(Official) What WP needs to succeed

[codehelix solutions]

1. Improved notification / notification center
2. Tiles that can be interacted with ( e.g. like widgets in android )
3. Option to have status bar at the top to not auto-hide
4. See battery usage at the app level
5. Kill apps from a running app list
6. Open up access to SMS/Calendars ( edit/delete )
7. Built in grouping of tiles / pages
8. Support left swipe from home screen to show a notification center or other feature
9. Improve the speech recognition/commands
10. Easier access to voice mails
11. Inter-application communication ( allow apps to share their data with other apps )
( this would enable a todo list to share data with a calendar app )


- Kishore

 

[RN50]

1 - Sort out the bloody volume and have it separate so i don't have to keep changing it to watch a clip on youtube.
2 - Notification Centre would be great. Maybe a left swipe from the home screen or even lock screen.
3 - Folders i don't like clutter and when u have over 30 apps on the home screen it looks a mess.
4 - App offical Apps. Hate these third party rubbish.
5 - Better front facing camera.

 

[Paedin]

1. - Black color theme so I dont have to to High Contrast
2. - Desktop dock mode. The phone is so pretty and im at my desk 12 hours a day. Would love to just be able to unlock my phone, throw it in a desktop dock and have it be pretty on my desk all day long. Rotating tiles, pictures etc.
3. - Notification center - nuff said
4. - Native battery % number on the status bar. Why this isnt there I have 0 idea whatsoever
5. - Push notification for app updates. - Wish there was a push notification that happened when installed apps receive updates.

 

[usman zafar]

Custom themes for nokia luma 520 or all wp8 phones. with custom notification tones. WP8 allowing the applications like viber whatsapp and facebook to access the settings for changing the notification tunes. right now the custom notification tone sucks big time and i contacted the official of whatsapp and viber they asked me to give the access to the piece or area of wp8 where they can customize the notification tone. apps integration is must. if wp want to succeed then they must make the ui acceptable and adjustable like android. NEW FEATURES.

 

[Usman Mubashir]

WP needs a killer feature that others cannot offer...
MS needs to start making apps for Desktop W8 like Photoshop and Visual Studios.
Then link them to WP8 with smaller remote apps.
So when I launch a Photoshop Remote app on my Lumia the program will launch on my PC which is asleep at my home.
Both the phone and computer are connected to each other via internet.
I use small shortcuts on remote app to use power of my PC right on my phone.
A feature Google and Apple won't/can't benefit much from.

I don't think there is much hassle in setting up something like this, it will certainly blast WP across Apple.

please vote here
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/f...gestions/4509481-hardcore-desktop-integration

 

[Usman Mubashir]

your english is nice, how about this type of apps?
Hardcore Desktop Integration

 

[E Lizzle]

It needs the ability to have your apps installed on 82 devices.

 

[Boris Lozac]

Can't find a general Amber thread so i'll just put this here. They need to pull theirselves together and fix these damn bugs, especially notable after Amber update. What is this OS, an Alpha?
Every other day my screen won't turn on during Alarm, every now and then screen gets confused, after hanging up the conversation for example, screen goes white and only soft reset can unblock it.. Seriously..

 

[OberstDanjeje]

Maybe it's time for an hard reset.
Never heard such issue after Amber update

 

[Boris Lozac]

Already done hard reset after Amber.

 

[mclark2112]

With VPN, and a proper RDP client, I would be back tot he platform. Or just Logmein, that would be fine too.

 

[Jerry Reyes]

I didn't read through the whole section, but I want to suggest and Airplay like option. That allows me to share my photos, and videos on the TV. And watch Videos onlines. I use to do this with my old iphone 5. Now i just say look at this. Oh well.

It's doable, via xBox.

 

[jlynnm350z]

What Windows needs to succeed is sales! People need to buy millions and millions of Windows phones. Thankyou

 

[bricky23]

^ ^ Now that's funny lol :wink:

Can't find a general Amber thread so i'll just put this here. They need to pull theirselves together and fix these damn bugs, especially notable after Amber update. What is this OS, an Alpha?
Every other day my screen won't turn on during Alarm, every now and then screen gets confused, after hanging up the conversation for example, screen goes white and only soft reset can unblock it.. Seriously..

I haven't had any of those problems. But I do agree that the first thing that they need to do, is get rid of the bugs. Make it flawless. Then it will sell. I just switched back to a nameless os. And I miss my 1020 already. But I don't miss the few times when it did not do what it was supposed to. It is a young os. I remember when Android and ios first came out. They were very frustrating. Had to restart my first iphone daily, or more. Windows phone will get better. And when it does, I WILL BE BACK!

