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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Emi_Cyberschreiber:
Well you have to put this in your mind. "ecosystem" do you need Xbox live?, do you need office? do you need skydrive? do you need zune? do you want to control Xbox with your Windows phone?

thats the first thing you need to think. about Microsoft ecosystem. even if you care about multiplayer with Windows 8 and Xbox in some months.

about Zune, i will just tell you this. its drag and drop. pretty easy, pretty nice. last time i tried to sync music with itunes to my sister ipod... oh god... i better installed mediamonkey xD.

because zune its just you grab what you want to have in you phone and drop.

photoes. hmm well, its easy, you take a picture and you can send it to facebook, skydrive. save it in your phone. and if you want when you plug your zune to sync them with your pc then it automatically will do it.

i will be honest, still i dont have mango because my sister has my phone. so i havent seen improvements in mango. but as i have seen, obviously there is better support for skydrive than before.

about google services i have no idea. i dont even know if there are google support for Windows phone. i Heard about a google+ App but i have no idea if they even released it.

but gmail Works fine. my sister uses gmail and her phone syncs it nice. like it should. with mango you can now link accounts so you can get what you want to get. not sure about deleting but i think it does delete if you delete it from wp7. it depends when you want the sync to occur.

I have phone alot of apps to control pc. even remote control your pc. so you can find those. today they announced Windows phone will be able to control Xbox in alot of ways. and with mango support can be better done.

and APP store is growing, its has covered alot of apps people seemt to "need" like even whatsapp, it even got an update with nice features, so it seems soon it will be inpair with iPhone and android.

about skydrive, well since i dont have mango i cant comment on that further, but you can even Access music from it. pictures from it and files from it. i have seen it in videos but i cant say the pros and cons. like if it saves files in the device and then syncs them to skydrive or it does that if you want it to. or it has to be saved directly to skydrive.

a Little long post but my experience with Windows Phone 7 is nice. i really like it. also im a Microsoft fan, but I can say its really different from Windows Mobile, now it just works.

and it has really good features, it would be nice if you could try Windows phone and then try to do these stuff yourself. i havent tested some stuff either. and not having mango doesn't help. but the phone is great, if you decide this ecosystem Works for you. that would be cool
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
PDF's are somewhat integrated in the office hub. Here's how to get it on WP7.

1. Map Skydrive as a network drive on your desktop. Google or Bing it, lots of tutorials on how to do it. Very easy

2. Create a folder for your PDFs in your skydrive network drive and drag or copy your pdf files there.

3. Open office hub go to skydrive all your pdfs will be there.

4. Each PDF gets a Red Tile in the recent documents part of the office hub.

5. Yes Adobe hasn't updated their app but it is quite usable for reading pdfs

I use this a lot for my school work and it works well. Another way I manage my pds is to import them into OneNote (via print to one note function). This basically prints the PDF as high res photos whose texts are searchable. Very useful for studying and they sync and show up in your OneNote book perfectly fine on wp7.

I use oneNote extensively on my laptop and the phone. It is extremely useful.

I've seen several medical apps in the market place

Davis Drug Guide $49.99

Nursing Central $159

Merck Suite $79

etc

YOU have NO PROOF single core devices will not be supported on Windows 8. Seriously.

Sure we're fanboys however we aren't dumb. I am sure we all have needs most of which thankfully are covered by Mango some are not. At the end of the day is the experience of using wp7 worth a few trade offs? YES
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ronsard:
No problem.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efjay:
Hmmm, email not productive? Last Wednesday to Friday I was at a course at Learning Tree in Reston yet I still managed to get work done. How, you may ask? Email! I needed to coordinate the results of a test and communicate the results to a CA party and did all that all via email, but according to some that is not being productive. Guess next time I'll use my megaphone!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] morpheuszg:
Well, XDA should just shut down this WP7 general section as it renders quite useless. Normally it should support WP like in the winmo days but lately it looks more like a bashing forum to me. Most of you guys are so negative about WP7 and thus turning people away from WP, literally hindering it to flourish. Seriously that is not the right direction. And that won't help MS either.

To the OP: please go to a mobile phone shop and try WP7 for yourself to get an own impression of it. I did that too, ignoring negative comments - and now I am a happy WP user.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
I am going to take a stab and answer the questions the OP has asked since this thread has degraded into a bash wp7 thread.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TANKFARM:
Thanks everyone for the comments and responses. The email security policy is something that I heard about and is concerning. Anyone know exactly what the difference is in terms of security between an iPhone and WP7? My 3GS works fine with our exchange security requirements, does that mean WP7 will work as well?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkp1977:
My WP7 works well with our security policies as well. I just had to install two certificates, reboot and then set up the account. No problems at all.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
It dependant on the policies used. Check which are used and compare it to what the phone supports.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TANKFARM:
Sounds like the same process I had to go through with my 3GS. So maybe there is hope it will work.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sylau90:
Sounds like OP leaning towards WP7,check with your company about the certificates issue. Then, give WP7 a shot...get either Titan or Radar...which are the best WP7 device available.

