Microsoft Tribe
Let your Microsoft flag fly
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About weetigo
About Me: First Nations, Native American, Cree Indian, Red Indian... geek
Work History: University of Winnipeg, UNESCO, American Indian Community House, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg
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weetigo
On The Verge since Nov 01, 2011
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1. get a zune pass; free trial for first 2 weeks
2. install more than 45 apps to get the quick app jump screen
3. Check out this Microsoft Tribe post for tips on how to customize your Start screenLumia exclusives are pretty substantial at this point, and worth considering for future if you enjoy the ecosystem:
Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport/Transit, Nokia Creative Studio, Nokia Maps, Nokia City Lens Beta
ESPN, Time, Caddie+, Sesame Street, CNN, etc -
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Disappointing to see this company screw up this launch; what happened to ‘release when its ready?’ Sounds like they’re moving towards the industry standard of beta testing the customers with an unfinished game.
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re: And Nokia’s QA also couldn’t make sure their screens came out right. Had multiple screens that had the purple-tint-on-low-brightness problem.
I believe Nokia acknowledged this as a software issue, fixed in future update.
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Mary-Jo Foley reported back in March in her “A Windows 8 e-reader: if someone builds it will they come” that Metro UI will come to this ereader tablet market too. Rumors also around a Windows 8 Kindle, and now with the news around Nook, it seems guaranteed to be in this form factor of 7-8" ereaders.. -
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Re: a single screen
This Application launch / Jump menu appears when you have more than 45 applications installed. -
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I agree its a fun addictive game. If you are good at recognizing patterns you’ll improve quickly. I’ve gone from lower 30% to top 10% lately.