 

[brunoadduarte]

Ok, so this is at a risk of becoming a wall of text but bare with me.

1st - A UI overhaul to support real multitasking and a decent way to make use of that multitasking. As far as I'm concerned NONE of the top three OS have a simple or pleasurable enough multitasking UI. But that's my opinion being biased by my use of the Nokia N9... As far as I'm concerned, as long as something exactly like that doesn't come along, no multitasking will ever be good enough (ever);

2nd - A notification centre that doesn't look like the thing that has been appearing on the screenshots. As it looks, it just seems like an app that we open and close, making us lose focus of what we were previously doing. The notification centre must be something we can open while navigating an app and close without ever actually leaving said app. The iOS and Android versions are good, but are not what I envisioned for WP;

3rd - Merge WP with Windows and make them work well together. My dream is having something like the Padfone with Windows. I have my phone, but I can insert it in a bigger screen, attach said screen to a keyboard and have the full Windows UI experience and the same apps on their desktop versions. I eliminates the need to have three devices when you can only have two (PC or laptop + tablet + phone vs PC or laptop + padfone);

4th - Change the notion that MS is for nerds once and for all! Marketing has to be aggressive about this. As it is, having a WP isn't seen as cool... What we can do with it is cool, but having it isn't;

5th - Another UI overhaul to make WP look more like Windows 8. It's more colourful and still maintains a good dose of contrast;

6th - Marketing 2.0. Use it and abuse it. Make it look like Windows and WP belong together and that even if we could live without them, we wouldn't want to;

7th - Some degree of file exploring. I'm not begging to use my phone as my flash drive, but being able to attach documents to my e-mails without being forced to send them to Skydrive first would be nice and something that should already be in the phone by default (seriously, this is stupid);

8th - Media syncing with our PCs through wi-fi without being forced to use Skydrive. It's more direct and faster;

There may be more, but I'm not remembering it right now...

 

[justSomeGuyOnWPcentral]

This would attract a lot more people
Windows Phone's background can be replaced with a picture

 

[Divair]

It needs cooperation from carriers. Like this:
Meet your new Windows Phone @ Telstra - YouTube

It needs more mass marketing. Like this:
deadmau5 lights up London with amazing 4D projection - NOKIA Lumia Live - YouTube


Those are the two big things WP needs to succeed.

 

[alexander bontempo]

1- posibility to instal aplication on SD card ( really realy important implementation you should consider to).
2- file atachment to mail
3- volume diferencial for aplication and for phone. you shoul change te speacker volume of an aplication without change te volume of entire phone.
4-posibility to change the color of every tile, in order to create a personal colore code that helps to find the aplication rapidlly in the start menu, without need of external aplication.

 

[Nishant Sirohi]

as the New version of WP is likely to support 1080p screen resolutions, we badly need qHD (960 x 540 pixels) resolutions for amazing mid range devices.
The minimum of 800 x 480 currently is actually good enough else the low end screens with 320 x 240 look horrible.
And of course the usual gripes that are to be sorted are
1- notification center, with connectivity toggles, and battery percentage display
2- file manager
3- support for notification lights (there is so much fun that can be had with those with the glowing tiles, just take a look at the glow bar on xperia U)
4- more companies, why not LG and Sony in the party.
5- third party keyboards
6- app drawer options, not the default list type.
7- Setting up Wallpapers ... please
8- multiple types of tile sizes, currently its only 1x1, 2x2 and 2x4, why not other sizes, this will add more fun and functionality, of course the type of app can restrict the tile size
9- the phone tile should open up the numeric dialer by default and it should support smart dial

 

[enqueue]

I think, WP needs to be more open regarding internet services. This will make transitioning from other "ecospheres" less painful for users.

1. Messaging: Support any XMPP compatible account, possibly provide gateways for iMessage, BBM. I know, this might be difficult and neither Apple nor Blackberry have any interest in opening up interfaces, but a fully integrated experience trumps any third-party stuff. Do we really need a separate Skype app?

2. Email, Calendar, Contacts: Support CalDAV, CardDAV for non-Google accounts. Many private users or companies use groupware applications that usually expose these interfaces. Currently, only Exchange users benefit from a nicely integrated solution.

3. Storage: Currently, we are limited to SkyDrive. It would be nice to be able to use our own WebDAV server.

I don't have a problem with MS' cloud offerings (Outlook.com, etc.), but many users already have their own infrastructure in place or rely on other providers. MS should make it easy for these users to switch to WP as a mobile platform without forcing them to migrate to MS based internet services.