Check the pocketnow website!
http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/comprehensive-windows-phone-7-demo
There are 4 Youtube videos up there which show quite a good hi-res walkthrough for WP7.
I like the fourth part where he shows off Bing navigation! (The rest is mostly well known already...)
I watched these earlier. They fluidity of the OS is great. Just hope they can get those much needed feature in soon and this will be my next Phone.
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I hate the internet at my job, they block youtube and all I get are the above statements.
Damnit!
Will have to wait until I get home
But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
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But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
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Why would you want your screen to be sideways?
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Why would you want your screen to be sideways?
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I don't understand your question.
I'm talking about screen orientation.
I would like to deactivate changing orientation through accelerometer
and leave it only for qwerty opening on my device.
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I don't understand your question.
I'm talking about screen orientation.
I would like to deactivate changing orientation through accelerometer
and leave it only for qwerty opening on my device.
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Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
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Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
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Well basically any I imagine possibly because it's my device and I want to use it how I want it,
like viewing photo from different angles instead of device deciding for me how I should watch this.
All the automatic processes are always buggy to some extent. I want to be the only deciding factor to it.
This should be available to anybody who wants this feature
and possible for beeing disabled by the user whenever one wants to.
doministry said:
But on some other videos accelerometer/screen rotation was a misery.
I hope this will be something to deactivate, used only by sliding qwerty.
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+1 I hate having auto rotate on, it always manages to find a way to piss me off
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+1 I hate having auto rotate on, it always manages to find a way to piss me off
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ditto...I basically disabled it on all use cases except for photoviewing. I don't even have a keyboard anymore, but I have swype and swype is better in portrait than landscape (less line drawing).
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Well basically any I imagine possibly because it's my device and I want to use it how I want it,
like viewing photo from different angles instead of device deciding for me how I should watch this.
All the automatic processes are always buggy to some extent. I want to be the only deciding factor to it.
This should be available to anybody who wants this feature
and possible for beeing disabled by the user whenever one wants to.
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I would suggest using a device before declaring it buggy. Yea, it's been buggy on WinMo but all of WinMo has been buggy. There very well may be a "disable accelerometer" option. Not sure, I haven't seen it.
Hey it's getting offtopic already on page 2
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Why though? Are you laying on your side a lot? What is this situation where your phone will be in a landscape orientation but you want your screen to remain portrait?
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For instance while reading in bed. Apple added it in iOS4 as it was a strong request from the community.
Nice feature if you ask me, as developers don't need to provide a "switch" it within their apps
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For instance while reading in bed. Apple added it in iOS4 as it was a strong request from the community.
Nice feature if you ask me, as developers don't need to provide a "switch" it within their apps
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Agreed, happens often enough. It'd be a nice plus to the OS, allthough not at all required.
Rotation is defined on a application level:
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Hi, any one know why my clock constantly slows down and I need to set the time again ? It is not an active sych issue... it just slows down.. looses time..
Everything seems to be working other than that on my arte110....
But.. the touch cube/ flow stuff... would be nice if there was some instructionst on that because I dont see any of that happening on my phone even though I got it set to default in the touch flow settings....
No animated cubes or other stuff inn navigation.... Not sure what it is exactly supposed to look like...
the only animated feature is the contact list and the opera mini , as a page loade it slides in... cool,
But other than that opera mini sucks...
it can hardly search this forum.....
and no tabbed browsing or selecting, copying text...
it is however very fast.
And isnt there some sort of function holding down the buttons to the phone vibrates? Would be nice to know about how that works....
Zoom on the camera doesnt work at 2 mp setting...
media player part of the home screen seems non functional...
And what is this hibernation feature?
BTW, it seems that when my screen is dark the phone stops keeping time...
I hope I am not missing any calls durring this time....
Robert
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Hi, any one know why my clock constantly slows down and I need to set the time again ? It is not an active sych issue... it just slows down.. looses time..
Everything seems to be working other than that on my arte110....
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Can't comment on that, mine keeps time quite nicely
But.. the touch cube/ flow stuff... would be nice if there was some instructionst on that because I dont see any of that happening on my phone even though I got it set to default in the touch flow settings....
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The TouchFlo configuration utility clearly lists what you have to do to make it work, the best setting for me is the top to bottom option, never fails
No animated cubes or other stuff inn navigation.... Not sure what it is exactly supposed to look like...
the only animated feature is the contact list and the opera mini , as a page loade it slides in... cool,
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But other than that opera mini sucks...
it can hardly search this forum.....
and no tabbed browsing or selecting, copying text...
it is however very fast.
