Monday, August 26, 2013

Bitcoin: the developers promise the upcoming release of an app for Windows Phone

Users Windows Phone thanks to the Official Store have the ability to download to your smartphone a variety of interesting applications, which in some cases also allow you to manage your money in a virtual way through some services, such as the famous PayPal .

Different, however, is the situation for Bitcoin , the virtual currency for another service that, at present, does not allow access to an app for Windows Phone is able to move their money through the service. But the situation may soon change, as promised by developers who have confirmed to be working on a new app that offers this possibility.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Updates and Windows Phone

The problem is not the frequency of the updates, but what is updated. WP is behind compared to iOS and specially Android.

For the sake of conversation lest say the Android is level 30 especially those galaxy phone mobiles and WP is level 10. Android moves 3 levels every 6 months and WP moves 2 levels every 4 months. After a year Android is on level 36 and WP on level 16. Has WP improved with updates, yes! But it is still behind in features, some of the being very basic features.

What Microsoft needs to do in get 6 steps ahead every 4 months! They can’t control what developers want to build, but they can control what basic features WP is lacking. And they can control how they communicate to innovators and the early adopters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_Innovations

The only big problems I'm really having so far as the update situation goes is the bug fixes, or lack thereof. For me (and a lot of others), Xbox Music will regularly lock up if you try to shuffle songs with a large music library. Facebook integration has been severely broken for a good chunk of people (chat, mostly, and the Facebook app has been really bad with notifications), and the sync solutions still feel merely half-baked.

If Microsoft just moved quicker to fix things, I'd be happy with only receiving one major update a year.