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[Windows Phone 7 General] prle77:
Thanks rruffman

but the thing is..

1) this is paid service tomtom is not (except for one off purchase)..

2) this service require data plan.. tomtom doesn't

3) on top of all of that I would want to install blackberry software (BBconnect) as I'm on blackberry plan.. so there goes that idea too

4) Currently they offer only malasya and singapore maps.. unfortunately I'm in Australia.. so yeah.. not so good solution for me..

All I need is ability to transfer contents of my sd card from my HD2 into the new phone and off I go.. there I have everything I need.. (all install files and maps)

so yeah.. big thumbs down from me for not having file manager..
[Windows Phone 7 General] prle77:
Thanks ruscik..

That sounds like a valid solution, but personally, I think that is a long way from just copying and pasting map onto your phone ... which is something I do right now with HD2..

And the best part is I can use my HD2 as a portable HDD.. for all important documents and files..

Don't think MS thought this one well though..

Or I may just be one of the picky pesky users who like to explore their phones a bit more than just a standard user... :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Thx man will test.

Is there a way to save playlists or is it just via zune software like phone suggests?

No on my one it will only dispaly it if I play a song. If it is paused for any reason there is nothing there.

Not the same, I have unlimited data (one of the last dinosaurs as I took that plan 4 years ago and never changed so o2 hates me) so it odes not bother me but as I ride my motorcycle outside town gprs will not be able to keep up with changes.
[Windows Phone 7 General] wm-ralf:
As a developer I can prompt the user to allow that my app runs under the lockscreen. You can read it in the Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements.

Buggy in which way? MS checks that the apps follow the certification requirements and if the app stands them it will get it. Period. Everything else would be horrible if I as a developer can't predict if my apps passes in the store if i follow the requirements.

Copy&Paste is right but please bring a new argument and don't repeat the same old stuff over again. The feature comes in the first update, so what you want? If the os doesn't satisfy your needs use a different one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
wm-ralf.

Couple of appilcations do not start, they just go to blank screen stay there fo 10 seconds or so and then all goes back to main screen.

One application I had just got stack on that black screen until I press and held windows key for 5 seconds to activate voice control.

A game, Redbull F1 strts but works at 1 to 2 FPS but sound is fine. You can not navigate using games menu. It slow down entire system to the same speed so only way out is to press and hold windows key. After 10s of holding it just goes back to home screen.

I could not get a alarm clock app going but can not remember name.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AceofSpades25:
That's just the way the platform treats any apps with bugs. It doesn't report ugly hard to understand error messages
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zedox:
I understand the "frustration" that tech-heads have for what Microsoft has done in their new phone OS but seriously, you need to understand what Microsoft and any company is about. Money. Other people have mentioned (I believe Sean was his name and some other guy), yea, MS "supported" you guys with the "openess" of their platform before, but what it get them? Losing money/stock/whatever. They have to make something that will profit, so they are going to cater to the masses first and then add what they deem is good for the "core" later. It's not like any one of you wouldn't do the same if you were in their shoes.

Oh and if I forget, I'm sure you have to root/jailbreak or whatever for these other platforms to cater to your every demand. Why would it be any different for WP7? Some of you are in la-la land thinking MS would just make a new OS and just have it behave exactly like the last one (would be a waste of money, they should have just done a reskinning, oh yea, they tried that and failed too). I'm 100% sure that there will be jailbroken Wp7 phones and all you enthusiasts will get what you want. I'm not trolling or anything (WP7 will be my first smartphone but I have used the others and like both OS's, android more than iOS), I'm just stating the facts of these phones. They always will be "broken" so you can do what you really want, then everyone will go on their merry way.

Oh and Total File Manager access? Not going to happen, not from MS. After it's broken into, probably, but from MS, hell no.

Thanks for reading if you did :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
Did anyone yet develop Ctrl+Alt+Del app?

It will sell like cupcakes
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
To be more exact it does not report anything so develoeprs will have hard time to fix it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Switch it off, then hold two voluem buttons and press power button. Done hard reset.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AceofSpades25:
I think he means the comic.. I've been considering writing one
[Windows Phone 7 General] AceofSpades25:
Yes... but the other group of people that Microsoft need to please and woo are developers. Without huge developer support they will get nowhere near as many apps as the iphone or even Android.

