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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.
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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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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<phoneNavigation:PhoneApplicationPage x:Class="PhoneApplication1.MainPage"
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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.
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?
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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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Now that makes sense! You can pull out the phone in the People hub!
I never realized this but you can actually click on the "browse" button on web pages and it takes you to the picture hub to attach photos. You can't do this on iOS devices which is stupid.
With GPU accelerated IE9, WP7 will soon have the best mobile browser available!
one thing that i dont like about iphone browser is when you got to other tab, then after few minutes when you go back, the page will load again.
Sorry, what "browse" button are you talking about?
You know when you want to upload something on a website. That button.
Indeed, I didn't even try that assuming that iy wouldn't work. It does, however.
I do love these little gems that people are uncovering and sharing. There is so much to WP7!
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I never realized this but you can actually click on the "browse" button on web pages and it takes you to the picture hub to attach photos. You can't do this on iOS devices which is stupid.
With GPU accelerated IE9, WP7 will soon have the best mobile browser available!
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Yeah, the WP7 browser is sweet. I have all 3 popular systems, iOS4, WP7 and Android, and IE is the nicest of them. However, I would like to see web pages adjust to frame size like the Android browser does... zooming in or out, the content adjusts to maintain full view rather than needing to scroll side to side to read it in portrait mode.
Huh?
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You know when you want to upload something on a website. That button.
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What are you talking about? I have share page, find on page, pin to start, and settings.
I'm not sure I understand what it is your talking about exactly?
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What are you talking about? I have share page, find on page, pin to start, and settings.
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No, its not part of the OS itself. Its the website button, on whatever website you are on to upload a picture.
Someone please elaborate better for me
vetvito said:
No, its not part of the OS itself. Its the website button, on whatever website you are on to upload a picture.
Someone please elaborate better for me
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crack is wack
but wen u wack wit crack..... lol
Lets say your on lets say PhotoBucket or flickr something and you choose hey why not upload a picture and on your computer you click upload and "BROWSE" and you find the picture of last night and upload...
Well hes talking about that browse feature where you can locate the picture or watevr via a file manager or an app
can one of u guys with windows phone 7 go to depositfiles.com and see if it lets u upload a mp3 to that site since you guys say the browse button works with pictures but does it work with other file types on the phone like mp3s?
For example go to photofunia.com proceed to make a custom pic and you'll see what the man means (I really gotta change this Android avatar lol)
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http://img4.imageshack.us/i/imageshackupload.jpg
I highlighted the "Browse" button there. When you want to upload an image, you need to pick it on your device. iOS doesn't let you do that.
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can one of u guys with windows phone 7 go to depositfiles.com and see if it lets u upload a mp3 to that site since you guys say the browse button works with pictures but does it work with other file types on the phone like mp3s?
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There's no way you'll be able to upload mp3s anywhere from WP7.
At this time it only lets you upload images. Maybe this will be extended to other OS "libraries" such as Office documents, but I can bet money it won't let you upload music without some hacking.
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Yeah, the WP7 browser is sweet. I have all 3 popular systems, iOS4, WP7 and Android, and IE is the nicest of them. However, I would like to see web pages adjust to frame size like the Android browser does... zooming in or out, the content adjusts to maintain full view rather than needing to scroll side to side to read it in portrait mode.
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I'd rather they improve what they're doing now, resizing text to fit their frames, so you can read posts at a smaller zoom level.
After using android for a while I hated the reformatting it does, you end up having text breaking the flow of the website or a news post with an image that is so big it spans past your screen size just because the text reformatted to fit and it zoomed in way too much.
I find the iOS and WP7 browsers to be pretty smart in detecting what part of the website you want to read and resizing that text so you don't have to pinch or even double tap sometimes in order to read.
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There's no way you'll be able to upload mp3s anywhere from WP7.
At this time it only lets you upload images. Maybe this will be extended to other OS "libraries" such as Office documents, but I can bet money it won't let you upload music without some hacking.
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why is it that it will let u upload and download pictures from the browser? why wont it let u download a mp3 or a zip or rar file thru the browser? ive used a phone in the store and tried to download a mp3 it played the mp3 when i hit save to download it and it wouldnt add it to my library there has to be some where that its temporarily stored on the phone i wonder if theres a way to get it and save it to the library without using the computer
I think that's because 99.999% of all cases where users would upload mp3s to web sites would be for illegal sharing.
That's just my guess, though, and please don't argue with me about it.
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I think that's because 99.999% of all cases where users would upload mp3s to web sites would be for illegal sharing.
That's just my guess, though, and please don't argue with me about it.
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i understand its illegal file sharing but this is possible in windows mobile still til this day and im sure its been illegal forever
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.
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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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More importantly, tiles I actually use, like Livescape and Prime TV... and the Mango features are nice too lol
FiyaFleye said:
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."
Hi,
So Im trying to imitate this guys setup, which apparently not only has links to external source such as high quality movie releases, its nicely presented where you highlight the movie and it shows as a directory tree with a thumbnail popping up for each movie in the lower left corner. Im assuming he has programed this with AEON skin, that much i've gathered, but i'd like to know how he gets it to change with each movie or tv show its pointing to...the video is long approx 49 minutes. Im not looking to imitate him to sell these units, i'd just like to streamline and set mine up like this...any input would be appreciated....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tU-5oy5OJYM
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Hi,
So Im trying to imitate this guys setup, which apparently not only has links to external source such as high quality movie releases, its nicely presented where you highlight the movie and it shows as a directory tree with a thumbnail popping up for each movie in the lower left corner. Im assuming he has programed this with AEON skin, that much i've gathered, but i'd like to know how he gets it to change with each movie or tv show its pointing to...the video is long approx 49 minutes. Im not looking to imitate him to sell these units, i'd just like to streamline and set mine up like this...any input would be appreciated....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tU-5oy5OJYM
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Isn't that just "Lowlist" ?
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Isn't that just "Lowlist" ?
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Legolas2 can you expand what is Lowlist, I cant find anything on it....guys...no one knows how this guy has his unit setup?...there has to be a way to have it categorized so nicely where you scroll over the label and see a nice thumbnail on it and its in sort order of the best movies ect..from that site? Im assuming its some sort of site scraper? Lets use the example at the 2:50 mark in the video skymovies premiere and catagorizes the genres and underneath it shows the title and the thumbnails change..and if you go up one level it shows Boxoffice, views, popular, added, trending, channels and then if you click on them it shows the names of the movies, with the backgrounds changing to a scene in the movie, each one different. Im sure someone knows how this is setup...if its Lowlist can anyone point me in the right direction, with maybe a how to guide? thanks...
Looks like that's using the GoMovies plugin, with a highly customized setup of Nox offering up a bunch of extra menus.
Looks like an overcomplicated mess to me...
Here's some potential info: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=52755
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Looks like that's using the GoMovies plugin, with a highly customized setup of Nox offering up a bunch of extra menus.
Looks like an overcomplicated mess to me...
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Its really that hard to do....I thought maybe there wa an easy setup.....well if anyone knows how this is setup...i'd appreciate it...thx. anyway.
I am more curious is how he found over 100 stupid people to pay over double what the device is worth just for access to bootleg movies.
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I am more curious is how he found over 100 stupid people to pay over double what the device is worth just for access to bootleg movies.
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I think you answered your question :laugh:
They're just making it look that good because they are trying to sell devices, your best bet for performance is to stick with the default skin to be honest.