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welcome to day 14 of the i switched

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video blog now i've had a lot of christmas criticism

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criticism that uh i don't know what i'm doing in Windows phone 8 and this much

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has been true especially up till now because i haven't known what i was doing

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which is the point of this video blog however

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in the last couple of weeks i have picked up an awful lot of cool stuff

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that i'm going to show you guys some of which is to do with new things i found

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that i like or dislike and some of which is to do with things that i've

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discovered that are actually way better than i thought so why don't we start

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with the fantastic copy paste so if i were to look for say for example

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shaw phone number this has to be just the super

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most elegantest copy paste that i have ever seen so here's that contextual

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search so hopefully this is going to search web yep there it goes

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shaw contact us and all i got to do is

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find a phone number touch it

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okay well it didn't pick it up that time but check this out anytime you highlight

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something there's your little copy next time you go to a text box it'll just be

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sitting there ready for you to go ahead and paste it so i love the way it does

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copy paste another thing i discovered is the it's that Windows phone jumps very

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cleanly between wi-fi and cellular data so you know how it has that feature

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where it scans for wireless hotspots around you

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that's cool it's also kind of annoying because as you're driving around

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there'll be little notifications coming up hotspot hotspot hotspot well they're

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all protected you can't use them however what i noticed is that even compared to

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iOS and Android there was a power outage

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um and in our studio and slick's phone

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you couldn't load up a page mine did and i was like oh but i'm connected to wi-fi

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Windows phone 8 automatically figures out oh well it's not working so why

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don't i just use cellular yay i personally think that's awesome

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because it's so annoying when you have a flaky Wi-Fi connection that you're connected to but is too flaky to

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actually load a page and it just gives up forever it's frigging annoying so it

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actually finds a way to load the page which i think is absolutely great

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um oh yeah so for those of you who were criticizing me for not finding the

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multitasking interface you're right i didn't i did not find the back button to

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use the multitasking interface that intuitive i also still don't really like

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it because the way see how do you see how smooth the slide is you can't

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actually click anything until it's stopped so that makes it a little bit

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challenging for me personally to quickly

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navigate to something that i'm looking for because you have to kind of

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stop it stop stop and then you're actually able to navigate to something

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within the multitasking interface but it's a lot better than what i thought it

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was which was just press the Windows key and have everything close on you so

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there you go i probably could have figured this out if i'd noticed the notification that

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comes up the first time you turn on the phone that sends you to the Windows site with some helpful tips and tricks did

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not see that for those of you who said my cloud media app

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is probably only not working correctly resuming the

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playback because i wasn't using multitasking it looks like that's not

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quite the case even if you skip and cloud media i've decided is an

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acceptable substitute for uh for air video it's not perfect

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because i mean it doesn't resume and all that kind of stuff but it's sort of it's

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getting me by so check this out if i multitask and go

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somewhere else let's go back to shaw tech support then we multitask back

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to a show it is going to

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press play even though it knows where it is

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it is going to take me back to the beginning of the show so this is probably just a bug within the o and of

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course the one time that i'm trying to prove a point here

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it doesn't do that so there you go trust me guys usually when i wait a bit go do

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a few things and then go back to it it doesn't it doesn't work it just goes

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right back to the beginning of the show um so oh oh the stock twitter app holy

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crap i don't even know if it's still on my phone but i mean you got people complaining that

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there's no native facebook app but quite frankly if the native facebook app ends

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up anywhere near as bad as the stock twitter app then yeah i don't think

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we're really missing anything so here check this out

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okay i want to reply to everyone here

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oh replies to no okay

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reply no oh they're all gone uh

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okay how do i reply to all okay hashtags what i can't even reply

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all it's freaking ridiculous however i had i had viewers point out this

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particular app which is called oh yeah this was another thing that was pointed

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out to me as well is that if you click on something and expand it you can see

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what it's called then you can put it back if you don't remember for whatever

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reason you go back so rowi is awesome this is probably the best twitter app

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that i've yet encountered it's extremely clean it looks very Windows 8 ui

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gorgeous it scrolls well it's uh it's

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very very elegant in terms of new tweets integrating pictures you can sort of

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pick whatever pictures you want you can basically you can just do all the stuff

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that you should be able to do in a twitter app very very easily i really

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really like it so that's all from january 24th this is going to end up

