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  1. Wish I had Call Guard on my new windows 8 phone, like the one in my previous Android

    Would like to be able to filter incoming calls, blocking the unwanted ones, including those unknown or restricted

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      1 comment  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Remove facebook in notes area

      I do not want my "notes" in the address area of the phone to be pasted to facebook.

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        4 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • The ability to add a group to a group.

        When I have two groups of friends and I want to contact them all, I now need to create another group.

        If I can just create a new group and add the existing two groups that would be much easier

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          0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Separate contact lists in PPL hub

          Have a separate list of SIM contacts AND every facebook/social network contact in People hub, so no sifting though hundreds of contacts for one person.

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            0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Make "significant other" a clickable link

            In the people hub, make the "significant other" attribute a link to that other person, if they're available in the phone's contacts.

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              0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Native poking in Facebook!

              Allow us to poke people when we view their profile

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              • Suggestion for integration of communication services in People hub

                Please add the ability to integrate Tango calls,whatsapp and skype to the People Hub profiles, Integration is the key!

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                • Keep Microsoft Office Communicator as a standard feature

                  Keep Microsoft Office Communicator as a standard feature.

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                    2 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Participate in Phone Rooms with Desktop app

                    Unless Rooms is useful for all the people in my group, it isn't useful for anyone in the group. Please give us an app that can be installed on Windows Desktop that allows participation by people who don't have Windows Phone 8. The Rooms concept is fantastic, like a mini-SharePoint. If you make it usable for non-WindowsPhone people, they will get hooked and want a fully functional version when they're mobile.

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                      1 comment  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • A new service to sync contacts

                      Create a new service like MyPhone so that we can sync our contacts easily.

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                        1 comment  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Searching the Contacts in People. Integrating Local Phone Search in Bing.

                        Searching the Contacts in People. Integrating Local Phone Search in Bing.

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                          0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • people hub to fetch updates on a regular basis

                          I'm a bit surprised Windows Phone 8 refresh people hub updates only when user is opening the what's new pages in people hub. It doesn't refresh by itself.
                          I'd like updates to get fetch automatically based on ferquency of refresh proposed as an option with different possibilities (Only when opening people hub, Daily, Twice a day, every 2 hours, every hours, every 30 minutes, every 15 minutes, every 10 minutes, every 5 minutes, synced always on)

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                            1 comment  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Love the phone. Love to see the People Tab, with the linked Facebook account, use the Facebook filters from the account settings in FB.

                            Currently, the FB app from MS uses the account settings to filter out spam, game advertisements, Farmville notifications, etc. In the People tab, with its limited space, those same account settings are not used, and previously filtered threads show up. Nor is there a way to add to FB account settings or filters from Windows Phone. Even the FB app has no way of adding filters, though it does use the filters set up from the PC or online account settings.

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                            • Outlook Sync without using windows live!

                              Allow the phone to connect directly to outlook without having to go through windows live. The Iphone can do this it makes no sense that a windows phone can't connect directly to outlook without using windows live.

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                              • Update People hub in the background

                                I would like the people hub to get updated in the background so I don’t need to manually “pull” the data before taking the subway.

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                                • Show online status of pinned contacts

                                  Simple text on the back of a pinned contact tile that shows "Online, Facebook"

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                                  • foursquare

                                    Integrate Foursquare like Facebook & Twitter (contacts w/pics + checkins)

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                                      1 comment  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • 2 votes
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                                      • Display contact title option

                                        Add the ability to display contact titles as an option. My contact name displays too big now to see who it is!

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                                        • Contacts' calendar events

                                          Birthdays/anniversaries in contact cards should be automatically populated as a calendar event.

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