Recent content by MattAllison

Here's why the success/failure of WP matters to me. I don't look at my phone as a gaming platform. Sure, that's a nice side benefit sometimes (<1 hour/week), but mostly it's about productivity. E-mail and calendaring is very important, and WP does it better than Android and iOS by a large...

In the same boat. Sometimes it works which surprises me. Text replies via keyboard are stuck at "connecting" and voice seems to not realize that Bluetooth is, in fact, turned on and nearby.

Thanks Jay! Having clear justification for this type of thing is part of me selecting an application. There is still some level of inherent trust in getting an application from somebody ("generate BitCoins" is still not a visible permission to watch for :smile:), but I frequently see...

I understand that to some degree however I expect much better from a paid application. I seem to remember a conversation thread on one of the articles about the app basically asking why the app wasn't free and the answer was to fund the development of the application. I can completely agree...

I would run off and buy the WPCentral app in a hot minute if you could explain to me why the application requires all of the permissions that it does. Here's the list and my (sarcastic but well-intentioned for the purpose of people thinking about security) questions in specific: owner identity...

I have 2 phones (work and personal) both HTC 8x on Verizon, both upgraded to 8.1. One of them seems to download podcasts just fine, the other is stuck at "waiting for wi-fi" and won't download. Have tried everything shy of factory reset.

Here maps - for whatever reason - doesn't display traffic for me. Tried it on two devices with the same result. Tried in 4 states (California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada). No es bueno. For Drive, the ability to suggest routes based on traffic would be nice. Perhaps integrate with something...

I have the exact same problem (HTC 8x FWIW). I noticed it this morning, but it probably started mid-day on Monday. Mail works fine on Windows RT, and Outlook.com. Changing sync settings (frequency, how far back to sync) doesn't seem to work. Disabling mail sync and then re-enabling it also...