Sell me W10M! What does it do better than WP8.1?

[mariusmuntean]

I tried downloading maps to sd card and it was really slow, so I left it over night. Started at around 9 and I get up at 4,and after all that time it probably wasn't 1/3 of the way complete, so I just canceled it and gave up. The phone is a 640 that I got at Walmart for 30 dollars and updated to windows 10.

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I've tried the same on a 950. Downloading maps was very slow on both microSD and on internal storage...poor wifi performance...buggy OS. On WP8.1 the download speed is blazing fast.

 

[eusty]

Did you hard reset when you installed? I want to update my 640 but without a hard reset...

I just bought a 640 XL basically to try out a few things.

After setting it up and installing the insider app I upgraded to W10. I had a few strange issue with my account, nothing in the people app, email and calendar were empty even though when you checked Settings>Accounts everything was there.

Hard reset and everything was fine.

So there is a possibility you might want to hard reset. Not an issue but it takes ages!!

 

[Galway 77]

Probably a slow SD card, or your network?
A class 10 card is recommended.

It's a 64 gb samsung class 10, and my wifi at home is good. I'm using the phone on wifi only with no Sim unless that has something to do with it?

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[ttsoldier]

I have to agree that the Photo app is better in 10.

If I open a photo in the photos app, then hit back, the "select" option s gone. Happened on different phones (both 640)with different os versions.

Fun fact. Its 2016 and I dont have a "reboot" option on my phone. Really?

 

[eusty]

If I open a photo in the photos app, then hit back, the "select" option s gone. Happened on different phones (both 640)with different os versions.

Just tried it and it seems OK? 640 XL LTE, 10586.107

 

[arn6735]

we have 3 640's n 1 XL and never experienced like that...feel bad on you man.:.(

 

[arn6735]

i thought only tmo had a wifi calling. i have an att running wm10 unlocked using Mpcs, but i can't find wifi calling. I'd read in the other thread to flash Tmo ROM to enable wifi calling if i'm right.

 

[Joseph Avena]

one thing that gets me when you text and type someone's name why does it retrieve all their numbers, should only retrieve the mobile numbers.

 

[Joseph Avena]

The Outlook app sucks if you compare it to the iOS version. You can't even create a folder to file your emails

 

[Joseph Avena]

Hamburger Menu....why. Just go to any site that has a corresponding Mobile interface a you will see that navigation is done by a Hamburger Menu. What does this mean....If Mobile website is working correctly then no need for separate apps hence less cost to those that want to be on mobile.

 

[Dewg]

The #1 reason is Universal Apps. The framework for apps changed in Windows 10 and developers are focusing on the new W10 Universal Apps.

 

[wisedesi]

Like the new maps better than the here maps specially for driving direction. I uninstalled the here drive and maps.

 

[Kram Sacul]

Hamburger Menu....why. Just go to any site that has a corresponding Mobile interface a you will see that navigation is done by a Hamburger Menu. What does this mean....If Mobile website is working correctly then no need for separate apps hence less cost to those that want to be on mobile.

Supposedly so lazy developers can just port their badly designed Android apps to W10M without changing the UI that much. Most of the apps on W10M are basically glorified web wrappers (News, Sports, Weather, etc)

 

[Riopato]

Look forward to enjoying buggy apps constantly crashing due to Windows 10 mobile OS. I love the way my 950XL's screen constantly glitches every time I rotate the screen

 

[Marius Edoardo]

Well, what I find in W10 is the background, better and faster than W8.1. For example, in 8.1 if I opened a music app like deezer or Spotify and want to go back there is the annoying "Resuming" screen but in 10 this screen is nearly dead, and I'm talking about a L535, not even a high end device. And this go to every single app.

 

[Jarno Vihervaara]

win10 has built-in intelligent camera filter that saves up disk space and uploads. If it doesnt like the image found in viewfinder, it'll close the app automatically. And alarm doesnt always wake you up if you're having awesome dream!

 

[M7H]

the inability of Outlook to provide for auto bccing oneself is pretty pathetic on a so-called "business phone".

You are sending emails to your self?
Ever heard of the abillity to save emails in the "sent" box?

Also the machine is painfully slow at times.

It's been a few days, is it still slow sometimes?

 

[pallentx]

There are numerous things I prefer on 10.
Groove music is better than Music.
I prefer the text look of 10 in the UI
Scaling, more tiles on home
Improved notification center - ability to reply to text from the notification, etc...
Hello on my 950
I prefer the W10 version of most of the built-in apps

The biggest feature, as others have mentioned, is access to the new W10 universal apps. This is where all new app development will be going in the future. If you want access to the latest apps, you're going to have to be on 10.

 

[Kieran Coghlan]

* Crash - It's unstable yes, but you can experience first hand what people mean by their phone crashed. It's an unforgettable experience. =D

I have yet to have it crash on my Lumia 929 since build .107...

Honestly though:
--Start Screen

What is so much better about the start screen? Someone said customization? I don't see (yet) how it's more customizable than WMo8.1

--Outlook - a lot sleeker and nicer, plus both emails accounts are under 1 app, not separate instances.

Actually I liked the separate instances, as I had a tile pinned for each account (exchange, outlook, gmail, imap) on start. When I first tried W10Mobile several months ago, I couldn't do that. All were only accessible under the one app, and only one tile could be pinned. But with the more recent builds I can now pin the different accounts as different live tiles

--Store - the store just seems a lot more uniform instead of scattered (see 8.1 store).
--Theme/Customization - it looks like Windows 10 and not a dump over of 7.1 or 8/8.1. It feels personal. 7.1, 8, 8.1, none of those felt personal. They felt very... static.

 

[Kieran Coghlan]

You are sending emails to your self?
Ever heard of the abillity to save emails in the "sent" box?

bcc'ing yourself in Outlook is used as a trick to trigger certain things in Outlook. It's a trick taught by several work-efficiently gurus, like "Getting Things Done" author David Allen. For example, it allows you to automatically set up to-do tasks, like follow up on an email sent to someone by a certain date, etc. You don't want this triggered for every email, so you bcc yourself on individual emails for which you want to auto-setup a follow-up flag and create and categorize a task in Outlook.

I don't use this, and I don't remember how to set it up. But I did attend a GTD seminar once and heard about it.