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being a long video um xbox music on the desktop i wasn't able to use i had

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someone suggest to me that i use that because i don't have Windows 8 yet

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however the um the subscription is kind

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of awesome you just basically go to the xbox music store it's 100 bucks a year

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you go okay top albums i want to listen to some justin bieber i can either

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download it or just stream it and

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there you go just like that so it's extremely fast uh it's not something i

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had pre-cached on my phone let me tell you that much uh tansy was suggested to

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transfer sms but it's 20 bucks so i didn't bother i just decided you know what i'm gonna live without my old sms's

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plugging in the headphone jack on this particular phone makes a bit of a staticky noise so unplugging and

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plugging it causes a little bit of interference i found it kind of annoying

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but it's not a huge deal it's just something i wasn't really used to

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beats audio needs to be off i think i mentioned that last time for me to enjoy

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it because i find it boosts up the bass too much so that's january 26th let's

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move on to january 28th skydrive integration is awesome

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i actually tried to do a so it syncs all your photos

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automatically which is great because you just sit down at any other computer where you have skydrive hooked up and

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they're just all kind of there as soon as it's anywhere near wi-fi it'll upload

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them very very cool and this is amazing

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so the way oh wait no i'm not moving on to that yet sorry sorry sorry not that

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so yeah convenient not to have to worry about syncing things it syncs your app list as well as your photos your

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documents and pretty much whatever else you want your settings all that good

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stuff um nokia drive nokia drive i wanted to

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use it on the 28th but i discovered that you can't oh hold on no no that's going

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to have my my gps for where i am right now which is not optimal

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but nokia drive doesn't allow you to download maps

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for a location where um

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hold on i'm just going to go like somewhere else there let's look in the middle of the countryside so check this

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out it doesn't allow you to download maps when you're on 3g even though the files

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aren't that big and you can say yeah no i really do want it it's okay it won't

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let you do it but i love the fact that you're downloading maps offline and

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you're able to use your gps even if you have no data connection

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phenomenal absolutely awesome and the way the navigation works in this app the

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turn by turn is outstanding i absolutely love it so there you go january 29th

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music and contacts navigation i had complained that um when i go to my music

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library so my collection uh i said i had to scroll down like this

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i was wrong all you have to do is click any one of these letters and then you

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can navigate directly to artists or albums or songs or whatever else

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starting with that letter and that is the quick navigation i personally don't

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find this quite as fast because it's two clicks as just having a scroll here but

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this is way better than what i thought it was and honestly it's it's fine as

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far as quick navigation goes sort of thumbs up maybe just like one and a half

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thumbs up you can swipe notifications away to the right so notifications that come down on

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the top i had said you can't get rid of them you swipe them to the right i'm sorry guys this wasn't intuitive to me

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as a Windows user i'm used to something comes up i click somewhere else to make

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that other thing go away so this was a new sort of ui thing for me i missed it

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but there you go you can get rid of them quickly if you need to uh there's an app

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for map monitoring battery i think this is a kludgy solution because you can see

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here there's no percentage you can't turn that on you have to actually get a

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separate app to tell you what your battery life percentage is at it also

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gives you some neat tips about how to um you know preserve more battery life

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suggest things like turning off nfc which can be a bit of a battery hog

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you know closing apps rather than leaving them running in the background so cool little stuff like that but this

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isn't useful for when i'm in a browser say for example and i want to know what

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my battery life is oh how do i do that oh i can't even see the bar now so

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yeah it's not perfect still but it's better than i thought because at least

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you can get an app that tells you the percentage ah i said rowie's awesome ah the people

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hub so i've spent more time with people now um actually i'm a shut-in i've spent no

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time with people but i've spent more time with the people app no this is the me app that's a different one there it

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is people um so people's cool because it's great for

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monitoring other people uh however what i've noticed about it is

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that it's not okay so together that's for groups it's really not that great

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for um communicating with other people

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so if i go what is it

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oh if i create like a great contact no

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where is it twitter i don't know show updates yeah

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so it's great for monitoring then you go to the me one and i don't think these

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should be two separate apps so look at this i want to post an update i want to

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post to twitter where how do i add a photo to it

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okay maybe you can do it maybe i'm just totally wrong but come on why why is

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this hard um i very much prefer rally

