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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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Not sure, maybe there is a coating on the Nokias that gets scratched?
oconnomiyaki
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I'm just so ridiculously OCD about scratches. If I get one, no matter how small or trivial, I'm instantly like "RIGHT! I NEED A NEW PHONE!"
It's something I've got to try and learn to get over.
It's something I've got to try and learn to get over.
You can always replace the screen or pay someone to replace it for you.
Something like a 100 dollars, job done.
Better than keeping the phone in an expensive case and put a hideous screen protector on imo.
Also you can put a liquid coating on, helps prevent scratches.
Something like a 100 dollars, job done.
Better than keeping the phone in an expensive case and put a hideous screen protector on imo.
Also you can put a liquid coating on, helps prevent scratches.
If i remove my Linkedin and Twitter sync that came in automatically when I added my Microsoft account to my 520 will that remove that sync from other devices?
I only ask because when I go to remove it the text says
"All of the information associated with this account will be deleted from your phone, and Twitter will be removed from your Microsoft account."
I only ask because when I go to remove it the text says
"All of the information associated with this account will be deleted from your phone, and Twitter will be removed from your Microsoft account."
a Master Ninja
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Whatever happened to the Lumia 929 (Icon?) that was coming to Verizon?
I think it is doing it at the account level not at a device level. Everything comes from Microsoft's servers
NeOak
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Steelyuhas
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Verizon likes to announce a phone and then release it like the next day, so we probably won't hear anything officially on it until it's on the shelves.
antiquegamer
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I have no scratch on my 1020 (compare to several on the 920).
brotkasten
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My Galaxy has a lot of scratches. Gorilla Glass is bullshit, no matter where it's applied.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Anyone else move to the new discount mobile share plans at at&t? $130 for two smartphones, unlimited talk/text, tethering and 10 gigs of shared data a month. Made me finally give up my grandfathered unlimited data plan. The downside is I no longer get a phone subsidy every 18 months, so I have to buy my phones outright. I hope the trend of decently priced smartphones is here to stay, or I'm screwed. It also means I'm much less likely to ever own an iPhone again. They'd have to really blow my socks off for me to spend $600 plus on a phone.
Yep. The hero worship for it confuses me. Its still glass, it still scratches and cracks. Sure its a bit more resistant than some other toughened class but it's people getting suckered in to the brand at this stage.
Yep, it's more resistant but it sure isn't a solution.
I'm aware it's still just glass and can shatter etc. Seen enough shattered s3 out there. Lucky I have not dropped my phones. After two years with the s3 no screen protector not a scratch. Back is scratched because I don't use a case. However, my 920 had a scratch within a couple months. :/ No idea how, right across the center of the screen. Also lots of micro scratches if you look at a certain angle. I dunno.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I want it. I hope we get it soon, I don't like the Facebook app on any of the major platforms. My wife even uses the browser Facebook on her iPad rather than the app.
Sooner than expected! Nice!
Speedy Blue Dude
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So the Microsoft Store is running a promotion right now, where you receive a Nokia 520, or 521, for free when you buy a 12-month Xbox Music pass for $99.90, aka normal price.
So you do basically get either a 520/521 for free. I was looking at buying a 12 month pass for Xbox Music recently anyways, so I don't mind getting a free phone. How are these phones for listening to music? I might just give the phone to my mother to use as a Music Player? Which would be better for playing music?
So you do basically get either a 520/521 for free. I was looking at buying a 12 month pass for Xbox Music recently anyways, so I don't mind getting a free phone. How are these phones for listening to music? I might just give the phone to my mother to use as a Music Player? Which would be better for playing music?
lastflowers
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If you don't use it a whole lot, it can last over a week.
NeOak
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Killer feature: WP9 looks into the future and turns on the cellular radio when you're about to receive a call!
lastflowers
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first quantum mobile computing.
You guys love Podcasts so here is a new app: https://ssl.reddit.com/r/windowspho...ade_a_podcast_fetching_app_for_windows_phone/
brotkasten
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I like podcatcher, but I don't think it has auto updates yet? supposed to be coming though. I tried alternatives that do update automatically but some didn't let me set rules per podcast etc, so I'm back with podcatcher.
Samsung's new WP8.1 device apparently got leaked. Looks exactly like a grey S4. The Ativ S was basically just an S3 in grey with less curves so that's hardly surprising. One thing to note on the new phone is the lack of a camera key and on screen buttons. Looks like Samsung is using the same capacitive button layout the used in the Ativ S, whilst using the same button style on the S4 (the capacitive buttons disappear entirely when not lit).
Seems kind of lazy to get the S4 ripoff right when the S5 is coming out.
Seems kind of lazy to get the S4 ripoff right when the S5 is coming out.
In the scope of Windows Phone, does anyone care about Samsung anymore? Should we care?
Nokia phones are cheaper, better build quality, more varied and have better software additions.
If I was Microsoft, I would immediately drop any support for Samsung to the bare minimum until they merit it.
My phone must be defective.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Yay, a gs4 a year later!
edit: you're phone's not defective H, the 520 has bad battery life and standby sucks as well. The only thing that helps is disabling WiFi, because otherwise its trying to act like your primary phone and pull data for tiles etc.
edit: you're phone's not defective H, the 520 has bad battery life and standby sucks as well. The only thing that helps is disabling WiFi, because otherwise its trying to act like your primary phone and pull data for tiles etc.
Nope, I have mine in airplane mode and it definitely does not last a week. Lastflowers must be reading from Nokia's PR statement because there is no way it lasts that long on single charge.
I tried to make this thing as music centric as possible.
No Live Tiles
Only thing Pinned are Music, MixRadio, Settings, ConnectivityShortcuts
No Email sync'd
No Facebook
No background tasks
WIFI On
Airplane Mode On
Battery Saver Always On
Slightly over a day of standby. Sad.
That's not great. My mother, albeit no WiFi that often, can get around 4 days.
Woah, that sounds terrible for the 520.
When I go to the cottage (where there is no cell signal), I use my 900 and 1020 as a GPS rangefinder while playing golf and connect to WiFi occasionally and I can go several days and still be above 50% battery.
Kinky John
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I can get 3 days on my 520 with some light Whatsapp use.
Edit: That's with 'Battery Saver' off.
Edit: That's with 'Battery Saver' off.
I would post what I think about most people on the gaming side but I'd probably get banned.
brotkasten
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Whenever I read reactions like that, it always makes me think about non-gaming related topics and if the reactions are just as bad, but I wouldn't know, because I have no clue about it either.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting everyone to be experts on what they discuss. Forums would be boring as fuck until you got up to speed yourself. So people being ignorant isn't a bad thing, it's also good to get an idea of how people that aren't involved in the topic at all see things.
What grates for me is the absolute certainty with which bullshit is being spread by certain people. It's not that people don't know what they're talking about, it's that the definitely do know what they are talking about. They know for a fact.
I guess it comes as part of ignorance, because the more you learn about a subject, the more you also learn how ignorant you are of it.
So I guess it's just human nature in the end.
The conclusion: I hate everyone.
José Mourinho
cocknose
:lol high five!
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