Anyone here excited for WP7?
Nov 10, 2010, 7:45 pm
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Nov 10, 2010, 9:54 pm
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I got my Focus in today. I'm pretty impressed, and think while there are lots of features that are missing, this is a very good foundation. There are no missing features that are real deal breakers for me now, but I'm going to keep my Windows Mobile 6.5 phone around if I need to do bluetooth tethering. If Microsoft can't ramp up some things in the next 8 months, then I'll probably move to greener pastures. Some things that I'd like to have:
*Exchange task syncing
*VPN
*Tethering
*Enough control of the file system to store certificates
My biggest complaint is that if your Exchange server pushes a security policy that requires a device password, you will have to put this password in every time the screen turns off. In WM6.5 you could up that to an hour while keeping the screen time out at 30 seconds.
*Exchange task syncing
*VPN
*Tethering
*Enough control of the file system to store certificates
My biggest complaint is that if your Exchange server pushes a security policy that requires a device password, you will have to put this password in every time the screen turns off. In WM6.5 you could up that to an hour while keeping the screen time out at 30 seconds.
Nov 10, 2010, 10:22 pm
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Now if you want to sync your contacts from your email with Facebook then you'll probably love the fact that this will do it for you. Sadly there appears to be no way to sort contacts other than A-Z and when you sync with Facebook, everyone gets imported into the phonebook (contacts). So if you have 600 FB friends you are going to have all of them in your phonebook initially although after a bit of digging it appears that you can hide but not delete (on the phone) those that are only on FB and not already in your contacts. There is no way I would integrate my Facebook friends and contacts so that isn't a killer feature for me.
This should help you out on not having all your FB friends show up.
Nov 11, 2010, 7:53 am
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphon...phone-faq.aspx
This should help you out on not having all your FB friends show up.
This should help you out on not having all your FB friends show up.
Originally Posted by MS website
By default, all of your Facebook friends appear as contacts on your phone. If you have a lot of Facebook friends showing up in your contacts list, you can choose to only show friends who are already contacts on your phone. (So, if a Facebook friend is also a contact in Windows Live or Google, their Facebook information will still show up in your contacts list. All other friends will be hidden from the list.)
Originally Posted by MS website
When you set up a Facebook account on your phone, all your Facebook friends will appear in your contact list. You can't delete these contacts from your phone, but it's possible to reduce the number of them that will show up in your contact list (see above).
You can also hide a friend in Facebook on your PC. This won't remove them from your phone's contact list, but it will hide their status updates. To learn how, see the Facebook Help Center.
In order to remove a Facebook friend from your phone completely, you'll need to remove the friend connection on the Facebook website in your web browser. To learn how, see the Facebook Help Center.
You can also hide a friend in Facebook on your PC. This won't remove them from your phone's contact list, but it will hide their status updates. To learn how, see the Facebook Help Center.
In order to remove a Facebook friend from your phone completely, you'll need to remove the friend connection on the Facebook website in your web browser. To learn how, see the Facebook Help Center.
What kind of warnings? Is that just for WP7 or also for Android phones, too? On my G2, I set up my Facebook account, then imported my contacts. I was surprised it was able to synchronize the Facebook profile photo to each contact so efficiently; however, it was a feature I really didn't care for.
Now to be clear I found too many things that my BlackBerry does that WP7 either doesn't do or does in a way that was too odd for me, so I left the store empty handed.
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Nov 11, 2010, 11:55 am
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It seems to be handbags at dawn for Google and Facebook anyway with Google not reccomending doing the Facebook contacts thingy.
Nov 11, 2010, 3:00 pm
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I don't trust Facebook at all, why would I trust Facebook with all of my contact info?
At least with Gmail I can keep my contact info private, and wipe it if I need to. With Facebook there is no such guarantee, plus any facebook apps you use will have access to your profile / contacts. No freaking way I'd be dumb enough to trust Facebook with my contacts.
At least with Gmail I can keep my contact info private, and wipe it if I need to. With Facebook there is no such guarantee, plus any facebook apps you use will have access to your profile / contacts. No freaking way I'd be dumb enough to trust Facebook with my contacts.
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Nov 12, 2010, 8:49 am
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I don't trust Facebook at all, why would I trust Facebook with all of my contact info?
At least with Gmail I can keep my contact info private, and wipe it if I need to. With Facebook there is such guarantee, plus any facebook apps you use will have access to your profile / contacts. No freaking way I'd be dumb enough to trust Facebook with my contacts.
At least with Gmail I can keep my contact info private, and wipe it if I need to. With Facebook there is such guarantee, plus any facebook apps you use will have access to your profile / contacts. No freaking way I'd be dumb enough to trust Facebook with my contacts.
) with other peoples updates is not really that attractive to me. The INQ1 phone that I have did try and link my contacts to facebook, I let it, it didn't have to try very hard as there are deliberately no contacts on there at all.
Nov 20, 2010, 9:01 pm
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Someone just sent me this link for a youtube video and thought whilst watching it, what a really great advert for BlackBerry. Boy was I surprised when I saw the end.
Nov 20, 2010, 9:07 pm
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The message Im getting is "our phones suck so you won't bother using them". I'm almost certain that wasn't what I was supposed to get out of it.
Originally Posted by Jimmie76
Someone just sent me this link for a youtube video and thought whilst watching it, what a really great advert for BlackBerry. Boy was I surprised when I saw the end.
Nov 20, 2010, 9:57 pm
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The message Im getting is "our phones suck so you won't bother using them". I'm almost certain that wasn't what I was supposed to get out of it.
The message Im getting is "our phones suck so you won't bother using them". I'm almost certain that wasn't what I was supposed to get out of it.
) than I thought. Didn't sell WP7 to me though which was I guess the point. The now defunct airline Silverjet did an ad where they copied (with a far smaller budget) the famous BA 'Face' advert. They used the same director, music (which is BA's audio branding), locations etc. and everything screamed BA up until you saw the very end, assuming you saw the very end. This is similar to that in that if you miss the end of the ad through channel surfing etc. you have no idea what product is being advertised and are left to draw your own conclusions. Which is exactly what I did thinking this one was for BlackBerry.
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Nov 21, 2010, 8:44 am
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Nov 21, 2010, 4:47 pm
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I am still loving it. More good apps than I had expected. Still, it feels like Android did back in 2008 -not completely finished, but so much potential.
I've got all the big names here - and I'd say WebOS and Blackberry are now 4th and 5th behind WP7, iOS and Android.
I've got all the big names here - and I'd say WebOS and Blackberry are now 4th and 5th behind WP7, iOS and Android.