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  1. ie med

    no comprendo como se puede hacer al Microsoft que nada de Microsoft es compatible.
    El IE del fone, no se puede oir la radio ni en siverllin ni en windows media, ¿qué media de aparato es este?

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      0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Security problem with facebook

      Well. Technical is not a feature suggestion. I have notice that my phone (lumia 800), add information (birthdays, hotmail emails) to my contacts. Information taken from facebook and It's supposed to be hidden. (I have no access to that information from my PC).
      By the way, excellent product, love it.

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        0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • prompt for wireless settings at start of wizard (when no sim is installed)

        after setting up many windows mobile phones one anoying factor is that running throught he wizard is easy apart from the fact that when there is no sim installed it failes as at this point no internet connection is available, if like the android system you were prompted to setup a wireless connection first you could continue to setup the necessary settungs witihn the wizard.

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          0 comments  ·  Operating System  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Rollback an app to previous version

          If I install an update to an app but don't like the update, to have the ability to rollback my phone to a previous version.

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            0 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • App list management

            Be able to hide apps from the app list (ie. apps that come pre-installed by a carrier or manufacturer that you neither use or want), and to be able to create app groups (ie. favourites, media, games, news, etc.)

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              0 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Customizable phone number type

              I would like to setup the name of the type of phone number to store for a contact. At the moment I can only choose between few and fixed types. I would like to add my own descriptions for that.

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                0 comments  ·  People and Contacts  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • enter in the contact additional attributes.

                enter in the contact additional attributes. Let's say I want to save the contacts of the organization. There is accounting, administration. But in the contact is only the types of phones: office, mobile and others. It is certainly possible to have separate accounting make contact (attribute name) and attribute the organization (for example plant). add another contact Administration (attribute name) attribute with the plant. Both type of phone contact: a worker. Structures may be more, shop, reception, director.
                combining them into one contact, we lose their names, will only have a lot of phone numbers.
                Search for the same attribute…

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                • tether pc via nokia lumia 800 - no recommendations from me until it's possible

                  tether pc via nokia lumia 800 - no recommendations from me until it's possible

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                    0 comments  ·  Connectivity  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • 请开源

                    wp 7系列请开源 为了广大的wp7 用户,谢谢。

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                    • individual sms/emails ringtones for contacts

                      so when i get a text/email ,i can know who it before i see it. if its in my pocket

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                        3 comments  ·  Messaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • there's a problem in MMS,it can't control by myself when I read MMS,it will faster or back to the title,maybe this problem only in China!

                        there's a problem in MMS,it can't control by myself when I read MMS,it will faster or back to the title,maybe this problem only in China!

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                          0 comments  ·  Messaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • 4 votes
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                          • ever since the new 7.10.8773.98 update on my phone, my touch screen is not functioning properly

                            the touchscreen is not being responsive to my touch anymore, i just got the phone a week ago, and today updates were available. i accepted the updates and 4 updates were installed on my nokia lumia 710.

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                            • Please develop a call block app.

                              I get far too many recurring solicitation calls.

                              20 votes
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                                0 comments  ·  Applications  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Task Killer

                                You should add a task killer, I have noticed that in new hTc phones that they have a task killer, in the HTC One S you can press a button that takes you to open tasks, well if you slide the app pages up then they are killed, windows phones i have noticed the multitask page, well you should make it so if you press a x button near those tasks then you can them or if you slide those tasks up, then they are killed

                                6 votes
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                                  0 comments  ·  Improved Experience  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Be able to pin Music --> Songs --> Shuffle to the start panel

                                  I like to listen to all my music and use the Shuffle option when I'm in the car. As it is, when I get in the car, I have to go through a bunch of menus, to get to that. It would be soooo nice to put the phone in it's holder and be able to have a start menu panel that would immediately open to shuffle all songs. It's kind of a pita when the phone is in the stand to hit those little teeny menu buttons especially in sunlight with sunglasses on.

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                                  • Customizable backgrounds and tiles (other than the default black or white backgrounds and the preset tile colours).

                                    Currently the only customization options we have on out WP's is black or white background with a few preset tile colours.
                                    It would be much nicer to be able to customize the background with selected from the user images (may be leave black and white backgrounds as default and add selected images over the background black or white colour with the image over it being transparent for better view of tiles).

                                    And about the tiles, wouldn't it be better to have a colour mixer palette so each user chooses the specific colour he wants or even choose patterns to be…

                                    8 votes
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                                    • Show lyrics given in the lyrics tag of the mp3 file

                                      It would be nice if we could tap on the album artwork and it would flip to show the lyrics of the song playing.

                                      iOS has this feature, why can't we have it too?

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                                      • Changing the alarm show MUST NOT requiere SAVING.

                                        Adjusting the alarm time is typically used when you are already asleep or you are going to sleep. I found that most people that I talk with suffer the same problem: "Wake up late for work because they change their alarm (action) and believing it is done do not hit save (as it is deferred & therefore easily forgotten action) closing the alarm application".

                                        Help us not to keep waking up late.

                                        3 votes
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                                        • Allow app to be available in more countries by default.

                                          I found Windows Phone is very potential and after I bought, I had chosen my own country, Malaysia. But when I browse through the Marketplace, I found out a lot of apps are not available in the Marketplace even the world's famous Angry Birds!

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