Recent content by derrieger

Agreeing to call it a (very) good smartphone, I cannot say that it's the best out there. The battery is a downside, also it gets quite warm under cpu pressure. It definitely lacks a fingerprint sensor, too. And it's still a quite bit away from being perfect on the software side, but I still...

If I recall correctly, MS stated that they'd rather leave it to "the developer community" to bring up decent FM radio apps, because they'd do a much better job. I've got a very simple one, called 'Windows FM Radio'.

To be fair, 'Scorpio' was just a name for a project. The first iPhone was called 'Purple', imagine they had launched it as 'Apple Purple Phone'. XD The 'One S' also follows the Apple scheme of adding a simple 'S' to hardware revisions of the same model. For the 'X', they couldn't have named it a...

I doubt this was the intention as MS isn't good at naming, at all. But yes, (X)(B)ox(O)ne(X) spells XBOX. At least, they didn't stick to "Scorpio" which reminds me of the villain in a "Simpsons" episode: "He loves German beeeer."

I would never argue against Android being famous which is also irrelevant to the topic. Just because something can be implemented doesn't mean it adds to the product. Like the "wallpaper unlock pattern" where one has to draw lines and circles on a picture. If you think for a while you might be...

Well, I do both since my mobile Edge doesn't have an ad-blocker while the desktop browser does have one.

Reason #1 : The 'S' in 'pattern' stands for 'safe'. Reason #2 : Android offers everything. Which is its Curse and Blessing at the same time. You can have a plethora of everything in every way, and personally I find it more confusing and annoying than helpful. So just because it's there doesn't...

You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally, Marty! Once you hit 2018 headed directly at that Microsoft event, those Lumias won't even be there. :grin:

Of course, MS will just fight shy of supporting these "legacy" devices by coming up with an obscure excuse á la "We attempt to deliver the bestestest experience for our customers".

Call me a pessimist on this topic but I do think, there's a difference between "runs on" and "is officially being rolled out to". W10M did run on a number of devices it was later not supported on. But as we say in Germany, "hope dies last".

Joyn, Rich Communication Services or Message+ is the follow-up technology to SMS and MMS which literally nobody is using. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services to read more.

I'm excited to hear how Panos Panay will sell this phone as "Surface Totally-not-a-phone". This could become funny.

Cool, thanks for that hint. This one bugged me a little bit, too.

Well, for me the question shouldn't be *why* but *when* will Type C be an important thing. Of course, not today when literally everything USB is done by Type A oder Micro. But Surface devices have a life cycle that reaches beyond today. So, to be able to use it in a convenient way in 2018 oder...

Are you sure about the SD card being responsible for the behaviour of your phone? I also had crashes and thought they might be caused by the (Sandisk^^) card. Formatting and even exchanging it for another model did not solve the problem. But let's assume, your SD card causes the problems, you...