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considering it's a beta, it's a million times better at browsing the web that Pocket IE. Can't expect everything and surely not from a beta at that.
And isnt there some sort of function holding down the buttons to the phone vibrates? Would be nice to know about how that works....
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The first post to Touch 4.01 defines which hbutton command are set by default. You can add your own extras from the hbutton commands in programs
Zoom on the camera doesnt work at 2 mp setting...
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I don't use my camera much apart from contact photos so again, can't comment
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I use mine EVERY day, works fine, where it says 'launch music player', press it, it'll work just dandy.
And what is this hibernation feature?
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Frees up extra ram, that is all
You just need to take the time to explore the features this ROM has, there are a lot of applications included, some may not be to your taste, and others you'll think are fantastic(like hbutton), if there is a specific application you need to find more about, try searching through the forums or on google, there is a lot of information out there regarding most of the applications, unfortunately we can't expect Meschle to produce a lengthy instruction manual detailing each and every single aspect of his ROM, part of that is the expectation that the people using custom ROM's should be able to figure out the nitty gritty details.
Of course the forums are here to answer questions, but it is also a repository of answers to the questions already asked. The TouchFlo one has come up many times.
I Dont know about you guys but I really hate the built in zoom feature on all of the new htc phones. To me it is a waste of space that could have better implemented with a Dpad. I hardly ever use it and it doesnt even work for very many things except the web browser. I see htc messing up all of their new good phones with it.
I see it as a waste of space. I see myself missing a dpad or scroll ball a lot more than I even think about the zoom option.
How do you feel?
I have two gripes about the TP2 hardware:
No scroll wheel or D-pad for ease of navigation
Seidio doesn't have a spring-clip holster yet
Does it work on word or excel?
Yep it does work with excel, word, pictures, internet....
I use the bar all the time, just love it.
So HTC: Please keep the zoom-bar!!
Don't use the zoom a lot, but it does work great when I do...
Would like to change it into dpad though! (Zooming can be achieved by other means)
Well I can think off cool games with throttle.
But other then that, the zoombar just doesn't work to well for me. If it did work well, more fluent I would like to keep it. It's nice to zoom in a little bit on webpages, and not to far like what happens when you double tab in opera.
Well, I'd like to have a D-pad (because it's handy in games) but I don't have a problem with the zoom bar on my TP2. I'd like both, really. My only gripe is that too few applications support the zoombar. If Opera 9.7 beta supported it I'd stop using 9.5 altogether, but because it doesn't I still use both.
That said, iPhone-style multi-touch pinch-zooming is a MUCH better solution, and I'm looking forward to trying out the Leo.
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If Opera 9.7 beta supported it I'd stop using 9.5 altogether, but because it doesn't I still use both.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486502
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486502
2nd subject down should sort you out!
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Oh, cool! I'll try that when I have a moment....
ronh said:
Yep it does work with excel, word, pictures, internet....
I use the bar all the time, just love it.
So HTC: Please keep the zoom-bar!!
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Uh, people you will see me migrating from X1 to TP2 pretty soon...
ronh said:
I use the bar all the time, just love it.
So HTC: Please keep the zoom-bar!!
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in complete agreement.
Joe Pinball said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=486502
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I checked this out. I've already got the registry setting in question, but the zoom bar doesn't do anything in Opera 9.7. So.... (shrug)
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I have two gripes about the TP2 hardware:
No scroll wheel or D-pad for ease of navigation
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3. Location of the power button gets in the way of typing at times. I have the powerkey fix by one of the xda members but its still a pita at times.
I havent really used the zoom bar but its koo. Im with shasarak far as the dpads & games.
Hi All
I have made this mention in another post, but to me at least, what we need is a reg hack that will allow the Zoom Bar to work with more apps, not just Album, Etc.
Now THAT would be worth having.......
Imagine being able to add whatever App you like to the Zoom Bar Active list,
even just to zoom the screen of any app or function would be a bonus too!
Sort of like with the G-Sensor hacks.
Maybe someone will find a way...??
Cheers
Jabberoo
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I Dont know about you guys but I really hate the built in zoom feature on all of the new htc phones. To me it is a waste of space that could have better implemented with a Dpad. I hardly ever use it and it doesnt even work for very many things except the web browser. I see htc messing up all of their new good phones with it.
I see it as a waste of space. I see myself missing a dpad or scroll ball a lot more than I even think about the zoom option.
How do you feel?
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I agree. The zoom bar is retarded and serve 0 purpose at all.
