Guys, L925 comes with amber out of the box or still need to manually update?

already comes with amber...

Thats great. Bro, would like to know if there is any gmail client apps for WP8? And, how do you think of the browser performance. I'm currently eyeing to buy L925.

You can sign in and it will associate all your contacts and calender into the phone
No need apps.

I no use the IE so maybe you can try seek answer from others.

what alternatives available to replace IE?

That's good because I will use gmail a lot. You don't use IE so what browser are you using? Others apps such as whatsapp, fb, twitter all are stable or still got some bugs?

all apps are quite stable but i guess notification not as fast as blackberry and iphone (from my experience). but it happen sometimes only.

I rarely use phone to browse internet nowadays
Even if I do, i also use my Galaxy S3's (Secondary Phone) Chrome browser, but it's like once in a week or totally no since I can browse in office.

Whatsapp compare to few months ago, I must admit that they really did a good job in updating the app.
The reason why I gave up on 920 that time (mid of July'13) was due to the delay of whatsapp.
Imagine I'm using same network and same area and I using both S3 & 920.
I tried to msg from S3 to 920 and it can took 1 hour for 920 to receive that small msg - "HI".

Now I'm a happy user of WP8

Facebook? I kinda frustrate of it due to so many ads coming to it nowadays ...
So no no Facebook for me except on Ipad right now, lol ...

Most famous alternatives browser for IE10 in WP8 is UC Browser

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/ap...71-91dbc188f873

UC browser...the best browser for WP available out there

UC browser is just a skin for IE. Basically IE with added features like orientation lock and incognito browsing. For me, I have no problems with IE and I find it suits me well. I only turn on UC if i need to browse through stuff i don't want people to find out about.

Whatsapp is great now. Facebook is steadily getting better and is a far cry from what it used to be. The only problem i have with it is delayed messages and notification problems. FB chat could be smoother and more responsive too.

best app i found on WP so far is probably 500 background =)

UC browser has more advanced settings than IE, for example

lock screen rotation

night mode

selectively delete records

incognito mode

This post has been edited by dgboy: Oct 7 2013, 07:25 PM

Do you have any other primary phone or WP8 is your primary? I don't want to use 2 phones just because there are so many bugs with WP8. I am hardly considering WP8 because of its smoothness and for sure i want to stand out from other people who mostly use iphone or samsung.

It will be good if you can share some more of your experience. Such as gmail, some mini games(light use to kill time), and anythings.

is it normal for discharge rate of 8-10% /hour under this condition.

wifi + 2g on
whatsapp + wechat in background
lowest brightness

my first and only smartphone. My brother has android and my dad has an iPhone but I don't really fancy the two.

I don't play games because I can always find way to kill time off my phone. There are already plenty of well-established games though contrary to popular belief.

if you don't mind the wait, wait till early 2014 when windows phone 8.1 would be announced.

overall I'm pretty happy with my Lumia 720 and I have no regrets. I was genuinely frustrated at my first week but I got the hand of things and yeah, the pros do outweigh the cons. Plus, development has been picking up steam and I expect more improvements to come soon at a quicker pace =)

Lumia 1020 is Primary right now.
S3 is secondary for usage like watching youtube if boring, lol ...

Still waiting google to release the API to WP8 to develop an official YouTube. I don't really like those unofficial one though they are not bad.

I downloaded some small games like Wordament, Tetris Blitz to kill time on WP8.
So far WP8 provide good experience for me and I'm an Android user since 2010

damn..i hate that window phone doesnt have youtube app

Cause Google is evil

I hope the fight end soon

Anyone notices that recently the store auto update prompt no longer works?

UC browser would be a good start