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and um yeah i'm mostly a twitter guy that's one

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thing i wanted to mention on january 29th as well is i don't miss facebook at

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all actually i totally don't miss having facebook on my phone because the things

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i care about with facebook things like being able to message someone are

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integrated into either people or my

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messaging application hold on let me just make sure there's nothing there um

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or my messaging application here which is okay you guys will just

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have to take my word for it let me just find someone there we go oh i don't have

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diesel on facebook do i have the crazy russian on facebook

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i don't have the crazy russian on facebook well okay between the people

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app and the messaging app you can message someone pretty much any way you'd want without an official facebook

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app so like i said i actually just totally don't miss it

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and then people allows you to monitor people's facebook updates

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anyway so yeah uh moving right along let me just see if

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we missed anything yep uh Windows phone.com freaking awesome so

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there are some pretty cool features there you can ring

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lock track erase install apps and

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uh you can do a full wipe of the phone from windowsphone.com which is pretty

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freaking cool did you zoom in on that that's right but

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then it wouldn't focus okay that's probably just as well because my phone number's on there but the point is that

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you can see where your phone is you can ring it so you can find it if it's under something you can even set your phone

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within the find my phone app itself

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which we're gonna just go find uh so you go to settings

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settings find my phone check it out so you can

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tell it hey save my phone's location periodically and before the battery runs

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out send apps to my phone using push notifications not sms

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very very cool stuff and i mean those are huge features if you're using this

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for like for work or anything like that although i did found one kind of neat

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flaw because i had thrown my sim in an

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htc 8s and done a full migration so i

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did a backup and restore the backup is completely automatic i didn't have to do

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anything to do it all you have to do is put a sim in a new car in a new phone

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boot it up log in and say hey i want to restore from that phone and it does

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everything even even now like it's getting all of my text messages and

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installed on my apps it does everything but arranger live tiles which is very

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very cool so i could go sim out sim in

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and this phone would be as up to date as this one even all my text messages are

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syncing on the fly now that this phone is logged into my skydrive account so i

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absolutely love that it's very smooth compared to the iOS way okay obviously

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it doesn't do all your music and media but you can copy that manually because

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all you got to do is plug in a usb cable yay compared to itunes so way way more

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elegant as an iOS user though i'm finding i'm

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finding persistent soft buttons down here a real problem because sometimes my

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leg through the pocket will press a button when i have like a video playing

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and then i have an earbud in or something like a youtube music video or

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something i'm listening to it'll press stuff and then it'll go places and i'm

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finding that sort of disruptive overall i mean i i like having hard

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buttons here but i could probably get used to it in time

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what i'm doing right now is i'm turning it around in my pocket so that it

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doesn't bump stuff but it's just it's kind of a clutchy solution we're moving

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on to january 31st within the settings things are linked in multiple places i

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really like this so back to settings um

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so you don't have to fuss around trying to figure out sort of what logic was

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used by whoever set it up so for example sms

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is under both uh backup and messaging

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so if you go back up so you can have all of your text

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messaging settings there so you can click that to go into it in more detail

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or you can see it within ah this i love

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okay i actually had a pocket pc back

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when those were cool and why doesn't iOS implement this

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snooze why can't you snooze a notification on iOS that's awesome

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remind me in 10 minutes freaking amazing like what i want to go

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back into my calendar and like reconjigger it for 10 minutes from now

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because i don't have time right now no i want to snooze it's awesome love it

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so i set that up so that i could show you guys that but it kind of surprised me so now i forget where i was

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the thing about the browser if i had to complain about anything it's snappy it

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scrolls quickly it's responsive but it's two

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touches to get to my tabs i wish it was one touch to select tabs um

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it's a minor thing i don't use tabbed browsing that much on my phone but there

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you go uh copy paste is outstanding yeah i

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already talked about that everything everything that's been driving me crazy

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about the 8x keyboard it turns out is purely a form factor thing because i

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tried using the 8s for a day and that fixed every complaint i had about it so

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you can see with the size of my hand this is a reach for me i can barely make

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it oversee i pressed the search button trying to make it over to here which is

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where the keyboard would be annoying with the 8s on the other hand i can

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easily and comfortably type no matter

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what and i don't have to yeah i recommend it it's fine i didn't use it

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much so i can just go yeah hello

