travisel
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Those prices are wrong on the net! Like when the PS3 came out I sold 3 of them for $1000.00 each for a PS3 lol ....people always trying to rip someone off!
I really think you don't get it. The iPhone interface is so low brow. Live Tiles are like a fine wine. iPhone icons are like.. well Boone's Farm (if I'm not dating myself - no self abuse jokes please). If you have the apps you need on WP/M its an easy choice for those who can appreciate the finer things. No offense meant towards the iPhone masses.I completely understand the frustration of people who bought a 930 or who will say no to buying a 950 because for that price an iPhone is surely a better bet with all the Apps available.
I'm really torn at the price of the 950 that leaked it would be like 900 or so CAD and I cant spend that much I'd honestly prefer to buy a galaxy s6 at that price or just get a 640(or a working 830) for cheaper it's a matter of price for me as I've only ever had windows phones and I only run into a few instances where I dont have an app I need(plus side loading apps makes windows phone perfect for me now) so idk I like the 950 but I need to see how much it costs in Canada to decide fully
I'll have a look and see when windows 10 comes out fully and see what all there is to offer because I know I dont want another os on my phone but has the xiaomi rom been confirmed yet as actually going to come out?Best thing would be to run Win10 on a Xiaomi Mi4C with 3GB RAM/ 32GB ROM and SnapDragon 808 for $235, now that is a swell price And Xiaomi cameras are pretty decent as well.
Should I ever need to use an Android app (doubtful), I'll install it on one of those 'virtual Android' software packages for Windows in my notebook PC, and then just control it with my Lumia 625 via TeamViewer app. :wink:For those people complaining about the Apps not being available, I completely understand the logic for an Android or iOS device. However, there is a substantial population out there that cannot afford an iOS device nor can they afford the shiny new toys from Samsung, LG etc. For these people the cheaper devices from China - specifically Xiaomi are great. Also in the lower end hardware category the Lumia's are an excellent buy. I completely understand the frustration of people who bought a 930 or who will say no to buying a 950 because for that price an iPhone is surely a better bet with all the Apps available but in the sub $200 category I don't think the price to performance ratio of a Lumia can be beat.
And in the USA on the pre-paid bandwagon the Lumia 640 is a phenomenal buy.
I'll have a look and see when windows 10 comes out fully and see what all there is to offer because I know I dont want another os on my phone but has the xiaomi rom been confirmed yet as actually going to come out?
I really think you don't get it. The iPhone interface is so low brow. Live Tiles are like a fine wine. iPhone icons are like.. well Boone's Farm (if I'm not dating myself - no self abuse jokes please). If you have the apps you need on WP/M its an easy choice for those who can appreciate the finer things. No offense meant towards the iPhone masses.
I understand. I had friends who said similar things about wine: "why do you put up with having to find the corkscrew when Boone's Farm has a screw off cap?" You just have different ideas on what's important.What's the point of live tiles when one cannot apply any actions to them? At least Apple adds Force Touch on their icons now. If one need to use an app, he will launch the respective app eventually. We can hardly even read email message on the tiles, neither can we scroll to the next email on it. If there are new incoming Whatsapp messages, the tile simply show the number of unread messages. Icons do that as well. I don't see any benefits of using tiles that will attract masses over to Windows Phone. In fact, to the average consumers tiles are nothing but a messy chess board of squares and rectangles.
In fact, to the average consumers tiles are nothing but a messy chess board of squares and rectangles.
I need apps in order to continue to support the platform.
Making it easy for companies to port apps isn't going far enough. They still have to provide incentive to companies to port those apps and, so far, Microsoft hasn't communicated a clear strategy to the general public to make this happen. I think Microsoft should start paying developers monthly to port AND support apps as incentive to jump start the process and they should have started doing it MONTHS ago. The porting tools should have been finished MONTHS ago so that they could launch their new platform with a decent and building app catalog. As it stands today, they are launching with an app catalog on life support and tepid to no buzz among consumers.
Also, I believe the " no flagship phone" is a non-issue. Doesn't matter what your pushing. If I can't do my banking on your platform, I won't use your platform. It really is that simple.
So, bottom line, Microsoft needs to do a better job at pushing their platform through monetary incentives and then effectively communicating that those incentives are available to companies with an app presence on other platforms.
Since you can only have the crappy WM10 preview on your 1520 by taking steps to install it yourself, aren't you worried that someone will figure out how to install WM10 on the Nexus and you will have to then replace it?I am switching from the 1520 to Nexus 6 when the 64GB version drop in price. I am tired of Microsoft putting crappy release of Windows 10 mobile preview.
I really think you don't get it. The iPhone interface is so low brow. Live Tiles are like a fine wine. iPhone icons are like.. well Boone's Farm (if I'm not dating myself - no self abuse jokes please). If you have the apps you need on WP/M its an easy choice for those who can appreciate the finer things. No offense meant towards the iPhone masses.