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  1. Windows Phone Start Screen

    1) Ability to add a same background textures to the start screen and Application list screen, just like way it happens in Windows 8. The ability to add Name for a group needs to more intuitive to user and need not install a separate app for it! A pull down notification screen would add a lot of interest to it.

    2) Landscape mode for Windows Start screen supported. Just Imagine how beautiful WP is gonna look, when we have the landscaping mode available, ability to add background etc.

    3) Feature of Tile Cubes. Currently Windows Phone tile only flips and…

    2 votes
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      0 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • When setting an e-mail account. it should be possible to set sync-settings BEFORE the first sync!

      When setting an e-mail account for the first time, WP7 starts sync-ing right away. I would like to turn off contacts-syncing in some cases, but WP7 does not let you modify sync-settings "while syncing entries is in progress".

      It should be possible to get to the sync-settings page right away, before it starts syncing!

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        0 comments  ·  Email  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Notification Bar in WP7.8

        Add features to Notification bar. On sliding it down, you can immediately see all your Wireless Controls and battery percentage. This will speed things up and save a tile for some thing else. In Windows Mobile 6.5, one can press and hold a button to bring up the controls. Also indicate data usage next to each control (Wi-Fi & 3G)

        7 votes
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          0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Please enable regional fonts in windows phone 7.5 internet explorer.

          Regional fonts(like Malayalam,Tamil,Hindi) are not displaying in windows phone 7.5 internet explorer.Please enable regional fonts in windows phone 7.5 internet explorer.

          33 votes
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          • Back and forward buttons in internet explorer

            If you leave internet explorer and reopen it from the home screen, the back button doesn't bring you to the page before the current one, it just takes you back to the home screen. Internet explorer needs a back button and a forward button for easy, simple browsing.

            232 votes
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              12 comments  ·  Web Browsing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • One thing we need is !!!kakao talk!!! in marketplace.

              "kakao talk" will make MarketPlace best!! not just better.

              11 votes
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                4 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Calendar items should automatically make phone go to vibrate as in Windows 6

                In my old Windows phone, 6.0 & 6.5, when I had an appointment, the phone automatically switched to vibrate during appointment, and then switched back to "normal" afterward. That was SO useful. Now that Windows is fancier, it's odd that I have to manually switch to vibrate. And after a year of owning this phone, I still often forget to switch it back after the meeting. Seems so easy to add to this windows and don't know why it was taken off.

                11 votes
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                  1 comment  ·  Calendar  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • A concave glass idea by Anil Malhotra.

                  I have been an ardent patron of the Windows Phone and have been an admirer of the innovations that Microsoft has featured in its products making them extremely user friendly. I wanted to add my views to add a new dimension to the innovations, my suggestion was keeping in view two dynamic characteristics of your prospective Windows Phone users: 1. The average age of those individuals who enjoy a healthy economic status are usually above 40 years of age . 2. Their vision is usually hypermetropic( far sightedness visionary defect).3. They do not like to use spectacles/reading glasses constantly 4.…

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                    0 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Video player( web, Zune, apps)

                    the video player for web, Zune on the phone and apps should be changed so you can move to exactly any place in the video

                    4 votes
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                      1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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                        0 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Must be able to directly call to a phone number found on eg. a web page. It's not even possible by copy/paste to dial pane.

                        A string of numbers on a web page, sms, text document etc. should be recognized as phone number and an option to call to that should be offered. Additionally there should be a dialling pane to which one could paste numbers, edit them and make a call and/or save to contacts.

                        41 votes
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                          2 comments  ·  Making and Receiving Calls  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • WP7.5 sucks. I can not configure for message tones

                          - WP7.5 sucks.
                          - I can not configure for message tones
                          - I can not customize my way
                          - The configuration is difficult and laborious
                          Bad choice!!

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                            0 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • sms vibrate only

                            To be able to have your ringer on but only vibrate for SMS alerts. If you have vibrate on but select none for SMS sounds it does nothing when receiving an SMS

                            9 votes
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                              0 comments  ·  Messaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • 1 vote
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                                0 comments  ·  Web Browsing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • 1 vote
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                                  0 comments  ·  Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • file transfer

                                  we need possibility to transfer file from PC to phone without Zune ( we need to see the phone as memory disk )

                                  894 votes
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                                    51 comments  ·  Sync  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Just to complicate the life, no meassage draft

                                    I have just discovered that my new Lumia 610 has no possibility to save a message draft, so now I have to write the msg on world, save the file and, when needed, open the file, copy the text, go to msgs, patch the text and send it. EASY AND QUICK!! why have we to complicate our life in a such way? it was a basic function in jurassic devices, would,t it possible to have it back?

                                    7 votes
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                                    • Give us bluetooth file transfer AND usb "see as a disk" as soon as possible

                                      enable bluetooth sharing of ALL files, including photos, and also allow to see the internal memory like usb stick - nokia gives this on 30 euros phones.... shame !!!

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                                        0 comments  ·  Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                      • new tile colors, new fonts to use, center screen notifications for missed calls and texts, and much more emoticons

                                        we need new tile colors or the option to customize our colors and different colored tiles if we choose, center screen notifications for missed calls and texts (on the top is easy to miss), and new fonts please. it would be nice to customize all these things if we choose!

                                        11 votes
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                                          0 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Why Ican find SimSimi before but I can find it Now?

                                          Why I could find SimSimi in marketplace before but I could't find it "Now"?

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                                            0 comments  ·  Marketplace  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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