Windows Phone Central 144 - Windows Phone 8, Tablets and cats
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We're back with Daniel Rubino, Jay Bennett and Rafael Rivera for another exciting recap of June's news. Last we checked there was a lot to discuss including Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7.8, Surface tablets, Smart Glass and recent software releases. Plus we take your questions from our live chat.
So if you missed our July 4th live recording, you can tune in now or watch the HD video after the break, it's an epic discussion.
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Windows Phone Central podcast, episode 144 for 04 July, 2012
The big stories
- A full roundup of Windows Phone 8, what we know so far
- We talk Microsoft Surface
- and Xbox (8?) with smartglass
- Will Windows Phone 7.8 feature more than a new Start screen? Maybe
- Staying in the present - Tango rollout
- AT and T sitting on Samsung Tango updates for Windows Phone. Here's how to get it now
The apps
- Official Twitter app for Windows Phone finally gets Notifications - too late?
- Audible now live on the marketplace
- Nokia's Camera Extras and Play To available for Lumia Windows Phones
- The Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone title on July 4th is the adorable Mush from Angry Mango
- Xbox Live - Pool Pro Online 3 exclusive preview
The rest
- Microsoft has stopped the market share bleeding with the Lumia 900, but still has a lot to gain
- Nokia has Windows Phone contingency plan
- The (fake?) curved keyboard concept
- Fixing problems with Background Tasks in Windows Phone
- Super Monkey Ball 2
- Kindle finally Mango optimised
Community
- Comments from last time
- Live questions and comments
Credits
You can find us all on Twitter @wpcentral, @daniel_rubino, @coppertop004,
@RichEdmonds, @JayTBennett, @segacon, @WithinRafael, @RogueCode, @Big_D5
This has been a Mobile Nations podcast, go to Mobilenations.com for more great shows covering everything mobile, or head over to the WPCentral Forums if you'd like to get involved with our community in discussing more about Windows Phone news, devices and apps.
Thanks to the WPCentral Store for sponsoring the podcast. Thanks also to these great artists for the music and to CCMixter.org for offering a great database of Creative Commons music!
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ChrisLynch says:
Why does the video only have 1 audio channel, and it being the Right Channel (as apposed to the Left Channel?) More editing bugs???
Thamuz says:
I don't understand why people claim that there will be no more support for WP7 from app developers. Most of the apps don't realy need the new WP8 API's immediately, so why would devs cut themselves off from a large portion of their userbase? It seems like a bad strategy for developers to not support WP7 - unless they realy need native code in which case they don't have a choice. It's not only the users who get cut off from the WP8 apps, WP8 app developers also cut themselves off from what will be the majority of the WP user group at the time of the WP8 launch.
Also, people keep complaining about Apple has a better support model, that they have never thrown their users under the bus like Microsoft has done now. I think this is just a false comparison. Apple has never changed their kernel for iOS so we don't know how they would have handled it. And if they do decide to change their kernel, it will be an even bigger problem for them as they have a far larger user base. The truth is, we are in an entirely unique situation here. Yes, Microsoft is taking a huge risk, but I don't believe that you can continue to seperate the desktop and mobile kernel as Apple claims. As hardware gets better and better, it seems stupid to keep those two things seperate so my guess is that at some point in the future Apple is also going to change the iOS kernel and I realy wouldn't want to be around when that happens.
lbugnion says:
Just wanted to follow up on the comment about IdentityMine being slow on updates. As you can imagine, the update frequency is not decided by us, but by the client. In the case of Twitter, we were mandated to create the initial version of the app. We can only suggest to the client to update the app and add new feature, but of course the final decision is theirs.