What I mean best is in terms of hardware(internal).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
Yea, definitely skip the Launch devices.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aphasaic2002:
Here's a full list of EAS Exchange policies that WP7 supports:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...tions-when-using-windows-phone-7-clients.aspx

If your IT department uses ones not on that list, your device won't be able to connect, so best show the above article to them first and make sure it'll be fine before buying.

No. Strangely Android and iPhone both support Microsoft EAS policies better than WP7 currently; this is mainly because Microsoft is targeting this new platform as a consumer device, and not for enterprise.

The biggy is encryption, but sounds like you didn't need to do that with your 3GS. There's also a bug with installing self-signed exchange certificates, that's mostly solvable:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com...y/thread/a33e0a2b-4f0e-4d2d-aec9-ebbfe8bbde87

Also one last problem with using it as a business device; there's still no official way to back up the phone. If you lose your phone, upgrade the OS or need to reset, you'll lose all your data (SMS messages, game saves program, contact groups) and you'll have to manually reinstall all of your apps.

Sounds like you have your heart set on buying a big-screen Windows Phone (I would recommend HTC Titan), and honestly it is a good device for email and Office, so let us know how you get on. I'm very interested to hear how an iPhone user finds the experience!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adesonic:
I run my own businesses, I use a hosted exchange service (4smartphone) without difficulty (not to say you won't have issues - depends on your company set up). WP7 does the job for me in every way I need, which is mostly around communication, documet sharing, easy acces to my office docs etc. One note is also brilliantly useful in my job and WP7 implements it well.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aphasaic2002:
Another Exchange issue; WP7 doesn't play well with Exchange 2003:

http://www.wpcentral.com/exchange-2003-issues-identified-wp-7-5

Again, check with your IT department to avoid disappointment.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TANKFARM:
Yeah I am pretty set on getting a larger device. I do agree the no backup option is too bad, but I sync all of my contacts and important data currently. So I am not to concerned about losing much other than the device settings and program settings.

I may hold off until Nokia reveals more about the Ace or the Samsung Focus S is released.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
yup, with no ability to backup is the major weakness in WP7...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
I believe there is a full backup tool in the WP7 hacks forum that does a full backup the way Zune does before asn update. I know its not official but its there....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrTablet:
Maybe this can give you some answers?

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc...windows-phone-7-5-mango-1031171/review/review
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
The backup I'm referring are for SMS or apps data rather than a full backup of the whole OS current state. XD
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aphasaic2002:
Unfortunately this solution is pretty buggy, and also doesn't let you restore the backup to a different make of phone or to a different version of the OS. This makes it pretty useless for migrating your data (the main reason a user would want to backup!).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
Yea, I read one of those articles and the writer was talking like the people need to just go and upgrade their exchange deployment.

Clearly clueless about how Corporations and Enterprise Services work... Yep, just upgrade it and stop the issue, just like Microsoft upgraded my SkyDrive to Wave 5 overnight!

I laughed...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
LOL Mind-fu**ed imbeciles like you are the reason I visit this forum sparingly nowadays. If you're not an Apple fanboy, I don't think I've ever seen one. You brainwashed kiddies make me laugh with your idiotically biased, evidence-laden retorts. Oh, and I'm writing this on a 8 month old iMac which I've installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 Developer Preview on :) This machine is now a Windows machine, because like WP7 is to iOS, Windows 7 is a superior operating system to Mac OS X if you're not a brain-dead idiot who needs their technology to be simplistic.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] species5618w:
Another big factor is the price. An iPhone 3gs is selling for $375 whereas you can get a LG Quantum for $80 with specs closer to iphone4. I think it's a no brainier between the two.

Also, you know what's the best phone for me? Nokia N95 8GB (until it malfunctioned that is). Why? It got a great camera with flash, you can install free Garmin GPS on it, it has great stereo speakers, it got replaceable battery and I got $7/month unlimited browsing on it. And those are the things I need. Now neither the specs nor the OS is anywhere close to even the original iphone, but it suits my needs. Takes the camera for example, it's 5MP, not 8MP with all the flashy bells and whistles as purple listed, but guess what, it has a big, easy to press shutter button and I don't need 8MP and the bells and whistles, so it's still the best camera phone for me.