Us as developers are currently in a strong position to petition Microsoft to add the features we want to see
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
Quantity != quality... I hope we don't get a marketplaceike iTunes which is oversaturated by crappy apps that do nothing. Unfortunately, looking at some of the currently available ones, it may already be too late. There are some good apps available, but there is also a huge amount of crapware.

As for us being in a strong position, don't kid yourself. Microsoft doesn't listen to us, they listen to useability studies performed by braindead morons on other morons which is why a lot of functionality is locked down at the moment (well that, and the fact they needed to rush it out the door for holidays).

Don't get me wrong, love the platform, but they have a loooong way to go still.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Fair point there are 4 fart apps already. FFS just make your own sounds and record them.

It would be nice if MS added zune rotation as HD7 on it's stand palying music is cool just that zune does not rotate so all is wrong way up.

A main menu rotation would be good as well, can stay with two lines but you scroll left right in such case.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AceofSpades25:
The first iphone fart app made millions.

Anyway this is Microsoft's fault. They put pressure on all of their employees to write an app for WP7 in their spare time. I guess some couldn't be bothered, so they wrote a fart app.

Anyway... the more developers Microsoft can draw, the more apps will be written, (some of which will be quality apps)

Users can always filter out the crap by looking at the most popular /highly rated in a given category
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zedox:
Yes, they do need to woo developers, but developer != enthusiast, there are some that are both but they aren't interchangeable. Some of the things that are asked has nothing to do with a developer, some do. Developers want good tools that make their life easier. First and foremost. They want a place where they can sell their stuff. They also want to do this with easy cost. Done done and done.

Now, there are some things that Microsoft has left out for access for developers (like sockets, video from camera) that they need to address and most likely will address. I believe what they did put out is still a good platform for what they want to do in the future.

There are also things that enthusiasts want that MS will provide, but not out the gate, and some things that enthusiasts want will never get unless "broken". Like with any platform, time for the platform to mature always helps. The underlying problem is that Microsoft has, in the past, been very slow (because of how big the company is) but there has been a recent trend in their update strategy to platforms where they are coming out more periodically. Hopefully that trend will continue; I'm optimistic that it will because they know they have alot of work to do and the smartphone market moves fast.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
Paradigm of Microsoft is protect the source at all cost.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Intervenient:
I totally forgot that every app in the Android marketplace isn't a quote generator, slider puzzle or low def wallpaper.

Oh wait...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.Mazika:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...7/thread/c964953e-b587-4cbc-89c3-c17e7ced870c

i add this topic to wp7 support maybe we receive some answers
[Windows Phone 7 General] paperclips:
That's kind of a dumb flaw since it exists on all platforms. That's like being pissed you can't download Sense on an Samsung Android phone. These exclusive hubs are there to be an advantage to the manufacturer.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.Mazika:
you are right when the os is complete and contain the essential features as equlizer ... note ... this must be in the os ... then the oem .. can create better version to be the best
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Or they could offer them for free to their customers and sell them to others.

There must be a way to go around it, it is probably easy but we have no access to registry or file manager :(

I have two more bugs (for my device alteast).

When I use the device with no media or games battery life is very goo, better then my HD2. Usage incudes data, wifi, phones, sms and browsing.

When I use zune player to play music/video or play games (harvest) after some time device gets hot at the bottom, U know it is working hard. However battery consumption is stupidly high. I can listen to music for max 5h.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tone_:
Perhaps if the devs read the SDK..

Anyway you can't sync with My Phone

Nowhere on phone displays MAC address
[Windows Phone 7 General] Sean D.:
There's way too much ****ting on something that nobody has yet... or do you? I mean it hasn't even been released in the US yet.

It's like condemning a building before the foundation is even completed. Give it time. Once again, lacking or not I'd MUCH rather have a device that is going to get updates of new features, and/or fixes than something that makes you wait 4 years for simple features... while telling you that you don't need them.

I agree about having an oversaturated app store packed with useless junk... but they gotta make money somehow.

