Be Excellent To Each Other

Yep, pretty much the same for me. It's just a cool bonus to be able to earn a few extra Cheevos etc, but the main draw for me is that it's an ace phone.

I can see me using it for cheevos and I will try out browsing with it and see if it suits me

Must say, this is the best phone I've ever had, super quick and smooth to use and as mentioned before, the UI is a joy.

I have a Lumia 1020 and it's lovely! More on that later but for now, I'm trying to change the email address associated with my phone and Xbox from a hotmail account to an Outlook account.

This is hard...

First off, I can change my email address online but only for contact purposes. It doesn't affect the email address I sign in with. I've just read someone say online that I can change it on my Xbox, which I can... but there's a problem.

I have £24 on my Xbox marketplace account which will not be transferred and will be lost. I thought that I'd try and spend the money so I don't lose anything. I've bought a couple of things and then came to having £9.55 on my account. I've tried to buy Castle of Illusion which is £9.99 but it won't let me put my £9.55 towards this... I have to either pay on my card, or buy something cheaper to use up the money.

And after all this, there's no guarantee that my email address which actually switch over! Gnnnnngh....

Aye. Loving the 1020.

Need to dial down the touch sensitivity though and cant remember where the setting is. One of the selling points is you can use it wearing gloves. This also means your thigh can operate it in shorts.

I'll have to look out for that, I'm still in the process of setting it up.

Also, 4G... It's pretty damn fast!

nowt to do with WP7 but a pure MS thread didn't present itself.

Steve Ballmer's alarming farewell speech.

http://mashable.com/2013/09/28/microsof ... -farewell/

SOAK IT IN!

NO THANK YOU, STEVE!

Why do Americans feel everything so very much more than other people?

Because of being cut off from their ancestral family. Basically they're orphans, reaching out to abrogate the pain of loss.

...

Fuck you.

Vine and Instagram are now available for Windows Phone. It's fair to say that it's got a long way to go with apps compared to IOS and Android, but it's getting there. Both apps work very well and I'm sure will prove to be very popular.

That's what I said when I got a WP7 phone in 2010. I'd expect it to have come a lot further in three years, to be honest. They really haven't managed to catch up at all.

I'm convinced the last lumia 800 updates fucked the battery accounting, on thursday it turned off so as I was hammered and making my way home I did a battery drop then kept the screen active. It lasted a further hour-Thursday like that, then didn't actually turn itself off again til 11am friday. The diagnostics were reporting capacity as under 800mAh instead of 1300. I've been doing full cycles since and its back up to 1100ish but still not lasting anywhere near long enough.

Yet I'm still going to have grabby hands for the 1520 on the 6th, 1320 maybe if it's out on the same day and more than a ton fewer.

Free £20 windows store credit if you've recently bought a new Lumia. Here's how:-

Cortana is going to be your Siri.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2 ... nd-go.aspx

I'm getting a bit of a nerd tingle, I must confess.

I've tweeted about this this very morning.

I'm excited and in a way, it's good that Google aren't all over the Windows Phone as it gives MS a bit of a head start with Cortana with no competition. I understand that Google Voice (I think that's what it's called) is directly competing with Siri on IOS?

Either way... I hope Cortana and I get along.

Whoah.

If they do a good job of simulating the voice, that's going to make me want a Windows Phone.

Doesn't anybody still use siri?

That's the spirit Grim...

I'm surprised that you two have only just heard about this though? I guess that's indicative of the press coverage Windows Phone gets.

Feex.

People on trains wanting to show off their new iphone, mainly.

I use Google Voice to set alarms and reminders, and to Google things like "How old is Nathan Fillion?" (42, fact fans).

Voice controls are shit though and actually more onerous than just pressing a button. See also: Kinect.

Likewise, but with Siri.

They're good for certain things - setting alarms and reminders, for instance, and to Google things like "How old is Nathan Fillion?" (42, fact fans).

This is actually my single use case for voice control; setting alarms for cooking by saying 'set alarm fourteen minutes' is easier than working out what time is fourteen minutes for now and fiddling to set the alarm to that time. Which could actually be done directly with an app that had a more appropriate interface to the alarm clock but I haven't bothered looking to see if such a thing exists.

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Pretty much any alarm clock has a countdown timer. No need to calculate the time, surely?

"Set TIMER, 14 minutes" would be my command. Great for cooking.

Heh, probably actually; now that I bother to think about it. But I've just been setting alarms which requires a concrete time be specified. Oh well, that's voice control literally useless to me now!

Oh, no, wait; I'll often have a few timers going independently (X minutes until one thing and Y minutes to another) which I can't do with the single countdown timer on my phone app so setting alarms is still useful.

Are you a professional plate spinner who occasionally nods off?

1. Put thing X in oven which takes longest to cook and set two alarms.
2. Alarm 1 goes off when it's time to put thing Y in oven that takes less time to cook.
3. Alarm 2 goes off when it's time to take everything out of oven and eat stuff.

I could just set a second alarm at stage 2 but I find it more convenient to just set everything up at the start as I'm an idiot and likely to forget otherwise.

I actually used my Kinect voice search feature thing last night and it did a sterling job. It was much quicker than pressing buttons too.

I know.. I'm just as surprised as you are.

Yup, that it literally the only use for Siri that I have found.

Yeah, there are plenty of kitchen timer apps, many with multiple countdowns on screen at once.

The standard clock on android has multiple timers...
Surely all voice recog is is a second interface to the same thing. Depends whether you trust the interface.

No there's loads that's useful.
"What does the fox say?"
"Tell Mimi she smells."
"Turn on my 6.25 alarm"
"What's 9 inches in centimetres?"
"Open Shazam"
"What can I say?"
"Set reminder Post to Beex tomorrow at 8am"

I love new ways of doing this and am not a luddite by any stretch of the imagination, but talking to my phone just doesn't feel a natural way of interacting with it, even if it gets it right first time (which is no guarantee). It's faintly embarrassing, in fact.

I'd be ok with it if I was in the car, on my own. Anyone talking to their phone/games console/toaster in front of anyone else looks like a tit. Fact.

There's no such thing as a 'standard clock on android'; mine is different from people with a Samsung phone which is different from anyone with a Nexus device etc. Mine doesn't allow multiple countdown timers.

The Nexus has the standard clock, of course.

For that version.

Is it the same as the AOSP clock?

Christ knows.

Assuming it's not that just further muddies the water about what's 'standard'.

No longer on Windows phone 7, but I've upgraded to the Lumia 950 today. It's very nice, although very samey to my Lumia 1020. I imagine this is how iphone users feel when they upgrade.

The ability to unlock it just by looking at it is pretty amazing though.

Surely you unlock it by having it look at you? The other way round would be amazing but I doubt we're at that point yet.

Got a Nokia 640 as a work phone. Seems generally nice, although cortana is actually worse than siri.
The screen is very nice, and the interface, although unfamiliar at this point, sends pretty good.

Anyway, are there any windows exclusives with getting? Are there any windows exclusives?

Also, can I set the keyboard so that it had long press shift items?

That's adorable.