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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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Funky Papa
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The G3 is foooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine so far. Kinda missing the OLED goodness of the S5 and it's also a bit of a huge bitch, but it feels so right. LG's skin is also rather nice, which is surprising considering how crap they were until now.
Edit: I so want a 1030, but I'm not sure if they'll ever throw another bombass camera in a 930 kind of phone. MS will probably want to keep that for future flagships.
Aye, and it's not like they'd have had to have waited long as the S5 Prime is out with it now in Korea.
LG's skin looks good, much nicer than Samsung's and Sony's. Some nice touches in it too, really like what they've done with the clipboard.
VanMardigan
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M8 smoked the s5 too. Not surprising since I read the m8 has the fastest touch screen response time of any phone, including the iPhone.
brotkasten
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Van, how is the M8 camera compared to the 1020?
I like how this is a more civilized Android thread now
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
The camera on the m8 is good enough....... If I had never owned a 1020. I love the m8 but I'm not trusting my family memories to it. I pulled out the 1020 for my sons birthday party this past weekend. Glad I never sold it.
Edit: to make this more on-topic, I was surprised at how choppy and laggy the 1020 felt after using the m8 for a few weeks. I hop the Nokia firmware brings back the smoothness that was a hallmark of the platform.
Do we know that this has wireless charging?
Yeah you could, it was the first thing I tired when they released the redesign a few weeks ago.
Agreed. WP8.1 has definitely hurt the performance of the 1520 and 1020. I'm hoping its just the firmware. My 1020 is less buggy than the 1520 though. I need to see this McClaren pronto!!!
frontieruk
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once they release the customised hardware drivers you'll be good, atm it's like running a Titan on Micosofts stock VGA driver.
The Faceless Master
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that little bit always gets me, mainly because the Galaxy Note 3 released under a week after the 5S and had the fastest touch response of any phone, but people keep talking about the slower device that held that title for 4 days instead of the former reigning champion.
I guess I'll have my SLR for proper shots. I liked it when I had the 920 as I still had a good camera in my pocket for spur of monent shots rather than a phone that was just 'good enough'.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I think people overlook it because Samsung is not known for responsiveness in their interface. And rather than build on the progress made in the GN3, they released the janky GS5. That exact hardware, plus WP8, would be more responsive and have better battery life. Would've been a good option if Samsung had bothered with an Ativ refresh.
Opus Angelorum
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Odd, I find 8.1 to be much smoother throughout on my 920.
LukasTaves
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I hope that's it, some apps (like whatsapp, nokia cam) have been terribad regarding performance since 8.1.
Whatsapp for me has been pretty good. They just need to update their notifications to the new type. (and allow for thread specific silent ones).
MS store opening in Aug at Chinook center.
Sweet. I thought it was later. Hope some of the newer phones will be available in Canada. Hope carriers get the Mclaren or the whatever it will be called and decided to skip the 930.
Is touch response something that even matters at this point in time? Are there phones out there in this day and age where shit doesn't happen when you touch it?
MrGreencastle
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I just want a live tile like from WP7 and an artist UI like from Zune HD.
RUDY PLZ
LukasTaves
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Usually it's fine, but eventually I try to open it and get stuck forever on a resume screen, than I force quit the app, and it goes really fast to the main screen but takes a while to become responsive again.
For some reason if I quit the app while it's performing ok the start up is fast, it's just when it's stuck that I have that.
Wow, this is huge.
Worst case scenario I can code one myself that suits my needs
Holy shit...Sonos, make it happen folks, make it happen.
Anton Sugar
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Please make our app.
show me your skeleton
Member
so they're throwing in the towel and letting someone else make a decent app?
Anton Sugar
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Seriously, even after the update yesterday that was supposed to improve load times, it's horrible, if not worse.
killer rin
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You have to convince them to make an app first.
French interns are getting the boot!
Not even the Michelin app could stop the Android talk.
Marc Whitten works there now...
VanMardigan
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Sounds like the French to just give up like that. It's probably for the best anyways, those interns were way out of their league to build the music app.
They put out a press release every two weeks how there's an update that makes it better but when I use it there's no difference. I swear they put more work into the release notes than the actual app.
LukasTaves
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Yeah, the xbox music now is really fast for me too (I do get some crashes, but even those are minimal now). I just checked and have 486 songs in my collection (all of them from xbox music). I dunno if that's a lot...
Edit: Oh, And I've download most of them, there are less than 40 songs that I added recently and haven't downloaded yet, maybe that's it?
Edit: Oh, And I've download most of them, there are less than 40 songs that I added recently and haven't downloaded yet, maybe that's it?
Not sure how many songs, but I have about 6gigs worth downloaded from Xbox Music and I usually have my streaming collection switched off since it is almost all downloaded.
Anton Sugar
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According to music.xbox.com, I have ~11,000 songs. According to the Music app on Windows 8.1, ~9,000 are in "the cloud".
Still, I can't have added that many more from the time I have WP 8 to WP 8.1, so I have no clue why it's so slow.
This.
Still, I can't have added that many more from the time I have WP 8 to WP 8.1, so I have no clue why it's so slow.
This.
LukasTaves
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Shit, that's more than 20 times the amount I have XD
Still nothing absurd that would justify it being so slow.
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