Microsoft rolling out Windows Phone 8 update in Europe European Windows Phone 8 customers have reportedly begun receiving the first over-the-air update to Microsoft's latest mobile OS, just six weeks after the platform's formal launch on October 29. As first reported by Windows Phone Central, the update is being pushed out to international versions of the HTC 8X handset. Those …
And if you somehow have second thoughts on the way to the shop remember you can also now reject calls with a text message, which I supposed they felt obliged to include been on other handsets for about 5+ years but it's yet to be proven if anyone's actually used it. Really used it, instead of pressing the button by accident.
The only threat to worry about is some idiot engineer copying the UI mistakes *from* Windows/WinPhone into Android or IOS.
Microsoft already took inspiration from the grossly over simplified look&feel of Android ICS, then maxed it out as Metro for maximum ugliness, minimum visual clues for the hapless user. It's a visual styling race to the bottom with no winners :(
Windows Phone's style is a copy of Android 4?
Android ICS (4.0) release date October 2011.
Windows Phone 7 release date October 2010.
What's wrong with this picture?
Did Microsoft have a time machine to go forward a year to copy Android ICS?
More likely ICS is inspired by WP7's style. We all know Google has no idea at all about graphic design, they just copy copy copy.
"What is that all about? And is one aware of the phone's action/interaction?"
Basically you can configure up to four replies, then when you're phone rings you can choose to send one of those (or just go straight to writing a full text message in reply) to the caller instead of just rejecting the call. It's a neat little feature for quickly sending a "Sorry can't take your call right now, but will call you back when I can" type messages so people know you aren't ignoring them.
You can always switch it off completely if you don't like it as well.
I've had my 820 for a couple of weeks and for a brand new product with a brand new operating system it seems pretty sorted. Irritations? Yes of course... My WM6.5 had the ability to reject calls with a text, and I missed it. The call quality at my end isn't great so I find myself using my Jabra a lot. The calendar takes ages to sync unless I add something to it and then it does everything. Battery life's not as good as my HTC HD2 but then I'm using it a lot more. Positives? The voice recognition is excellent out of the box with no training (more than could be said for the first incarnation of Siri), it reads me my text messages and allows me to dictate responses. The interface is easy to use and a lot more flexible, I haven't needed to buy windows mobile 8 for dummies yet. The back button is truly inspired, probably the most useful thing I've seen in ages.
It is all horses for courses, as an earlier poster said at least they are issuing fixes, and I'm sure they'll fix my gripes. And as a later poster said, all the phone OS's have their problems, some inherent in the OS, some inherent in the hardware, and some inherent in the manufacturers implementation of the OS.
There's been quite a lot of people moving from iOS and Android to Windows Phone. So it is gaining interest in some quarters.
The policy towards updates is surely a good reason. You can even elect to receive updates and bypass carrier approval (but obviously lose some sort of technical support from your carrier).
I didn't that that was a bug, who wants the WiFi draining the battery when you don't need it? The baked in music streamers and stuff can persist the connection if they want. This makes the ability for an app to persist the connection available to all.
WiFi persists anyway when power is plugged in for a few minutes on my wife's 7.5 and my Lumia 920.
No reboots or crashes on the 920 for me
It's not about that WiFi goes off, the problem is that it goes off and mobile data kick's in draining Your Allowance (if You have one)
and consider a scenario when you left your phone on the table for few minutes and you have all your business emails setup, unless You "wake up" your phone You wont get email notifications ( this will happen only when mobile data is disabled ).
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