WEBVTT 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:12.960 welcome to day 14 of the i switched 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:17.760 video blog now i've had a lot of christmas criticism 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:22.560 criticism that uh i don't know what i'm doing in Windows phone 8 and this much 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:26.160 has been true especially up till now because i haven't known what i was doing 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.199 which is the point of this video blog however 00:00:27.119 --> 00:00:32.880 in the last couple of weeks i have picked up an awful lot of cool stuff 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:37.360 that i'm going to show you guys some of which is to do with new things i found 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.559 that i like or dislike and some of which is to do with things that i've 00:00:38.559 --> 00:00:45.680 discovered that are actually way better than i thought so why don't we start 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:49.360 with the fantastic copy paste so if i were to look for say for example 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:56.719 shaw phone number this has to be just the super 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:59.840 most elegantest copy paste that i have ever seen so here's that contextual 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:06.320 search so hopefully this is going to search web yep there it goes 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:07.920 shaw contact us and all i got to do is 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:11.760 find a phone number touch it 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:15.680 okay well it didn't pick it up that time but check this out anytime you highlight 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.280 something there's your little copy next time you go to a text box it'll just be 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:23.280 sitting there ready for you to go ahead and paste it so i love the way it does 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:28.479 copy paste another thing i discovered is the it's that Windows phone jumps very 00:01:25.759 --> 00:01:32.400 cleanly between wi-fi and cellular data so you know how it has that feature 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:35.520 where it scans for wireless hotspots around you 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:38.640 that's cool it's also kind of annoying because as you're driving around 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:43.200 there'll be little notifications coming up hotspot hotspot hotspot well they're 00:01:40.479 --> 00:01:48.560 all protected you can't use them however what i noticed is that even compared to 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.680 iOS and Android there was a power outage 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.600 um and in our studio and slick's phone 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:57.439 you couldn't load up a page mine did and i was like oh but i'm connected to wi-fi 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:02.719 Windows phone 8 automatically figures out oh well it's not working so why 00:01:59.759 --> 00:02:05.200 don't i just use cellular yay i personally think that's awesome 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:10.720 because it's so annoying when you have a flaky Wi-Fi connection that you're connected to but is too flaky to 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.480 actually load a page and it just gives up forever it's frigging annoying so it 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:18.800 actually finds a way to load the page which i think is absolutely great 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.680 um oh yeah so for those of you who were criticizing me for not finding the 00:02:20.239 --> 00:02:26.480 multitasking interface you're right i didn't i did not find the back button to 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:31.040 use the multitasking interface that intuitive i also still don't really like 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:35.599 it because the way see how do you see how smooth the slide is you can't 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:40.959 actually click anything until it's stopped so that makes it a little bit 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.480 challenging for me personally to quickly 00:02:40.959 --> 00:02:46.959 navigate to something that i'm looking for because you have to kind of 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:50.319 stop it stop stop and then you're actually able to navigate to something 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:54.480 within the multitasking interface but it's a lot better than what i thought it 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:58.000 was which was just press the Windows key and have everything close on you so 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:02.480 there you go i probably could have figured this out if i'd noticed the notification that 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:08.159 comes up the first time you turn on the phone that sends you to the Windows site with some helpful tips and tricks did 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.760 not see that for those of you who said my cloud media app 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.920 is probably only not working correctly resuming the 00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:20.800 playback because i wasn't using multitasking it looks like that's not 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:24.640 quite the case even if you skip and cloud media i've decided is an 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:30.239 acceptable substitute for uh for air video it's not perfect 00:03:28.239 --> 00:03:35.200 because i mean it doesn't resume and all that kind of stuff but it's sort of it's 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:38.879 getting me by so check this out if i multitask and go 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:43.680 somewhere else let's go back to shaw tech support then we multitask back 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.720 to a show it is going to 00:03:46.959 --> 00:03:51.519 press play even though it knows where it is 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:56.799 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 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:00.799 course the one time that i'm trying to prove a point here 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:04.640 it doesn't do that so there you go trust me guys usually when i wait a bit go do 00:04:02.720 --> 00:04:07.760 a few things and then go back to it it doesn't it doesn't work it just goes 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:13.280 right back to the beginning of the show um so oh oh the stock twitter app holy 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.239 crap i don't even know if it's still on my phone but i mean you got people