Recent content by Felix Wong

My Surface Pro 4's battery degraded by 17% in 1.5 years and now the battery lasts only about 4 hours with mixed use and wi-fi on. It's enough to cause "range anxiety." Auxiliary battery options to alleviate such anxiety are also limited due to using a 12V proprietary power connector instead of...

Oh, now that I am thinking of what else could make Windows 10 even better for tablet use, I would wish for: Implement Word Flow (swiping) on the virtual keyboard as in W10M Give a voice input option for the keyboard as in W10M Allow full-screen mode in Edge. I know you can already do this by...

I've been using Windows tablets since the Surface R/T. Currently, I have a Surface Pro 4, which I use as a tablet close to 50% of the time, mostly while riding a recumbent bicycle on a trainer in the basement or consuming media on the sofa, chair or bed. In those cases, the kickstand is in the...

I primarily use my Lumia 640 XL as a bicycle computer using the excellent Cycle Tracks app. The phone is mounted to aerobars with a custom 3D-printed phone mount I designed. Note that the Cycle Tracks app uses GPS only so no SIM card or cell phone plan is needed. On longer, organized...

The leather band replacement was GENIUS! Nice work! For those who are interested in a less radical repair, I've had good success using Sugru. Sugru is a moldable glue (like playdough) that dries into rubber that is of the same color, texture and feel as the Microsoft Band. I made a quick...

Like Anthony, I fly a lot and have not printed a boarding pass in years despite using a Windows phone without airline apps. I used the screenshot method as well. Even have done so a lot for Frontier which explicitly states on the boarding pass page, "Unless you are utilizing the Frontier...

I suppose after the Education/Windows 10 S event, having the ability to purchase ebooks from the Windows Store and read them in Edge makes more sense as to why Microsoft released this feature. Students are going to have to acquire and read ebooks somehow, especially if the Kindle app doesn't...

Your original question was to EliteMikes, but here's a photo of SquareHome 2 launcher's live tiles on my Moto G4: It is free, has no ads, and I do not have any of the premium features installed. Even without them, it can make Android's UI look and feel very similar to Windows phones. To be...

I would like Microsoft to do the same too. In the meantime, there is the free SquareHome launcher which makes my Moto G4's UI look and feel very similar to my Windows phones. Except the "live tiles" using SquareHome are actually a lot more robust and configurable than with Windows 10 Mobile...

I checked out the new ebook feature in Microsoft Edge that came with the Creator's Update---even purchased one of the $1.99 titles from the Windows store to do so. It looks good albeit Spartan; e.g., there's no highlighting, annotation or sharing features. Read Aloud, along with the ability to...

In April 2017, I am still using a Lumia 640 XL as a daily driver. One reason is its camera: it still is outperforming brand new $200 Android phones, especially in low light. For example, I have a 2016 Moto G4 which was lauded as having "the best camera in its class," and while its daylight...

I've left four or five different USB wall chargers plugged into the wall outlets 100% of the time for the last two years or so for convenience. Never had a problem with any. Also, as a sidenote, when I measured the current draw using a Kill-A-Watt device when no phone was connected to the USB...

Once you do get the SIM card out, attach a tab (use, for example, a small strip of packaging tape) to it so in the future you can easily pull it out. E.g., like this:

Re: Best WM10 RSS Readers NextGen Reader! (note the '!' at the end for the new Windows 10 UWP app) is from the Windows store now. Looks great--like the old one, but with much better scaling and the addition of being able to manage the Feedly feeds now. Also released today is this new "iNi...

Upon further research, it appears that the random shutting off (and subsequent "battery died error" despite having lots of battery left) has been a common problem with the Microsoft Band 2 for a long time, not just since the last firmware updates. There are several threads in...