I think they just did a slap to the existing WP7 users, no Xbox Music support for WP7.

You'll find Xbox Music to be on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 iOS and ANDROID.

nfc lah

Recent announcement just made me hold back to get WP8 but the directx support sure is tempting, imagine your PC games running on WP8, I'm seeing some potential here.

This post has been edited by s7ran9er: Oct 30 2012, 08:12 AM

That's Windows 8.

Good luck Microsoft!

Well, did a little bit of digging and found...


This post has been edited by s7ran9er: Oct 30 2012, 12:36 PM

I find this very useful for me and when I found WP lacking of this feature, I use TellMe (hold Windows logo to launch) to dial a number which really helps sometimes but my pronunciation must be accurate when screaming their names "call luckyhillkop office" and return "sorry, can't find that name in your contact list".

This post has been edited by s7ran9er: Oct 30 2012, 12:50 PM

I think the current IE on WP7.5 runs fairly good, just the basic things not the much complicated stuff. That being said, third party browsers are available on the marketplace with some additional perks on them, I say they're pretty good too with gestures enabled browsing.

If you wish to view complicated/heavy/java oriented website, better get other phone or a tablet.

Now come to think about it, yeah I do missed that bar below when I had my HD7. Let's just see if WP8's IE has any nice features to offer, perhaps gestures browsing. What I like about the IE on my phone is the speed and naw, I ain't talking about the browsing speed but rather the launch speed of IE, though this IE behave jerky when browsing an "overlay" popup.

This is what happening to the world now, people switches phone really fast, especially the tech-junkies people, yeah you all are reading this line.

The way how they market the WP8 is "cater for each of us and not all of us", I think this direction has already been done by Android and they pretty much follow the trend til now.

Well yeah, you get the icons grid on both iOS and Android but on Android, they allow users to customise their homescreens with widgets and all that, hows that for "cater each of us"?

The things that mentioned above like the issues for WP7 is pretty much a deal breaker for me on WP8, the apps on the marketplace are bloated by a great deal amount of "basic" apps.

Xbox Live games on the other hand are quite fun to play with but these titles are pretty old in my opinion and pricey.

depends on the titles lah, some decent one cost you around $4-$6 on the marketplace, say I want to buy Plants vs Zombies on Marketplace, it cost me $SGD6.99 while in GooglePlay it cost $US2.99 and on iTunes Store, it cost only $US0.99. Pricey? Perhaps, and for those who are familiar with the Xbox LIVE, the avatar can be equip with really nice looking gears for your own but the avatars doesn't come cheap, you have to buy gold points to do exchange which is really expensive too.

Also, some old titles like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja (both outdated version), only cost you $SGD1.59 for each.

At the mean time some folks well most of them doesn't really bother to spend to much on apps.

EDIT: WHILE WHILE WHILE

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Added on October 31, 2012, 5:10 pm1. Change of region in account can be a hassle and it takes a lot of time (maybe months) to readjust your region.
2. Calender is cool at first by how they display the events but that doesn't seem to work so well with me since the most of the functions are dug deep into it which is why I chose Tasks on the Marketplace.
3. Text reflow is something missing in IE browser, the browser can do basic reading only but not as smart enough and there is a term for this I learnt from HTCshowme videos, "swipe to swipe reading"?
4. WiFi doesn't bother me much since whatsapp takes care of it by playing a dummy radio to keep the wifi alive and jumping back to app quicker.
5. Notification center was suppose to be your live tiles, no? Well, some date back I actually dreamed of having a notification center by swiping left.

Oh btw folks, this thread sure de-railed long.


This post has been edited by s7ran9er: Oct 31 2012, 05:10 PM

Yeah tested and works fine for me but the result could be different on some devices since jonchai mentioned apps being suspended when not in use but the Whatsapp trick should work wonders or you can launch a radio app that keeps the wifi alive.

Also, to keep your wifi alive, you can plug your phone into the charger too.

3 UNITS? Must be developer unit then? Btw, why dont you sign up for MS dev program and get yourself a dev unit? At least they can get the "ungettable" ones from oversea say like HTC Titan.

Chances that the MS/Nokia employees are already holding the device.

well, MS encourage the students with that by giving them dev units. Dev sets are unlocked though but you cant call.

recently I just found another annoying thing, I'm not sure about you WP users but whenever there's a call coming and I happen to be in wifi mode on standby, then I picked the call and almost after saying "hello?" the phone just blast everything at your ear if you didn't turn on silent, notifications sound like whatsapp or message rings will just blast through your ear during the conversasion making you really really uncomfortable when hearing the other side.

Yeah of course but I rely on the sound all the time so that I dont have to stare at the live tiles every single 5 minutes just to make sure I don't miss anything from my clients. (My clients love to use Whatsapp).

I understand the speaker is located at the bottom of my Lumia but during calls on my phone, the phone/OS will ring at your ear (where the 'voice' speaker is located) instead of the big one below. And even sometimes when I'm on data connected (3G/H) it doesn't really update my notifications on the live tiles instead it happens during calls.

Well, most of the rings are from Whatsapp.

You have time properly though but I have yet to master this technique!

Opps sorry.

Yes you can for the basics (message/emails/ring) but not for all like apps.

This, well during the announcement of WP8, I receiced emails from this site saying there are a couple of features were implemented in the new OS but not for WP7.8.

There was a feature requested when they announce WP7 users can't go to WP8. The users raged and they made a suggestion to bring every features in WP8 into WP7.8 but now I don't see it on the Hot list.

oh haven't you all heard? Buy a Lumia and get a Vios starting now?

been watching couple of videos out there for the Lumia 920, I gotta say it's pretty good for the camera and the new version of Nokia Drive just launches instantly!

if you all plan to get 920 in the future, then I suggest you all get a proper casing to protect the sharp edges because of the added weight of the phone, if it drops to the solid floor, it's gonna hurt really really bad, especially the edge of close to the headphone jack.