Recent content by THE_Lawnboy

  1. THE_Lawnboy

    Which XBox One Game?

    Always has been and always will be World of Tanks.
  2. THE_Lawnboy

    Does anyone use notifications?

    I don't draw a distinction between mobile or desktop - it's all a real-time portal into what's going on in the world. Therefore I want the same notification functionality, with the same apps, on both PC and mobile. It's a big reason I think a future Surface device that runs WOA and takes full...
  3. THE_Lawnboy

    MS trying to shove Edge down peoples' throats

    Not sure what all the hoopla is about. I built a NUC about 3 months ago and have bent over backwards to not install legacy .exe crapware on it. The only Win32 apps installed so far is the Office suite. I have used Edge exclusively on it - I don't even have Chrome installed. The only plugin I...
  4. THE_Lawnboy

    Positive Windows phone news thread

    Which is why I don't spend much time on the r/windowsphone subreddit anymore and prefer the clean, no-nonsense, "just the facts, ma'am" of the r/Windows10m sub. Wow - that looks nothing like an S8. If Sammy launched anything other than an actual S8 (HAS to have that Infinity display) running...
  5. THE_Lawnboy

    Company of Win10Mobile fans that was supposed to be making a phone?

    Wharton Brooks is the name of the company and Cerulean Mobile is the name of the product line. There was an update on them just the other day that someone posted a link to on the Reddit sub r/Windows10m.
  6. THE_Lawnboy

    Newer builds on a Stream 7

    I am in the process of trying to install 10166 on my Stream 7 and the installation appears to have stalled. The last time I saw anything on the screen, it was the circular % diagram indicating something around 40% of the files had been copied. The next time I looked at it, the screen was...
  7. THE_Lawnboy

    Got my hands on a rare yellow Nokia back cover!

    Is it fluorescent yellow? That's how it looks in the pics. If so, that's EXTREMELY cool.
  8. THE_Lawnboy

    FCC Chairman states outright: they plan to classify internet access as a utility

    Perhaps even Democrats are realizing this is a very bad idea. http://www.forbes.com/sites/halsinger/2015/02/24/a-political-miscalculation-on-net-neutrality/
  9. THE_Lawnboy

    WP 8.1 Bugs and Defects

    Re: Bugs and Defects I think I may have experienced that one this past week. I was shooting some video of a ceremony at a school. When the person I wanted to video was about to walk across the stage, I pressed the start button. Later, when I went to watch the video, the person's name had...
  10. THE_Lawnboy

    What is your perfect device?

    A slightly smaller 1520, say 5.5" 1080p or higher, with 32GB, built in charging, xenon flash, and some new break through battery tech to double the capacity given the same space constraints. And wrap it all in that hot lime green Elop was flaunting.
  11. THE_Lawnboy

    Expectations vs Reality for Windows Phone 8.1

    What brought Android to supremacy was Google giving their **** away for free.
  12. THE_Lawnboy

    The annoyance of limiting background tasks....

    I am curious about this too. Very annoying to be greeted by that dialog every time you open an app. Something must be done about this if WP ever wants to take serious chunks of market share from Android and iOS. Your average consumer playing with a Lumia in the phone store is going to take...