Recent content by Raymond Lavertue

Re: Phone Crisis: Lumia 640 Lock screen outlined in yellow, can't unlock/gain access Brilliant. Effective, with narrator turned off and access to phone regained on first attempt. Thank you so much, Guytronic. I'm curious why enabling the narrator and the yellow outline, which I understand...

Phone Crisis: Lumia 640 Lock screen outlined in yellow, can't unlock/gain access I can't get past the lock screen on my Lumia 640. I try to slide it up to access the PIN entry pad and it doesn't respond. I was in the settings area earlier and must have enabled some kind of voice narration --...

Thank you RumoredNow. No, high contrast was not enabled. Enabling put a bold white border/outline around each tile. I turned it off again.

Most of the Microsoft app tiles on my phone are white, wherever there is meant to be color, including Cortana, but not all. The OneNote tile is white with a solid purple background. Non-Microsoft apps which apparently don't feature a transparent background have varying colors. I would like to...

I have to buy a printer. Is there a best one for use with the Surface 3 and why? I generally find all printers to be flawed in design and overpriced. I wish Microsoft would design one. I wonder what model printer Microsoft supplies its staff with?

There are so many important issues touched on in this thread. Americans are losing out with CDMA phones. The link between cellular service and phone purchase should be severed, or at least totally optional. And if you do try to purchase a GSM unlocked phone online from a non-carrier it should...

What I understand is that Microsoft is going to focus on releasing six mobile phones a year for two years, cutting back the array of Lumias on the market. This will make every release an event. After all how many phones does Apple release per year? After two years they will asseess. By then...

You summed it up nicely. I may be childishly idealistic but I can't give my money to a company that blatantly attempts to lure people with a misrepresentation. I know my returning one card means nothing in the grand scheme of corporate behavior, but keeping it would haunt me.

A SanDisk Ultra microSDHC UHS-I Card that I ordered to use with my Microsoft Lumia 640 finally arrived today. Under the name/type of card on the front of the package it states: "Ideal for Android (TM) -powered and other smartphones and tablets" And there on the package, waving from behind...

I've finally unboxed my 640 after 4 days since it was delivered. I opted for the reset option which apparently imported apps and settings from my smaller Lumina 635. All of the app tiles on my 640 are shifted to the left side of the screen and there is an empty strip of black on the entire...

Definitely not. I don't see any logic to it. I moved away from Android because I don't like it and prefer Windows mobile, not necessarily for the hardware, though that is very good. I dislike Android however its disguised. My last Android tablet was an Asus with a Zen UI and it was awful. Huawei...

I haven't unboxed my 640 yet. I purchased it at the Microsoft Store online for $129.00. I'm now wondering if it would be wise to return it and buy elsewhere. The free flourescent yellow Nokia headphones that came with the order were a nice gesture but are assuredly not an incentive for me to...

I'm trying to switch to the Bing search engine on my new Surface 3 after using Opera for some time but I don't want MSN as my homepage. How can I set Bing as my homepage instead? Is it possible to eliminate the banner of primarily inane and pointless MSN idiocy-news that seems to run along the...

Thank you Laura. I would like to find a definite answer regarding why my 635 doesn't have Cortana. My new 640 has been delivered. I will be unboxing it after I have a cup of coffee.

It seems that my international version Lumina 635 has Speech functionality, but not Cortana. If it wasn't 12:12 a.m. PDT I would inbox my Microsoft Store purchased 640. Thank you again, Laura.