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That's great to hear, I was going to switch from Android to a Lumia Icon (929) this week. Any tools/tricks/apps you can suggest for a soon-to-be WinPhone user?
by kirse 13y ago
That's great to hear, I was going to switch from Android to a Lumia Icon (929) this week. Any tools/tricks/apps you can suggest for a soon-to-be WinPhone user? Always been a long-time Nokia fan, but let's face it, they took awhile to get their hardware mojo back. WP8 is also looking pretty slick these days and that helped to seal the deal.
- nivla 13y agoNot the OP you are replying to but as someone who has a windows phone, here is a fews tips: * Download the offline maps for your region/country. It comes in real handy when travelling in an area without 4g and when your battery is running low. * You can similarly download a offline radio mix for the your preferred genre. * Enable Glance (Awesome feature and battery booster). * Disable the super sensitivity touch screen if you don't use gloves. Those could be a battery drainer. * Switch the default search on the browser to Google. * Download Connectivity Shortcuts, Group Tiles and Custom Tile Maker
- 300bps 13y agoYou'll pick it up easily after using any other smart phone. Make sure you take advantage of SkyDrive - it's seamless storage for your phone that doesn't take up actual phone storage space. You can copy an mp3 to your SkyDrive and play it instantly on your phone for instance. If you have kids, set up the Kid Zone feature. You select certain apps they can run and that's all they can run. You get into Kid Zone at the lock screen by scrolling to the left. Once there, they can't access your email, Facebook, phone features or anything else without typing a password. The Nokia Here Drive app is great. Shows you how fast you're going as well as the current speed limit on the road you're on. Supports overlays so you can put things like restaurants or gas stations (very helpful) on your map while you're doing turn-by-turn directions. Call blocking is fantastic. Get a call from some telemarketer? Hit a button and they can never call or text you again. You can block up to 1,000 numbers. If you don't use it now, look into OneNote. It works on all your devices including a Windows Phone. You'll like it if you have a lot of email accounts. You can set group email accounts into multi-account inboxes. This is different than iPhone that has "All inboxes" or single inboxes. With mine, I can group 4 accounts into one inbox, 3 accounts into another, 1 into its own, etc. Other than that, all the big apps are there - Facebook, Twitter, GasBuddy, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Skype, Spotify, WhatsApp, etc, etc. The app store being empty is old news at this point. The biggest remaining gaps are smaller banks that don't have native apps but that gap is closing as well.
- kirse 13y agoAh sweet, thanks guys. Just picked it up today and the 1080p screen along with the WP8 UI is incredibly clean. Very impressed so far.