Windows Phone 7 Launch Thread

Walkman

Working fine for me, just trying to search for a decent speed test (for network) app at the moment.

fjon

chrislad wrote: »

Anyone else having issues with the market? For the past 24 hours, I've been told the Windows Live ID service is down whenever I try to download anything. My people feed also won't download my twitter feed for the past 24 hours, but it is downloading Facebook fine.

I often have this problem too. Don't know what causes it. Sometimes restarting helps, sometimes it goes away by itself.
Check your APN settings too.

evolutionqy7

chrislad wrote: »

Anyone else having issues with the market? For the past 24 hours, I've been told the Windows Live ID service is down whenever I try to download anything. My people feed also won't download my twitter feed for the past 24 hours, but it is downloading Facebook fine.

Dunno. Works fine here.

chrislad

fjon wrote: »

I often have this problem too. Don't know what causes it. Sometimes restarting helps, sometimes it goes away by itself.
Check your APN settings too.

Restarted it a couple of times already. APN settings are fine and it's happening over both WiFi and 3G so doesn't seem to be a network issue.

neonman

It would be nice for them to add the POIs for Ireland alright. Any date to when Nokia maps will be available to all Windows phones ?

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I dont know really. Bing maps and Nokia maps are meant to be merging together.

Now i dont see Microsoft bringing out POI's for Ireland. But Nokia already has these, so if they get merged together maybe not just the map data but the POI's will merge too allowing us to use Local Scout.

Local Scout does work in Ireland. Its just that we dont have POI's. If you browse with the scout to the likes of US and look for spots there it will find them. Its just that bing maps dont have any sort of POI database for Ireland.

chrislad

chrislad wrote: »

Restarted it a couple of times already. APN settings are fine and it's happening over both WiFi and 3G so doesn't seem to be a network issue.

Can't sign in through Zune on the PC either. Irritating.

TBi

Maybe your account has been compromised? Have you tried logging into mail.live.com?

chrislad

Just did that 10 minutes ago, and yup, MS blocked my account for security reasons even though there is nothing linked to that account, no email or anything. It would have been nice if the error message said that or if they sent me a mail to do something or indeed replied to my tweets from yesterday. All sorted out now.

wilser

Expansys are selling the htc titan for €370 sim free, good price for a high end wp7 I think

evolutionqy7

wilser wrote: »

Expansys are selling the htc titan for €370 sim free, good price for a high end wp7 I think

Not bad considering its 500 to buy in shop

DjFlin

Netflix app should be live for those of you with subscriptions now.

Dyr

Now that I think of it, I've never been able to send a text to more than one person with WP7, it will always fail. Anyone else experience this?

moonboy52

DjFlin wrote: »

Netflix app should be live for those of you with subscriptions now.

Sweeeeeet!

chrislad

Bambi wrote: »

Now that I think of it, I've never been able to send a text to more than one person with WP7, it will always fail. Anyone else experience this?

Do it almost daily. Works fine.

DjFlin

Bambi wrote: »

Now that I think of it, I've never been able to send a text to more than one person with WP7, it will always fail. Anyone else experience this?

I had this issue too. Cant remember how I got around it. I think it has something to do with the "Group Text" option under Messaging in Settings. Make sure its off.

TBi

Bambi wrote: »

Now that I think of it, I've never been able to send a text to more than one person with WP7, it will always fail. Anyone else experience this?

It sends group texts as MMS. Go to settings-> swipe left->messaging->turn group text off.

Jarren

Decent pricing on Htc Titan


http://www.ebuyer.com/287973-htc-titan-99hnv018-00?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

evolutionqy7

Jarren wrote: »

Decent pricing on Htc Titan


http://www.ebuyer.com/287973-htc-titan-99hnv018-00?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

nice indeed

moonboy52

Jarren wrote: »

Decent pricing on Htc Titan


http://www.ebuyer.com/287973-htc-titan-99hnv018-00?utm_source=google&utm_medium=products

AFAIK, ebuyer do not deliver to ROI

Jarren

moonboy52 wrote: »

AFAIK, ebuyer do not deliver to ROI

http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTC-TITAN-Free-Windows-Smartphone/dp/B005JC48OI


Free delivery

moonboy52

Jarren wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTC-TITAN-Free-Windows-Smartphone/dp/B005JC48OI


Free delivery

I am aware of deliverme.ie and i am not the one looking for a HTC Titan but thank you for posting the Amazon link for others.

I was simply informing people that ebuyer do not deliver to ROI.

Odaise Gaelach

I just used the Speak function to dictate a text message. I said, "Damn it. This is going to take me a while." It came back with:

$%&$!! this is going to take me awhile.

Terrontress

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I just used the Speak function to dictate a text message. I said, "Damn it. This is going to take me a while." It came back with:

$%&$!! this is going to take me awhile.

Seeing your post, I just had to try it out! It had no problem with 'Damn it' but the f-word resulted in '#&##'.

AntiVirus

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I just used the Speak function to dictate a text message. I said, "Damn it. This is going to take me a while." It came back with:

I just tried it and got "Thomas this is going to take me a while"

evolutionqy7

AntiVirus wrote: »

I just tried it and got "Thomas this is going to take me a while"

I always love when it comes out wrong, usually makes it extremely funny and off topic Couldn't live without that function though, its so handy with hands free in the car when you never have to touch your phone in order to operate it.

Most of the time its extremely accurate too, as long as you keep it short.

Hope Windows Phone 8 will bring something close to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB6pWs46GY8

evolutionqy7

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You will be pleased to know that Viber for WP7 is coming very soon. Please stay tuned within the following week.
We will be announcing its publication, system req. and more, at that time.
Stay tuned for release updates, visit us on Facebook and Twitter:
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Source

Been talking to Viber team on Boards once in a while and they continuously confirmed a release for 2012 So those maybe waiting for this might be interested

gman2k

Skype V.1 is out
http://www.wpcentral.com/skype-windows-phones-goes-gold-and-hits-v10
But still no background functionality....

evolutionqy7

gman2k wrote: »

Skype V.1 is out
http://www.wpcentral.com/skype-windows-phones-goes-gold-and-hits-v10
But still no background functionality....

Their so slow. What use it is really if it cant run in the background. Fair enough you can use it when you only need it, but its a bit silly

TBi

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Their so slow. What use it is really if it cant run in the background. Fair enough you can use it when you only need it, but its a bit silly

Especially considering it's made by MS themselves and they can just 'unlock' this functionality.

evolutionqy7

Ok for those who were frustrated with the fact the way you drop in your documents or you files into your phone via email or having to go to your Hotmail to upload your files. Fear no more

Microsoft Released a New SkyDrive App for Windows, Mac today. We also got an updated version the other day for Windows Phone which is quite good too. Also lets you see a lot more files in one place, even though we could nearly do all the same except edit files before there with Office App or Pictures app integrated in the phone.

The Windows and Mac app works in the same way Dropbox does. Sync a certain folder to the cloud across all your devices. Its as simple as Pie.

Read the Blog Post HERE

Download SkyDrive app for Windows HERE. So now instead of email or whatever just copy or cut the file into the SkyDrive folder on your PC. Wait a sec for it to show that its synced and it should be available to access on your Windows Phone.

EDIT: Also unfortunately the amount of storage you get just dropped down from 25GB to 7GB (apparently most users don't use up the 25GB, most users stay under 7GB), but if you go to Hotmail and the SkyDrive you will see an option to claim back your 25GB of storage for a year.