you have to make your own choice.
HollovVpo1nt
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I ordered a Yellow one, because you said so lol.
This deal is so good that it's probably an error on the webshop's part. This is the deal:
Lumia 920 + 200 min + 1000MB, 2 year contract (Vodafone) for 27,50 euro's a month and the phone for 6 euro's.
Usually it's the first 12 months 27.50 and the second 12 months 55, but this webshot states that it's 27,50 the whole contract. I must abuse this error.
Oh and honestly, I suck at making choices. That's why I never do groceries without a specific list of what to buy. Once my mom had written potato chips on the list and I, not exagerating, spent 20 minutes in front of the potato chip rack trying to find something.
I'd really take a look at it at the store. IMO yellow looks awesome in person, but it's glossy and the yellow is a bit more neon than the yellow accent color.
And as someone that loves his Cyan 800, I do think that the size makes a bit of a difference when it comes to those Colors. I liked the black 920 more than the black 800 since the colors look even more flashy.
Edit: Damn, Hollowpoint, I want that deal :-D
HollovVpo1nt
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Well, too late now. I ordered the yellow one.
If you're Dutch I can link you to the deal?
If you're Dutch I can link you to the deal?
Prophet Steve
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HollovVpo1nt
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I'm glad I found this 'deal'. If not, I would have ordered an HTC One X by now (One X free on 2 year contract, 26 euro's a month whole contract, 500 minutes, 500mb). The downside of that contract is that it's on the godawful T-Mobile network.
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