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Lock Stock & Barrel
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I make a point of never being a guinea pig for Mr Gates and his latest raft of products. Happy with XP and Windows 7, and won't budge from them (or become an iDrone) until such time as the usual three years of norz, re-issues, re-re-release and patches have been ironed out.
Edited to add this from today's news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22439496
Edited to add this from today's news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22439496
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Lock Stock & Barrel
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We could say the same for Henry Ford, and yet he's still the one closely associated with [the brand of] the products he produced.
Cheers Fuzrat, just need to learn to shoot it well! Having been a Blackberry user for years I went down the iphone route, was ok for a while but seemed limiting. Got offered a Lumia 920 through work so thought I'd give it a go. Very nice phone, typical solid Nokia build quality and so far it integrates with my work stuff seamless, we use office 365 etc. Not sure I miss any of the iphone apps yet, just good to see what apps other people are using.
Thanks Matt, look forward to seeing what you have on yours.
Thanks Matt, look forward to seeing what you have on yours.
Little tip, if it happens to freeze on you obviously you can't just pull the battery out and switch on again as its sealed. Hold the down volume button and the on/off button down for 10 secs and it reboots. Mine did it a few weeks back and i crapped myself. Only problem is this resets the clock. Everything else stays good 
Right - sorry... things got a bit busy last night - lets have a look at what I am running on the phone now:
Board Express Pro - allows you to access this (and other) forum(s) in a nice Metro style
Spotify - good mobile client, with offline syncing (needs premium account)
TV Catchup - allows me to watch Pointless and Eggheads whilst waiting outside my sons Karate lesson
TV Guide + - figure out what you need to get home to watch - BUT ALSO do Sky + remote record
The British Airways App - very useful if you fly a lot, check in and manage your booking on your phone
BT Wifi app - allows you to find, login and use wifi on the move
Skype - W8 app is excellent
Facebook/LinkedIn - useful
Rowi for Twitter - can manage multiple accounts at once (@mattr / @ShootClay Admin / and more)
Audible for downloading and listening to audiobooks - very good
Dropbox viewer - I store everything in the cloud, allows me fill access to what I need
Photoroom - good for editing pictures from that amazing camera
Lomogram - some fun picture effects
Met Office - good weather forecasts from the guys that get it more right than most
Netflix - rent and watch video on the move
Games...I don't play many - but I like Bejeweled Live and Reactoids
Hope this helps - let me know what else you find...
Board Express Pro - allows you to access this (and other) forum(s) in a nice Metro style
Spotify - good mobile client, with offline syncing (needs premium account)
TV Catchup - allows me to watch Pointless and Eggheads whilst waiting outside my sons Karate lesson
TV Guide + - figure out what you need to get home to watch - BUT ALSO do Sky + remote record
The British Airways App - very useful if you fly a lot, check in and manage your booking on your phone
BT Wifi app - allows you to find, login and use wifi on the move
Skype - W8 app is excellent
Facebook/LinkedIn - useful
Rowi for Twitter - can manage multiple accounts at once (@mattr / @ShootClay Admin / and more)
Audible for downloading and listening to audiobooks - very good
Dropbox viewer - I store everything in the cloud, allows me fill access to what I need
Photoroom - good for editing pictures from that amazing camera
Lomogram - some fun picture effects
Met Office - good weather forecasts from the guys that get it more right than most
Netflix - rent and watch video on the move
Games...I don't play many - but I like Bejeweled Live and Reactoids
Hope this helps - let me know what else you find...
Oh - and I forgot Office, of course - couldn't live without having full Office on my phone - am also a Office 365 user (actually - I run support for O365 at MSFT) - but good to be able to move a document from laptop, to surface to phone to desktop PC and still have the same versions etc.
Well this is very interesting, erm we provide implementation services for SME's in particular O365 and we are in the ms partner program, although we do get the odd techie moment that needs resolving
So far I have these:
Skype
BA App
Weather Flow
Live Tile Agenda
Top Task List
Skyscanner
Translator
Trip Planner
O365
Not really in to games, a good shooting app for tracking scores, averages and results would be good
woody
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I'm using an HTC Windows 8 X. I like the phone, great camera etc. I don't find the xbox music store all that intuitive to get set up. I use a mac laptop at home and was a bit annoyed that my OS (10.5. 8) could not handle the application for moving itunes music without upgrading to 10.7. Hey Ho, above all a quality phone, and live tiles are excellent for setting up a phone exactly how you want it.
Agreed - Xbox Music has not been implemented well - the business model is good, 9.99 per month all you can eat music - but getting music onto the phone is not fool proof... I tend to just download music when I am connected to wifi - it's fiddly, but seems to work.
Agree that mac support is not good - I'd expect that to be improved.
