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Robobandit
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Good for Microsoft.. hopefully they'll open up the possibility of native applications to third party developers.. as well as the ability to load their own applications on their devices if they choose.
antiquegamer
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DrFunk said:
The unlock phone won't work on AT&T carrier right?
antiquegamer
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Treo360 said:
Well at least they are pro-active about it and possible allowing home brew to flousih in somewhat control environment so we don't have hackers and pirates that used them as tools for well getting stuff for free.
Anton Sugar
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Really glad MS made that decision, hope that will attract more devs! Depends on how it's "implemented", I guess...
GoVoice is what I've been using and it works well enough...I really only use it to check my voicemail.
Raistlin said:
GoVoice is what I've been using and it works well enough...I really only use it to check my voicemail.
The Abominable Snowman
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Been on the phone 2 almost 3 hours ordering a Dell Venue Pro.
Iced_Eagle
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antiquegamer said:
They do. Basically you buy the phone, and MS will reimburse you. This way employees can get whatever phone they want on whatever carrier they want, and they also get to get the deals such as BOGO. This is on top of their heavily discounted service plans carriers offer them. The AT&T rep at the store said MS employees get a way better discount on plans than AT&T's own employees. :lol
Iced_Eagle
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Darkener2 said:I really miss not having an amazon app...
I'm sure it will go. Phone hasn't even been out for a month yet. :lol
Vanillalite
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For those that have used Handbrake what preset did you use to rip video to then throw into zune?
antiquegamer
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Agentnibs said:
The early releases of Venue Pro got some issue, hopefully they fixed all the issues. The phone spec sound really good.
Microsoft needs to get the Venue Pro and the other phone T-Mobile USA has on Mobilicity and Wind in Canada... It would be by far the best phone on the networks, uses the same bands so shouldn't require different engineering, and Wind and Mobilicity are having killer deals that are making people jump ship. Right now every network that WP7 is on here also carries the iPhone 4 and new Androids making it a tougher sell.
Iced_Eagle
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Ina Fried has jumped in the ring and said the first update will be miniscule, not massive. The only two big features will be support for more carriers and copy / paste.
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20101201/windows-phone-7-update-is-no-iphone-killer/
I don't want to go into too many details, but I did get to see the new update, but they only showed me the copy / paste (which actually works a bit better than the iPhone). When asked what other major features were in there, they replied "that's really the only big thing in here". If turn-by-turn and custom ringtones really were in there, I would guess that they would have mentioned it. He did say what would be in their next update as well, but I didn't really get a lot of details, so I'm going to rather not saying anything at all since there's a few different ways to view what was meant.
Either way, copy / paste will be awesome, even though in my two days of having a phone I haven't had a need for it.
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20101201/windows-phone-7-update-is-no-iphone-killer/
I don't want to go into too many details, but I did get to see the new update, but they only showed me the copy / paste (which actually works a bit better than the iPhone). When asked what other major features were in there, they replied "that's really the only big thing in here". If turn-by-turn and custom ringtones really were in there, I would guess that they would have mentioned it. He did say what would be in their next update as well, but I didn't really get a lot of details, so I'm going to rather not saying anything at all since there's a few different ways to view what was meant.
Either way, copy / paste will be awesome, even though in my two days of having a phone I haven't had a need for it.
Iced_Eagle
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Darkener2 said:
It does add one major new feature, which will be handy. I would love turn-by-turn too, but I'm used to not having it coming from iPhone and I can wait. I'm hoping it comes soon (from the sounds of it, not in the second update either). I know MS said it wants to do a yearly "major" update with multiple minor updates. Copy/Paste is considered a minor update if I remember them talking about it. Maybe we could get the first major update next fall!
Looks like LG has the best line up of exclusive applications. Apparently they plan to release 10 free apps every 60 days.
I would have considered a Optimus 7 if they brought it to the states.
Hopefully other manufacturers take note. I know the Samsung offerings are putrid, can't comment on HTC.
Some random internet comment said:
I would have considered a Optimus 7 if they brought it to the states.
Hopefully other manufacturers take note. I know the Samsung offerings are putrid, can't comment on HTC.
Agentnibs said:
Somewhere in this thread I linked to a forum with users of it. As antiquegamer stated, the initial release was fraught with problems. While it's possible some or all have been rectified, the other issue is the design itself.
