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Fios Internet. The Lumia 's x display was a different story with rough jagged text. Mila Kunis' red hat and coat popped as did the majestic Emerald City.
However, we noticed pixelation during darker scenes. In terms of brightness the Windows Phone 8X's display registered lux on our light meter, barely beating the smartphone average and Lumia both lux. The Lumia easily outshined both results with lux. The software is only activated when headphones are connected to the phone.
Unlike Beats headphones, this app boosts both mid- and lower tones, but evenly, for a richer sound. We heard strong, vibrant piano chords, crisp percussion and Anthony Davis' silky tenor over our Sol Republic Track headphones.
Without the headphones, the track sounded loud and somewhat tinny. Pressing the physical volume controls displays a little drop-down window that lets you advance, rewind or pause tracks. We're big fans of the visually appealing, customizable Live Tiles. There are lots of tiles users can pin to their Start screen, including people, apps, websites, photo albums, music albums, notes, directions and more. Live Tiles can now be resized to one of three sizes.
Just long-press to make a tile smaller or a large rectangle that stretches across the screen. Where Windows 8's Modern UI is designed for landscape navigation, Windows Phone 8 was designed with one-handed, portrait-mode use in mind.
Fortunately, other apps that can involve a lot of typing such as email and messaging can rotate to landscape mode. The new Rooms feature lets you set up a virtual network with selected contacts to privately share photos, calendars and send messages.
Inviting someone to a room was as easy as selecting them from our contacts list. From there, sharing photos, notes and sending messages was a simple matter. We can see this being a very helpful tool for both families and employees alike.
We'd like to see Rooms migrate to Windows 8 as well. Click to Enlarge Parents will appreciate the Kids' Corner feature, which lets you set up a protected area for your child.
They'll get their own Start screen with the apps, games, videos and music that you approve. As attractive as Windows Phone 8 is, there's room for improvement. For instance, you need to press the top of the screen to see your battery life and signal strength.
Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Any responses to this would be great, as long as they are relevant. Thanks in advance. This thread is locked. Jack Wallen explains how to easily communicate with collected groups of people on your Windows Phone 8 with the Groups and Rooms features. If you're a Windows Phone 8 user, you know Microsoft has done everything they can to make the phone user-friendly. In certain instances, they've also managed to make the phone a fairly efficient device.
That's the case with the contacts. Windows Phone 8 expands and improves the concept of groups from Windows Phone 7. There are now two ways to combine contacts together:. Each serves a very different purpose and helps to make communication much more efficient.
I want to help you understand and manage these features. Let's take a look at them one at a time. Delivered Tuesdays and Fridays. Windows Phone 8 Groups allow you to join contacts together so you can more easily follow their social networking status updates, plus easily text, email, or IM a group at once.
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