Either way, overall I'm really liking what I have seen/heard so far. It looks like a really well rounded, well thought out device... not just the prettiest app launcher on the market.

Call me a MS fan-boy if you want, but I was POSITIVE Android was in my immediate future until I saw what MS was putting out. My mind is made up, I'm just waiting on something with a front facing camera, gps, a big-ass screen, a **** load of memory (seriously, can I get 16 - 32 gb PLEASE?!?), and a slide out keyboard. Might be asking too much, but it's better than crying about features that will be released within a couple months.

Just saying...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.Mazika:
updated

HTC HD7 Does Allow microSD Card Swapping
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Sometimes people in US need to think before posting ;)

Because it is not out in US does no mean no one else has it?!

UK has them for sale since 21st October. All HTC models bar the ne with big speaker. All Samsung ones with WP7 as well.

We did test them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prle77:
Agree with ruscik on that one...

AUstralia had official release on 20/10, HTC mozart, and LG predominantly are on sale right now
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
There is still too much crying in this forum.

You can hardly weed through the QQ and repeated crap (from like 90% of the other threads, some of the posts almost a page long) to find any decent information about anything anymore in this forum.

It does need to be moderated. There should be one mega thread where people go to cry, and we can just avoid looking into that one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AceofSpades25:
Shutup N8ter

These complaints are legit, and need to be voiced. Microsoft need to know that not everybody wants a dumbphone like you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.Mazika:
Microsoft loosens up, enables Windows Phone 7 apps to run beneath screen lock
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
thanks for the link, but these are actually good news, i don't see a disadvantage here ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
If they will not precisely listen to customers, they will loose in one year.

Accept boy that customers today are more and more conscious and know better what they want.

We need to push them to stop idiotic policies ruining the good experience right now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
If you call me boy again I will call you something which will earn me a warning.

TIA.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.Mazika:
this is remove one of disadvantages :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] nurps:
What about that you cant have the informations on the startscreen you want to.

On WinMobile is see if i have new mails, new sms, missed calles, how much sms,data and call times i used the month and the next 20 days with my appointments and tasks, all on one screen.

Or is it possible to customize the interface?
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
This isn't even worth responding to. At least hit up Google...

Yep. Stupid questions actually exist. Who would have known...
[Windows Phone 7 General] mmelo76:
Stick thread !!!;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
My current list:

1. C & P system wide

2. Word has to have a lot more features. Select all, fonts, format, tablets, picture insert etc.

3. Zune should support all supported files incl. OneNote, docs and pdf

4. File managment for at least supported files. I need bluetooth transfer

5. Call history clearly dividing missed, incoming, outgoing

6. Ability to make personal folders for photos, and personal playlists and albums for music

7. Multi selection of any files on email, incl video

8. Flash in browser

9. Twitter integration

P.S. Today IExplorer crashed, for the first time writing this post.

I would LOVE them to add these things. It would make this OS fantastic
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
I read this list somewhere else:

- A way to edit email we forward?

- A way to send videos by MMS or email?

- A way to save camera settings?

- An easy way to import documents to the phone

- Any Skydrive client in the Office Hub, so maybe we have a small chance to see our office documents ?

- An improved Bing Maps including local seach outside the UK and US territories?

- A way to manage our files?

- A basic USB drive mode?

- A way to get true silent mode?

- A way to add and update podcasts from the phone (not from the PC)?

- Decent multitasking

- A way to turn off the screen without interrupting everything

- maybe, at least, a way to send a PDF to someone else? ? ? No?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Yes! And Office local sync too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Ofice Local Sync is a waste of time to implement, since Office can save directly to SkyDrive...

You can save to a Private folder and if it's company stuff then either they need to look into Sharepoint or you need to verify if it's even okay for you to be carrying their info on your personal device.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jamssx:
No Office sync is very important if you travel say on a plane (yes I know some now have wifi but do you want to pay for it) or subway where you can't access anything online. Every type of document you may need should be syncable. Now if that's just a generic USB drive support so be it, but there must be a non-email or web way to get files onto the device. MTA produce a nice PDF of the subway map which back in 6.5 days I could carry on the device, but now when I'm 100 feet underground I have to search out the one in the subway car and hope there's not some unsavory person sleeping in front of it!

