Re: Initial thoughts on Developer Preview of WP8.1
Very happy camper here!
I am confused by all the posts about Xbox music being slow, mine is totally fine after initially having to find all my music. Maybe because I store almost no music on my phone, it's mostly collections stored in my xbox account? Anyway, feeling bad for those that are so unhappy with it.
The FB integration loss, also feeling bad for folks. I dumped FB last year and don't miss it a bit, but I always thought the integration in WP was really great.
Cortana took a while and a soft reset or two to show up, but I have been having a great time with it. I LOVE BEING ABLE TO ADD A CALENDAR ITEM WITH VOICE. <3 <3 <3. REMINDERS HUGE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
One bug with Cortana that I noticed: when bluetooth is on in my device, Cortana is totally deaf, cannot seem to hear or comprehend a thing that I say. Turn off bluetooth, and Cortana is fine.
The wallpaper option is cool but I think it works best with non-photo images. I have been using the app Wallpaper Patterns and have found some great stuff for it there. Also--is there an app that lets me create a blank but transparent tile? I would pay some money for that, for sure....WizTiles, please send out an update with that, stat!
I also never thought I would say this, as I thought a notification/action center seemed redundant with live tiles, but no: It's good. Really good. I love it, especially the shortcut from there to all Settings, that is awesome.
One strong dislike--cannot share photos to OneDrive, unless you set the default setting to upload everything? Yerks. I don't keep forever every single photo I take, now I have to manage them in two places at once? DISLIKE. I would have included a screenshot of my current phone screen so you could see how nice Wallpaper Patterns stuff can be, but apparently the screenshots folder is the one folder that does NOT auto upload to OneDrive. So they are basically stranded on my phone now, unless someone knows a workaround that doesn't involve emailing images anywhere. :straight:
So far, though I am loving 8.1.