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Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper

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Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

jimueller wrote: post #140
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #115

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I don't drive, I mean, most people don't drive in my market....and that's where I'm supposed to look for maps on my 920?

HERE is a suite of applications.HERE Maps is ... maps, HERE Drive is the GPS/NAV app, and HERE Transit is public transportation.

And none of them work! I mean, my phone is locked to the Chinese App Store, you'd think the built in apps would at least work here also.

Also, who the hell decided to give a bunch of apps the same prefix in an alphabetically ordered list?

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

tommis wrote: post #127
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #110

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+1 I haven't been able to get maps to work at all on my Nokia 920, I can't even figure what the map app is....everything is prefixed as Nokia something app with some weird names that don't work. Suffice it to say, I'm forced to use my old iPhone for anything that involves a map. Windows phone would be much better if they offered a google map app for it. Lets just to with an example...I wanted to find the nearest post…

Install "HERE Drive+": http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/here-drive/31bbc... Download the offline maps you need and you are good to go! There's a manual here if you need one: http://www.nokia.com/us-en/support/product/nokia-drive-plus/

Looks nice, but I don't drive!

Re: Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

barista wrote: post #98
martingordon wrote: post #64

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The OS doesn't matter; the apps do (at least the few "important" ones). Most notably absent from WP is Instagram, which will be resolved when Hipstamatic launches for the OS.

The "Windows Phone lacks apps" meme is getting old very quickly. But then again there is a grain of truth there. Most applications that you use day in and day out are probably already there natively or as a very good clone. The part that might hurt you is when the next hot application comes along it is likely that a native or clone for Windows Phone may not exist right away and you might have to wait for a few weeks…

Try being locked to an obscure marketplace region like china, and it's much more painful. Facebook, Skype are all MIA, and you can't change your marketplace even if the software says you can (it just ignores your config options).

iPhones sold in china don't have this problem, so they are a safer buy.

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Post by dave1010uk »

cpursley wrote: post #128
300bps wrote: post #56

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I've had the Lumia 928 for 3 weeks now. My three previous phones were iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s. Part of me wishes that I would've gone Windows Phone sooner but the realistic part of me realizes that Windows Phone 7 was still nowhere near the quality of iOS. Windows Phone 8 is a completely different matter though. It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way. Live tiles, SkyDrive integration (much bett…

As a long time iOS guy who's been using Windows Phone (Nokia) for over a year, I can honestly say it has the best UI in terms of usability for the form-factor. You're right - the map smokes all others. The only issue I have is the non-webkit IE browser and lack of a few key apps.

FYI, Android devices will soon not use WebKit, as Chrome is changing to Blink. Whilst Blink is a fork of WebKit, I believe that the differences between mobile Safari and mobile IE will be as small as the differences between Safari and Chrome.

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Post by lotso »

Steko wrote: post #188
300bps wrote: post #56

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I've had the Lumia 928 for 3 weeks now. My three previous phones were iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s. Part of me wishes that I would've gone Windows Phone sooner but the realistic part of me realizes that Windows Phone 7 was still nowhere near the quality of iOS. Windows Phone 8 is a completely different matter though. It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way. Live tiles, SkyDrive integration (much bett…

"It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way." Unless you count battery life, GPU, probably CPU, form factor, build quality, the wildly superior app, media and accessory ecosystems. But other than that what have the Cupertianians done for us lately?

As an iPhone user, I can chime in with my opinion.

It looks like the iPhone and 920 battery life are both pretty abysmal http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/phones-3/best-phone-batt...

CPU and GPU for the end user isn't important. What is important is the perf of the UI, which WP7/8 have always been buttery smooth when compared to iOS and Android devices with better hardware.

I'd also say Nokia is very closely behind Apple in build quality if not on par. And their form factors have been great as well.

iPhone/iOS definitely has a better ecosystem, but the apps on WP8 are getting better.

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Post by dave1010uk »

slantyyz wrote: post #96
tambourine_man wrote: post #89

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that's how we reinvented Zoom It's called cropping, and it's been around forever. Does it save RAW? If not, it's useless to me.

>> Does it save RAW? If not, it's useless to me. So is just about every other phone with a camera.

In case anyone's looking for a phone with a camera that saves RAW, the Nokia N900 does.

http://fcam.garage.maemo.org/fcamera.html

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Post by erikpukinskis »

lotso wrote: post #195
Steko wrote: post #188

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"It's superior to my old iPhones in almost every way." Unless you count battery life, GPU, probably CPU, form factor, build quality, the wildly superior app, media and accessory ecosystems. But other than that what have the Cupertianians done for us lately?

As an iPhone user, I can chime in with my opinion. It looks like the iPhone and 920 battery life are both pretty abysmal http://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/phones-3/best-phone-batt... CPU and GPU for the end user isn't important. What is important is the perf of the UI, which WP7/8 have always been buttery smooth when compared to iOS and Android devices with better hardware. I'd also say Nokia is very closely behind…

The battery life metric I care about is: how long will the battery last after I've been using all kinds of weird apps for a year.

That's where iPhone seems to excel. On a fresh install of Android, using just one built in app, it seems fine. But eventually the phone fills up with stuff that seems to drain it. Not sure how Windows Phone fares on that front.

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Post by dstorey »

cscheid wrote: post #158
akruckus wrote: post #147

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The big issue with not previously including WebGL support was glaring security issues right? Doesn't WebGL essentially use root access to your gpu?

> Doesn't WebGL essentially use root access to your gpu? Only in badly-designed, non-conformant user agents. :) The WebGL security issues have, for at least a year, been FUD. The spec is essentially fixed, drivers have become a whole lot better, and browsers have become a whole lot stricter in their validation code. WebGL is not OpenGL nor OpenGL ES. Examples: while the OpenGL ES spec is silent on buffer overflows, W…

MS has also focused a lot on security in its WebGL support. For example, it security audits the drivers.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

maaaats wrote: post #164
mayanksinghal wrote: post #141

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Offline maps has been available since at least 2 years. I think you had to long tap a point, choose Save offline from the menu, choose the dimensions of the square that pops up and the square becomes available offline.

Yes, but that downloaded map data is useless. You cannot search in it, find any routes in it or anything. You have to use the net and query Google. So it's more caching of the view than actual map data.

Not only that, but every now and then Google Maps want to check something over the Internet and just locks itself with an undismissable spinner and "Loading" message until you find a connection.
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