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Windows Phone 8 (codename Apollo)

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    #242
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    how much worse HTC S8 is lads? its only 309eu on expansys.


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    #243
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    how much worse HTC S8 is lads? its only 309eu on expansys.

    It has less memory, not as good of a screen and design cues are a person’s choice :-)


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    #244
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    evolutionqy7 wrote: »
    Looks like the 8X is available on Meteors website now. There's quite a huge difference in price vs Three as well.

    You would swear they didn't want Windows Phone to sell. Nearly 100e more expensive than sim free!!!!


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    #245
    dloob
    Registered Users Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭dloob


    I'm still undecided between the Lumia and Nexus 4.
    I'd like to give windows phone a chance but I see lots of problems reported on the wpcentral forums and then the verge has this story.
    http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/18/3660974/htc-8x-lumia-920-reboot-freezing-battery-issues

    I'd accuse them of being biased if I had noticed the forum threads myself the other day.
    Makes me weary of going near WP8. :(


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    #246
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    dloob wrote: »
    I'm still undecided between the Lumia and Nexus 4.
    I'd like to th windows phone a chance but I see lots of problems reported on the wpcentral forums and then the verge has this story.
    http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/18/3660974/htc-8x-lumia-920-reboot-freezing-battery-issues

    I'd accuse them of being biased if I had noticed the forum threads myself the other day.
    Makes me weary of going near WP8. :(

    Read both of those. Seems some are faulty and some aren't. Hard to know who to blame. I presume it's OEMs not doing the firmware right. Maybe things were rushed.

    Random reboots for a HTC phone sound normal though. My HTC Titan drove me crazy with that. I'll wait and see for a little longer.

    Sounds a bit like death javu what happened with the Lumia800 in tthe start.


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    #247
    Digitalism
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Digitalism


    Anyone know of any apps similar to cabbage on the windows phone market that works with meteor? IM having trouble with SendU and Webtexter!


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    #248
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Digitalism wrote: »
    Anyone know of any apps similar to cabbage on the windows phone market that works with meteor? IM having trouble with SendU and Webtexter!

    Noelle


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    #249
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,331 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Wife got a HTC 8X and I think it's the bees knees. Much as I love android and being able to customize the rom, I just love the UI and I'm converting when my upgrade becomes available.

    It helps though that I'm a dot Net developer so writing my own useful tile and apps makes sense to me.


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    #250
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    Wife got a HTC 8X and I think it's the bees knees. Much as I love android and being able to customize the rom, I just love the UI and I'm converting when my upgrade becomes available.

    It helps though that I'm a dot Net developer so writing my own useful tile and apps makes sense to me.

    Down load the tools now, you don't need a windows phone to start now. You can use the inbuilt emulator. :)

    http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us

    http://www.itproportal.com/2012/11/19/microsoft-releases-skydrive-developer-tools-including-windows-phone-8-net-sdks/


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    #251
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Do some operators have 8x and 8s on display? I would love to go and have a go at them to decide for sure if I like it.


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    #252
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Do some operators have 8x and 8s on display? I would love to go and have a go at them to decide for sure if I like it.

    Three stores in Dublin


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    #253
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Three have an 8x up on Grafton Street. Evolutionqy7 mentioned one somewhere else too, Henry Street I think.


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    #254
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Damn, there is no 3 in my town. O2, meteor, Vodafone, carphone

    Dunno when I will get to go to cork city. :(


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    #255
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Do some operators have 8x and 8s on display? I would love to go and have a go at them to decide for sure if I like it.

    Played with the 8X in Three's Patrick St. Store this morning. It is nice. Really surprised by how much I liked it because I didn't care for it at all from the pics. I just thought it was a cheap riff on the lumia, but in the hand it's very distinct. Screen is small relative to the size of the device though.


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    #256
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    I'm having a lot of issues with the 8X at the moment. Constant reboots, up to 5 a day and I've seen a message about sim card not valid 9 times in the last day, all requiring a restart.


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    #257
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    chrislad wrote: »
    I'm having a lot of issues with the 8X at the moment. Constant reboots, up to 5 a day and I've seen a message about sim card not valid 9 times in the last day, all requiring a restart.

    Seems to be a Windows phone 8 problem in general.


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    #258
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Seems to be a Windows phone 8 problem in general.

    Yup, so I will be getting rid. I can't be dealing with this 10 times a day and waiting for a fix to a problem that hasn't been acknowledged. I know the rebooting thing seems to be a WP8 issue, but the sim one seems to be all HTC.


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    #259
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    chrislad wrote: »
    I'm having a lot of issues with the 8X at the moment. Constant reboots, up to 5 a day and I've seen a message about sim card not valid 9 times in the last day, all requiring a restart.


    I've had mine two weeks now I think and I've only had about four or five reboots


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    #260
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Wow! I though it was more rare then that!

    These reboot things would be super annoying for me. Ffs I really don't want w8 phones to suck! I like those damn bastards!


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    #261
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    chrislad wrote: »
    I'm having a lot of issues with the 8X at the moment. Constant reboots, up to 5 a day and I've seen a message about sim card not valid 9 times in the last day, all requiring a restart.

    Jaysus that's not good.:eek:


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    #262
    PaulieC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,190 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    is it not a mini-SIM card issue ? I see that sporadically on my Lumia 800. Used to happen quite a lot when I got it, but hasn't happened for a long time


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    #263
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    cambo_gueno wrote: »
    is it not a mini-SIM card issue ? I see that sporadically on my Lumia 800. Used to happen quite a lot when I got it, but hasn't happened for a long time

    It's definitely not a sim card issue. I used the sim in a Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2 with no issues. I did a replacement anyway just in case. Same problem. It's just gotten worse and worse in the past few days.


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    #264
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    Sounds like just dirt


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    #265
    dloob
    Registered Users Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭dloob


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Wow! I though it was more rare then that!

    These reboot things would be super annoying for me. Ffs I really don't want w8 phones to suck! I like those damn bastards!

    It seems worryingly common.
    I guess we'll see as more boardsies get phones.


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    #266
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    dloob wrote: »
    It seems worryingly common.
    I guess we'll see as more boardsies get phones.

    Expansys have agreed a refund (weirdly, they don't do exchanges. You get a refund and rebuy it....) - lady on phone didn't seem surprised....


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    #267
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Just bought the 8x...its alri!


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    #268
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Just bought the 8x...its alri!

    Best advice I can give you is to keep a close eye. I had no issues for the first 10 days, then the reboots started, closely following by saying my sim wasn't detected. Shame, as I loved the phone.


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    #269
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Just bought the 8x...its alri!

    Is it good? Where did you got it?

    Most important: keep an eye on the whole reboot thing. This actually quite stopped me from looking in to deeper in to w8 until it is acknowledged by MS and they are sorting it out.


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    #270
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Theres a 8s or 8x in the emobile shop in blanch. Had a quick play with it. Very thin phone was the main thing I noticed.


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    #271
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Just bought it on 3 ShadowHearth...wish i had paid attention to this thread before buying it.

    ...bloody thing just rebooted itself when I was typing a message:( what a joke. Bought it on a whim because my Optimus 7 was driving me nuts with it's rebooting.

    It'll be going back if this becomes a consistent problem.:mad:

    That being said, the screen is gorgeous, it has a great feel in the hand, not too big like the S3 and not too small like the iphone 4. Camera seems good (its one of the main reasons i even looked at it).

    God damn it...buyers remorse...just a tad...due to the reboot.


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