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I have come to take leaked/released/rumored changelogs and features lists for this kind of update with a very small grain of sale; and, I only just got a WP8 device in June of this year (Nokia Lumia 928 on VZW).
I am highly skeptical of the sweet-truths echoing through the grapevine, after GDR2 promised a surfacing and functionality of FM Radio that was supposedly onboard, but lurking in all WP8 devices. Now it is clear that my 928 has no radio devices other than cellular and wifi... I was anticipating being able to use tunein to listen to local radio, and even the remote possibility of native fm transmission. It was al very enticing and quite promising. But, it never solidified out of the ether!
With GDR3, not much enticing for me is on these half-promise lists. A pedometer is cool. I am sure BT4.0 LE (what <u>LE</u> mean?) would save battery, but the only realistic thing for me is to close apps/processes by top+hold on the back arrow, and tapping a soon-to-be "x."
Supposedly, free internet sharing will take some form (albeit, via BT; I have doubts my phone will miraculously jump from BT3-->BT4, as that was even promised at one point to be in the Amber update), though even if it arrives, it should have come in the form of wifi sharing, which is locked by the carrier- leading me to believe the BT implementation will be very limited, or locked just like the wifi.
What I would have like to see is a resolution to the outstanding debacle between implementations of email protocols that ripped native gmail support from WP8: How I yearn to add a relevant email to an event in Google and have that reflected on my to-do's or schedule on my phone... Also, an ability to have either recurring or multiple reminders for to-do's in my phone's calendar, a time for a to-do being "due." Allowing me to see the link speed for my wifi connection would also be a pleasant addition. Finally, some opening-up of the NFC implementation would have been nice....
All-in-all, it looks like my hopes have been reduced to this: Seeing how many newegg deals I received via text on the glance screen, the ability to close apps when seeing all the ones I accidentally left open, smaller tiles so I don't wear my screen + finger scrolling through such a long list, and (hopefully) some sw<-->hw optimizations that increase battery life.
It's not like a software update can result in, or leaks of feature-sets even promise that microSD slot will appear on my phone.
I am highly skeptical of the sweet-truths echoing through the grapevine, after GDR2 promised a surfacing and functionality of FM Radio that was supposedly onboard, but lurking in all WP8 devices. Now it is clear that my 928 has no radio devices other than cellular and wifi... I was anticipating being able to use tunein to listen to local radio, and even the remote possibility of native fm transmission. It was al very enticing and quite promising. But, it never solidified out of the ether!
With GDR3, not much enticing for me is on these half-promise lists. A pedometer is cool. I am sure BT4.0 LE (what <u>LE</u> mean?) would save battery, but the only realistic thing for me is to close apps/processes by top+hold on the back arrow, and tapping a soon-to-be "x."
Supposedly, free internet sharing will take some form (albeit, via BT; I have doubts my phone will miraculously jump from BT3-->BT4, as that was even promised at one point to be in the Amber update), though even if it arrives, it should have come in the form of wifi sharing, which is locked by the carrier- leading me to believe the BT implementation will be very limited, or locked just like the wifi.
What I would have like to see is a resolution to the outstanding debacle between implementations of email protocols that ripped native gmail support from WP8: How I yearn to add a relevant email to an event in Google and have that reflected on my to-do's or schedule on my phone... Also, an ability to have either recurring or multiple reminders for to-do's in my phone's calendar, a time for a to-do being "due." Allowing me to see the link speed for my wifi connection would also be a pleasant addition. Finally, some opening-up of the NFC implementation would have been nice....
All-in-all, it looks like my hopes have been reduced to this: Seeing how many newegg deals I received via text on the glance screen, the ability to close apps when seeing all the ones I accidentally left open, smaller tiles so I don't wear my screen + finger scrolling through such a long list, and (hopefully) some sw<-->hw optimizations that increase battery life.
It's not like a software update can result in, or leaks of feature-sets even promise that microSD slot will appear on my phone.
), but I generally don't like Verizon anymore for how much they control they exert via device approval on their network. Really makes it hard to stay with them when they take a few months sometimes to get the latest devices. Glad I jumped ship to go on AT&T with HTC One. The next phone I get will probably be a Lumia, but it won't be with Verizon.
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