My point is the real question is why do you want to switch. What is not working for you on the iphone and what is. All other considerations are secondary. For example, is facetime important to you? If it is, then no wp7 phone for now. If not, why care whether it's vga or 1MP or 2MP?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohgood:
by PM only please, to prevent contaminating this thread:

reasons for buying an imac

reasons for considering wp7 and windows os superior

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
I'll answer it in a quick fashion. Because he can, and because he wants to. There's absolutely no reason to do that, and it's a waste of money. Apple's machines are cute and all, but it's not intelligent (at all) to buy an expensive iMac to install Windows on when you can get an HP AIO PC that looks almost as good with a capacitive multi-touch HD screen and better specs that costs almost half as much. (INB4 "Apple uses better components in their machines." They don't...).

No reason, and I have no clue why he even wasted his time to write that.

IRT the prices. 3GS is free on Contract. Quantum may be free or 80 on contract, it is not $80 off-contract. Dunno where that intentionally misleading infromation comes from.

iOS users get MapQuest (uses Navteq map data) for free on iOS (as well as Android). It's superior to Bing Maps in WP7. I have no clue how MapQuest can get the license to build a free fully functioning Map app with Voice Guidance, Automatic Rerouting, Traffic, etc. etc. THE WORKS, yet Microsoft paid Nokia all this cash to use WP7 and can't even secure a decent licensing deal to give us a non-anemic map solution in WP7...

The App Store is Apple's biggest ace against other platforms. Only Android is starting to become competitive in that sense, but Google lacks the Media ecosystem that Apple has and once iCloud is release, their Cloud Services will be fairly weak as well since Apple has a better Desktop to Mobile interoperability (similar to Microsoft, and this is why I prefer Windows Live Services to Google's).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] species5618w:
That's funny. How come the phone I bought doesn't even have a monthly plan associated with it (let along a contract). I am paying 30cents per minute with it right now. It's locked to Bell though, but I unlocked mine for $2.99. So I apologize for the misleading information, the total price is $78.83 + tax + $2.99.

If you know a place where 3GS is free prepaid, I will definitely get one of those too. :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotcompt:
Yeah, if you want a device that needs plastic to fix the antenna issues, an homescreen full of boring square icons, an OS with no social integration at all and that makes you download hundreds off apps just to have fun, have an IPhone.

Btw if you are a kid and just want play games, iPhone is a better choice but I do recommend a PlayStation portable.

Other than that...buy a WP7 device. Starts In 15 seconds, finds all your contacts, their tweets, Facebook and Messenger posts in a blink of an eye, it is simple, intuitive, fast, no malware or force to close, no concerns about ram management, easy multitasking, sync all your music, pictures, fotos and ringtones with Zune, have all your email accounts unified, Office is there also, xboxlive too, Skype is near to be integrated...you name it.

WP7 success = integration

No need to download 3rd party apps, its all there. And it is only 1 year old.

Windows Phone 8 + Windows 8 + XboxLive (all connected) = 2013 MS rules the world.

Steve Jobs I am sorry you are not among us. Thanks for your vision and contribute to the world.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
All the things you mentioned, Iphone and Android can do that as well.. PLUS a LOT MORE, the MORE part is what a WP7 cannot do and people justify it by saying 'it looks good'.

Once again, it might get AWESOME after W8, but till that time its a wait game.. so my advice to OP is instead of waiting he can get an Iphone 4S till than instead of waiting.. coz right now we have been waiting for Nodo, than MANGO, at present waiting for NOKIA to 'flood' its devices, and than we will wait till W8.. at present time WP7 is a hollow eye candy.

Well than feck off, this forum is a better place without you, I hope you dont just sparingly visit, dont visit at all, you dumb fuc who would buy an iMac to install it with Windows..
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
The Social Integration is useful but it's nothing extraordinary and no different than what you can get on a high end Android smartphone barring Facebook Check-In support (though I prefer to use Foursquare, it actually saves me money and can ping them to FB and Twitter, anyways...).

iOS doesn't really need to bake in every social network possible, because there are apps on that platform for all of them with perfect PUSH Notifications. With the new Notification Center... Even less so. They did build Twitter support into the OS, though. For someone who doesn't use Social Networks a lot, it's a waste and doesn't matter to them, but I guess you'd tell them they bought the wrong phone... Right?

Also, it's 2011. Who cares what comes in 2013? Aren't you guys getting tired of telling people what's supposed to be great 1-2 years from now? Worry about that when it comes and your contract is up for renewal. Right now, get what is the best platform. WP7 is not that. It's that simple.

Going with WP7 means you're willing to go in early and deal with the rough times, and that you prefer the way it looks. It does not make the OS superior to iOS or Android, because it falls way short of that.

By the time Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 is coming out, Apple will have another major OS revision on the horizon and Google will have gone through 2-3 more versions of Android. No one has a clue who will rule the world back then. Mobile moves too fast and things are way too volatile to predict the future based on anything other than sales figures and customer satisfaction surveys (which really don't say too much for a platform like WP7 becuase mostly just it's fans have bought into the platform at this point).

