Yep 1520. My sensitivity issues are almost gone but the damn camera launches on its own several times a day. Didn't happen in windows phone 8.0.
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Yep 1520. My sensitivity issues are almost gone but the damn camera launches on its own several times a day. Didn't happen in windows phone 8.0.
TheBryanJZX90
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1520 screen sensitivity also mostly fixed itself for me
runningjoke
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I get almost 2 days out of my 925 on 8.1.
Oh man and I just got a bunch of tax returns and a pay cheque that I was going to save.
So tempted since it's Nexus 5 level pricing ($370 unlocked and with no carrier branding). Might just hold off and import a Lumia 930, but I dunno.
brotkasten
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The PureView game is over, folks.
Now that Nokia is out of the smartphone game, many of its key engineers are undoubtedly considering their options. Senior Lumia engineer Ari Partinen, who Nokia calls "(our) own camera expert" has just made his choice, and it's apparently not Microsoft. He just tweeted that he'll be "starting a new chapter in Cupertino," then confirmed that his new boss is indeed Tim Cook. Though Apple's iPhone 5s camera is already considered good, it could be looking for more, judging by this hire. Of course, Nokia has plenty of folks who worked on the PureView line, and Partinen is just one part of that team. But whatever you think of its Windows Phone handsets, those cameras are universally acknowledged as being some of the best in the industry.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/09/apple-just-hired-nokias-pureview-camera-expert/
Now that Nokia is out of the smartphone game, many of its key engineers are undoubtedly considering their options. Senior Lumia engineer Ari Partinen, who Nokia calls "(our) own camera expert" has just made his choice, and it's apparently not Microsoft. He just tweeted that he'll be "starting a new chapter in Cupertino," then confirmed that his new boss is indeed Tim Cook. Though Apple's iPhone 5s camera is already considered good, it could be looking for more, judging by this hire. Of course, Nokia has plenty of folks who worked on the PureView line, and Partinen is just one part of that team. But whatever you think of its Windows Phone handsets, those cameras are universally acknowledged as being some of the best in the industry.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/09/apple-just-hired-nokias-pureview-camera-expert/
Jony Ive - "Ari, I've given you a 4mm x 4mm x 4mm space for you to work your magic"
Ari - "At nokia I was given 12mm depth and could put a sensor 4 times as lar....."
Jony - " Listen...i'm the god of fucking thunder here...4 x 4 x 4 and it better come in Aluminium"
Ari - "...
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Ari - "At nokia I was given 12mm depth and could put a sensor 4 times as lar....."
Jony - " Listen...i'm the god of fucking thunder here...4 x 4 x 4 and it better come in Aluminium"
Ari - "...
"VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Are you sure it's not the camera button that is being pressed? If its in a case, check that the case isn't pressing it. If its naked, makes sure the button doesn't have anything stuck in it.
when did I hear that again?
http://www.gsmarena.com/damian_dinning_leaves_nokia_effective_november_30-news-5120.php
brotkasten
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when did I hear that again?
http://www.gsmarena.com/damian_dinning_leaves_nokia_effective_november_30-news-5120.php
You're saying they had two great losses in that division? One could argue that the 1020 wasn't even that big of a step up, compared to the 808.
No case (I hate cases) and the button is fine. I've been sitting there reading a news article in weave with the phone laying on the table and the camera launches on its own. Last night my phone was flat on the bar while I was watching the draft. I used Cortana for a search. Camera starts to launch. It usually happens right as I'm launching a completely different app or within 30 seconds of entering a new app.
brotkasten
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I guess that Beats Studio Windows Phone app won't happen anymore.
it couldn't be a big step. Pureview on symbian was a 5 year project and used a second gpu on the 808. Things like the latter wasn't supported from WP and had to make some compromises.
Jony Ive - "Ari, I've given you a 4mm x 4mm x 4mm space for you to work your magic"
Ari - "At nokia I was given 12mm depth and could put a sensor 4 times as lar....."
Jony - " Listen...i'm the god of fucking thunder here...4 x 4 x 4 and it better come in Aluminium"
Ari - "...
lol, that is what I was thinking.
NeOak
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Brit, where is the verge's article?
Hasn't that already come out a long time ago?
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/beats-music/c83f2c04-1925-4568-a032-d20a8803e341
LukasTaves
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Hmmm, so that's the reason my re-frames doesn't get auto uploaded, instead they are sending the full res pictures.
Okay, I can live with that
App support is one thing, you need local developers for that, but maps? It's been three years, what has the maps team done?edit: they don't look sooo bad on desktop, what's up with the phone app?
That is fantastic. Getting those big guys off the phone was less than convenient.
7echnicolor
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I got a Lumia Icon yesterday, love the phone, but I feel like I might have gotten screwed over on the price a bit.
On the website, the phone is $99 with a two year contract. The guy I was dealing with told me the "in store price" is $250 with a $100 mail-in rebate.
So yeah, I paid $270 for my Icon yesterday. I feel like that's a bit outrageous, then again I'm new to buying smart phones so I don't know if this is a normal. Is it?
On the website, the phone is $99 with a two year contract. The guy I was dealing with told me the "in store price" is $250 with a $100 mail-in rebate.
So yeah, I paid $270 for my Icon yesterday. I feel like that's a bit outrageous, then again I'm new to buying smart phones so I don't know if this is a normal. Is it?