A poster in this thread actually tried one out, and the sentiment is one I've read from others. The ergonomics just aren't there, and it feels kind of cheap. Regardless of how it looks in pictures, in real life the design just isn't what you'd expect.
I'd certainly keep an eye open for more reviews now that it relaunched, because obviously YMMV. I however decided to stay away and am very happy with my Focus.
Looks like Amazon Wireless is selling Windows Phones for $0.01 for new customers.
Upgrades aren't eligible for that price.
Upgrades aren't eligible for that price.
Anton Sugar
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venne said:
Is anyone worried about all these deals? Is this normal for a new release? I didn't have any problem with it until reading some articles about how abnormal it is.
Vanillalite
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Mr. Snrub said:
A shit ton of Android phones have been this price too. Amazon was selling some of the Galaxy S phones like the Captivate for a penny on and off since launch.
It's probably not great news, but it seems everyone not named Apple does this. Maybe just to move stock. Maybe because it's worth it for everyone involved ie OS company gets more market share, carrier gets the contract signed or renewed, and Amazon probably gets some kind of kick back.
PS: This actually reminds me more of a EU type model of selling phones.
Anton Sugar
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Raistlin said:
I just found a few over the past few days, here's a recent one: http://mashable.com/2010/11/27/microsoft-promo-windows-phone-7-sales/
I've never really been a part of a phone launch, so I don't know if this is normal or not. Admittedly, a lot of the articles seem to spin it against MS.
antiquegamer
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Mr. Snrub said:
No, it's pretty normal for this time of year, the carrier are very aggressive to get you to lock into their contract. Most people unless they are really unhappy would stay with that carrier for a long time even after their contract is up.
I was at Costco today and there were plenty of Android phone for free or 49.99 on that note I also was able to convince Costco (and their Wireless subcontract) that they are better off price matching my phone than have me bring the phone back and get a new one. So I got $150.00 back today.
I wish my wife would have hold off on getting her phone earlier this year, she would really love WP7 phone since she's always on Facebook.
antiquegamer
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venne said:
I think you will be very happy with the Focus. It's only shortcoming was the 8gb memory (though I have no problem with the 16gb sandisk I stick in there since launch it's work perfectly). It looks cheapish due to Samsung loves for shiny black plastics and fake chrome but the actual phone feel pretty good. It's also very light to boot.
antiquegamer said:
My wife is putting it through the paces.
No complaints about the storage yet. By the time it becomes an issue, hopefully the Micro SD situation is straightened out.
The look and feel of the phone is fine. It's replacing a 3G, so the gloss black and chrome accents are nothing new. Needs a case, hopefully the one I ordered arrives soon. . .
Vanillalite
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jagowar said:
My video was fine but audio always garbled. I got something to work in AVC. Had to use xvid in an avi wrapper.
antiquegamer
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Iced_Eagle said:
Company I work for also have corporate discount with At&t but it's like $15.00 a month...not that I am complaining.
Looking forward to the supposed update to the app Beezz, it will be the first live tile Twitter app with toasts for mentions and PMs. I'm excited, finally getting the functionality out of the phone that it should have had from the official Twitter app.
No worries though, if this app works correctly Twitter will simply buy it up and replace its product with the Beezz app.
No worries though, if this app works correctly Twitter will simply buy it up and replace its product with the Beezz app.
So after waiting three weeks, l received not one but two phones lol and they were delivered 30mins apart. This is obviously a mistake on amazon's part. l had called them last week because l had not received the phone and they essentially declared it lost and then shipped me another one. Well, it tends out it wasn't lost after all - I am tempted to keep both of them :lol but l will do the right thing.
Cirekiller
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Well, I called customer care, and apparently theres no delay or anything on my part and I'm going to get it when everyone else does. However, I've been hearing rumblings about peoples orders getting delayed until the 27th or even canceled, my phone is still "in production" and slated for the 22nd so we'll have to see.Darkener2 said:
Anton Sugar
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:lolTylerD said:
Mine's never gotten that low, what's this crying about? And does a total drain actually help the charge?
TylerD said:
I got the notification "Your battery is critically low, please charge it", and then went on to watch an entire 25 minute tv show (downloaded onto the phone, not streaming or anything), followed by browsing the net for about 2 minutes before it finally died on me.
Mr. Snrub said:
Its something I've always been told to do with rechargeable batteries. An absolute must with Nickel Cadmium batteries, and a good occasional habit with lithium ion. Someone can probably explain the reasoning behind it better than I could though so I'll let someone else do that.
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