complaining that 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:21.600 there's no native facebook app but quite frankly if the native facebook app ends 00:04:19.919 --> 00:04:26.240 up anywhere near as bad as the stock twitter app then yeah i don't think 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.960 we're really missing anything so here check this out 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:31.759 okay i want to reply to everyone here 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:37.440 oh replies to no okay 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:39.759 reply no oh they're all gone uh 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:45.520 okay how do i reply to all okay hashtags what i can't even reply 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:50.560 all it's freaking ridiculous however i had i had viewers point out this 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:53.919 particular app which is called oh yeah this was another thing that was pointed 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:56.880 out to me as well is that if you click on something and expand it you can see 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:01.120 what it's called then you can put it back if you don't remember for whatever 00:04:58.479 --> 00:05:04.800 reason you go back so rowi is awesome this is probably the best twitter app 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:11.440 that i've yet encountered it's extremely clean it looks very Windows 8 ui 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:13.840 gorgeous it scrolls well it's uh it's 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:18.240 very very elegant in terms of new tweets integrating pictures you can sort of 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:21.680 pick whatever pictures you want you can basically you can just do all the stuff 00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:25.360 that you should be able to do in a twitter app very very easily i really 00:05:23.919 --> 00:05:29.919 really like it so that's all from january 24th this is going to end up 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:34.479 being a long video um xbox music on the desktop i wasn't able to use i had 00:05:32.320 --> 00:05:39.440 someone suggest to me that i use that because i don't have Windows 8 yet 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.360 however the um the subscription is kind 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:45.680 of awesome you just basically go to the xbox music store it's 100 bucks a year 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.800 you go okay top albums i want to listen to some justin bieber i can either 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:51.800 download it or just stream it and 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:58.479 there you go just like that so it's extremely fast uh it's not something i 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:02.560 had pre-cached on my phone let me tell you that much uh tansy was suggested to 00:06:01.039 --> 00:06:07.840 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 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:12.479 plugging in the headphone jack on this particular phone makes a bit of a staticky noise so unplugging and 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:15.919 plugging it causes a little bit of interference i found it kind of annoying 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:19.120 but it's not a huge deal it's just something i wasn't really used to 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.319 beats audio needs to be off i think i mentioned that last time for me to enjoy 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.520 it because i find it boosts up the bass too much so that's january 26th let's 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:32.800 move on to january 28th skydrive integration is awesome 00:06:29.919 --> 00:06:35.440 i actually tried to do a so it syncs all your photos 00:06:33.919 --> 00:06:39.600 automatically which is great because you just sit down at any other computer where you have skydrive hooked up and 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:45.199 they're just all kind of there as soon as it's anywhere near wi-fi it'll upload 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.800 them very very cool and this is amazing 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:50.080 so the way oh wait no i'm not moving on to that yet sorry sorry sorry not that 00:06:48.479 --> 00:06:55.440 so yeah convenient not to have to worry about syncing things it syncs your app list as well as your photos your 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:58.400 documents and pretty much whatever else you want your settings all that good 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:05.199 stuff um nokia drive nokia drive i wanted to 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:09.199 use it on the 28th but i discovered that you can't oh hold on no no that's going 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:13.440 to have my my gps for where i am right now which is not optimal 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:16.400 but nokia drive doesn't allow you to download maps 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:20.080 for a location where um 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:23.680 hold on i'm just going to go like somewhere else there let's look in the middle of the countryside so check this 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:28.479 out it doesn't allow you to download maps when you're on 3g even though the files 00:07:26.880 --> 00:07:32.800 aren't that big and you can say yeah no i really do want it it's okay it won't 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:37.199 let you do it but i love the fact that you're downloading maps offline and 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:41.360 you're able to use your gps even if you have no data connection 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:45.520 phenomenal absolutely awesome and the way the navigation works in this app the 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:50.479 turn by turn is outstanding i absolutely love it so there you go january 29th 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:56.639 music and contacts navigation i had complained that um when i go to my music 00:07:53.840 --> 00:08:00.800 library so my collection uh i said i had to scroll down like this 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:05.039 i was wrong all you have to do is click any one of these letters and then you 00:08:02.400 --> 00:08:09.360 can navigate directly to artists or albums or songs or whatever else 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:13.360 starting with that letter and that is the quick navigation i personally don't 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:17.440 find this quite as fast because it's two clicks as just having a scroll here but 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:22.160 this is way better than what i thought it was and honestly it's it's fine as 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:25.120 