Want WP7 Mango today ?

[dtrush]

Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life

FWIW, that fix did NOT fix the Facebook issue for me... although perhaps I simply didn't give it enough time to take effect. I will try again later. Update: I had to link my Windows Live and Facebook accounts (thought I had already done it, but some of the boxes had become unchecked).

Indeed, as an upgrade, it doesn't remove any content. The hidden wifi does seem to be fixed... at least for my test wifi connection.

Thanks for checking the hidden Wi-Fi! I'm on the rom install right now. Sure is taking a while. Well, I knew it would before I got into it. I'm sure I'll post soon with my Mango excitement. Thanks everyone

[GoodThings2Life]

Yep, after using it this weekend, I gotta say that I am absolutely LOVING THIS!

With Mango, I feel like I *almost* have everything I want... all I need is a full-featured Remote Desktop app (gotta support Network Level Authentication, SSL encryption, and RDP Gateways), SWYPE, and Visual Voicemail. I figure SWYPE is still the least-likely to happen anytime soon, but I do like the WP7 keyboard. I also have the Arrive, so having a slide-keyboard is nice, although I have yet to use it. None of these are showstoppers to me, though, and frankly it's the experience of using the platform that impresses me most. It's fast, it's simple, and it's efficient... exactly what I was lacking from Android.

Honestly, my biggest hangup so far is that I want the HD7 instead of the Arrive just for the form-factor.

[DavidinCT]

Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life

Yep, after using it this weekend, I gotta say that I am absolutely LOVING THIS!

With Mango, I feel like I *almost* have everything I want... all I need is a full-featured Remote Desktop app (gotta support Network Level Authentication, SSL encryption, and RDP Gateways).......<snip>

I agree, I 100% love Mango, I even went to the store this weekend to grab a mango (Yummy !!!!). If this is it in the beta form, I can't wait till the final comes out but, YES, I can live with the beta till then.

I also, as a MCSE and systems admin for years wish for a good RDP application from Microsoft.

There are some things that 6.5 had that you still can't get on WP7 but, it's 100% getting there it's just going to take time.

I even signed up for the App Hub this weekend, I think I will start looking into building apps(if I can get XNA and silverlight down pretty good)... Some cool stuff could happen here and I look forward to the progress of WP7 passionatley.

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life

Yep, after using it this weekend, I gotta say that I am absolutely LOVING THIS!

With Mango, I feel like I *almost* have everything I want... all I need is a full-featured Remote Desktop app (gotta support Network Level Authentication, SSL encryption, and RDP Gateways), SWYPE, and Visual Voicemail. I figure SWYPE is still the least-likely to happen anytime soon, but I do like the WP7 keyboard. I also have the Arrive, so having a slide-keyboard is nice, although I have yet to use it. None of these are showstoppers to me, though, and frankly it's the experience of using the platform that impresses me most. It's fast, it's simple, and it's efficient... exactly what I was lacking from Android.

Honestly, my biggest hangup so far is that I want the HD7 instead of the Arrive just for the form-factor.

yea I'm loving it too although I did find an issue with video uploading. SkyDrive doesn't seem to playback videos recorded in HD (dont show in pictures hub) and can't send them as attachments, it may be one of the beta bugs so we can expect this to be fixed for the official version in 2 months. web browsing is super fast,much faster than NoDo. in NoDo I found it to be quite and unusually sluggish when loading Websites even on WiFi.

[mindfrost82]

I don't think you could send videos as attachments in NoDo either. Not sure why they limited this, but it seems they haven't changed that for Mango...or at least not yet.

[DavidinCT]

Originally Posted by mindfrost82

I don't think you could send videos as attachments in NoDo either. Not sure why they limited this, but it seems they haven't changed that for Mango...or at least not yet.

Maybe a size limit ? Just like Apps from the market place, some you must connect to a PC or Wi-Fi to download.

[mindfrost82]

I'm having an issue playing songs from artists that I have multiple songs from...

Like go to an artist you know you have multiple songs for. click on the artist and it'll bring you to their albums. then flick over to go to the song listing and try to play a song. When I do that, it'll play a song from the artist, but its not the song I clicked on. If I go through the albums and click on a song, then it works.

[eric12341]

Originally Posted by mindfrost82

I'm having an issue playing songs from artists that I have multiple songs from...

Like go to an artist you know you have multiple songs for. click on the artist and it'll bring you to their albums. then flick over to go to the song listing and try to play a song. When I do that, it'll play a song from the artist, but its not the song I clicked on. If I go through the albums and click on a song, then it works.

in NoDo u couldn't even select a video to send as attachment. and yea that is weird I tested it myself and found that it doesn't do that all the time, for example by Shakira I wanted to hear un poco de amor (one of her older songs) and it played but I then went back and tried to play la tortura and it played underneath your clothes. I dont know if this bug was present or not in NoDo because I mainly just used the album view to select the songs I wanted to hear.

[orangekid]

There's a mango beta on my HD2 now so I'm going to flash that and see how it goes. We have more freedom to theme stuff and change registry stuff on the HD2 so I'll see what I can do.

[dtrush]

So far I really like the Mango installation. Everything seemed to get installed without a hitch.

The Wi-Fi still doesn't let me do an Ad-Hoc connection. Oh well, I can only hope. I wish I could install the HTC app but It's not available and it's not able to be sideloaded that I know of.

I can't believe how fast going in and out of normal OS operations has become. You basically click on something and you're there - I'd like to see some fandroids or appleheads try to beat that!
Really digging the combined inboxes. Sure makes checking e-mail and responding a whole lot easier. Separate, but integrated.

I've only had one issue with my Arrive resetting on me. I was downloading a pdf attachment through e-mail and it reset. I hope it doesn't happen too often, but hey this is a beta so I've gotta be patient - I do love how things have even been able to become smoother than before.

Still hoping they beef up the calendar functionality. About the only thing I noticed was entering an appointment right into the day view on the calendar. The to-do thing is a welcomed addition and I hope they work on a lot more additional options for that. I LOVE the redesigned dialer as you just have a toggle now between the keypad & options. Only makes sense and the larger buttons to answer & end a call rocks.
Downloading podcasts directly over Wi-Fi has been a big blessing. Now I don't need to worry about going to sync with laptop or plugging the power in it to wait 10 minutes to sync with Zune. Get's right to the point!

If there's any that haven't installed the Mango beta I'd recommend just going ahead and doing it. I deleted all of my music from my phone and deauthorized it from Zune before doing the upgrade so that I didn't need to back it all up. Made things a little faster. Will get it all on later.

Thanks again all for the recommendation. WP7 rocks!