juliushandle
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yes, i'm actually using the premium $4 a month service to get the higher quality and unlimited skips. best of all there's no contract and no default autopay.
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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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Steelyuhas
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I corrected his error!
Do you notice the quality difference with the premium service? Does it use the high quality for streaming as well, or only downloaded tracks?
juliushandle
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I've only used offline mode but I'll try streaming and report back to you.
Bob Dobalina
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I think the best use of that custom background is going to be solid colors that aren't available in the accent color picker, but now I'm wondering what the accent color will be for text when you do this.
Also, do we know whether or not future large 1080p devices will have an option to switch to two columns instead of 3? I played with a 1520 and I literally could not find a way to arrange tiles that I liked. I don't really know what could be done to fix it for my tastes either, 3-square-wide live tiles would be kinda useless and a 3x2 tile would be an enormous waste of space.
I have a relative going to build, so if he brings home an 8.1 device I'll share some impressions and pics!
Also, do we know whether or not future large 1080p devices will have an option to switch to two columns instead of 3? I played with a 1520 and I literally could not find a way to arrange tiles that I liked. I don't really know what could be done to fix it for my tastes either, 3-square-wide live tiles would be kinda useless and a 3x2 tile would be an enormous waste of space.
I have a relative going to build, so if he brings home an 8.1 device I'll share some impressions and pics!
That's what we like to hear.
antiquegamer
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This is really what they should have done, is upscale WP to tablet size and improve from there. Now they are even more behind in both tablet and phone. .
killer rin
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Blame Sinofsky. It was a stupid decision to never learn from, or use Windows Phone from the start.
killer rin
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Yes, but by taking Windows Phone and saying "this will be our Metro Side", more money, time and man power could have been put behind the Windows Phone OS from day 1 of Windows 8's existence. Windows Phone would be further along and Windows 8 would be further along, and then we wouldn't have the vast differences across both.
You get used to it. I originally couldn't stand it on my Icon, but I eventually found an arrangement that I'm quite fond of now.
Anton Sugar
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I'm pleased with the implementation. I'll want to play around with it to see how it looks irl.
It desperately need color options beyond black and white for the background, we only need it for the start screen MS, do it
antiquegamer
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That looks terrible. Too bad all Androids phone have terrible camera.
the better twin
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An option you won't ever have to see if you don't want to is genuinely making you consider leaving a platform?
I find that hard to believe/scary if true.
Penguins&PolarBears
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I agree I would like to see WP8 apps on Windows RT, but does RT need to be saved? Just saw this today, according to AdDuplex Windows RT represents about 16% of all Windows 8 devices and rising:
http://blog.adduplex.com/2014/03/quick-glance-at-windows-8-device.html
Windows 8's app store has grown much faster than Windows Phone and has a lot of apps that Windows Phone lacks. And that's with Windows Phone paying developers and porting apps themselves while Windows 8 does not. Also most WP apps were built for a portrait landscape and phone experience and MS was probably not excited about making the same mistake that hurt Android tablets early on.
What they did with Windows 8's app store was probably the best possible scenario at that point in time. Now that the same team is working on both Windows and Windows Phone hopefully the Windows touch experience will improve.
No comparison of IE on phone vs. tablet though. The tablet version has been far far ahead of phone. It looks like the WP8.1 version of IE is catching up (still no Flash though)
Bob Dobalina
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Would you mind sharing a screenshot?
Yea that part bugs me too but I'll bet the answer on being no it's logical to think that if you can, it would be automatic like the rest of the tiles.
frontieruk
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Bar the parallax scrolling that works pretty much how I called it, what will be interesting to see is how it deals with a start screen that's maxed out.
Yeah, they've sold 100+ million Windows 8 licenses and the Surface RT bombed. If anything that chart shows that users on traditional PCs don't use Metro apps.
As for the discussion whether Microsoft should have gone with Windows Phone for tablets, it wouldn't have made a difference. Windows Phone wouldn't have had the slightest chance to compete against Android, and as Mircosoft have found out, neither did Windows.
Personally, I agree entirely with the vision of Windows supporting every device and input method. Basing the mobile OS on Windows doesn't automatically make it worse -- with 8.1 you never actually have to go to the desktop. And you get a lot of benefits like being able to plug in any USB device or accessing the Homegroup,
I can't recall on W8, but does the parallax effect not use the number of tiles to determine the amount of distance the background moves?
You mean a very long start screen? It would just slow down the parallax scrolling. The background picture won't disappear or repeat when you scroll way down.
Ayeah! New Xbox for Windows Phone game!
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hexic/ec7ca08e-0a1e-4eaf-9188-2403ded71cce
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hexic/ec7ca08e-0a1e-4eaf-9188-2403ded71cce
Ol No Bones
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Sorry I'm on the road but here's an earlier screengrab I did at WPCentral
http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-icon/265720-2.htm#post2371014
You may need to scroll down. Sorry, don't know the best way to post pics from my phone.
wat? Maybe not 1020 camera but cmon.
NeOak
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Not even 920.
I beg to differ. The 920 was hard to get non blurry shots from in my experience. S3 took better pictures for me. 920 camera is overated imo.
Your telling me the 920 still has a better camera than say a Note 3, or S4? Nevermind the S5 or other new high end phones. HTC excluded.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
NeOak
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antiquegamer
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Oh come on, you know it's not just this one decision, it's combination of things from the last year. I was really disappointed with Windows Phone 8 and how incomplete and buggy it was at launch then there was the dismantle of Zune and then Xbox functionality. I said the same thing since Windows Phone 8 came out, that only reason I am still on this platform is because of Nokia.
Instead of spending resource to making the Start screen uglier why not spend on doing thing that actually matter to the OS. Microsoft is the one that innovate in this OS arena and champion simple, flat and fluids OS and now they are tuning Windows Phone into what I was trying to get away from.
antiquegamer
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Sorry no way I am using ugly Samsung phone. I would consider One or even Nexus 5 but both have terrible camera not to mention terrible battery on the Nexus. Sony is my other option but their phone really is not widely available here in the US.
If rumor of bigger iPhone is coming this fall I will probably consider that, unless MicroNokia really surprise me with fall line up but I am not holding my breath. They are going to go through period of adjustment and integration which mean probably nothing new until next year and they probably just rerelease some interim phones. I really don't expect 1020 follow up this year.
brotkasten
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The next 18 months of Lumia phones are all developed by Nokia. Whatever comes afterwards is a true Microsoft Windows Phone.
So I've started to use my Google account's calendar since it syncs across my tablet and PC. Does it integrate with WP8? My phone isn't with me right now so I can't fiddle around in the calendar app. I remember hearing some complaints regarding Google usage on WP but it's been smooth sailing regarding my email, so I'm worried this is where it'll crop up finally.
MS will sell Nokia to Lenovo right before that happens.
Ayeah! New Xbox for Windows Phone game!
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hexic/ec7ca08e-0a1e-4eaf-9188-2403ded71cce
Love Hexic.
brotkasten
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I played Hexic on my fricking Zune 80. What took them so long?!
was quite enjoying it until the old 'pay £1.29 for extra lives or wait 25 minutes' reared it's ugly head.And having just played the new one, the Zune version was superior.
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