I love the zoom bar. Use it all the time. Especially useful for navigating forums like XDA! Maybe my fingers too fat always cannot hit the number to navigate to the next page, even after double-tap. So always use zoom bar to zoom big big so that I can tap on the link.
Can the Opera be updated in the VZW TP2? I thought it was hardcoded into the ROM.
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I love the zoom bar. Use it all the time. Especially useful for navigating forums like XDA! Maybe my fingers too fat always cannot hit the number to navigate to the next page, even after double-tap. So always use zoom bar to zoom big big so that I can tap on the link.
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yeah that is true but a dpad would make it even easier to select small text w/ out having to zoom in and out all of the time.
I LOVE the zoom bar, but miss the scroll wheel of my Titan and my Clie's. So I'd like both please. the d-pad... eh? Don't really see a need. There is a keyboard with arrow keys if need be.
The d-pad is important for one handed use. Besides, if you want the 'already there' argument, opera already has a built in software zoom bar. and it work just the same.
Coming from the g-1, I really miss the little trackball. It was such an excellent feature to have. It was small precise, and it didn't take up too much room on the device either. I think that would have fit nicely on the tp2.
Sadly, due to WP7's inability to take screenshots, you would have to take the pictures (and stitch them together) yourself, but here's mine.
Man, that's big! I try to keep mine as short as possible. I'll try to post a pic when I get the chance.
cant wait for someone to figure out picture backgrounds for start screens
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Sadly, due to WP7's inability to take screenshots, you would have to take the pictures (and stitch them together) yourself, but here's mine.
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You have the phone all the way to the bottom? weird since I assume the primary function of a phone was to...make calls . I will post mines soon!
Can anyone tell me what tag I have to use to make this smaller in the post?
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You have the phone all the way to the bottom? weird since I assume the primary function of a phone was to...make calls . I will post mines soon!
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That's the thing I love about WP7: it makes you realize what you really use your phone for. I don't make calls with it all that often, and I all but never make calls to people who aren't in my contact list, which is why my People tile is within a swipe's distance of the top.
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cant wait for someone to figure out picture backgrounds for start screens
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I like that a lot.
Could you poste your color-settings/codes?
FishFaceMcGee said:
That's the thing I love about WP7: it makes you realize what you really use your phone for. I don't make calls with it all that often, and I all but never make calls to people who aren't in my contact list, which is why my People tile is within a swipe's distance of the top.
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Now that makes sense! You can pull out the phone in the People hub!
My screen is truly alive now. Pretty sure this is what Microsoft envisioned, livescape, prime tv, rowi, mobudget, etc... My screen looks like it's speaking to me lol
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Actually after today's Prime Tv Mango update I noticed that...
It's great...
With the exception of LazyTube, all of my apps are flipping on my screen, pretty enjoyable tbh
Does rowi have a flipping live tile? Mine doesn't.. It doesn't use mango features, it doesn't appear in the background tasks list.
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Does rowi have a flipping live tile? Mine doesn't.. It doesn't use mango features, it doesn't appear in the background tasks list.
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It does have a flipping live tile. But it doesn't require a background agent, since it's still being updated via push. Which I consider great, because it's almost instant after a message or mention is recieved. Background agents only pull every thirty minutes.
@FiyaFleye
Patience, mate. LazyTube 3.0 is on its way. And it's gonna be awesome as far as I can tell from what I've seen.
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My screen is truly alive now. Pretty sure this is what Microsoft envisioned, livescape, prime tv, rowi, mobudget, etc... My screen looks like it's speaking to me lol
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Yeah, mobudget tiles are truly amazing!
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It does have a flipping live tile. But it doesn't require a background agent, since it's still being updated via push. Which I consider great, because it's almost instant after a message or mention is recieved. Background agents only pull every thirty minutes.
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Im not too sure what rowi you are using but mine has a static live tile(rowi version 1.5) its push notification like you said is top not tho,almost instant. thats one of the few mango apps that i have that does not flip, thinking about it,i dont think rowi has been updating to mango yet because it still shows the resuming ... when you switch back to it.
flipping live tiles are lame, need some other effects :/
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Im not too sure what rowi you are using but mine has a static live tile(rowi version 1.5) its push notification like you said is top not tho,almost instant. thats one of the few mango apps that i have that does not flip, thinking about it,i dont think rowi has been updating to mango yet because it still shows the resuming ... when you switch back to it.
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I use 1.5. Flip tile shows up when you receive a mention. The backside shows the first few words of the tweet and the image of the user who mentioned you on the background.
