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  1. 7,768 votes
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      126 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

      Thanks for your notifications suggestion. Always great to see such great feedback and suggestions. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s another great idea? Keep those votes coming!

    • Allow changing your windows id live location

      I moved from UK to Switzerland 2 years ago. I bought a phone here a month ago. I now cannot use all the services.

      7,382 votes
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        377 comments  ·  Windows Live  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • 6,673 votes
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          439 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Blinking LED notification for Missed Calls Email SMS

          Display a blinking LED notification when there are missed calls, voicemails, emails, text messages (SMS) etc waiting for you. Also, a blue LED when Bluetooth is on would be a great option. It enables the user to know something is awaiting is attention by just looking at it, without even picking up the phone. No more turning on Power to know what awaits you.

          6,658 votes
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            222 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

            Thanks for your missed calls suggestion. Always great to see such great feedback and excitement about this feature. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes and suggestions coming!

          • "Vibrate AND Ring" not "Vibrate then Ring"

            Let's make another option, becuse now it doesn't vibrate after the first two one. Continuous vibrating is a must have option for noisy environment.

            6,646 votes
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              212 comments  ·  Making and Receiving Calls  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Battery Percentage at the status bar

              Hugely important, like in iOS or Android..

              6,218 votes
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                49 comments  ·  Power Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                Thanks for your suggestion! Always great to see such great feedback and suggestions. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s your great idea? Keep those votes coming!

              • Full Sync with Outlook

                WP should fully sync to Outlook, tasks, including categories calendar including categories contacts including categories and notes including categories

                5,850 votes
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                  418 comments  ·  Sync  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • snapchat

                  An app that almost everyone with a smart phone uses.

                  5,815 votes
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                    442 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • 5,802 votes
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                      1028 comments  ·  Messaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                      Thanks for your feedback on font size. Always great to see such great feedback. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes and suggestions coming!

                    • Gives Windows Phone users a tool to clean up their phone

                      There are several problems due to the lack of file browser, or any cleaning tool for WP8.

                      I mean, for example, the "Other" section, visible in the storage settings, which doesn't stop growing, even if we uninstall apps.
                      It could be great if we could see what does it contains exactly, and delete some useless things (apps cache etc.)

                      Otherwise, a simple file browser could be interesting aswell.

                      5,674 votes
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                        129 comments  ·  File System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Instagram for Windows Phone

                        Instagram for Windows Phone

                        5,672 votes
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                          229 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • 5,480 votes
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                            549 comments  ·  Music + Videos  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Third party alarm app enhancements (custom sound & snooze time)

                            In Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Microsoft gives developers the ability to create reliable alarms (Microsoft.Phone.Scheduler.Alarm) that always work regardless whether the app is active or not.

                            However, there are a couple of major drawbacks.

                            First, you can’t select stock ringtones or songs from your own music library for this alarm sound.

                            Second, you can't change the duration of the snooze time.

                            Sadly these problems remain in Windows Phone 8 (Apollo).

                            Can we please have these fixed in the next phone update?

                            4,918 votes
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                              239 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Sync directly to Outlook

                              Be able to sync directly to Outlook without having to sync via the cloud

                              4,664 votes
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                                605 comments  ·  Sync  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Allow pasting in the phone dialer

                                Please consider allowing the users to "paste" a phone number that was copied in an email or an SMS in the phone dialler. I receive phone numbers via email or sms and I have to memorize them before I can dial the number. You can do this copy-paste in Android and its extremely useful.

                                4,532 votes
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                                  134 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                  Thanks for your suggestion for the phone dialer. Always great to see such great feedback and novel suggestions. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. What’s another great idea? Keep those votes coming!

                                • Create Ringtones Directly From Music Hub

                                  I'd love to be able to create ringtones DIRECTLY/on-the-fly from the songs I have in my Music Hub.

                                  4,508 votes
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                                    98 comments  ·  Making and Receiving Calls  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Add option to keep WiFi alive while the phone is locked

                                    It would great if the wifi keep alive while the phone is locked. Adding an option in WiFi configuration screen.

                                    4,436 votes
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                                      252 comments  ·  Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Make Xbox Video compatible with Windows Phone

                                      Make Xbox Music & Video copying compatible with Windows Phone 8, such as transferring music or videos purchased through Zune or Xbox Music & Video on Windows 8 Pro.

                                      4,339 votes
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                                        102 comments  ·  Music + Videos  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                        Thanks for your suggestion and feedback Always great to see this. While we can’t promise to ship every suggestion that gets submitted, we will be sure that our product development team receives your feedback. Keep those votes and suggestions coming!

                                      • Data Sense: Enable it for 'unlocked' phones

                                        There is no reason why unlocked phone owners should suffer the effects of carrier exclusivity when it comes to WP8 specific features.

                                        We pay 500-800 EUR/USD for our phones, carriers do not subsidize it for us, yet, we are still controlled by them.

                                        I ask Microsoft to enable Data Sense feature (at least reporting, if compression is too much to ask) for all Windows Phone users, Android has had it for years.

                                        4,321 votes
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                                          78 comments  ·  Web Browsing  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Add 'WhatsApp' Support in 'Messaging' Hub

                                          Add 'WhatsApp' in the same way as the Facebook Chat.

                                          4,126 votes
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                                            112 comments  ·  Messaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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