BUILD 2014 Live - WP8.1 Discussion Thread

[hopmedic]

I want to know more about the "single" app thing. Does this mean if I have Surface RT, Windows Phone and an xbox one, the same app can be run on it all with some modifications?

They did announce that they will enable the stores so that you can buy an app on tablet or phone, and use it on the other, without repurchasing. Of course, this will be developer dependent, I'm sure.

 

[Talderon]

Where did you get that information?

Stated earlier in the thread.

I have been running it for a while now.

 

[reversalagent]

They did announce that they will enable the stores so that you can buy an app on tablet or phone, and use it on the other, without repurchasing. Of course, this will be developer dependent, I'm sure.

Right but isn't RT different in some respects code base wise? I know pro should have little issues, but curious about RT tablets as I am thinking of getting one.

 

[dreamfly]

Developer preview today?

Microsoft Build keynote | CNET
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[Matts4313]

This is downright ridiculous. I don't know what they were thinking. And I am a WP ******.

Not sure what you are hoping for. I have a Lumia 900, 920, 1020 and 1520 and I can tell you that specs are supremely overrated when it comes to windows phones. going from a snapdragon 800 on the icon to the 801 on the 930 would do nothing. Like, 99.9% of people wouldnt notice a single difference.

 

[hopmedic]

Developer preview today?

Microsoft Build keynote | CNET
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No. The slide shown says Windows 8.1, the writer says Windows Phone. She didn't read her own photo.

EDIT:
Oops - it isn't her photo. Still, no, they said later this month in the keynote.

 

[Zacharyw70]

Not sure what you are hoping for. I have a Lumia 900, 920, 1020 and 1520 and I can tell you that specs are supremely overrated when it comes to windows phones. going from a snapdragon 800 on the icon to the 801 on the 930 would do nothing. Like, 99.9% of people wouldnt notice a single difference.

They could have improved the camera further, or added some definitive feature to help it shine. But as it stands nothing in the phone is a stand out feature, and its all been done before. I suppose my main disappointment with it is the release date and I can't even wrap my head around that.

 

[kobongkobong]

A few months for normal users, those with the dev preview sometime this month.

A few months? An excellent Christmas gift :wink:

 

[hopmedic]

They could have improved the camera further, or added some definitive feature to help it shine. But as it stands nothing in the phone is a stand out feature, and its all been done before. I suppose my main disappointment with it is the release date and I can't even wrap my head around that.

I know who's never built a phone before..... :wink:

 

[patrickwee]

So , how we get the dev review for windows phone 8.1 ? And after I installed that is my warranty will be void ? Or after installed the dev preview and I install back the official wp8.1 when it has released , will mine warranty is back ? Thanks !!

 

[BIGPADDY]

A few months? An excellent Christmas gift :wink:

That if your not on the preview.

Lumia devices will be updated in Summer.

 

[Adriaan NL]

A few months for normal users, those with the dev preview sometime this month.

What about the developer preview? Is Daniel's earlier report of April 10 still valid?

 

[hopmedic]

So , how we get the dev review for windows phone 8.1 ? And after I installed that is my warranty will be void ? Or after installed the dev preview and I install back the official wp8.1 when it has released , will mine warranty is back ? Thanks !!

Read this: http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...9-developer-preview-program-what-exactly.html

 

[hopmedic]

What about the developer preview? Is Daniel's earlier report of April 10 still valid?

All they said in the keynote is later this month. Take that for what it is.

 

[BIGPADDY]

So , how we get the dev review for windows phone 8.1 ? And after I installed that is my warranty will be void ? Or after installed the dev preview and I install back the official wp8.1 when it has released , will mine warranty is back ? Thanks !!

Take a look in this thread:

http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...9-developer-preview-program-what-exactly.html

 

[Zacharyw70]

I know who's never built a phone before..... :wink:

Not really sure what you're saying. When the competition is adding plenty of great new features and you're just doing the same thing they did last year, that isn't enough to compete. Release date wise there's no reason for this to have been delayed given the fact that the Icon quite some time ago, aside from changing the bands internally nothing else changed.

 

[Adriaan NL]

All they said in the keynote is later this month. Take that for what it is.

Thanks! I missed that part of the keynote...

 

[BIGPADDY]

What about the developer preview? Is Daniel's earlier report of April 10 still valid?

Could be nobody knows till MS release or inform us of this but we do know it will be sometime this month.

 

[hopmedic]

Not really sure what you're saying. When the competition is adding plenty of great new features and you're just doing the same thing they did last year, that isn't enough to compete. Release date wise there's no reason for this to have been delayed given the fact that the Icon quite some time ago, aside from changing the bands internally nothing else changed.

I'm simply saying that I know who's never built a phone before. If there was no reason, it would already be released.

 

[alv3st3r]

Effing love this: