Exactly, their own little way to say FU to the silly EU laws..
Yeah because we all hate standards now don't we?
Exactly, their own little way to say FU to the silly EU laws..
Wireless charging is a complete gimmick, what happens if you stay at the gf house how do you charge your phone then? I also think that it is less energy efficient due to the changes in energy type.
PS, chargers are going to be standardised soon so that they will all fit and charge all phones, why would wireless be a pro then? apart from you have to charge it on a pad that is plugged into a mains anyway.... Which is just throwing out radiation wherever it wants to.
WRT to wireless charging.. if that's fully standardised then that's a good thing too. You can charge your phone on that when you're out and about, much the same why you would with a normal charger./QUOTE]
That's the thing, you could put a wireless charging pad in a car, on an aircraft, in a coffee shop etc etc etc. If you were to do this with a cable then the cable would get damaged etc etc etc.
There's already a standard out there -> [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Power_Consortium[/ame] which is what the Lumia 920 utilises.
I simply can't believe that anyone would see this additional feature as a bad thing. You can still charge via cable if that's your thing and I'm sure I will when I get a Lumia 920, but wireless charging will be standard on phones in the future and dodgy micro usb sockets on phones from the phone being dropped whilst charging and general wear and tear will be a thing of the past.....
Do you work for Nokia or Windows? seem to be pushing the 920 quite a bit..
Is this not a good thing?despite the fact when you take a video it magically transforms into a huge DSLR![]()
Actually think the WP8 phone we know most about is the Samsung ATIV S 8 since it came out first
I do like the Lumia 800, but all the WP7 phones handle pretty similarly. my experiance with the Lumia 800 was pretty much the same experiance when I tried a Samsung Omnia 7 and a HTC Titan...
So can pretty much expect the same from WP8.
Windows Phone is pretty much like having iOS on multiple devices. A very slick OS thats very easy. WP7 has appeared on multiple devices, all different except the OS.
Thats the advantage over android, although the same underneath, the OS can be changed. They can be Skinned, adapted and shoed to fit any need or device. With different specs and manufacturers, no two are similar.
The photos i've seen are nothing spectacular, yes they are good, but i've seen better come from the Sony Xperia ARC S and the newer Xperia S
From the view point of a mobile software developer, I still see WindowsPhone as LOL. I hope WP8 proves this wrong, but from what I've seen of it - I doubt it.
Fragmentation of Android is a good and bad things. It's good that it allows manufactures to customise their devices so that there's a common look and feel to them - but it's bad in that they tend ruin the UI in doing so. This can create a bad impression of the platform. My boss, for example, had some horrid Motorola Android phone - he used to constantly complain about it, how confusing and disjointed the UI was. That was his phone, and his use of Android - so to him, Android was confusing and disjointed. Since then, he's got an iPhone and praises it's UI, which is a fair point as it's worlds apart from the horrendously skinned version of Android that was on his last phone.
The only Android phones that interest me are the which are pure Android, proper GEDs.
It's a complicated story though. WP8 shares its kernel with W8 though so this surely makes things easier for app developers?
There's a lot going on, Microsoft offers a safe haven from being sued by AppleGo out with Android and risk being sued or jump on the WP8 train?
It's going to be an interesting couple of years and I wouldn't like to bet on the outcome.
I couldn't give two flying f***s what it looks like. I like the fact I'm free to do what I WANT with MY PHONE. Something you're not 'allowed' to do on an Apple product of any variety.
It's not so much the iPhone itself I detest it's iTunes and Apples "ethos" governing the device.
I'm quite happy with the walled garden that is windows phone, sure it's a walled garden but it's a nice one unlike Apple's rather expensive and silly one.
In your opinion don't forget.
Dom