Or maybe re-newed.
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New yellow line
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Surprised they didn't hold an opening ceremony for it.
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Excellent. Somewhere new for cars to park.
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Where where where?!?!? I need to get a photo of this for my photoblogthingy.
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"Where where where?!?!?"
Doesn't Flickr map work at work?
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'Flickr' doesn't work at work. (strangely embedded photos like that show up, but can't click through).
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"'Flickr' doesn't work at work"
That's wot they invented iPhones for...
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pffft iPhones - how very yesterday, when does the 5 come out again?
I think we should add the iphone/android argument into the PY potPosted 13 years ago # -
Future? I've had a windows phone for aaaaages. (6 months)
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"Future? I've had a windows phone for aaaaages."
But not a Nokia one.
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Meh, just different packaging round an awesome OS. It's designed so as only to be customisable by the manufacturers in a very tiny manner. Makes the 'grid of apps' model of the iphone/android seem a bit old fashioned.
I like the typographic nature of it too, but then again I like typography.
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"Makes the 'grid of apps' model of the iphone/android seem a bit old fashioned."
Only if Windows has built in everything you could possibly imagine.
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Yep, but what I mean is that now even third party apps can communicate to you without you having to open them.
Say the weather app has a live tile so I don't have to open it or the calendar app, or the people tiles I have give me information such as facebook/twitter statuses, if I've been conacted in some manner by said person.
Then the music hub cross links to all the music and video apps I have, and the pictures hub can access from various sources.
It's just all a bit more meshed. And there are shed loads of very subtle eye candy.
Horses for courses as is just a different approach, and one I particularly like. What it doesn't feel like is an overly MS product, but think it's all going to converge on Win 8.
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"Horses for courses as is just a different approach"
Yep.
There was a lot of 'fuss' a while ago about iPhones not running multiple apps 'properly'. That 'complaint' seems to have gone away.
Unless l misunderstand, you seem to be talking about pop-up widgets which I'd probably find intrusive!
Interesting what you were saying about Windows allowing limited scope for hardware manufacturers to change things. Seem to be a real Android issue.
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Nope, again, nothing 'pops up' except for text messages (which iOS5 actually copies slightly from WP) it's a bit more subtle and cooler than that, it just kind of is. And it's not really a multitasking thing either.
It's such a different approach that it doesn't parallel with the other platforms.
Stil pictures don't really do the home page much justice, there is constant activity on the screen, but not so that's it's annoying if you are trying to do something with it.
One of the biggest benefits apple has is that they build an OS that runs perfectly on a very limited variety of hardware. Windows/Linux will run to varying degrees of success on pretty much anything (in a computing sense).
MS has learned lessons from Apple on this in the phone sense.
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"One of the biggest benefits apple has is that they build an OS that runs perfectly on a very limited variety of hardware."
Yep!
Some people see this as a 'flaw' - well they used too...
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...and who couldn't love this little guy
And one crappy thing WP shares with Android is that you can't do screen grabs.
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"you can't do screen grabs"
This continues to surprise me.
Really useful - and can't be difficult in software terms??
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Back on subject, there is quite a good yellow-paint-orphan example on Longstone Road where a small part of a box junction has been resurfaced.
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Gorgie Road beyond Saughton Park has had all potholes filled with the tar that lasts a week. Now is your chance.
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Android Screen Grabs??
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"However on the Samsung Galaxy S II, you can take a picture of exactly what is on your home screen at any time, by simply pressing and holding the power and home key at the same time."
Exactly the same as an iPhone - so perhaps other Android models too??
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Back to previous OT
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Nokia Windows Phone 7 Lumia 800 vs Apple iPhone 4SNokia's first Windows Phone 7 device offers specifications somewhere between Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, but is missing some key hardware and software features and will only debut in Europe, effectively leaving the US market to Apple and Android this holiday season.
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And from a Microsoft biased source (Paul Thurrott):
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And still OT, Nokia was originally a paper mill and electricity generation company in the 1860s, and grew into a major rubber products and cable manufacturer before turning to telecoms. No coincidence that Nokian Tyres has a similar name, as it only became a separate entity from Nokia in 1988. </QI>
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This continues to surprise me.
And me. Several 'droids offer three-finger salute (cntrl-alt-del) hidden features that do a screen grab and it's built in to the development kit. I think it must be a function that's been excluded for a reason, but I can't think why.
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Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 device offers specifications somewhere between Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S
But have they overspecced some bits and underspecced others...
As iPhone 4S battery suckage spreadsSorry, couldn't resist. :)
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"But have they overspecced some bits and underspecced others..."
Pass
Battery piece was interesting. Highlights the fact that smartphones are complicated!
AND that Apple's direct contact with 'people' is still far from adequate.
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