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On 16/10/12 12:15, Rob Beard wrote: > On 16/10/12 11:47, Julian Hall wrote: >> On 15/10/2012 19:09, Rob Beard wrote: >>> On 15/10/12 18:26, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>>>> I certainly hope they don't end up in landfill, if you're going to >>>>> chuck it away, donate it to a school at least :) I am sure the >>>>> school >>>>> i work at would have one or two. :) >>>> >>>> Which won't work when they eventually release all the educational >>>> software for schools designed to work on the 512MB models only. >>>> >>>> OK, so maybe I'm a tad cynical here, however, let's wait and see... >>>> >>>> Gordon >>>> >>> >>> Could be worse, could be a Windows Phone :-) >>> >>> Rob >>> >> *twitch* >> >> Don't set me off again :) >> >> http://www.kaotic.co.uk/wp7-wishlist.html - and no.. there's still no >> change. Next phone will be Android. >> >> Julian >> > > Just looking through your wish list... > > "Message (SMS) Alerts: Why does it only alert you once? Every other > phone I've had bleeps until you actually read the message ensuring you > never miss one. It's easy to miss one with WP7." > > My Android phone doesn't do that either, don't think it ever did on > the stock Samsung version of Android with Touchwiz, and certainly > doesn't on CyanogenMod. It notifies me and that's it. Actually > coming to think of it I don't think any of my phones have alerted me > by tone more than once :-) > > "Direct Printing from phone: Why is this not standard? I'm not about > to upload personal documents or photos to a third party server just to > print them on the printer sat two feet away. Yet when I plug the phone > in via USB the printer says it is an incompatible device! Failing that > WiFi; my printer is accessible via my network and has WiFi on it > anyway. This needs fixing ASAP. MSDN has a developer who has written a > DLL to do this yet nobody has taken it and written an app making use > of it." You can do this on Iphone I think, so perhaps apple hold a patent on it > > I can see how that can be annoying. In my case on my phone there is > an App available for download from Epson to print over wifi. Not used > it though. Not sure if the phone supports direct printing (I think > possibly the issue here would be supporting Cups on Android, but I > guess the individual apps do the job here). > > "Audio recording application: All other smartphone OSs can record > voice messages but this very useful function is missing from WP7. Why?" > > Nope, haven't got this either. There are apps available, even apps > that can record phone calls although the thing that bugs me is they > don't work properly on my Galaxy S (I did manage to get it working > once on Gingerbread by changing a kernel module, but then upgraded to > Cyanogenmod and lost the feature again :-/) > > "SatNav: TomTom and Garmin have snatched defeat from the jaws of > victory by stating publicly they won't produce a SatNav app for WP7 > (especially strange for TomTom given they already did one for Windows > Mobile 6.5). This leaves the ball squarely in Microsoft's court to > fill a yawning chasm in the market." > > Can't comment on this on other Windows Phones, but my daughter's Nokia > Lumia 710 has Nokia Maps and it's actually pretty good. > > "Access to home network: I can access the Internet through my home > network, and my phone has the ability to read the files on it. In fact > I can read and write files to it on my Android tablet PC! It would be > nice then if WP7 had the ability to map Windows network drives so that > I can read files currently on my system instead of (as mentioned > above) having to email any files I need to read to the phone. Android > has this function - even 1.6 on my tablet! - so why hasn't WP7?" > > Erm... it can do that on Android? > > Only way I've found to be able do that myself is to install a 3rd > party app (in my case ES File Explorer) which allows me to open > Windows shares, SSH sessions, FTP/SFTP sessions. I don't use it much > as it's slow as hell over wifi and usually craps out when copying > large files. :-/ > > ...and Zune... oh got what a steaming pile of crap that is. My > daughter (who is 12) has a 'child' Windows Live account so she can't > actually download apps to her phone without plugging it into a PC > running Zune (which we don't have). Can't even update existing apps > over the air. > > Wouldn't be so bad if Microsoft had the option to plug the phone into > the XBOX and update it that way (actually to be fair I haven't tried > that yet, might give it a go :-D). > > Rob > -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq