Got a Windows 8 phone

[soop]

Just picked up a Lumia 920.  Pretty good so far, quite big, but a lot of screen.  And also, I don't have a 4g SIM yet, so I can't test that.
Really looking forward to 32gb of storage though, which, battery depending, could mean that I don't need to lug a PSP around in my back pocket.

But the worst thing for me is no FM radio.  Still got internet radio, but it mercs the battery, so I'm gonna have to carry around 2 phones for now >___>

Anyone else thinking about getting one?  If so, fire me some questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

[SignOfZeta]

I'm an iPhone guy but the Lumia is definitely the most interesting alternative since its one of the only phones out there that doesn't look like a cheap plastic knock-off of an iPhone. Evidently Nokia still has designers, and they aren't afraid to use color either. Those Lumia's are beautiful.

[RegalSin]

You know I am trained designer, and while I could go into the difference, they all look like tri-quarters to me. They should relaunch OS/2 and have
that startreck display, and just call it the tri-quarter. It is square box, with a touch screen, and some buttons, and is just a PPC in disguise. I mean hurray, you just put food on Bill Gates table again, and Windows still suck

Why can't they just release a PPC running windows on it, and the user just subscribe to an internet phone service. Which each new purchase a new law is going to be passed. Little babies are being given Ipads in the daycare centers, and Toy creators even made toys to be used with the Iphone. They are making worthless junk, for worthless junk, that will not be worth anything until it is illegal to own real world products,
and we have the ichip in our hands.

[SignOfZeta]

I'd love to have a real tricorder. I read recently that there is a X Prize of sorts for anyone who can make a real medical tricorder. We live in exciting times when that stuff is actually foreseeable.

Don't want an iChip though. When they are introduced I think they will be super popular considering about half the population of America under the age of 40 has covered their entire body with stupid-ass tatoos and grommets and tongue spikes and shit. Those people will be first in line.

"After you carve that Monster Energy Drink logo on my cock I need you to upgrade me to the new iChip 4s. Extreme!!!"

[kazekirifx]

Awesome. I'm trying to decide whether to try Windows 8 or stick with Android for my next phone. I'd heard good things about Windows 7 Phone, but not enough people bought it. The number of apps compared to Android and iOS are my main reasons for hesitation. Let us know how you like 8 once you've had a chance to get used to it!

[WingZeroKai]

I'm on a Galaxy SIII but that Lumia 920 is making me wish I had waited a bit longer. Such a beautiful phone.

[soop]

Awesome. I'm trying to decide whether to try Windows 8 or stick with Android for my next phone. I'd heard good things about Windows 7 Phone, but not enough people bought it. The number of apps compared to Android and iOS are my main reasons for hesitation. Let us know how you like 8 once you've had a chance to get used to it!

Well, I've had Windows Phone 7 for nearly a year, and thankfully they haven't essentially tried to fix what's not broken.  This is a prototype of sorts, so there's still bugs that need to be ironed out (that's why I have it), but so far I'm loving the screen - it''s really very good.  About the same size as a PSP.

The main thing for me is the increase from 8 to 32gb - as far as I'm concerned, storage was seriously lacking on WP7.  But I can see troubles ahead, as they've relaxed the standard specs, like screen size etc.  And it's not recognised my Zune ID properly, so it's not allowed me to redownload previously bought apps.  God knows what will happenen to (for example) my gamerscore and progress on Angry Birds.

And it hasn't let me redownload my zune-purchased music, though that's not such a big deal.  And it no longer uses the Zune software.

[RegalSin]

Those people will be first in line.

I think it is going to be the same people who keeps re buying their smart phone after it get lost, along with the people who use them as safety net for their children. Of course military officials will also use them, because it is portable, on demand. Miners in 3rd world countries will have them installed, by force. Right now, I bet a company offers to install a wireless phone chip inside your head. I bet with all the dangers of cancer, you can install a phone inside you head behind your ear loaf,
and then the digital input could come in through your eye. So far they have figured out, how to install a camera into a persons eye, but I wondeer how sharp and detail the vision is???

"After you carve that Monster Energy Drink logo on my cock I need you to upgrade me to the new iChip 4s. Extreme!!!"

