Recent content by Michael Bromley

thanks for your thought. I'm afraid so, which reduces the value of this device as a daily driver.

Does that movement at the bottom risk cracking the screen? With the bumper the screens don't fold flat.

Any thoughts on how to avoid cracked screens on the Duo? I haven't had a screen break in 8 years. Bought this thing in October, and I've had 2 screen cracks in 2 months, and none were the result of any particular event (such as that of my last screen crack 8 years ago when I dropped by Lumia...

USB-C connection to external monitor works fine on my Surface Go (1) but it does not work via a USBC hub extender. Anyone have one that works? Mine, some Amazon jobbie, "Syntech" won't allow the connection.

I went into an AT&T store to check it out, and for the first time in my experience with a Windows Phone the clerk was excited to show it to me. He said it's the product that has the most excitement in his store.

Huge problem for me, as well. I have a 20 yo library of local music and playlists that would be impossible to recreate. When MS abandoned Groove streaming, they arranged to move music, including existing playlists to Spotify. But that was a one-time function, and Spotify stopped syncing with the...

Ditto on your experiences w/ OneNote and Kindle. In fact, the dual-screen w/ hinge makes it truly seem like two facing pages of a book, unlike on a Kindle PC app. I simply couldn't bear to read Kindle on my iPhone -- to small, no idea where on the page I was, etc. I am rather thrilled by the...

Having gone w/ an iPhone 8 after leaving beloved WMP, tops on my list of pathetically missing features on the iPhone were 1) back button; 2) keyboard swipe; 3) SMS cursor placement; 4) backspace on keyboard Lots of other complaints, such as idiotic dispersion of settings between General and...

I'm coming to terms w/ Cortana's limited functionality on IOS, but the one thing that drives me nuts is that I can't change the default browser from Safari to Edge when Cortana sends me to the web. Any suggestions on that one?

IE on iPhone 8 works for me. Since IOS settings are obtuse, you may wish to check all the various settings in Settings, IE, and OneDrive (maybe?). Anyway, Favorites is working for me.

Just made the jump into IOS. Ugh. The one thing that drives me nuts the most is the absence of the back space on the keyboard. That and no keyboard swipe. I see that I have to use an app for that, which is pathetic. The strength of WMP was likely due to its weakness in the apps deficit...

Please keep us updated here as to how this works out for you. Just yesterday I had to leave my beloved WMP10 (Idol 4S) and just can't give myself to Google, so bought an iPhone 8. I'm not seeing much if any benefit to Cortana on this phone -- it can't even add anything to MS apps like To Do or...

did you ever resolve your charging issue w/ Idol S4? Have had mine for 1.5 yrs and it's been a workhorse, but it just started not charging. Have switched cables, plugs, soft re-boot and finally even a hard reset, still an issue. Also cleaned out the port w/ a swab, was dirty in there but to no...

I had this problem in March/April 2019 after having updated to 1809 and running a few more updates after that. Edge favorites stopped disappared and I could get them to sync. MS support had me add them manually but that 1) sucks; 2) doesn't sync across devices. This old article May 2017...

Still using S4. I got another line for an android to test it out and I really have used it. Drives me nuts. MS created so much value within the OS that are only deliverer by apps on Android that Id say the "app gap" is in the Android side. Won't ever use an iPhone, but I know that's got far more...