think of it as iOS game centre or OpenFeint, if u know those.. a integrated server/platform, that records your highscore, your total playtime, your achievement, your friend, your ranking worldwide, etc etc...
i remember they promise some game save integration where u can continue on xbox on the same game from where u left off from your phone, if it is integrated.

U can find supported games under XBox Live Titles in the game category

well, most the games are not free and they area rather pricey... plus, their game title availability is not as broad as iOS or Android, yet.... let's just hope the DirectX 9 turn the tide around this time... Overall, I still hope i can customize more on the homescreen, i mean... black/white only background seem so boring after a while

there are still a lot of factors that stops me

--doesn't have a centralized place for notification( i know live tile will have notification count on the tile, but what about apps that u didnt pin, plus, it's better to see what's up in a centralized place)
--the 'Me' tile doesn't seem to send out notification upon receiving any updates inside
--background color, i just hope we can change it to our own preference
--the whatsapp of WP.. not sure they improved it or not, but it's a bad experience since last time
--it doesn't feel as 'fun' as other phones, what i mean is, less games/quality free titles compared to other platforms
--no shortcuts of any kind... let's say i wanna turn off my bluetooth, or change my wifi access point after connecting to a network already.. current uses will get what i mean

some might say it's all the small/unimportant things, but i do feel these should be taken care of, if an OS is trully polished, every OS has it's downside, I'm just stating WP's, I do not mean that other platforms are perfect, in case anyone here is offended

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Added on October 31, 2012, 3:33 pmyeah, Wi-Fi disconnects after a shoft while of sleeping, that is being confirmed, me, aspire are (or were) using WP phones, and that is one annoying behaviour that we all faced. However, there's a workaround, I remember is one of the former Nokia rangers that taught us that, using media sharing to broadcast our media after connected to a Access Point, then go back to home(not exiting the app), and the wifi will stay alive until u are disconnected from the access point.. the downside is that u need to do that everytime u are connected to a network

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Oct 31 2012, 03:33 PM

yeah, I am unsure how the resizeable tile help, but last time, if we simply pin everything, the Live tile screen will be very messy and confusing at times, which losses its point and main attraction of each app being identifiable form just a glance

yeah.. that said, I just wish that could put more control over the phone's behaviour... My next phone will be an android for sure, but I hope WP8 is good enough to change my mind.. meanwhile, I find WP7 uninteresting after a using a while.. once u get used to the smooth scrolling and fluid transition animations, its beauty slowly fades away and reminds you about its ugliness.

yeah, u can do that, but the thing is, if you pin too many things into your Tiles, your Tiles become very cluttered and it's almost like there're no difference with the main menu.. my understanding of the tile is that, what is important to me will all be there, accessible within a glance, without needing to take a second to identify them. For me, there're e emails, sms, call, 'Me' tile, skype, calender, drive..
initially Skype i don't pin because it's not my main IM, but i keep missing notification if i don;t do that, so in the end i had to pin it, so i wish there're some place where notification can be seen, so that even those not-so-important apps with notification can be noticed there

well, yeah, for many people it seems to be ok, but there are fanboys people who are super defensive about these things

it's encouraging, it has the performance close to S3, and launching price is lower then it

previously, we don't know what WP is doing, or what direction it is going, basically, if you must say, it's MS trolled Nokia, and indirectly trolled the end consumers, but having Nokia taking in all the faults.

As for why it take them so long, as a software dev i can say, building something from ground up takes a lot of time, especially if ur management is screwed up, that explains MeeGo, while taking in a built template and build things on top of it require understanding to the whole framework, which also take time... plus, when there are bugs that got u stuck, and it's not on ur side, u have to wait the framework owner to fix before you can proceed with your work, so that's why it's taking them so damn long

yes, they should be holding one by now, internal testing, normally teams that are involve would have already start using them as their daily device to determine if it is stable enough as a final version, if there is bug, they throw to software team to solve them

I do remember my Lumia 900 lasted from morning 8am unplug till almost midnight sometimes, but mostly whatsapp only and sometimes walking towards parking play 10-15 minutes tower defence game, lol