Recent content by Pinecone1532

I just set my MS account up as an exchange account on my adroid phone and that seemed to work in importing the contacts

Have a few pointers which might hep in dealing with the issues you're having: Try WP8 launcher. You can add a calendar widget to the home screen in a tile, it also has live tiles for the contacts and photo gallery and will display the number of notifications for pinned apps in the same way WP...

I know of Ultimate Car Dock which allows hands free response to texts but idk if its the same in functionality terms, or if Google Now can do the same thing. I don't even really know what Cortana can and cannot do (I turned Cortana off as soon as my phone got 8.1 on it and have never used it) so...

Thanks, setting it as an exchange account (or a "corporate" account as Android calls it) worked, so they're all there now. It hasn't been as difficult as I'd expected to set everything up, and apart from the google calendar app I've managed to avoid using any google services for the most part.

Has anybody else moved over to Android but tried to avoid google services/kept using existing MS services? I'm kind of having a problem, because literally all of my phone contacts are saved to my Outlook account because that's just how WP8 did it. Even though Android is apparently set up to sync...

If only that's how it worked. Snapchat and tinder rely on their respective apps, there's no web version of them. Granted Tinder isn't an issue since 6tin does the job perfectly well, but the point still stands.

I'm not too fussed about things like auto-upload to onedrive (I have that turned off, and I'd actually rather my photos didn't auto-upload anywhere tbh, given I'm on relatively limited data) and having Cortana at the touch of a button (never use Cortana anyway). I'm only really interested in...

Hi folks. So I'm sadly having to think of switching over from WP to Android, and my question is how I can get as close to the WP experience as possible when I do. Thing is I absolutely love WP's UI (especially the start screen, in comparison to which android seems really bland) but I need apps...