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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Holy crap that was just beyond awesome of Mr. Gates to do that, bless him indeed!

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Bill Gates is what you would call an honorable aristocrat among a den of thieves. Virtually every business man in old money has their hands covered in blood, but not him. He's a giver, and that's something I can respect. :)
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Tsutarja

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Typing this post up from my new Lumia 520.. the screen is a little sensitive to the touch though..

And here's what T&I looks like from it:

Spoiler:

Legendary Silke

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You actually figured out how to take a screenshot? :)

That looks nice, Zach! I hope you continue to enjoy your new phone. :)
Indeed, isn't it? To think that such a phone cost as much as a 3DS game for a short while ago.

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I'm just glad I have an actual smartphone now and not some feature phone. Hoping soon though to get it activated with a micro SIM card, and possibly a micro SD card for it as well so I can have expanding storage.

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Lol what? It's just home + sleep XD
I think he was talking to me :P considering that I'm new to the Windows Phone OS

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I haven't read any manuals yet on the phone XD but it seems that I cannot have the phone turned off while charging.. I've tried turning it on while charging and it just turns on instead of showing a charging screen.

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I haven't read any manuals yet on the phone XD but it seems that I cannot have the phone turned off while charging.. I've tried turning it on while charging and it just turns on instead of showing a charging screen.
It's a Windows Phone quirk. If it's not a HTC 8[letter], the only time a Windows Phone stays off while charging is when the battery charge is too low for a successful boot.

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If that were the case, I'd just put the phone in Airplane mode while it's charging. No off-mode charging is a bit of a dealbreaker for me though.
Actually, it's a bit of a firmware quirk. Good thing the HTC 8-somethings aren't affected by it... but they're pretty bad, though. Go Nokia or go home when it come to Windows Phones - you're much better served by Nokia phones (unless you must have it all, then the Samsung Ativ S might work).

I don't really find much use for off-mode charging, to be honest. Things charge pretty fast on my old-as-heck Lumia 900.

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I managed to get the phone all activated today and they used the SIM card that came with it and just transferred my number and the contacts onto the phone. Probably going to cut out a micro SIM-to-mini SIM card adapter in case I have to go back to my Razr should something happen to the 520.

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Sometimes I really wish I could just go out and get a Nokia Lumia 520. The problem seems to be essentially trading significantly better performance and expandable storage for worse everything else.

I think I'm not ready to give up the 4.3" AMOLED display, the dual-LED flash, or the 8 MP shooter. Or the front-facing camera. Yet.

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Which phone do you have again? IIRC it was limited to Windows Phone 7..

Performance shouldn't be too much of a problem for me. Browsing in IE on my phone is very smooth and so is Skype.

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It's a Nokia Lumia 900 - the "old flagship", which at this point is... well, yeah. Technically speaking, the phone is only two generations old - I think it was competing with the likes of Samsung Galaxy S II and Apple iPhone 4S.

I think I have more problems with IE9 Mobile being usable but very ugly if the website wasn't made with Windows Phone 7 in mind (namely, no web font support) and/or when the mobile website likes to re-layout the entire page.

Even though the Trident engine, Chakra scripting engine, and Direct2D renderer are really fast, especially on a CPU-constrained environment, you can only do so much given limited resources.

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I'd say that the 920 fits the description more.
Not really. Maybe next march, but definitely not now. I'd say a mobile generation goes from March-March, much like a fiscal year. Anything from March 2012 to March 2013 is one generation, and as such March 2013 to March 2014 is another. So right now, for me at least, the S4, 5S, Lumia 1020 and so on are the flagships. I'd say the 920 is Nokia's 3G/4S/5S more then anything.

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Legendary Silke

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Not really. Maybe next march, but definitely not now. I'd say a mobile generation goes from March-March, much like a fiscal year. Anything from March 2012 to March 2013 is one generation, and as such March 2013 to March 2014 is another. So right now, for me at least, the S4, 5S, Lumia 1020 and so on are the flagships. I'd say the 920 is Nokia's 3G/4S/5S more then anything.
Things get weird if you try to fit devices that are "behind" within a strict date criteria. :)

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Which is why I had trouble classifying things. Pre2010 it was easy defining a generation, just use MWC in February as the pre-launch month, with March the launch period for every year.

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