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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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Don't care about market share as long as I can get HERE maps working there and maybe a game or two.
Haven't thought about that. Fuck.
TheBryanJZX90
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All map data,for,Japan is from Zenrin, right? It's just a matter of Microsoft/Nokia paying the price.
edit: goddamn keyboard
edit: goddamn keyboard
Anton Sugar
Member
I want it.
lastflowers
Banned
living images are awesome. That is all.
This advertisement highlights how horrible their marketing is. They need to be more aggressive and point out how their products compare to the competition, much like the galaxy S5 commercials.
The Windows family of products doesn't have the appeal of the competition, so they need to point out reasons to switch.
TheBryanJZX90
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So I've been driving a bunch of different rental cars over the past couple months, and it's time to compare Windows Phone bluetooth compatability between different manufacturers! (did I already do this? Either way, additional info here)
Worst: Kia Optima. Fairly straightforward to connect the phone, didn't drop any connections, but you have absolutely no control over the phone's music functionality from any controls on the car, whether on the steering wheel or on the car radio itself. The display also shows no information beyond "phone MP3" or something like that. Having to pull out the phone to skip a track was dangerous.
Problematic third place: Toyota Camry. The Toyota has some good info on it's display and it was easy to skip tracks from the steering wheel, but connections dropped quite frequently and sometimes would require a phone reboot to reconnect. It also confusingly has the ability to navigate through folders/albums/artists to select a song, but it selects ONLY that song. So it won't automatically go on to the next track, everything just stops when the song you selected finishes.
Meh second: Nissan Altima. Single line display on the radio, steering wheel controls worked, no connection problems. But no wow factor.
Winner: Honda! (might be biased because after renting all of the above ended up buying a Honda CR-V) It has a big display standard that displays the artist, album, track number, and title. The big surprise is that it can actually handle non-English characters! All of the Japanese album titles and artists showed up fine. I'll have to check if it will show contact names in Japanese too! Other than that, steering wheel controls work great, music starts playing on shuffle automatically as soon as you switch to bluetooth music (or start the car if it was already selected) and the connection has been great so far.
One problem with all of the above is that they all have their own voice navigation superseding that of the phone. So a special prize goes to the bluetooth FM adapter I bought for our old Subaru, which brought up the phone's voice command easily by holding down the call button. I wish I could get that on my Honda!
All tested with a 1520 running 8.0
Worst: Kia Optima. Fairly straightforward to connect the phone, didn't drop any connections, but you have absolutely no control over the phone's music functionality from any controls on the car, whether on the steering wheel or on the car radio itself. The display also shows no information beyond "phone MP3" or something like that. Having to pull out the phone to skip a track was dangerous.
Problematic third place: Toyota Camry. The Toyota has some good info on it's display and it was easy to skip tracks from the steering wheel, but connections dropped quite frequently and sometimes would require a phone reboot to reconnect. It also confusingly has the ability to navigate through folders/albums/artists to select a song, but it selects ONLY that song. So it won't automatically go on to the next track, everything just stops when the song you selected finishes.
Meh second: Nissan Altima. Single line display on the radio, steering wheel controls worked, no connection problems. But no wow factor.
Winner: Honda! (might be biased because after renting all of the above ended up buying a Honda CR-V) It has a big display standard that displays the artist, album, track number, and title. The big surprise is that it can actually handle non-English characters! All of the Japanese album titles and artists showed up fine. I'll have to check if it will show contact names in Japanese too! Other than that, steering wheel controls work great, music starts playing on shuffle automatically as soon as you switch to bluetooth music (or start the car if it was already selected) and the connection has been great so far.
One problem with all of the above is that they all have their own voice navigation superseding that of the phone. So a special prize goes to the bluetooth FM adapter I bought for our old Subaru, which brought up the phone's voice command easily by holding down the call button. I wish I could get that on my Honda!
All tested with a 1520 running 8.0
Steelyuhas
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You can swap that 930 with any other smartphone in that commercial and it wouldn't have made a difference. They need to show more differentiating features.
hankster
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Use it love it def worth $12/yr.
Yep, and the app works great unlike their Win8 app!
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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As a wp user since the first focus, I don't know what to think if this is true...
http://evleaks.at/2014/07/07/big-news-android-powered-lumia-incoming-nokia-microsoft/
Microsoft throwing the towel in?
http://evleaks.at/2014/07/07/big-news-android-powered-lumia-incoming-nokia-microsoft/
Microsoft throwing the towel in?
Yeah, this OS is dead. Abandon ship.
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of buying Nokia? The WP division has been mismanaged to the point where it's forcing its users to go somewhere else.
I could understand this if we somehow got Google apps in return but no, WP is getting NOTHING in return. In fact it is getting worse.
Just plain incompetence.
show me your skeleton
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we're the crackberry of neogaf.
There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platforms edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a burning platform, and he needed to make a choice.
He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a burning platform caused a radical change in his behaviour.
We too, are standing on a burning platform, and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.
As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a burning platform, and he needed to make a choice.
He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a burning platform caused a radical change in his behaviour.
We too, are standing on a burning platform, and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.
brotkasten
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I decided to wait for Q3. If Google puts out a Nexus 5 2014, I'll get that. If not, it's going to be this baby.
http://i.imgur.com/NBDD8ww.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NBDD8ww.jpg
Liberty4all
Banned
If that leak is true, its back to IOS for me.
I do love my 920 though. Best camera I've ever had on a phone. Also it will be hard having to go back to wired charging. Wireless charging was supposed to be the future ...
I do love my 920 though. Best camera I've ever had on a phone. Also it will be hard having to go back to wired charging. Wireless charging was supposed to be the future ...
What am I looking at here, I don't see anything but half a picture of something I can't make out.
brotkasten
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You're just supposed to read the headline. That picture is just the standard evleaks logo. He's trying to cash in by linking to his blog (ad money).
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yikes. Was hoping to come back to the platform later this year with McLaren. I wonder if they'll just shift software on those devices or release them as is if this is all true.
I was out-bid on a red one yesterday on eBay in the dying seconds. Thought I was finally going to come back to Android. Came close again with a white and the HTC One M8 too. I think I'm settled on one of those two.
They are just rebranding and expanding the Nokia X range. MS has to change the name as they want to move away from the Nokia name in about 2 years or less. so the Nokia X will change either to the Lumia X or a low numbered Lumia (300).
people are making this a bigger deal than it is. they have been making android phones since the X range was released. if its called Nokia X or Lumia X its still the same phone (just like it looks as the surface rt models are also getting the Lumia name).
all arm products under 1 branding
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Yup. I just want another bombass camera phone with something unique and useful.
I they screw the pooch, I'm getting a Google Play edition Galaxy S5. And that will be the end of it.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Exactly how I feel. The 930 feels like a very progressive upgrade instead of another groundbreaking device. The OG 920 was very disruptive and brought a crapload of attention to its camera and screen, whereas the 930 is just... nice, I guess.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
The what now?
MS must be smarter than that. There's absolutely zero incentive to do such thing. But if they dare... welp.
Lol, turning WP into another Blackberry. This company is retarded when it comes to mobile.
brotkasten
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In other, more happy news:
Nokia Lumia 1525
Snapdragon 801
Ships with Windows Phone 8.1
Rest the same as 1520
This will surely turn those terrible sales around for MS.
Nokia Lumia 1525
Snapdragon 801
Ships with Windows Phone 8.1
Rest the same as 1520
This will surely turn those terrible sales around for MS.
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