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this is a queue and i won't press the search

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button so i thought that the keyboard was just kind of difficult for me to use

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it's nothing to do with the keyboard keyboard is fine it's just the 8x is a

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little bit too big for my hands and for those of you who are going to say ooh use the note 2. no i'm not going to use

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a note 2. it's too big this is too big i have small hands you'll get used to it

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no you won't your small hands don't grow because your phone is bigger um

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yeah every day with Windows phone

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yeah so i may stick i may actually okay this is sort of a spoiler alert but i'm

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only going to do one more update at day 30 i may actually end up sticking with

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Windows phone but i probably won't stick with the 8x if i can figure out a way to

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get all of my apps in the four gigs of the 8s i may actually just go that route

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because the form factor is just too i wish that they were still

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compact high-end phones but it seems like screen size has become the new sort

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of um you know appendage measuring contest

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so whatever the email app destroys the built-in one

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for iOS i love the email app it is just

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awesome you can see your flag messages your urgent ones i'm not no i don't need

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to look too closely but just uh the way it does it the way it does attachments

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is awesome in iOS you have to go browse to your photo then you have to go send

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this to someone no no no no not not in Windows so here let's send let's send an

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email to slick

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oh nope hold on here so i'm just going to kind of cover

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this up but the point is you want to

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send an attachment you click the attachment button oh yeah that simple

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then you go find an attachment that's like herder here's a picture of you

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and it's and it's done i i love it it's just really elegant it's quick and it's

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quick to search the server so if it doesn't find anything it's just a button

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yeah search the server and it doesn't take forever which on iOS it does for

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some i just stopped using the iOS one i just used the gmail browser-based mobile

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site because the app is terrible whereas

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on this one i've stopped using the mobile site entirely the app is much

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better uh emailing photos easy ah february 1st

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the people app can be manually over ah yes the people app

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so the people app has some really good things about it but here i'm just gonna

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find this is just kind of funny so we're gonna go down to j

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where i have ah here we go

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so you know what that should be fine i have

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three jack chens actually i know two jack chens and one

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of these jack chens here i just don't want to show anyone's phone yeah there we go so see this

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shows a a yahoo and a pivos one

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and um it has combined multiple yeah i see

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here's an NVIDIA one so it's got three different ones for what are two jack

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chens who work for two different companies you can override it though so

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it's not the end of the world and then there were some individual people that were split out into multiple ones but

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all you have to do is use a setting that says link so you can unlink and then you

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can link additional ones together and it'll just take your entire disorganized

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contact list so you've got some of them in your hotmail contacts your gmail

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contacts your whatever contacts and it just kind of goes

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and it puts them all together facebook linkedin all that stuff so yeah manual

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overriding is good uh-ho error codes uh

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this is this is hilarious so there was some app that couldn't install

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on here we go this particular phone when it tried to do the synchronization so i

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was like click i clicked on it i was like attention required tap here

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error message uh oh hold on

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the error code 800 fff

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come on microsoft come on guys i mean this is like when um

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you know back when msn messenger was the big deal and you'd like get this error

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code you'd be like what does that mean you try to google it and you couldn't

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find anything because your internet wasn't working turns out the error code meant your internet's not connected and

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you're just like why didn't you just say my internet's not connected

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there you go there's a freaking concept for you so yeah just those those little

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microsoft things um oh i found a bit of a glitch the

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backup restore process doesn't work if you don't have a data connection through

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your cellular provider so it doesn't give you an option to connect to wi-fi to do a

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restore and phone ownership transfer so that's just bizarre and you can only

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switch a profile from one phone to another one upon initial boot up you

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have to wipe and restore a phone in order to take your profile and transfer

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the entire thing so if you have no sim in there with no data connection you

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cannot do it um and i did google that it's like a true

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thing oh the to-do list i love the to-do list it's integrated really well with

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the calendar so you just swipe over to to-do list and you're going to have a bunch of no no it's okay you're going to

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have a bunch of to do stuff so you can see your day agenda your agenda and your

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to-do list and it's really really smooth

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i think that's about it thank you for checking out this

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extremely long and hopefully interesting video about my two weeks into the

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Windows phone 8 experience where i'm actually finding you know i got my sound

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town now i got metrotube which is an awesome youtube app

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um i'm not really missing this thing anymore so

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