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Anyone picking one up today?
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Notes/Tips/etc for your new phone:
About the SD card:
If you plan on replacing your SD card, please make sure you get a high quality card to replace it. You'll need a class 2 or better card that correctly supports hardware sd card lock/unlock. While I cannot recommend cards that will work (cause honestly I just don't know), I'm going to try one of the following myself:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139393
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171454
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139394
I've heard that some carriers are offering to sell approved/supported cards and install them for you at purchase time -- a good option if you want to avoid the hassle of potential issues. Remember that if you plan to replace the card, you'll have to hard boot the phone so it will format the card and prep it for use. This means you'll be starting from scratch -- make sure you sync to back up your pictures etc before you do it.
Improving the service
If you didn't allow it during the initial device setup, you can still enable settings to improve some of the phone functionality as well as help us improve the service itself.
In settings > system > location this allows phone geo location access to be provided to applications. This also enables location info to things like Bing Maps and search (more on that below).
In settings > system > cellular you can turn on/off data roaming or add an APN if you need
In settings > system > speech you can turn on/off voice recognition.
In settings > system > find my phone you can turn on phone location mapping for the my phone service (more on that below)
Most importaintly, settings > system > feedback to enable/disable sending feedback to us to help improve the phone. Believe it or not, this really helps us -- we use this to make the phone better.
On most of these we have a link to the privacy statement that you can view from the phone. We're very up front on what we see/do with the data you send as feedback. It really makes a huge difference in improving the service. :)
My phone website
If you enabled the "find my phone" feature, head over to http://windowsphone.live.com/myphone and login with your live id you setup on the phone. You can see general information (photos on the phone if you set it up), calendar, tricks and tips (like did you know you can turn the standard built in calculator app into scientific mode if you turn your phone to landscape mode), etc. If you click on the "find my phone" link you can go do a few more things like see on a map which bars you left your phone in, make it ring (even if it's set to vibrate only) so you can find it in the couch, lock the phone and put a custom message on the display, or you can remote wipe the device.
Things to try
Voice commands:
Holding the Windows button will bring up voice activation and should work like you would expect. Saying "Run LatestChatty" or just "LatestChatty", call "Call suchandsuch" etc. would do what you would expect. If you enabled location services with search you can also get local results. Saying "chinese food" or "pizza" should give you a map with said food items near your location (if you enabled location services, see above)
Pocket to picture:
If you put a lock on your phone, you can still take pictures without unlocking by holding the camera button for 2 seconds.
First page pinning:
You can pin more than just application to the first screen. For example you can tap and hold when on you you're on the radio application and pin that radio station to the start screen. Like wise you could pin a direct link to your Weekend Confirmed(tm) podcast, etc.
Cool apps:
Weather Bug does what you would expect. However it also shows you what apps could do with the live tiles. If you pin it to the start page and enabled push in it's settings you'll see the live tile updates -- I believe you can set it to push once every 20 minutes.
Ustream Viewer is something I've being playing with as it allows me to watch starcraft games/stream day9 to my phone.
The Netflix app is pretty damn good. Give it a go if you subscribe to it.
iFood Plus looks interesting -- it may push receipes to your phone? The applicaiton looked tasty to me anyway. Need to investigate more.
Xbox Live games so far are pretty good. Uno and Monoploy are great lunch time time wasters. :) There is also a non live bullet curtain shump called Corona that was pretty interesting. Battle of Hoth was interesting also. Pretty much all of them have trials so download them and give it a shot.
And of course LastestChatty is in the marketplace. fleabix did a great job with this.
If you find any more cool apps in the marketplace, please share :)
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