All About Windows Phone

Time 2020-11-02 20:05:42

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Recent Editorial ContentServer work underway. Content publishing is currently frozen. Our regular publishing schedule will resume shortly. Status report for November 2020: services and apps on Windows 10 MobileHere, for November 2020, is the refreshed/latest news and comment on applications and services on Windows 10 Mobile - the OS itself has now had its very last security update, but it still works on the whole. This feature will summarise what's broken and what's not, along with workarounds where possible. Details and links have all been updated throughout. Note that I've kept the URL the same, so the last seven months of comments are all still here.# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 10:36, Oct 30thReview: Aenkyo Air Wireless 10000mAh power bankThe number one hassle with power banks on trips is that you also have to remember to take with you the right charging cable for each family device that you might need to rescue. For most of us, this means bringing along a power bank plus a Type C cable, a microUSB cable, and Lightning too, for family members with iPhone or iPads. This Aenkyo accessory is perhaps the ultimate swiss army knife in the power bank world, in that it can not only charge phones via Qi wireless, it has integral Type C, microUSB and Lightning cabling. So - quite literally - no extra wires are needed.# Posted by Steve in Reviews || Comments 16:08, Oct 28th2020 imaging head to head: Lumia 950, Pixel 5, iPhone 12Something a little different here, with a three way test - just because I have the very latest from Google and Apple here. Pitched against the classic Lumia 950 (from 2015), because this is AAWP, after all, I've taken a number of test scenes in all light conditions - which will be the purest of PureView cameras? Do note that the 'big one' on the iPhone 12 imaging front is November's 12 Pro Max, so that'll have its own camera showdown in due course...# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 13:41, Oct 26thMid-priced head to head: Lumia 950 vs iPhone 12OK, it's a fair cop, the comparisons are starting to get a little stretched now in terms of raw power, but the brand new (out today) iPhone 12 is almost the same size as my trusty Lumia 950 and might well be a device that many are aiming for, or at least aspiring to. No, it's not the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the next-gen camera stuff, but it's not a million miles off. So how does it spec up to a Lumia that you'll all know and love?# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 16:31, Oct 23rdIn the wake of the Lumia 950: all aboard into a Type C worldIt's a fair cop, the Lumia 950/XL wasn't the very first smartphone (or indeed device of any kind) to use USB Type C, but it was in the first handful. A 'LeTV' phone got there first, a few months earlier, then the Google Nexus 5X and 6P pipped the Lumias by a month. But, for a change, back in 2015, Microsoft's Lumias were just about on the cutting edge. And now Type C is back in the headlines, controversially so, though the adjective 'courageous' is possibly apt... this time around.# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 06:28, Oct 21stContinuum-esque Windows hot-desking, 2020 styleI thought this might be of interest, from someone who was all in on Windows 10 Mobile and Continuum(or Android and Samsung DeX) as the way forward four years ago. Even though Windows 10 Mobile had the rug pulled out from under its feet by Microsoft and then died the death of (lack of) a thousand apps, the dream of hot-desking lives on in other guises. Witness my data point below - it's not a perfect solution but it's technically elegant.# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 06:30, Oct 19thTwitter UWP gets huge Settings overhaulTwitter keeps on improving its UWP application with server side (it's a PWA under the hood) changes and this month's update hit yesterday, with a complete overhaul of the Settings hierarchy. It's, dare I say it, a little Windows Phone-esque now! Twitter is perhaps the flagship social network for W10M in these last days for the OS, so here's what's new, updated and fixed!# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:29, Oct 16thWindows 10 (Mobile) Maps loses traffic accessI'd normally put this down to a glitch, but traffic data has now been patchy or missing completely in multiple countries for over a week. So, in Windows 10 Mobile, if you head into Maps and plan a route you'll get 'Traffic info isn't available'. It looks like this is simply W10M falling off Microsoft's radar in that a server was changed at their end and the out-of-support Mobile was left stranded. In other news, traffic has stopped working properly in HERE Maps/Drive+ on ye olde Windows Phone 8.1 too. A sad day for Windows phone travellers, methinks.# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:08, Oct 14thSpecifications head to head (take 2): Lumia 950 XL vs Google Pixel 4a 5GA week ago I compared the relatively small, brand new 350 Pixel 4a to the favourite Lumia 950, with quite a bit in common - now I do the same at a larger scale to the 4a's sister device, the (still mid-priced) 4a 5G, more equivalent in feel and size to the larger 950 XL. The Pixel 4a 5G goes get several component upgrades, mind you, over the smaller 4a, see the specifications below, and ends up hitting the sweet spot for most people, I think. Just the lack of Qi charging stands between this device and perfection at the price. Video review coming very soon!# Posted by Steve in Features || Comments 15:00, Oct 13thReview: Mini-review: RAVPower 65W PD Pioneer 4-port desktop chargerBack in June I reviewed a lesser variant of this RAVPower champion, plugging directly into a wall socket and only offering two output ports. This, the 'Pioneer' top of the line, has a standalone unit and flying mains lead, plus offers no less than four outputs, two PD and two 'smart' USB. In short, it's a complete (mobile) mains charging solution and I was impressed. This just jumped the pile into my gadget briefcase...# Posted by Steve in Reviews || Comments 14:36, Oct 11th More News, Reviews, Features and Media

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