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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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TheBryanJZX90
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Do any of your live tiles update?
NeOak
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Yes, Cortana, the battery tile, Bing Weather do.
The Faceless Master
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Good luck with that.
NeOak
Member
I think you can get the 925. The 930 is not coming to the US anyway.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm dying for new hardware here! It's May and we haven't heard a thing, and the 930 apparently isn't headed to the US. Very frustrating, trying hard not to jump ship.
I feel you bro. Need something high end on AT&T that's not my 1520.
On a side note anything similar to MPAtool that works with windows phone 8.1?
But the new phones will probably be like $300-400 more.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Xbox music needs a family option like Beats music. I was thinking of dropping it since my subscription expired, but its still the best option for me because of the devices I own, including the Xbox one, which I love watching music videos on.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The frustrating thing is that the 1520 doesn't offer the performance boost you would expect from its chip set. Camera still lags, multitasking is still full of resume screens, etc. The calling card for the OS, its smoothness, is still there, albeit less so on the beta, but android is getting very smooth, while offering better multitasking and faster overall performance on the 800 level chips. Windows phone is starting to seem slow when comparing it to the flagships on android. Ios7 seems to have slowed down Apple, however, with the animations, but multitasking is still better than ours in terms of speed.
Once again agree. The OS is known for speed and I'm worried the speed hiccups i'm seeing (mostly animations) is because we don't have the latest Nokia firmware. They have to figure out a way to get the camera times more instant.
Need to give that app a try.
It's just the shitty app that has issues syncing properly on WP but for some reason it syncs properly for the android app. I added songs from the W8 app and it showed up immediately on the android app but not on the WP one.
We need apps with the new tools build for win 8.1 to eliminate the resuming. Check new apps like reading list, compass 8.1, movie moments, podcasts. If we were talking about Apple I wouldn't be worried since all the developers would migrate to the new tools. Don't know with windows phone developers what will happen though.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The podcast app still resumes for me. And talk about performance, I had a much longer response typed up for you and the phone lock screen came on when I grabbed some water. When I unlock my phone, this page reloads and I lost my response. 😠
This phone has 2gb of ram, for crying out loud! Plus I was on the page, I didn't even navigate away.
Steelyuhas
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Podcasts has a fat resume session pretty much all the time.
Should be a new Xbox music update this week.
Kinky John
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I just noticed that none of my contact details are linked on my phone - shouldn't this be synced with my Windows 8/Outlook people hub?
A new Spotify app should be coming out in a few weeks. Should being the key word here.
NeOak
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That is my biggest gripe with the update. That IE doesn't use the RAM anymore like before with the 6 tabs and so RELOADS everything D:
Spotify is the better service imo, but the app on WP is terribtasticucalhorriblebadsucking.
brotkasten
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Says who?
So....prediction for Surface Mini Verge review?
+ Nice design
+ Good battery life
- Doesn't run desktop apps
- Screen is too small to use desktop apps
- Not as high a PPI as iPad
- Desktop apps don't respect PPI settings (its 3rd party problem but we are going to blame MS anyway)
- Has stylus
- Runs IE
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+ Nice design
+ Good battery life
- Doesn't run desktop apps
- Screen is too small to use desktop apps
- Not as high a PPI as iPad
- Desktop apps don't respect PPI settings (its 3rd party problem but we are going to blame MS anyway)
- Has stylus
- Runs IE
6.9
Wondering the same, where's the source that says there's a new Spotify app coming?
podcasts app? I used podcatcher currently, is there a better option?
edit: oh the built in podcasts app? I thought I didn't get that as I'm in the UK. Hmm, series settings are quite limited - can't get it to keep all unplayed episodes without it wanting to download everything first.
Yeah I know, safe and sad to say they've abandoned WP.
Fox Mulder
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Cool, so, soon, spring. We're almost at summer already, I won't hold my breath
better late than never though. I gave up hope that eBay would ever fix their shit app, it's actually decent now.
juliushandle
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So where's this game by the Wordament team?
LukasTaves
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Not having automatic uploads for reframe/edits makes the feature completely useless to me
I usually go out to take pictures, but only edit them at home. By the time I finish editing/reframing them all, some of them were already uploaded, and it actually becomes more bothersome to check which ones to upload at my onedrive... Might as well just upload them all manually XD
I usually go out to take pictures, but only edit them at home. By the time I finish editing/reframing them all, some of them were already uploaded, and it actually becomes more bothersome to check which ones to upload at my onedrive... Might as well just upload them all manually XD
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Tell your friend to spell his name in proper American.
I tapped on a Skype notification today and then it didn't show me the new message, but had me sign in to Skype again.
... but on the plus side, I actually got a Skype message perfectly on time without having the app open or anything. I was pleasantly surprised.
killer rin
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Well, Snap Attack is amazing.
Oh my. Snap Attack *IS* really good. I've only played two rounds but can already see it has a hell of lot more potential for longevity and with a higher skill ceiling than Wordament.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/snap-attack/1d6b43b2-402b-4a9d-95d9-bca8d288005c
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/snap-attack/1d6b43b2-402b-4a9d-95d9-bca8d288005c
I am addicted.
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