far as quick navigation goes sort of thumbs up maybe just like one and a half 00:08:23.919 --> 00:08:29.919 thumbs up you can swipe notifications away to the right so notifications that come down on 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.279 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 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:38.719 as a Windows user i'm used to something comes up i click somewhere else to make 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:43.120 that other thing go away so this was a new sort of ui thing for me i missed it 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:47.120 but there you go you can get rid of them quickly if you need to uh there's an app 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.560 for map monitoring battery i think this is a kludgy solution because you can see 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:54.399 here there's no percentage you can't turn that on you have to actually get a 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:58.800 separate app to tell you what your battery life percentage is at it also 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:03.040 gives you some neat tips about how to um you know preserve more battery life 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:07.040 suggest things like turning off nfc which can be a bit of a battery hog 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:12.000 you know closing apps rather than leaving them running in the background so cool little stuff like that but this 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.360 isn't useful for when i'm in a browser say for example and i want to know what 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:20.080 my battery life is oh how do i do that oh i can't even see the bar now so 00:09:17.839 --> 00:09:22.399 yeah it's not perfect still but it's better than i thought because at least 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:27.760 you can get an app that tells you the percentage ah i said rowie's awesome ah the people 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:32.160 hub so i've spent more time with people now um actually i'm a shut-in i've spent no 00:09:30.959 --> 00:09:36.480 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 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:41.440 is people um so people's cool because it's great for 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:46.399 monitoring other people uh however what i've noticed about it is 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:53.279 that it's not okay so together that's for groups it's really not that great 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:54.959 for um communicating with other people 00:09:53.279 --> 00:10:01.360 so if i go what is it 00:09:57.040 --> 00:10:02.720 oh if i create like a great contact no 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:06.160 where is it twitter i don't know show updates yeah 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:10.000 so it's great for monitoring then you go to the me one and i don't think these 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:13.120 should be two separate apps so look at this i want to post an update i want to 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.480 post to twitter where how do i add a photo to it 00:10:14.560 --> 00:10:22.959 okay maybe you can do it maybe i'm just totally wrong but come on why why is 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:24.640 this hard um i very much prefer rally 00:10:22.959 --> 00:10:28.160 and um yeah i'm mostly a twitter guy that's one 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:33.120 thing i wanted to mention on january 29th as well is i don't miss facebook at 00:10:31.040 --> 00:10:37.600 all actually i totally don't miss having facebook on my phone because the things 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:43.760 i care about with facebook things like being able to message someone are 00:10:40.079 --> 00:10:45.360 integrated into either people or my 00:10:43.760 --> 00:10:50.240 messaging application hold on let me just make sure there's nothing there um 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:54.480 or my messaging application here which is okay you guys will just 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.320 have to take my word for it let me just find someone there we go oh i don't have 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:01.120 diesel on facebook do i have the crazy russian on facebook 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:04.720 i don't have the crazy russian on facebook well okay between the people 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:10.000 app and the messaging app you can message someone pretty much any way you'd want without an official facebook 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:13.120 app so like i said i actually just totally don't miss it 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:16.800 and then people allows you to monitor people's facebook updates 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:22.160 anyway so yeah uh moving right along let me just see if 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:26.880 we missed anything yep uh Windows phone.com freaking awesome so 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:31.040 there are some pretty cool features there you can ring 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:36.079 lock track erase install apps and 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:39.440 uh you can do a full wipe of the phone from windowsphone.com which is pretty 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:43.200 freaking cool did you zoom in on that that's right but 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:47.519 then it wouldn't focus okay that's probably just as well because my phone number's on there but the point is that 00:11:46.079 --> 00:11:53.920 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 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.560 within the find my phone app itself 00:11:53.920 --> 00:12:01.839 which we're gonna just go find uh so you go to settings 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:05.040 settings find my phone check it out so you can 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.720 tell it hey save my phone's location periodically and before the battery runs 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:12.560 out send apps to my phone using push notifications not sms 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:16.880 very very cool stuff and i mean those are huge features if you're using this 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:21.519 for like for work or anything like that although i did found one kind of neat 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:25.120 flaw because i had thrown my sim in an 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:27.519 htc 8s and done a full migration so i 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:31.040 did a backup and restore the backup is completely automatic i didn't have to do 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:35.680 