Rumors about Windows Compatibility, Are they true?
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@nadnerB said:
Many people use UC Browser, this is just a skin for IE as is Maxthon and I suspect all the other browsers in the store are the same. UC browser is pretty but, in my experience, significantly less stable than IE.
This is the same on iPhone's. Safari is the only browser. Android is the only mobile OS that allows true thirdparty browsers. I think windows 10 may allow them on the windows phones though.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@nadnerB said:
Many people use UC Browser, this is just a skin for IE as is Maxthon and I suspect all the other browsers in the store are the same. UC browser is pretty but, in my experience, significantly less stable than IE.
This is the same on iPhone's. Safari is the only browser. Android is the only mobile OS that allows true thirdparty browsers. I think windows 10 may allow them on the windows phones though.
I hope so. IE is much better than the stock Android 4.x default browser but it's no Firefox or Chrome.
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@JaredBusch said:
@dafyre Windows is not going to run native apps from other platforms. I have no idea where people are getting that idea.
Those articles all state clearly that apps with native will be able to be converted
I was wondering where that idea came from.
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I highly advise against running WP10 at this point unless you just like pain (and apparently I do, because I still am).
I have to reboot my phone nearly daily for one reason or another.
Outlook crashes constantly - though, when it's working it's pretty good. Though I wish the nav buttons for Outlook were at the bottom instead of the top. On the Lumia 635 (small'ish phone) being at the top is no big deal, I can still reach it one handed with my thumb, but on a larger phone, no way, it will require two handed operation - and that will be frustrating!
I like the Podcast player - when it works. Like Outlook, it likes to crash often. Though to be fair, it seems to have the most problems when I'm starting/resuming a podcast when I'm in my driveway at home or work, the phone can still see the wireless networks at those locations, but barely. In this situation half the time I can't get the app to do anything.
FYI, don't uninstall the Podcast app to try to fix it. You can't redownload it from the MS store like normal (at this time). You have to hard reset the phone to get it back, learned this the hard way.
With the latest build something funky is really going on - the phone has started locking up completely and I have to pull the battery to get it to start over. Even long holding the power button won't power it down, instead I see the half covered screen that you are supposed to pull down to indicate that you want to shutdown, but it just hangs there too.
When I first started using Speech to Text it was great, then it suddenly stopped working. Even over a pushed out upgrade/update it didn't get fixed. I had to hard reset the phone to get it back.
I'm half tempted to roll back to WP8.1, but really I just want them to release the 640 XL so I can get that phone.
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Yeah. That's why I'm still on WP 8.1 not WP10. I tried it for a few hours, and well I couldn't even stand the GUI issues.
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The only GUI issue I have these days is that I can't pin the Podcast app to the main screen, otherwise the GUI works great.
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@Dashrender said:
The only GUI issue I have these days is that I can't pin the Podcast app to the main screen, otherwise the GUI works great.
The Podcast app in 8.1.1 for me is quirky, since going to Denim...it plays but doesn't stay running and it has problems playing 1.5x and 2x so I can skip commercials...
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@garak0410 said:
@Dashrender said:
The only GUI issue I have these days is that I can't pin the Podcast app to the main screen, otherwise the GUI works great.
The Podcast app in 8.1.1 for me is quirky, since going to Denim...it plays but doesn't stay running and it has problems playing 1.5x and 2x so I can skip commercials...
LOL I use the 30 second skip feature for that.
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If this is too much of a fork I'll ask it in a new thread
For those of you with extensive Android and WP experience - relative merits / comparison of the OS's?
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@MattSpeller said:
If this is too much of a fork I'll ask it in a new thread
For those of you with extensive Android and WP experience - relative merits / comparison of the OS's?
Hard to really compare them. It depends on what you use your phone for. If you use it mostly for Email, texts, calls, and web browsing I'd say the windows phone is a way better experience.
If you want to play games, use random apps etc Android would be the way to go. Note that currently there is no generic SSL VPN (openVPN) app for Windows Phone so if you need VPN you need either, an app from your vendor (currently many of the popular vendors have them). Or you need a L2TPw/IPSEC or IKEv2 VPN.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Hard to really compare them. It depends on what you use your phone for. If you use it mostly for Email, texts, calls, and web browsing I'd say the windows phone is a way better experience.
If you want to play games, use random apps etc Android would be the way to go. Note that currently there is no generic SSL VPN (openVPN) app for Windows Phone so if you need VPN you need either, an app from your vendor (currently many of the popular vendors have them). Or you need a L2TPw/IPSEC or IKEv2 VPN.
^ What he said.
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My first smartphone was a WP7 device, and I've only had WP devices since then. I recently got a Nexus 4 just to play with it. It doesn't have a SIM card right now, so I can't speak to the calling/texting experience, but it is hard to compare them. The app experience is night and day. There are so many options for Android. Frankly it is overwhelming. Anyhow, I like playing with the phone, but that is about it. I like to play games on it. When it comes to day to day functionality of phone/email/whatnot, my WP is a breath of fresh air. Some of that could be chalked up to familiarity, but while there are a few tasks that are easier or simpler on the Android, the majority are much easier to do on WP.
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It me it seems the OS just gets out of the way more and lets me do what I want to do. With Android the OS kinda gets in the way of doing tasks more and doesn't let me just work without having to think about it. If that makes sense.
