Maybe this can help as a place for Android converts to ask how to do stuff...first, I bought the phone, I am not a WP basher and I do not need to have it defended. I am just asking, so I can acclimate...
-as a disclaimer, the lack of a notification feature is a tough one, I am having some withdrawals. So, the power button is all that wakes it? I can't double tap (heh heh, means something else in my world)? Or hit the Windows key? I have to pick up and power on?
-once a tile shows messages (after I've done the above mess), how do I set the tile to display unread messages? Now (I think) once I open the app, it resets the counter, even if I haven't opened all the messages. Before you flame, sometimes older folks like me will have more than one message, and maybe don't want to deal with all of them right now, but want the counter to stay on so I will remember there is a message there I need to deal with (you'll see, getting old is a *****)...
-how do I set the tactile vibration feedback of the keyboard so it buzzes just a bit longer?
-is there a keyboard layout with numbers and punctuation with a long press?
-how do I add custom words to the dictionary? I have some, colloquialisms, shall we say, in my routine communication that seems outside the Windows ecosystem...
-can I change individual tile colors?
Here is a larger question, I keep hear-tell of the 8.1 update, which sounds pretty good. I know that in the Android world, Google releasing it still means it could take months to seed through the carrier to the user. People keep saying April for 8.1, but is that just a developer release? Or for the masses? Does Nokia have a pipeline on MS releases or does Verizon get a bite at the apple (so to speak)?
the phone is LIGHTENING fast, props for that. Faster than any Android device I've ever used (traded from an S4)...
Thanks for any help, maybe this could be a central place for Icon/WP question and answer for us newly converted.
-as a disclaimer, the lack of a notification feature is a tough one, I am having some withdrawals. So, the power button is all that wakes it? I can't double tap (heh heh, means something else in my world)? Or hit the Windows key? I have to pick up and power on?
-once a tile shows messages (after I've done the above mess), how do I set the tile to display unread messages? Now (I think) once I open the app, it resets the counter, even if I haven't opened all the messages. Before you flame, sometimes older folks like me will have more than one message, and maybe don't want to deal with all of them right now, but want the counter to stay on so I will remember there is a message there I need to deal with (you'll see, getting old is a *****)...
-how do I set the tactile vibration feedback of the keyboard so it buzzes just a bit longer?
-is there a keyboard layout with numbers and punctuation with a long press?
-how do I add custom words to the dictionary? I have some, colloquialisms, shall we say, in my routine communication that seems outside the Windows ecosystem...
-can I change individual tile colors?
Here is a larger question, I keep hear-tell of the 8.1 update, which sounds pretty good. I know that in the Android world, Google releasing it still means it could take months to seed through the carrier to the user. People keep saying April for 8.1, but is that just a developer release? Or for the masses? Does Nokia have a pipeline on MS releases or does Verizon get a bite at the apple (so to speak)?
the phone is LIGHTENING fast, props for that. Faster than any Android device I've ever used (traded from an S4)...
Thanks for any help, maybe this could be a central place for Icon/WP question and answer for us newly converted.