anything to do it all you have to do is put a sim in a new car in a new phone 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:40.399 boot it up log in and say hey i want to restore from that phone and it does 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:43.200 everything even even now like it's getting all of my text messages and 00:12:41.920 --> 00:12:49.120 installed on my apps it does everything but arranger live tiles which is very 00:12:45.839 --> 00:12:51.120 very cool so i could go sim out sim in 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:54.720 and this phone would be as up to date as this one even all my text messages are 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:59.600 syncing on the fly now that this phone is logged into my skydrive account so i 00:12:56.880 --> 00:13:03.200 absolutely love that it's very smooth compared to the iOS way okay obviously 00:13:01.839 --> 00:13:06.720 it doesn't do all your music and media but you can copy that manually because 00:13:04.959 --> 00:13:11.760 all you got to do is plug in a usb cable yay compared to itunes so way way more 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:16.480 elegant as an iOS user though i'm finding i'm 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:21.440 finding persistent soft buttons down here a real problem because sometimes my 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:24.480 leg through the pocket will press a button when i have like a video playing 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:28.240 and then i have an earbud in or something like a youtube music video or 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:33.200 something i'm listening to it'll press stuff and then it'll go places and i'm 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:37.600 finding that sort of disruptive overall i mean i i like having hard 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:40.880 buttons here but i could probably get used to it in time 00:13:39.040 --> 00:13:44.480 what i'm doing right now is i'm turning it around in my pocket so that it 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:48.639 doesn't bump stuff but it's just it's kind of a clutchy solution we're moving 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:53.839 on to january 31st within the settings things are linked in multiple places i 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:55.440 really like this so back to settings um 00:13:53.839 --> 00:13:59.680 so you don't have to fuss around trying to figure out sort of what logic was 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:02.399 used by whoever set it up so for example sms 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:07.120 is under both uh backup and messaging 00:14:05.199 --> 00:14:11.360 so if you go back up so you can have all of your text 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:16.399 messaging settings there so you can click that to go into it in more detail 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:19.600 or you can see it within ah this i love 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:22.399 okay i actually had a pocket pc back 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:26.880 when those were cool and why doesn't iOS implement this 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:30.399 snooze why can't you snooze a notification on iOS that's awesome 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:34.880 remind me in 10 minutes freaking amazing like what i want to go 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:38.000 back into my calendar and like reconjigger it for 10 minutes from now 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:42.079 because i don't have time right now no i want to snooze it's awesome love it 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:47.920 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 00:14:45.839 --> 00:14:52.880 the thing about the browser if i had to complain about anything it's snappy it 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:56.480 scrolls quickly it's responsive but it's two 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:01.040 touches to get to my tabs i wish it was one touch to select tabs um 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:04.399 it's a minor thing i don't use tabbed browsing that much on my phone but there 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:08.079 you go uh copy paste is outstanding yeah i 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:13.519 already talked about that everything everything that's been driving me crazy 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:18.160 about the 8x keyboard it turns out is purely a form factor thing because i 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:21.920 tried using the 8s for a day and that fixed every complaint i had about it so 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:26.320 you can see with the size of my hand this is a reach for me i can barely make 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:30.000 it oversee i pressed the search button trying to make it over to here which is 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:35.680 where the keyboard would be annoying with the 8s on the other hand i can 00:15:32.560 --> 00:15:37.760 easily and comfortably type no matter 00:15:35.680 --> 00:15:41.440 what and i don't have to yeah i recommend it it's fine i didn't use it 00:15:38.959 --> 00:15:44.399 much so i can just go yeah hello 00:15:42.959 --> 00:15:49.279 this is a queue and i won't press the search 00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:52.720 button so i thought that the keyboard was just kind of difficult for me to use 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:56.320 it's nothing to do with the keyboard keyboard is fine it's just the 8x is a 00:15:54.959 --> 00:16:02.000 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 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:06.480 a note 2. it's too big this is too big i have small hands you'll get used to it 00:16:03.680 --> 00:16:12.959 no you won't your small hands don't grow because your phone is bigger um 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:14.800 yeah every day with Windows phone 00:16:12.959 --> 00:16:18.959 yeah so i may stick i may actually okay this is sort of a spoiler alert but i'm 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:23.199 only going to do one more update at day 30 i may actually end up sticking with 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:28.079 Windows phone but i probably won't stick with the 8x if i can figure out a way to 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:33.360 get all of my apps in the four gigs of the 8s i may actually just go that route 00:16:31.040 --> 00:16:37.519 because the form factor is just too i wish that they were still 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:40.560 compact high-end phones but it seems like screen size has become the new sort 00:16:39.920 --> 00:16:47.120 of um you know appendage measuring contest 00:16:44.560 --> 00:16:52.959 so whatever the email app destroys the built-in one 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:54.959 for