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Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 8

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Deadly Moves
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 11:08
Shame i cant upgrade my WP7.5 to 8 :(
But hopefully by the time my current contract runs out, windows 8 phone will be out.. should be i have about 10-12 months left
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DTI April
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 11:20
Deadly Moves said:Shame i cant upgrade my WP7.5 to 8 :(
But hopefully by the time my current contract runs out, windows 8 phone will be out.. should be i have about 10-12 months left
the news post says it will be out "this Fall"...
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 13:46
I'm liking this, I'm also due for an upgrade in August, so hopefully they'll arrive at sometime in that period.
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 14:23
WP 8 *-* looks good and i like the costumizations of your apps :D
and it is good to have a 4G connection. i am going to buy one :)
does someone knows how i can put my hard drive from wp 7 to a wp 8?


btw sorry for my bad english
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 15:08
NawtyCawty said:As much as I like achievements, i am still not desperate enough to get a Windows Phone and play shitty little 'games' on it just for gamerscore. I will stick with my (far superior in every possible way) iPhone thanks very much.aw bless, 'lil baby can post on forums all by himself :-)

Bet he has a kinect too...
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 15:45
grex9101 said: gamer=NawtyCawty]As much as I like achievements, i am still not desperate enough to get a Windows Phone and play shitty little 'games' on it just for gamerscore. I will stick with my (far superior in every possible way) iPhone thanks very much.Love posts like this, imho the windows phone os looks better than anyting on the makret, the games i have are free and classy.

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Posted on 22 June 12 at 20:36
Will US Cellular get the Windows Phone 8?
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 21:08
Pusherman said:Will US Cellular get the Windows Phone 8?Do they currently have Windows 7 Phones?
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 21:32
ADaughen said:LifeExpectancy said:Shadow Enz said:Can you remove the bloatware from the phones?Exactly the reason I'll stick with my rooted HTC Evo. It may not be the fastest phone out there now that it's over 2 years old, but I can install custom OS's, custom kernels, and best of all I can REMOVE that garbage bloatware from it!Why not actually quote someone who HAS a WP?

THERE IS NO BLOATWARE. ESPN, Kindle, eBay, Twitter, etc are all downloads the they put on there tiles to show as examples, otherwise the screen would have been seven boxes or less (mail, phone, messaging, people, photos, calendar, xbl) - all of which can already be removed from the main screen within few seconds.

I currently have IMDB, HTC Maps, Facebook, ESPN, WP Marketplace, IE, XBL, photos, calendar, HTC Hub, messaging, phone, mail and contacts on my main screen.
I find it hard to believe ANY product running Windows or any other standard OS for that matter has no bloatware. They all do as a means to push their partners' products on the consumer.
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 21:35
Was going to buy a Lumia but not anymore !!!
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 21:57
NawtyCawty said:As much as I like achievements, i am still not desperate enough to get a Windows Phone and play shitty little 'games' on it just for gamerscore. I will stick with my (far superior in every possible way) iPhone thanks very much.I'll give you this much: The ability to put apps into folders in iOS was nice. Outside of that I can't think of one thing I miss about iOS or my old iPhone 4.
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 22:10
LifeExpectancy said:ADaughen said:LifeExpectancy said:Shadow Enz said:Can you remove the bloatware from the phones?Exactly the reason I'll stick with my rooted HTC Evo. It may not be the fastest phone out there now that it's over 2 years old, but I can install custom OS's, custom kernels, and best of all I can REMOVE that garbage bloatware from it!Why not actually quote someone who HAS a WP?

THERE IS NO BLOATWARE. ESPN, Kindle, eBay, Twitter, etc are all downloads the they put on there tiles to show as examples, otherwise the screen would have been seven boxes or less (mail, phone, messaging, people, photos, calendar, xbl) - all of which can already be removed from the main screen within few seconds.

I currently have IMDB, HTC Maps, Facebook, ESPN, WP Marketplace, IE, XBL, photos, calendar, HTC Hub, messaging, phone, mail and contacts on my main screen.
I find it hard to believe ANY product running Windows or any other standard OS for that matter has no bloatware. They all do as a means to push their partners' products on the consumer.
Only bloatware I have found is AT&T stuff on my lumia. and they all uninstalled in about 10 seconds per app, tops. I kept the one to see my billing and that's it. LOL. They work pretty hard at keeping things clear. Unlike my android with verizon. That was a hot mess.
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 22:22
mybabysdaddy said:I'll give you this much: The ability to put apps into folders in iOS was nice. Outside of that I can't think of one thing I miss about iOS or my old iPhone 4.Yes it was pretty neat, but the folders looked shit.

I really did like my iPhone so I'm not playing fanboy, but I just got so bored of it. The achievements did sway me towards WP but I've honestly never looked back. Only thing I miss from iPhone is my Natwest banking app!
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Posted on 22 June 12 at 22:35
Pusherman said:Will US Cellular get the Windows Phone 8?I'm hoping they do but I don't know if they will. They have only offered 1 wp7 and I'm not sure they are offering it anymore
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Posted on 23 June 12 at 03:16
I think I will get this instead of replacing my old phone
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Posted on 23 June 12 at 03:22
DTI April said:mybabysdaddy said:I'll give you this much: The ability to put apps into folders in iOS was nice. Outside of that I can't think of one thing I miss about iOS or my old iPhone 4.Yes it was pretty neat, but the folders looked shit.

I really did like my iPhone so I'm not playing fanboy, but I just got so bored of it. The achievements did sway me towards WP but I've honestly never looked back. Only thing I miss from iPhone is my Natwest banking app!
The folders did look awful and the fact that WP alphabetizes them on page two makes the lack of folders less of an issue for me as they are much easier to find.
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Posted on 25 June 12 at 18:25
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