brotkasten
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I said "more capable" and "much better job".
more important post ended up as last post on the previous page:
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I said "more capable" and "much better job".
more important post ended up as last post on the previous page:
I prefer the look of the 8X as well, but I like the customization of the screen and stuff for the S3 =/
You can have a GAF tile on your home screen and you can put Galchenyuk on your ME tile. What more do you want
You can have a GAF tile on your home screen and you can put Galchenyuk on your ME tile. What more do you want
Heck, I'll make a Teemu one if you'd like =)
im from the UK.. And ive only really fallen foul of it on Coldplay and some of the more commercial compilation albums. Shame! On the Xbox you can see the albums, see the songs, just cant play them!
is there a chance that these will appear over time?
I thought game saves were part of the cloud backup thing, that's a blow.
You work for Microsoft? :lol I'm going to go and check out both phones tomorrow, going to be a tough decision...You can have a GAF tile on your home screen and you can put Galchenyuk on your ME tile. What more do you want
Surprised no one raged at MS for this.
brotkasten
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Grabbed an 8x from work to play with over the weekend...my God this phone looks and feels great.
Have you played around with an S3 at all? The look of the 8X kills the S3 for me, but it seems like the S3 has better functionality.
One of my colleagues has an S3 but I haven't messed with it much as it's his personal device. I have to say - I was dead set on upgrading my current piece of shit Palm Pre to an iPhone 5 and calling it a day, but playing with the 8x over the course of the weekend...I dunno. It's light, the screen is incredibly nice, and everything just feels crisp. Too bad I can't use my iTunes account on it
For those of you who were wondering, the blue casing is very dark, almost purple. It looks great, and still professional.
For those of you who were wondering, the blue casing is very dark, almost purple. It looks great, and still professional.
One of my colleagues has an S3 but I haven't messed with it much as it's his personal device. I have to say - I was dead set on upgrading my current piece of shit Palm Pre to an iPhone 5 and calling it a day, but playing with the 8x over the course of the weekend...I dunno. It's light, the screen is incredibly nice, and everything just feels crisp. Too bad I can't use my iTunes account on it
For those of you who were wondering, the blue casing is very dark, almost purple. It looks great, and still professional.
The kid upgraded to one, I have an S3 and I'm jealous.. lol. Its a beautiful device. He was a bit bummed when he found out there was no instagram though..haha. He loves the sound with Beats enabled though, and is using the people hub, not separate facebook and twitter apps. Got the hang of it pretty quick. He went from an iphone 4 which the mic stopped working, gave him my Galaxy Nexus to use which he never really got the hang of.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Compared to the 8X all the Samsung phones have this ugly almost cudgel like plastic look and feel to them, especially the Galaxy line. Getting mine tomorrow!
Too bad I can't use my iTunes account on it
By iTunes, do you mean just syncing your stuff?
See this if so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehXLUG0S8ik&feature=player_detailpage#t=348s
For those that are still configuring their start screen and want to add "sections" to it to give it some black space use an app called Groupy. It makes the phone look a lot more organized and I got a lot of compliments on it because it's very easy to make the screen look cluttered.
Anton Sugar
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Got the text done for the OT--will finish the graphics tomorrow and post it.
Nice! Someone asked me a few pages back if I remembered the site that had images you could pin to get the same effect, but I couldn't find it (sorry for not responding). This looks like it does the same thing:
Nice! Someone asked me a few pages back if I remembered the site that had images you could pin to get the same effect, but I couldn't find it (sorry for not responding). This looks like it does the same thing:
One of my colleagues has an S3 but I haven't messed with it much as it's his personal device. I have to say - I was dead set on upgrading my current piece of shit Palm Pre to an iPhone 5 and calling it a day, but playing with the 8x over the course of the weekend...I dunno. It's light, the screen is incredibly nice, and everything just feels crisp. Too bad I can't use my iTunes account on it
For those of you who were wondering, the blue casing is very dark, almost purple. It looks great, and still professional.
Totally love the feel of the phone but can't get into that GameCube purple colour. Wish Bell had it in black.
Yea, it does the same thing but you get to control then text and can go two small tiles wide if you want to. It really does make it look not as cluttered with the spacing.
Definitely going to use Groupy or that app when they release the 7.8 update.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I remember last year at&t had a bunch of new phones, including windows phones for .99 on black Friday, has there been any announcements this year ?
antiquegamer
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Yes it's suck. I am ok with the restore option and it make switching phone less of a pain, but I remember having game save to the cloud on Xbox arcade since 2007 why were this feature not implement on the phone is mind boggling...
Microsoft really need to step up with these integration. Shitty Xbox music and Video is the last straw and I am done with buying their media digital goods.
