Notification Center, VPN, Separate Volume Control..

[Loco5150]

They should put the battery % to the top bar.

 

[link68759]

...the whole point of a live tile is that you don't have to click on it to get an updated value.

Almost- the point of live tiles is information at a glance where you don't have to open the app to get your information. This didn't quite pan out in practice though- the only thing that you don't need to open is weather, a couple of random things (like sunrise/moonrise times) and sometimes battery. It could and should be improved, I was just noting that the battery tile is pretty much the only thing that suffers from 20minute delays, and it isn't even that big of a deal at all. Plus many tiles actually use push, which are in fact instantaneous.

I do hope that Cortana is voice activated. It's much easier to say 'Cortana, turn on an alarm for 8am' from wherever the phone is, opposed to holding the Winkey and then saying the voice command. I'd be fine if you hold the button on older devices, but new devices like Goldfinger and Moneypenny should definitely have her 'always on' and ready to listen at moment's notice.

Plus, the name is just damn cool.

Agreed. And the Win key needs to be held for wayyyy too long. It's a solid five seconds that you hold down the button before the voice prompt pops up, which is ridiculous.

 

[Rem97]

Almost- the point of live tiles is information at a glance where you don't have to open the app to get your information. This didn't quite pan out in practice though- the only thing that you don't need to open is weather, a couple of random things (like sunrise/moonrise times) and sometimes battery. It could and should be improved, I was just noting that the battery tile is pretty much the only thing that suffers from 20minute delays, and it isn't even that big of a deal at all. Plus many tiles actually use push, which are in fact instantaneous.

Agreed. The current live tile system on WP isn't very useful, well at least not for me. When I check my live tiles, I'm usually waiting about 7 seconds before they flip to show more info, which is too long imo. I think in WP8.1 live tiles need to be more like W8.1 live tiles.

 

[link68759]

Agreed. The current live tile system on WP isn't very useful, well at least not for me. When I check my live tiles, I'm usually waiting about 7 seconds before they flip to show more info, which is too long imo. I think in WP8.1 live tiles need to be more like W8.1 live tiles.

That's actually most likely the developer's fault, not WP's

 

[MikeSo]

Your main concern isnt justified, just look at the (vibrate/ Vibrate+ring) (backward, play, forward) they are all made the same way, although weirdly they are all squares rather than circles.

It says "Choose your quick access settings" in the screenshot, so I hope you're right!

 

[vakama94]

Windows button as notification light, Pull down notification center and Swype keyboard are musts. Also Cortana along with Bing Services aka functional (not NSA pervasive like Google Now) assistant would be awesome. Get me a Swype keyboard though and I would really never go back to TiRED OS and Android!

I agree with all of this. A swype keyboard would be awesome and the Windows logo as a notification light seems like a nice idea too







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[Dush Ku]

Hopefully the mail app will let you sync different folders for different lengths of time, rather than one history setting for the whole thing.