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One of the more obvious things missing from Windows Phone 8 is a notification centre. When something happens to trigger a notification, up it pops for a second or two, only to disappear into the OS ether and never be seen again. Turns out, Microsoft simply ran out of time to code up a solution.
The Verge reports from the Build conference that Microsoft’s Thomas Fennel isn’t happy about it. Speaking to an audience member who asked why WinPho 8 didn’t have a notification centre, he said:
“Because we ran out of time… It’s very very important to me… we get tons of feedback from developers that they want something like that as well. I promise we’re thinking very very hard on that one.”
The problem perhaps seems no biggy, but it can prove infuriating: if there’s no live tile set up for the app providing the notification, it is literally impossible to find out what it said. That sucks. Sounds like Microsoft might fix it before too long, though. [Verge]
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Wasn’t iOS like this not so long ago?
Well it was a year and a bit ago and you have to remember they actually did put it in during their biggish update (iOS5) whereas Microsoft didn’t and they completely rewrote the code.
Holy crap it’s Darrell’s evil apple twin again?!
Does he look like me but with a goatee?
Well I could start commenting more but people only want so many insightful views before they get annoyed
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Everybody scatter!!!
Hey I know who has a decent notification centre WP can rip off! iOS has gotten away with it so it’s fair game right?
It’s open source mate, knock yourself out.
Probably get sued for ‘Stealing’ Apples one in that case!
The thing that bugs me more than no notification area, is that First Party Apps (ie Email and Messages) have a different notification counter than 3rd Party ones like Facebook and Whatsapp. You have a nice clean design, then ruin it by having different freaking notifications!
With the Nexus 4 being £230-280 I don’t see how Windows Phone will gain any traction, especially seeing how the Lumia 920 is EE only until next year.
What percentage of people buy high-end smartphones outright? I would expect it’s quite high in Giz, but low in the real world. As long as Nokia and the Carriers price the contracts well, the outright price of the Nexus shouldn’t matter (seeing as the carriers like O2 aren’t following through with low contract prices to match for the Nexus)
All the other phones are £500-600
The Nexus is half the price, lots of people buy iPods for the same price of the Nexus 4.
I also don’t think people care about 4G as most cannot use it, besides looking at EEs results it is around the speed of DCHSPA+ that the Nexus 4 has.
There is no downside other than only 16gb of storage.
The 920 is less than £500 outright at phones4u. The 8X is even cheaper still. But my point was the vast majority of people buy flagship smartphones on contract.
Agreed, I buy phones on contract, and I’ll bet that all these phones will be the same price on contract at my local mobile phone shop.
And I inlcude teh Nexus 4 in that, it’ll end up being the same price as the Nokia for most people.
Have you ever looked into how much more you are paying on contract than off. Unless you can’t afford the upfront cost (which IS quite steep) you are much better off. The N4 will lower this entry barrier considerably.
The Lumia 920 is not EE only. If you physically visit the shop, you can buy it from Phones4U, on contract, with any major network. It just won’t have 4G on it.
Unless you want the white one, which is EE only I believe.
Unfortunately thats not the case.
http://www.neowin.net/news/nokia-and-ee-clarify-nokia-lumia-920820-availability-in-uk
I worked for phones4u for over a year and can’t see it staying EE only or phones4u exclusive as the sales people just push what they know and like which isn’t windows phones