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Originally posted by Balling
A practical question.

With a phone the size of a TI-83 and a neoprene sleeve that looks about three sizes too big, where are you planning to store your phone when on the go?

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Originally posted by Dom
http://i.qkme.me/3r9oy9.jpg

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Originally posted by Dom
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Are we playing 'state the obvious'?

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Originally posted by VrsTurbo
i have that Nokia as well as my 5. Its bigger feels more solid. but i dont know i just dont get on with it.

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Originally posted by AndyKent
Impressed. Wish more people would get on board with it

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• Looks and feels lovely
  
• Not as heavy as the reviews made it sound - it is about 50% heavier than my iPhone 5 but I quite like that; I was disappointed when I moved from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5 at how light the 5 was - heavier feels more premium in my opinion. I also won't have the "shitwheresmyphone" panic with the 920!
  
• Not as big as the reviews made it sound - I like the bigger screen a lot
  
• Screen, while not "retina"/1080P is beautiful - resolution is more than adequate, viewing angles excellent, colours are lovely
  
• OS is *really* slick and responsive
  
• Setup was a piece of piss - all connected up to SkyDrive, Outlook e-mail, Twitter, Facebook etc in minutes

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Originally posted by Dom
Rob - Are you running the latest GDR2/Amber update? Suppose to add a load of performance tweaks and features like FM radio, etc
How are you finding it so far? Any issues or annoyances coming from Apple?

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• One volume setting applies to everything - I will miss the "Do Not Disturb" physical switch of the iPhone 5 to silence all notifications (calls, texts, emails etc). Also, if you're listening to music quietly, for instance - and don't remember to crank the volume back up before bed, the alarm will sound at the same volume you were playing your music at. Alternatively, if you crank your volume up for alarm purposes, if anyone rings you or you get a notification at stupid o'clock, you'll know about it! (Unless you manually go into settings and silence those notifications manually, or leave your notification settings alone and simply put the phone in Airplane Mode to prevent notifications from occurring in the first place).
  
• YouTube app is borked (can't really blame MS for this) - a shortcut to the website works fine, though so no biggie.
  
• Facebook app (latest version 5.1) is pants - but the built-in People hub satisfies most of my Facebook requirements (of just having a peek to see what people are talking about recently) nicely. Laggy as fuck and can't opt out of Chat. Again, visiting the actual website is the better option.
  
• No way to close individual apps - you can repeatedly hit the back button to shut down everything that's running, or hold down the back button to see what's running but you can't choose a specific app to shut.
  
• No built-in way of having battery percentage shown anywhere either in the status bar at the top, on a live tile or on the lock screen. There are bonky third-party apps, but they can only update every 30 minutes (WP8 limitation) so not massively useful.
  
• No way of choosing which people you want to see updates from on the People hub - you can choose to get everything from all your Facebook/Twitter connections, or none at all. I'd like to be able to select a handful of people I actually want to be kept up to date with and filter out some of the noise.

• Live Tiles - much more useful than static icons, although they can only update every 30 minutes; I imagine this is for battery conservation reasons. Realistically, half-hourly 'pull' updates is adequate for everything except battery which really needs to be realtime. 'Push' updates are instantaneous obviously (e-mail, for example).
  
• OneNote is all kinds of awesome if you like to get stuff out of your head and into a digital notebook of some sort, which is then accessible from anything with an internet connection.
  
• SkyDrive is genuinely brilliant; although I wish you could link directly to photos for embedding in forums rather than having to link through to the SkyDrive site or via a bonky <iframe> tag.
  
• Web browser is fast and responsive; lack of native apps is not a problem as the full websites are brilliant on the large screen.
  
• Built-in basic Office is a nice touch - can bosh up a quick Excel spreadsheet with graphs and all sorts, then pick up where you left off via SkyDrive on your PC.
  
• Daily Bing photo on lock screen - I use Bing Desktop on Windows to update my desktop wallpaper every day automatically; I like the synergy between WP8 and Windows 8 on the PC.
  
• Double-tap screen to wake phone.
  
• Flip to silence - you can silence an incoming call by placing the phone face down.
  
• Proper, dedicated two-stage camera shutter button.