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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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brotkasten
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Not to sound harsh and unfair, but WP8 was mostly just based around the ARM port of the NT kernel.
killer rin
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The worst part of this is that I won't be able to post to Facebook and twitter using the Me Hub now -_-
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-8-1-will-support-screens-as-small-as-384-x-640/
... and that's probably it for Nokia's Android phone. If they go down to resolutions as low as 640x384 I'd imagine they can throw the OS on the same device.
I still think Microsoft should probably keep it and sell it in emerging markets to hedge its bets and establish themselves on Android.
... and that's probably it for Nokia's Android phone. If they go down to resolutions as low as 640x384 I'd imagine they can throw the OS on the same device.
I still think Microsoft should probably keep it and sell it in emerging markets to hedge its bets and establish themselves on Android.
Source?
Source? Integrated to what extent? And can other apps integrate themselves? Technically Skype is integrated, too, since it shows up on contacts, but that integration is pretty limited and I don't think any app could do that on WP8.
Honestly sounds kinda bad. Oh well.
LukasTaves
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I don't get it, built in integration is being dropped in favor of the share contract?
Anton Sugar
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What the fuck? Not a fan of that at all. Why the hell is integration being removed?
Seems like they are going for a more generic integration, but with Facebook as an exception, which seems to be getting an even deeper integration. Which is strange, since Facebook seems to be becoming passe.
I don't have any information about this specific feature (otherwise I wouldn't say anything), but why wouldn't you want this instead of the existing integration? The existing integration sucks, because it can't be updated as fast as apps (if at all) to respond to bug fixes or new features added by Facebook and others.
brotkasten
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Because we don't know anything about the new integration and the concept of the People Hub was really nice. If the concept stays and it's just going to need an external app to provide the data, then it's all good.
Say I have my address book. It got the list of all my contacts with their number and maybe address. I install Facebook and then magic happens and my address book is filled with the Facebook data of the contacts that are there. I install WhatApp and even more magic happens and a "write on WhatApp" appears on the contact profile. Same with Skype or Twitter. That's how it should be and how it should've been from the beginning, ever since they introduced the hubs.
Incoming Asha Windows Phones!
That's not even me being pessimistic. Even if Windows Phone is successful and gets to like 20% market share, most mobile computing will still happen on Android. Running Android on Asha-style devices in emerging market doesn't necessarily diminish Microsoft's Windows Phone efforts.
Microsoft could keep the Android fork around with a Windows Phony UI, bundle all Microsoft apps and services (that they are building for Android, anyway), and create their own market place.
I wonder how hard it would be for Microsoft to create their own Android IDE (i.e. allow you to build Android apps in Visual Studio). If Microsoft's 'dev-div' operated like an independent company, they would certainly support Android, since a significant part of development happens on Android nowadays.
They could buy Xamarin to allow you to use C# for Android development and use that to encourage cross platform development for Windows Phone as well as to encourage deployment of Android apps (that don't rely on Google-specific APIs) to their hypothetical Android store. Since they make by far the best dev tools, maybe they could use the dev angle to carve out a niche on Android while simultaneously boosting Windows Phone development.
If this new functionality in Windows Phone 8.1 is anything like Windows 8.1, then the same People Hub functionality can be reproduced almost exactly by extending the platform support for integration with third party apps instead of building it into the OS.
Even in Windows Phone 8 there's limited support for People hub integration with third party apps. Like how Skype adds a "call this person on Skype" link when viewing their contact card.
LukasTaves
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What? Does W8.1 people app support that? I think I haven't seen a single app hooking it up with it xD
Kinky John
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o_0
juliushandle
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"project my screen" has my interest.
I can't imagine seeing much of it, or any really special bits, until BUILD.
yeah that's a step back
I'm ok with that, would like to have some surprises.
Surprise Frankie voice pack!
Thank you Jebus!aka Lastflowers
Praise be.
I'd even love a setting where you could enable that for all the capacitive buttons to prevent accidental presses.
Steelyuhas
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Lock screen is interesting, they've cleared the middle of the screen out. Notifications listed in the middle similar to iOS?
Hoping a IE UI refresh is just not in the SDK emulator in this build...
For the most part it looks great though, lots of cool new features. Projecting the screen is pretty sweet.
Hoping a IE UI refresh is just not in the SDK emulator in this build...
For the most part it looks great though, lots of cool new features. Projecting the screen is pretty sweet.
LukasTaves
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Yeah, wtf are they thinking?
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