The OP is doing himself a disservice by limiting his choices to 2 platforms, and with these choices, the choice is obviously unless you either prefer the WP7 look and feel or want a bigger screen. There's no other reason to go with WP7 over iOS, not even ZunePass given the library dissparity between it and iTunes. Not even XBL since iOS has GameCenter and it's getting a huge update in a little over 2 days.

The iPhone 4 prices got slashed by $50 or so. Get it while it's good. A 32GB i4 still has hardware on par or better than the WP7.5 devices that are just coming out.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sayonical:
Lol am I the only one on this thread completely satisfied with my windows phone? Damn.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
Different user requirements are different.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eternalemb:
Coming from a useless, ignorant dolt that means nothing to me. I guarantee I've contributed more to this forum. Firstly, because I'm not a loser troll who only comes into the WP7 forum to spout off uninformed, biased crap about something I obviously know nothing about or just plain have Apple's nuts in your mouth.

Oh and ohgood had a question for me...I didn't buy the iMac. My cousin owes me 3 grand so he gave it to me as partial payment.

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Nope. I love my HD7. Been running Mango for 3 months and I'm still finding new things I like. It does it's many jobs and does them stylishly without making me look like a sheep in the masses.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] z33dev33l:
would someone translate these senseless rambling into English? I'm at a loss.

For the record though, I was happy pre-nodo, i was happy with nodo, and I'm ecstatic with mango. As soon as twin blades updates to mango I'll be all set up :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Purple11:
Even if you got it for free, you must be tired of being called a dickhead who runs windows on iMac..
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotcompt:
I have 2 Android devices, one smartphone and one Tablet so I know what I am

talking about. btw Do you have an Windows Phone 7 device?

Froyo and Honeycomb are both crap, slow as hell and with the anoying force to close those apps hanging around because android that need high specs devices does not manage memory properly. Even WM6.5 had better RAM management.

I just hope Ice Cream Sandwich is better than Honeycomb otherwise I will sell my tablet to the first bid, full of Malware of course. It is funny that no one talks about Malware and Android security issues.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] species5618w:
I wonder this kind of back and forth happen on the Android and iphone forums as well. IMHO, Android, iOS and WP7 have completely different design philosophies and it shows in the final product. Therefore, choosing between them shouldn't be all that hard. You want customization, get Android. You want sleekness/apps and Apple style, get iOS. You want content centered hubs and MS integration, get WP7. It's quite amazing that competition provided us three distinct products rather than a bunch of copycats.

I don't think I can be completely satisfied with any of them. Both iOS and WP7 are too rigid for me. Android is too unpolished at times. Yet I am somewhat satisfied with all of them for what they are. It will be great if somebody can invent a new OS with all of the strengths and none of the weaknesses, but I suspect compromises have to be made somewhere.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
Well, I've always worked with Froyo (way easier tbh, since it lacked SystemUI.apk)...anyways, I'm just trying to figure out which image is the notification background in this picture? I'm sure I can find the XML's affiliated with it, just need the image name and location.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hugo87:
Its status_bar_item_app_background_normal.9 i believe found in framework.res/res/drawable hdpi. Hope this is what your looking for.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Vegasden:
The .9.png files are a while 'nother animal. Be sure to search the Android Themes section on how to edit these files if you haven't done it before.

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Overstew:
I'll give this a shot.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hackman1337:
I want someone to help me find a way to get the AOSP experience on a sense rom with this 2.11.605.3 base because AOSP roms are still buggy and I am very reluctant to use them. I found Tesla Coil to be a very good rom and I am wondering if somebody can port it to the new rom base?
[HTC EVO 3D] sand1303:
Is there a way to turn off the update check on netflix. I got tired of only one orientation so I installed the apk for previous version. Now everytime I open it asks me if i want to update it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] yagya:
Hi, I want to watch online TV on my galaxy mini especially indian channels and other channels such as discovery, nat geo, etc. :D

Does anyone know a way to view the latest shows from these channles? I tried using Apps, Fun TV, its quite nice and has most of the channels that I want, but when I try to play them, its says video not found (or maybe its couldn't play video:() error.

ANybody plz help!!!:)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] debsattam:
Hey try spb TV you can watch more than 150 + ondemand channel without and paying

Hit thanks if I helped you
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] yagya:
I tried it but it doesn't have the channels I want and I don't like its UI too...

:):(
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] paramparmatma:
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it sone from samsung application me mobile tv you download from there

and other was nextGTvnano. apk it is for star plus starone and many

other from zengatv.com here you first regitor and watch free tv

also from riskyjatt.com live tv some channels working such as sony sab v