Perhaps this might help you a little bit:
Microsoft forced to kill off Facebook integration in Windows and Windows Phone | The Verge
Provocative title , I know.
I am a happy owner of a Lumia 920 running WP8 w/Black udate. I have preciously owned an HTC8S running 8.1 and the difference , while having a couple cool features I'd like (multi volume and ringer setting, IE11) wasnt that impressive. As a mater of fact, loosing the FB ad Twitter OS inergration and the universal chat feature was just too much. I have the 8.1 update waiting but I just can't seem to see the benefit.
What do you all tthink?
Bag included or no?
Re: Features.. I haven't come across a "must have" compelling feature yet. Nice to have features? OK, but not must haves.
Re Battery Saver: From my experience , 8.1 is a battery drainer. So a better battery saver won't do as well as my WP8 stock battery..just my opinion.
Re Smoother, Faster.. I never noticed that on my 8.1 HTC. As a matter of fact, I found it more disjointed and less flowing and intuitive..again , just my opinion.
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Perhaps this might help you a little bit:
Microsoft forced to kill off Facebook integration in Windows and Windows Phone | The Verge
I use Messenger but not FB.That sucks. WP's integration was about the only time I'd look at facebook. It's like fb goes out of their way to be annoying.
Try it is the ony thing I can say, if you don't want to then stay on WP8 - until W10 is released (or until MS stop supporting Windows 8 or even when your device dies)...Out of zcuriosity are you still running windows XP? Windows 7? Windows 8 or 8.1 on PC?
Do your location based reminders ACTUALLY work? if i ask her to remind me to get something when i'm at the store sheAs has been said, it sounds like you like WP8 just fine, so stick with it if people hub integration with facebook is really that important.
Personally, I don't use facebook and found having twitter integrated into the hub annoying, so for me I couldn't care less about how they work because both are turned off for me.
For me, I love 8.1 over WP8 for the following reasons: WordFlow keyboard, NotificationCenter / ActionCenter, Live Folders, Cortana's location-based uses (reminders based on location, weather alerts based on location (which, now Weather Channel can do, but at the time Cortana came out, no other weather app seemed to do it or do it well)).
So, I couldn't imagine having to go back to WP8 after having WordFlow and the location-based reminders. They have become too useful for me. I'd give up notifications if I had to, but I almost exclusively use wordflow everytime I type just because it's so much faster, and generally 99% accurate.
I use location based reminders at least once a day and they always work for me on my 930 in the USDo your location based reminders ACTUALLY work? if i ask her to remind me to get something when i'm at the store she
A) doesn't ever
B) does like an hour later
this is on the 3 windows phones i currently own. Location based reminders in Canada don't work AT ALL