For me if we get Outlook sync, other files onto the device and Amazon get their act in gear and get Audible support and Kindle support (or Nook or Adobe) I'll be happy. Yes I would like the browser better, but that's not as important to me as the other functions. (Plays-for-sure support would be nice as I do have some protected files that won't sync with Zune)
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
only valid issue I see there is the outlook issues and I don't even really understand why people need outlook on their phones... That's just me but I never got it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
If you don't get it....

As I stated in other thread, I like cloud.

But lack of normal cable/bluetooth transfer of all kinds of files PC <> Phone is totally idiotic. To put stuff on my phone I need to connect pc and phone to data transfer. Instead of plug and drop.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Not to fear. Dark Forces Team, the people who brought us Android for the HD2, is working hard to port Android and other platforms to the current WP7 devices. Android will bring the needed features we all have wanted since launch of WP7. Once DFT gets done, WP7 is history on my HD7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Ok how as no matter what I so I can not sve any documents from word in to skydrive. If I try and sync one note it does not work as well. I created a one note on my pc and saved on my live account phone does not pick it up. I did the other way and again pc does not pickup I can only view/edit them via web browser when online.

Why did you not get an android phone then?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Lots of reasons. Don't get me wrong WP7, in and of itself is a sweet, but sadly, featureless OS. I had high hopes for WP7. But the overbearingly conservative business strategy at MS under its current leadership guarantees its doom. As far as I'm concerned, WP7 is dead right now, based on the update plans.

Since WP7 won't have the much needed features, Android is the only other sure option for taking advantage of the sweet hardware.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Probably. But Android is something I can't stand and I cannot make myself like it.

I tried hard, I also have X10.

I want my WP7 to do things.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Hej Hej w pelni sie zgadzam gdy uzywam Andoida to czyje sie jak bym uzywal Windows 3.1.

Yep when I use Android I feel like using Windows 3.1 it just does not do it for me visually and the way it responds.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Niestety to prawda.

Unfortunately it's true.

I mean I don't feel it's outdated, it's just graphically stuffed with too many inconsistent graphic elements.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
That won't happen for a very long time. And the way MS is conducting themselves, WP7 will never be as fully featured as the competition. It will never be the gleaming beacon of goodness we all were hoping it would be.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Reflexx1:
Never? Being a little dramatic, don't you think?

It's been 2 months.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I mean, by the way things are going with WP7, it will never catch up to the competition. The comp will always be far ahead of WP7
[Windows Phone 7 General] Reflexx1:
By the way things are going? It's been 2 months.

Android started with a crawl, but now they're a major player.

WP7 could do the same.

MS is hiring a lot of people for their phone division right now.

What about this magical phone world makes it so that WP7 could NEVER catch up with the features of other smart phones?

Is Android adding features every single day? Every minute? Every second? What incredible pace are they adding features at that would make it impossible for competition to catch up?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
The fact that it already isn't. Logic and common sense dictates that if you have an inferior product against a superior one, the customer will go for the superior one...unless they are just self destructive and resource wasteful. Saying the competition didn't have those features at launch isn't a viable excuse. The fact is, the competition currently has all of the desired features. It would be proper and wise of MS to launch a product with, at a minimum, all of the currently available features. To not do that, and then also to push out as far as possible any updates that would bring those features, and to be so miserly about dishing out updates and features, is foolish and irrational. It shows they are not in touch with reality if they even have a spark of a thought of actually competing with the competition.

This tells me the system is doomed. They seem to be saying, "Screw it, we will do what we want and not what the consumer wants". I have no confidence in WP7 because of what they have done. I don't believe my HD7 will ever be as sophisticated as the competition because of such irrational business tactics. You say, "It's been 2 months". Exactly! Two months of not having features that every other smartphone in the market have. Features that should have been in the system at launch. "2 months" is outrageous! I, *the customer*, will not stand for that!.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
@MartyLK

Ok let's presume you are right.

So would you reveal what is the real MS strategy if not BRING things?
[Windows Phone 7 General] goemonate:
Too bad it's not facebook, otherwise I would have already "liked" your post.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FromOuterSpace:
- Application list is way too cheap, and needs to be changed.