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I use 1.5. Flip tile shows up when you receive a mention. The backside shows the first few words of the tweet and the image of the user who mentioned you on the background.
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hehe yes sir you are correct, i just didnt notice it or remember because it doesnt flip every 10 secs or so.
Only about half my apps support mango. Not even the xda app is mango
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roqstr said:
flipping live tiles are lame, need some other effects :/
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anything constructive to add to this thread besides your worthless opinion?
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JustinTV773 said:
anything constructive to add to this thread besides your worthless opinion?
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Actually that is constructive criticism. Some developers have a fliping live tile just for the sake of it (Flixster app first comes to mind) and yes other effects would be cool. Also developers can't change the size of the police when having text at the back of a tile so in some instances it's useless because you get cut off text (like having half the title of an article, what is this good for?).
Does anyone know if developers can use the curtain effect that's on the Me tile? That's a least one variant that I'd like to see more.
Even so it still has no place in a thread created to glorify this feature. I do sometimes in fact just watch the tiles on my start screen or groups. If he wanted to he could've started his own thread talking about that.
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Actually that is constructive criticism. Some developers have a fliping live tile just for the sake of it (Flixster app first comes to mind) and yes other effects would be cool. Also developers can't change the size of the police when having text at the back of a tile so in some instances it's useless because you get cut off text (like having half the title of an article, what is this good for?).
Does anyone know if developers can use the curtain effect that's on the Me tile? That's a least one variant that I'd like to see more.
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Geez.
That is not constructive criticism. Fiya likes the way his phone looks with all the tiles flipping.
I personally would not want several different animations for the tiles. I like uniformity. But it would be interesting for diversity if you could set how a tile animates or turn them off. Flexibility in this case won't be a bad thing.
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Im not too sure what rowi you are using but mine has a static live tile(rowi version 1.5) its push notification like you said is top not tho,almost instant. thats one of the few mango apps that i have that does not flip, thinking about it,i dont think rowi has been updating to mango yet because it still shows the resuming ... when you switch back to it.
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rowi flips when you receive a mention or message, it'll flip with the profile picture of the last person and a portion of the tweet. I think it's a rolling activation though, as I got it about 4 days after other people.
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flipping live tiles are lame, need some other effects :/
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Cool, go say that nonsense in a thread titled "Crap I don't like about Mango/WinPhone" - I created this topic to discuss the enjoyment of the tiles, not some response of them being "lame." This is the type of stuff I'm talking about, you cannot have a single enjoyable thread on this horribly moderated board.
nicksti said:
Geez.
That is not constructive criticism. Fiya likes the way his phone looks with all the tiles flipping.
I personally would not want several different animations for the tiles. I like uniformity. But it would be interesting for diversity if you could set how a tile animates or turn them off. Flexibility in this case won't be a bad thing.
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More importantly, tiles I actually use, like Livescape and Prime TV... and the Mango features are nice too lol
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More importantly, tiles I actually use, like Livescape and Prime TV... and the Mango features are nice too lol
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I tell ya, it must be a sin to like Windows Phone.
FiyaFleye said:
rowi flips when you receive a mention or message, it'll flip with the profile picture of the last person and a portion of the tweet. I think it's a rolling activation though, as I got it about 4 days after other people.
Cool, go say that nonsense in a thread titled "Crap I don't like about Mango/WinPhone" - I created this topic to discuss the enjoyment of the tiles, not some response of them being "lame." This is the type of stuff I'm talking about, you cannot have a single enjoyable thread on this horribly moderated board.
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try reporting his post
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try reporting his post
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You guys are funny. Reporting his post because he said flipping tiles are boring?
Anyway, if anyone actually read my post I tried to develop his argument and asked an interesting question that no one answered and that wasn't a criticism.
All I got was "I personally would not want several different animations for the tiles. I like uniformity."
So, I'm certainly not a developer of WP7 apps. But, I came across the app, gMapsPro developed by Alexey Strakh (@alexeystrakh) and Alex Sorokoletov (@alexsorokoletov), and they must have figured out how to take a screen shot bc they have a camera button in the app that allows you to take a screen shot of the location you are currently mapping. So, yeah, I don't know what to do with this recent revelation, but I figure I would let the forums know since I've seen plenty of threads about the lack of the ability to take screen shots. If this is old news, sorry, shoot me leg off
Reuters news has one too. I just discovered it.
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316199
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See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316199
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He's talking about the app saving the image for you. 4th and Mayor does this as well. It's a nice feature, especially for those without unlocked devices, really useful.