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Windows Phone 8.1 Features
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Maybe I'm a bit late to the Party, but Cortana is really starting to return local results for things like restaurants, shops, etc.
E.g. List the Chinese restaurants near home?
Where is the nearest Tesco?
Etc..
(Previously, my nearest restaurant was in Seville
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The restaurants don't necessarily have reviews or phone numbers, but they have directions and it's a start.0 -
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I think you need to get back to 8.0 first. I don't think 8.1 Developer Preview -> 8.1 RTM is a supported upgrade path?
Yep.. because of the screw-up with Bitlocker encrypted Dev Preview phones when upgrading to 8.1 RTM, you need to downgrade to 8.0 first using the Nokia Recovery tools.
It's a bit of a pain but if you backup the phone first it should restore everything when the update has finished.
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Yep.. because of the screw-up with Bitlocker encrypted Dev Preview phones when upgrading to 8.1 RTM, you need to downgrade to 8.0 first using the Nokia Recovery tools.
It's a bit of a pain but if you backup the phone first it should restore everything when the update has finished.
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Yep.. because of the screw-up with Bitlocker encrypted Dev Preview phones when upgrading to 8.1 RTM, you need to downgrade to 8.0 first using the Nokia Recovery tools.
It's a bit of a pain but if you backup the phone first it should restore everything when the update has finished.
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MS are not at the moment releasing the Cyan update to those on the 8.1 DP but the word in the other forums is that they eventually will, pending a fix for the bitlocker issue. If you are currently using bitlocker encryption you might have to restore to 8.0 in the end, nobody knows yet. If you don't want to wait for MS to fix the update issue then you can restore and get Cyan that way.
My wife's 925 on O2 got the 8.1 and Cyan update yesterday, everything works very nicely. And now that there's an official fitbit app that allows syncing with their products there might be a nice early Christmas present on the way ;-)0 -
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theothernt wrote: »There are a few differences between 8.1 with and without Cyan.
* SensorCore is enabled on supported devices (step counting, user location habits) under Settings > Motion data
* The wifi symbol has an activity indicator
* The lock screen should fade in when you press the sleep/wake button
* Notify on slow charging, ask before using data connection on USB
* Bluetooth LE support (finally!)
- Don't have the first one. Not really an essential though IMO
- Noticed this alright but it's a minor cosmetic adjustment really
- Not on mine.. still pops in/out. I'd rather hae seen the ability to add more notifications to the lockscreen than the rather limiting 5 myself
- Haven't noticed but again not a critical change IMO
- Meh - although it did repair quicker to the car today so maybe that's an indirect benefit?
That probably sounds harsh, but I'm hoping the real changes are under the hood with drivers/firmware updates for the device, although it did get very hot at one point last night which seems to be a known issue
Feature-wise notifications still seem a bit off (but this might change as vendors update their apps now that 8.1 is more widespread?) and the lack of local apps is still a pain and the biggest issue. The rest they've pretty much brought up to par with the competition with 8.1. Battery life and consistent performance is still its biggest asset vs Androids I've had in the past.
Cortana I've no interest in myself but (as I said elsewhere) I'd love to see full integration with Windows desktop though (SMS, app updates/notifications etc that you can respond to directly from your Desktop or even the ability to make/take calls directly over your laptop/tablet speakers/mic/camera).0 -
Is this not talking about the list of new features in Windows Phone 8.1 update 1 to phones with ordinary WP8.1 (with or without Cyan).- Don't have the first one. Not really an essential though IMO
- Noticed this alright but it's a minor cosmetic adjustment really
- Not on mine.. still pops in/out. I'd rather hae seen the ability to add more notifications to the lockscreen than the rather limiting 5 myself
- Haven't noticed but again not a critical change IMO
- Meh - although it did repair quicker to the car today so maybe that's an indirect benefit?
That probably sounds harsh, but I'm hoping the real changes are under the hood with drivers/firmware updates for the device, although it did get very hot at one point last night which seems to be a known issue
Feature-wise notifications still seem a bit off (but this might change as vendors update their apps now that 8.1 is more widespread?) and the lack of local apps is still a pain and the biggest issue. The rest they've pretty much brought up to par with the competition with 8.1. Battery life and consistent performance is still its biggest asset vs Androids I've had in the past.
Cortana I've no interest in myself but (as I said elsewhere) I'd love to see full integration with Windows desktop though (SMS, app updates/notifications etc that you can respond to directly from your Desktop or even the ability to make/take calls directly over your laptop/tablet speakers/mic/camera).
Windows Phone 8.1 Update (or Update 1, but that would be an ecumenical matter) goes into Dev Preview next week.0 -
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That probably sounds harsh, but I'm hoping the real changes are under the hood with drivers/firmware updates for the device, although it did get very hot at one point last night which seems to be a known issue
Feature-wise notifications still seem a bit off (but this might change as vendors update their apps now that 8.1 is more widespread?) and the lack of local apps is still a pain and the biggest issue. The rest they've pretty much brought up to par with the competition with 8.1. Battery life and consistent performance is still its biggest asset vs Androids I've had in the past.
Cortana I've no interest in myself but (as I said elsewhere) I'd love to see full integration with Windows desktop though (SMS, app updates/notifications etc that you can respond to directly from your Desktop or even the ability to make/take calls directly over your laptop/tablet speakers/mic/camera).
You are right, the features are quite minor, and as MS finally starts to push out updates more often, the Nokia specific features become less noticeable.
There are a number of features in 8.1 that will require devs to update their apps, notifications are one of them. If the platform continues to get more popular, albeit slowly, more devs will appear which should result in better apps that are more frequently updated.
As for battery life, etc - the advice I always give is to go through all the Settings on the phone after a big update, turn off all the stuff you don't need (NFC, notifications, etc). Plus, in 8.1 you can use Battery Saver to see which apps are running the battery down.Fingleberries wrote: »Is this not talking about the list of new features in Windows Phone 8.1 update 1 to phones with ordinary WP8.1 (with or without Cyan).
No, all those features I listed are from my 1520 running 8.1 Cyan (compared against the 1020 which doesn't have Cyan).0 -
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