iOS i love the email app it is just 00:16:52.959 --> 00:16:58.800 awesome you can see your flag messages your urgent ones i'm not no i don't need 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:02.399 to look too closely but just uh the way it does it the way it does attachments 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:07.360 is awesome in iOS you have to go browse to your photo then you have to go send 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:12.480 this to someone no no no no not not in Windows so here let's send let's send an 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:14.400 email to slick 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:19.679 oh nope hold on here so i'm just going to kind of cover 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:21.039 this up but the point is you want to 00:17:19.679 --> 00:17:25.120 send an attachment you click the attachment button oh yeah that simple 00:17:23.600 --> 00:17:29.919 then you go find an attachment that's like herder here's a picture of you 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:34.240 and it's and it's done i i love it it's just really elegant it's quick and it's 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:37.039 quick to search the server so if it doesn't find anything it's just a button 00:17:35.600 --> 00:17:41.360 yeah search the server and it doesn't take forever which on iOS it does for 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:46.960 some i just stopped using the iOS one i just used the gmail browser-based mobile 00:17:43.919 --> 00:17:48.559 site because the app is terrible whereas 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:51.120 on this one i've stopped using the mobile site entirely the app is much 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:55.760 better uh emailing photos easy ah february 1st 00:17:53.520 --> 00:17:59.520 the people app can be manually over ah yes the people app 00:17:57.679 --> 00:18:03.520 so the people app has some really good things about it but here i'm just gonna 00:18:01.120 --> 00:18:07.039 find this is just kind of funny so we're gonna go down to j 00:18:05.520 --> 00:18:10.960 where i have ah here we go 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:14.960 so you know what that should be fine i have 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:19.760 three jack chens actually i know two jack chens and one 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:27.440 of these jack chens here i just don't want to show anyone's phone yeah there we go so see this 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:29.039 shows a a yahoo and a pivos one 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:34.320 and um it has combined multiple yeah i see 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:38.000 here's an NVIDIA one so it's got three different ones for what are two jack 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.840 chens who work for two different companies you can override it though so 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:46.480 it's not the end of the world and then there were some individual people that were split out into multiple ones but 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:50.080 all you have to do is use a setting that says link so you can unlink and then you 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:53.840 can link additional ones together and it'll just take your entire disorganized 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:57.520 contact list so you've got some of them in your hotmail contacts your gmail 00:18:55.600 --> 00:19:00.720 contacts your whatever contacts and it just kind of goes 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:07.520 and it puts them all together facebook linkedin all that stuff so yeah manual 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:09.679 overriding is good uh-ho error codes uh 00:19:07.520 --> 00:19:14.720 this is this is hilarious so there was some app that couldn't install 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:17.520 on here we go this particular phone when it tried to do the synchronization so i 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:21.280 was like click i clicked on it i was like attention required tap here 00:19:19.520 --> 00:19:27.280 error message uh oh hold on 00:19:23.520 --> 00:19:29.840 the error code 800 fff 00:19:27.280 --> 00:19:35.520 come on microsoft come on guys i mean this is like when um 00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:39.919 you know back when msn messenger was the big deal and you'd like get this error 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:43.440 code you'd be like what does that mean you try to google it and you couldn't 00:19:42.080 --> 00:19:47.360 find anything because your internet wasn't working turns out the error code meant your internet's not connected and 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:51.360 you're just like why didn't you just say my internet's not connected 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:56.080 there you go there's a freaking concept for you so yeah just those those little 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:59.840 microsoft things um oh i found a bit of a glitch the 00:19:57.760 --> 00:20:02.640 backup restore process doesn't work if you don't have a data connection through 00:20:01.840 --> 00:20:10.640 your cellular provider so it doesn't give you an option to connect to wi-fi to do a 00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:15.200 restore and phone ownership transfer so that's just bizarre and you can only 00:20:13.679 --> 00:20:18.960 switch a profile from one phone to another one upon initial boot up you 00:20:17.120 --> 00:20:21.840 have to wipe and restore a phone in order to take your profile and transfer 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:24.799 the entire thing so if you have no sim in there with no data connection you 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:30.159 cannot do it um and i did google that it's like a true 00:20:27.760 --> 00:20:33.360 thing oh the to-do list i love the to-do list it's integrated really well with 00:20:31.679 --> 00:20:38.320 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 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:44.400 have a bunch of to do stuff so you can see your day agenda your agenda and your 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:46.640 to-do list and it's really really smooth 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:50.000 i think that's about it thank you for checking out this 00:20:47.919 --> 00:20:54.480 extremely long and hopefully interesting video about my two weeks into the 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:58.240 Windows phone 8 experience where i'm actually finding you know i got my sound 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:01.679 town now i got metrotube which is an awesome youtube app 00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:06.559 um i'm not really missing this thing anymore so 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:12.280 it's exciting don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:12.280 reviews and other computer videos