Reply to: Windows Phone 8.1

[redgiant]

I have Nokia 625 on EE, downloading 8.1 now...

I got a 930 (bright orange!) the other day - had a 800 and then when that met it's end on a rock in the alps I bought a cheapo 520 which is a great phone. Like the 520 on WP8.1 it's a great improvement on 8 and 7.8 and I can't wait for Cortana to be released in the UK at some point soon.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Really liking wp8 but will wait until nokia provide the update.

I have Nokia 625 on EE, downloading 8.1 now...

[fester1977]

Hi

Been running the beta 8.1 for a few weeks and its not caused any issues i likt the added drop down box so you can see a message in brief without unlocking your phone.

Regards

[d000hg]

Just checked, seems to do the voice processing online, won't register any words if the connection is disabled.

I must have mis-read, unless I was reading about a future upgrade or something. Thanks for testing.

[minestrone]

Just checked, seems to do the voice processing online, won't register any words if the connection is disabled.

[d000hg]

The wife likes Siri a lot for adding stuff to the calendar and reminders "when I get home remind me to ...", it seems pretty reliable unlike the pre-Cortana voice recognition on WP7/8 which is terrible - I use it for calling people but nothing else.

Doesn't Cortana do all the processing on the device unlike Siri which requires an internet connection?

[minestrone]

I don't know how I ever lived without cortana, I would imagine it is much the same as siri and the google one but I am surprised how well it works for a Microsoft product in beta and have started to use it a lot.

BBC streaming works on IE mobile 11 as well.

Battery on the dev build is honking, have to charge it every night.

[d000hg]

Really liking wp8 but will wait until nokia provide the update.

I just got my 1020 after giving in to the temptation to upgrade from my WP7.8 610 and I generally like WP8 (but I liked WP7, it's not a massive difference).

I am also waiting for 8.1 to be released fully and maybe even then I'll wait a bit for bugs to be caught. I saw some mixed reviews about features like the personal hub being made pretty useless.

My biggest gripes about WP8, which I was expecting to be fixed coming from WP7:

- No push email on Google accounts
- Streaming video on BBC doesn't work even though they use HTML5 for live sport, and IE10 has decent HTML5 support. My iPad can watch the snooker in the browser, my shiny phone gets "device not supported"

[Marian12]

I have a question, how to connect VPN to win 8.1?

[woohoo]

Followed the instructions here for the upgrade...

Download and install Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview with Cortana - PC Advisor

quite a big release, took 420 meg to download so that must be bigger than XP.

Big improvements all round. Adjusting the size of the tiles was long over due.

I do with they would hide the lock screen password inputs.

Really liking wp8 but will wait until nokia provide the update.

[stek]

They do sound impressive. Transactional memory is interesting. I've read a bit about that in comm acm over the years, I didn't realise it was so close to production.

One of the premies has been on a presentation, I think we're getting one here (I'm at IBM), was ear-wigging a bit, seems it focusses on Linux on POWER, and a new Ubuntu too, with a POWER version of KVM, which doesn't seem much like a forward step to me but let's see. And lots of new management tools - goodbye HMC? Hope so....

Also I believe it's very green, and very cheap (comparatively) even POWER7 was quite frugal, think a new bobby-basic was about 3.8k or so, indeed a P7 blade is £1200 ish....

This is me guessing but we'll probably see a AIX 8 and iSeries 8 too, since IBM have lately been keen on aligning release numbers. Even got TSM 7.1 recently to align with AIX 7.1 and iSeries 7.1

Interesting times...

[doodab]

I'm gonna start an IBM POWER8 thread, we're getting an early play at my place!

They do sound impressive. Transactional memory is interesting. I've read a bit about that in comm acm over the years, I didn't realise it was so close to production.

[stek]

You not got some thread in general to get hysterical about and pish your knickers over?

I'm gonna start an IBM POWER8 thread, we're getting an early play at my place!

[minestrone]

So you are the one?

You not got some thread in general to get hysterical about and pish your knickers over?

[Unix]

Followed the instructions here for the upgrade...

Download and install Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview with Cortana - PC Advisor

quite a big release, took 420 meg to download so that must be bigger than XP.

Big improvements all round. Adjusting the size of the tiles was long over due.

I do with they would hide the lock screen password inputs.

So you are the one?