We all could figure the rift raft crowd of "idiocracy" will be the ones to install, that stuff, but it will be prisoners and former convicts that will get the shaft, without consideration for human rights.

Did you know that Sword Of the Beserker, could have been on the list of banned books? I bet in fine print, a person is not allowed to sell there electronic content.

[kazekirifx]

So, so far your favorite features are the storage space and the screen? Neither of which has anything to do with the OS...

[Mishran]

Those people will be first in line.

I think it is going to be the same people who keeps re buying their smart phone after it get lost, along with the people who use them as safety net for their children. Of course military officials will also use them, because it is portable, on demand. Miners in 3rd world countries will have them installed, by force. Right now, I bet a company offers to install a wireless phone chip inside your head. I bet with all the dangers of cancer, you can install a phone inside you head behind your ear loaf,
and then the digital input could come in through your eye. So far they have figured out, how to install a camera into a persons eye, but I wondeer how sharp and detail the vision is???

"After you carve that Monster Energy Drink logo on my cock I need you to upgrade me to the new iChip 4s. Extreme!!!"

We all could figure the rift raft crowd of "idiocracy" will be the ones to install, that stuff, but it will be prisoners and former convicts that will get the shaft, without consideration for human rights.

Did you know that Sword Of the Beserker, could have been on the list of banned books? I bet in fine print, a person is not allowed to sell there electronic content.

I think my IQ dropped a few points. Up until now I've been trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, but wow... just wow...

[soop]

So, so far your favorite features are the storage space and the screen? Neither of which has anything to do with the OS...

Well, so far (bugs aside) it's very similar to Windows 7.  However, for Windows 7, Microsoft started with a very strict basic spec that all the hardware had to meet - including an FM radio, and a standard screen resolution.  They've loosened up the restrictions for Windows 8, so the screen size is great - but like I said they haven't tried to fix what's not broken for the most part.  If you know Windows 7, it's almost exactly the same.  They need to sort out their apps store.

But if you have any specific questions, I'll try and answer them.

[CPTRAVE]

Yeah my wife downloaded windows 8 for the Windows Phone, have not had a chance to mess with it. Hopefully it good.

[RegalSin]

two words......

Assruance Wireless..

Prepaid minutes, and mail box. Nothing else. One time payment. How many minutes could a person really use within in a year? 30 dollars a month? Seriously? 30 dollars a month, for the rest of your life, when you can make a one time payment, and when you feel the need to rrecharge your minutres,
........................

About every single windows after 98...........They all suck.

NT was for the office and 98 was for people like us, playing videogemes.
Then XP rolled on in and suddenly we get Blu-ray, HD, and a whole bunch of crap that
belongs to UNIX. Now windows Deer park, ( Vista, 7, 8 ), all are just being made to deal with
Mac OsX users. Can anybody ask, why bother? 

Oh I know why, because somebody on this board is an secretary, college student, or a programmer, and somehow they got suckered into buying crap software. I imagine the confused parent running in circles over buying an entirely new computer just to use MSOffice2040.
The programmer, who is like "Ok watch out, lets get ready for a brand new world".
Then of course their is the person who do not know jack about computers and feels the need
to get the latest and greatest.

If the N64 release was held back for a year, we would probably have  Starfox 2 in all of our homes. If Mafiasoft had just fix the 98 memory and 4gig problem, we would have the perfect OS, with no problems.

[kazekirifx]

I thought I heard that Windows 8 wasn't going to run on Windows 7 phones. Has that changed?

[soop]

I thought I heard that Windows 8 wasn't going to run on Windows 7 phones. Has that changed?

No, it can't.  Windows 7.8 gives you the resizable live tiles, which makes the UI appear the same, but the actual OS has changed.  It no longer works with the PC version of Zune (at least not yet), and instead appears as a USB mass storage device.  One of the benefits of this redesign is that it's now possible to have removable storage; the old OS had to format everything as one file system, which meant that if a phone had (internally) a micro SD, if you removed it to install a larger card (invalidating the warantee), you had to reformat the device.  These devices would also be slower than NAND flash devices.

I think that's one of the more important advances, but I'm sure there are other reworkings, I'm just not sure yet of their effect.