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Much better! I still don’t see a ‘app version’ and ‘last updated’ data on the app page though. It’s pretty useful info to see if a developer hasn’t updated an app in over a year.

4 days ago on Windows 8.1 (Blue) App Store screen shots (Update) new Xbox Music, Weather 1 recommend

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Which one, the no more iTunes or the drag and drop? My 920 shows up as a browsable device that I can copy music to and from. If I’m visiting a friend I can copy 10GB of music with a single drag and drop. I’ve said too much..

I do miss the level of detail on local businesses in Google Maps, but there’s always gMaps Pro if needed.

6 days ago on Why do you use Windows Phone? (Updated)

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Coming from an iPhone, I posted these positives a while back on WPCentral:

Things I couldn’t do on my iPhone 4:
- Pinning a word doc from SkyDrive to my start screen
- Buying a book through the Kindle app
- Pinning a sticky note to my home screen with ‘Note tiles’ app
- Never having to worry about my home button breaking (on Lumia 920 at least)
- Single tap access to multitasking screen (as opposed to double mechanical click – can you tell I didn’t like the iPhone home button?)
- Swishing around the home screen. It feels nice and ‘free’ to zoom along all your apps, as opposed to screen.. after screen .. after screen ..
- Single-contact live tiles. It’s great to know when there’s a message from my gf.
- Free offline maps. Just great when on travel.
- Next appointment on the lock screen. It still seems crazy to me that iOS only does ‘reminders’, but not ‘next thing on calendar’
- Apps that can modify the lock screen (big fan of Weather Wallpaper)
- One tap access to connections settings (although one-tap toggle would be better) using Connection Tiles app
- Live tile that shows the actual temperature. How in the world doesn’t iOS do that yet?
- Pinning google voice contacts to the home screen with MetroTalk for those regular international calls. Awesome.
- Pinning separate mail accounts to the home screen. iOS doesn’t do that either right, or did I just forget?
- Having a nice slide show of my photo albums in a large tile on the home screen. Looks so ‘alive’.
- Pinning the current rain / radar map to my home screen using ‘Weather Radar Tile’ app
- drag and drop music between phone and ANY pc. Side note: no more iTunes.

7 days ago on Why do you use Windows Phone? (Updated) 1 reply 2 recommends

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Mostly fair, but a quick toggle for Wifi can be done with many apps, e.g. Connection Tiles. Those allow you to make a shortcut to the wifi on-off page, and give you a tile that shows you the wifi status. One step better than I was ever able to do in iOS.

13 days ago on The upcoming EOS is making this Android user thinking about switching. A few Q's.... 1 reply 3 recommends