All their products need perfect integration. Xbox Music is awful. The video debacle on WP8. The backup situation still not up to Google or apple standards. Sharing from the phone from SkyDrive. The sync app. Etc.... I'm still absolutely in love with the OS though.
NeOak
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that size... smh
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
The Poster (Not the person above who linked) does that a ton with his images. He needs to learn to frick'n quote post ASAP.
antiquegamer
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NeOak
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He just dumps screenshots from his iPad. That's not posting, that's just being an... ugh!
I wish there was a way to close background apps.
Left Angry Birds running in the background over night and drained about 50% of my battery. I did get achievements for playing 5 and 15 hours though. Only solution I know of is to open a bunch of random stuff until it leaves the recent app list.
Left Angry Birds running in the background over night and drained about 50% of my battery. I did get achievements for playing 5 and 15 hours though. Only solution I know of is to open a bunch of random stuff until it leaves the recent app list.
NeOak
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Keep pressing back.
Blue Ninja
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Great, a friend of mine sent a botched MMS message I can't open, but now the message repeats itself every two hours. I suppose the problem is on her end, not mine, but it's goddamn annoying.
Heh.. can't believe I never tried that.
Cute Dragon Here
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My OtterBox that I ordered from WPCentral finally came today.
Sure enough, after cleaning up the phone itself (screen and camera), the case application was very easy, once I figured out how to pry out the silicone case out. The phone does feel heavier and is definitely bigger, but it feels more solid - that's a good thing, right?
(I bought it when I noticed that my phone tended to be on the receiving end of a drop. Nothing too serious yet, and no damage so far, but...)
Sure enough, after cleaning up the phone itself (screen and camera), the case application was very easy, once I figured out how to pry out the silicone case out. The phone does feel heavier and is definitely bigger, but it feels more solid - that's a good thing, right?
(I bought it when I noticed that my phone tended to be on the receiving end of a drop. Nothing too serious yet, and no damage so far, but...)
brotkasten
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Multi-tasking in Windows Phone is not intuitive.
antiquegamer
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I posted that tip couple pages back. :/
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Thanks. That's the 8gb version though, lets see if a sale pops up on the 16gb. The best I've found is $149.
btw, schuey's tip about turning off cell data at home seems to have helped my battery life significantly. At&t has been bad lately, so it must be killing my battery to keep up with their signal for data.
Cute Dragon Here
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Maybe I should start turning off all these background processes on my 900 and start praying that the phone can go through a night without eating up 1/4 of the battery. Hmm...
Hope I won't miss instant emails.
Hope I won't miss instant emails.
antiquegamer
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At&t is offering Lumia 920 for $49.99 this Friday. Supposedly if you call customer service they will match the early adopters price (ie give you $50.00 back). I will try to call today and see if they will give me back $50.00, probably going to buy me another charger.
I don't know about that. It's just as intuitive as on Android, just a different button. And closing running apps is a good bit simpler/quicker.
I can't comment on how it is compared to Apple products, because I wouldn't touch one even if they paid me to. Is multitasking implemented better on iOS?
brotkasten
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I couldn't disagree more.
On my Galaxy Nexus I can press an always present button to get a list of all running apps and can just swipe them to the side to close them (or alternatively press and hold).
In Windows Phone, you have to press and hold the back button to get the list of running apps, then select an app, wait for it to load and press back again (few times if necessary) to close it.
The task switcher on iOS is just as "hidden" as in Windows Phone, where you have to double press the home button to get the list of all running apps and then press and hold the app icon to get the little - that closes the app.
show me your skeleton
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in my opinion an up or down flick should kill the application when on the 'cards' screen.
but hey, i also think a neat notification screen could be included by swiping left on the home screen. applications that support it could either give you: live tile updates, toast popups, a notification entry or any combination thereof.
brotkasten
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I rarely close apps, but I already did that on my Windows Phone. Just because.
And it seems that games do count.
Yes, or add a little x on the upper right of the corner. There have been countless of mock ups. People want to manage and close their apps. Give them the choice. They shut up about it when they added it in Windows 8, so why not in WP?
Yeah you are right, they made some improvements to the multi-tasking in ICS/Jellybean that I didn't think about before posting. On the galaxy tab there's also a little x there in the task switcher that makes a difference for the better for sure.
I still don't think it's all that great on Android either tbh and the raw speed of the WP interface almost makes up for having to make a few more clicks.
They should implement the dragging down gesture from W8 in WP to close apps. Or simply put an x in the top corner like on Android.
Which would also resemble Win 8's gesture, right?
Not gonna lie, I want the IE10 gestures from Win 8 on the phone. Pull down from the top of the screen for the tabs and address bar. It makes a lot of sense.
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