Doesn't sound like you went to a real Verizon store. Maybe one of those mall kiosks that's just a Verizon reseller.
7echnicolor
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I went to this Verizon retailer: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/storedetail/Texas/Austin/I94539
It seemed like a real Verizon store to me, wasn't one of those mall kiosks.
I guess I'll have to contact Verizon support about this, though I don't know if they'll be much help since I already paid for the phone.
n64coder
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Do you have more details on this? What games are being given away?
Bob Dobalina
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I read lots of people backpedal and acknowledge the pureview system's strength with the announcement he's working for apple now haha
Damian Dinning was a bigger asset IMO though...
http://m.winsupersite.com/windows-phone/microsoft-offers-65-free-entertainment-lumia-purchase
Gift voucher doesn't work, though. I tried.
Edit: I need to clarify that the voucher should not work for me since I am not eligible.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Edit: Maybe I'm dumb, but..... Where do I go to see new releases now in Xbox music?
Your PC :'(
juliushandle
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Aaww sheeet, another Xbox musak update
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=d2b6a184-da39-4c9a-9e0a-8b589b03dec0
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=d2b6a184-da39-4c9a-9e0a-8b589b03dec0
Xbox music is just terrible everywhere except the W8 app. Booted up the xbone and it took minutes to sync my playlists and I only have 5 with about 30-50 songs in each. Not to also mention syncing is flaky for all the devices as sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't. WTF?
Microsoft "Hey here's this new way of developing apps. To proof how awesome it is we will build our Music app with the same tools you guys have available."
Still poop! Pretty much any app that starts with "Xbox" sucks.
Steelyuhas
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Downloaded the new Xbox music and started it up to check it out. Then when I went to the apps as I left work I was greeted with a solid 15 second resume screen.
Yeah pretty much. Smartglass performs poorly, new games hub does as well, and we all know the current state of the music app on 8.1. The except being the music app on Windows though, it's pretty great.
Yea it's getting to a point where it's making me angry that I paid for a shoddy product. It seems to sync fine on my Android devices but it's all over the place on my Windows devices.
I just learnt that on 8.1 they removed the music, video, and podcast sections from the store. What the fuck? Now there is literally no way to browse through different artists, new releases, etc in regards to music. You literally only have the ability to manually search for specific artists now. This is bullshit.
I came to WP7 for it's awesome music playback and subscription services. Why on earth has it constantly been getting worse? Why will I inevitably lose the ability to discover music due to these constant downgrades? I'm really on the verge of canceling my subscription I've had since the Zune days over this shit. It's unbelievable how the service has been getting consistently and objective worse over time.
I came to WP7 for it's awesome music playback and subscription services. Why on earth has it constantly been getting worse? Why will I inevitably lose the ability to discover music due to these constant downgrades? I'm really on the verge of canceling my subscription I've had since the Zune days over this shit. It's unbelievable how the service has been getting consistently and objective worse over time.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I don't think the Xbox music app that we "developers" have will be the final version consumers will get in terms of features. I brought up the point in my last post about not being able to see new releases. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, but the app is awful and its crazy that they would take such a big step backwards and seemingly start from scratch again.
The developer preview has so many issues that I haven't installed in on my wife's phone or my daughter's 520. They both love music too much for me to screw that up for them just for a notification center and Cortana. My wife also uses the built in social media integration, and the experience on the dev preview is terrible.
The developer preview has so many issues that I haven't installed in on my wife's phone or my daughter's 520. They both love music too much for me to screw that up for them just for a notification center and Cortana. My wife also uses the built in social media integration, and the experience on the dev preview is terrible.
I agree. Haven't installed this on my 1020 or 520(It's my workout Mp3 player). I'm not too upset about the social changes if the Facebook app wasn't a steaming pile of shit. At least the Windows 8.1 music app isn't bad.
Super slow
Terrible layout
Long resuming
Missing album art
No new releases
Etc!
Microsoft keeps changing the dev tools and language. Then starts from scratch again and again.
NeOak
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So I had awful speed browsing the internet and using Skype/Facebook/Messenger and all apps. I couldn't even download apps from the Store and I had try several times before it finally download the app.
Performance went down so bad I thought I had a hardware problem. I deleted the browsing history because it was the last thing I hadn't tried.
Boom! Everything is fast again.
IE11 on WP8.1 degrades everything if the history gets too big. Wtf?
Performance went down so bad I thought I had a hardware problem. I deleted the browsing history because it was the last thing I hadn't tried.
Boom! Everything is fast again.
IE11 on WP8.1 degrades everything if the history gets too big. Wtf?
juliushandle
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my Lumia 2520's fast charge feature is simply amazing. seriously, 75 mins plugged in to get to 100% charge. WTF, this needs to make it to phones ASAP.
NeOak
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The 1520 comes with a 1.5A charger. Charges it quite fast.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Nope.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm not gonna lie, though, ie11 is blazing fast on my phone.
Steelyuhas
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I get that "final" 8.1 doesn't official launch to consumers until next month and the so the state of apps like Xbox Music prior to that official launch doesn't really matter in the long run.
That said, based on the state of the app right now, and the progress that's been made in the two updates so far, I don't have much faith that it'll be a good app in another month to six weeks.
That said, based on the state of the app right now, and the progress that's been made in the two updates so far, I don't have much faith that it'll be a good app in another month to six weeks.
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