Hi developes.
Have somebody time and skill to make some cool verbal notification sounds?
For example: when (dis)connected to computer, when (dis)connected to charger.
Or when car profile (de)activates. cool or what?
Definition of Cool ???
jje
I don't know about him but I'm guessing something right out of the sci-fi movies. You know either the cool Android'ish hot chick, sexy woman voice/kick-ass, CIA covert operative male voice that sounds a little like it's synthesized.
That's my biggest beef with most of those talking apps (like StartTalking - which is really cool in many ways but fails here) - they all seem to be leaning towards more Stephen Hawking than anything else cool. Seeing that disk space isn't really much of an issue any more, I wish someone would make a database of really cool sounding voices and use that as a bank to draw from or even allow you to train it into this voice (like what that annoying Talking Tom cat thing does but only convert it into something cooler sounding) instead of this lousy Microsoft Sam & Microsoft Mary crap
I mean how cool would it be if your battery was low & was about to switch off and the phone went, in a hot sexy synthesized Tron'esque voice, "System...shutting down, system...shuting down"
Yeah sure it's geeky but all I'm saying is when he have the MS Mary crap anyway, why not someone go the full mile. Gimme the future already or at least let's fake it!
- Not sure if any of that is even possible but fingers crossed someone does that soon. Hopefully some sci-fi fan / Android developers get their hands on it soon!
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-AndroidFreud.
Hopefully some sci-fi fan / Android developers get their hands on it soon!
Sc-Fi Yuck for kids and spotty adolescents . Why not the whole 1812 Overture .
The point i was making is the one persons cool is another persons would not be seen dead with that .
jje
JJEgan said:
The point i was making is the one persons cool is another persons would not be seen dead with that
jje
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Agreed! But at least let's hope someone starts with this
-AndroidFreud.
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Right then, who else has noticed this? I'm presuming its an issue with the sync?
My contacts are stored with Googlemail and are set to sync, which is good as it saves me manually doing it and I usually change business contacts details so its nice that it updates on its own.
I link the contacts to facebook, pictures come over, look perfect (well, alright).
Later on, the pictures look awful and I'm presuming its because they are sent to Google and then sent back to the phone in a lower quality.
There were similar issues with the Touch HD syncing with Outlook and nobody found a way around it, anyone got any suggestions?
Nobody else noticing that their contacts pictures are really poor quality? Is it just me having this issue?
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Nobody else noticing that their contacts pictures are really poor quality? Is it just me having this issue?
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Me too...
No you are not alone.
Not alone
You are not alone, I presume that there is some kind of loss in the sync to make it work faster, I havnt seen any setting to make it lossless.
When I saved a picture from facebook and added it manually the was no loss in quality.
So until there is some kind of app out I guess you will just have to manually add the pictures if you cant live with the quality.
I sync with Outlook and its the same.
I do remember when i had a HTC Touch Diamond that was the same. The way you cured the problem was to take a photo with your phone to use as a contact picture and then it was full quality. To be honest not tried it with the Hero yet maybe a task for today for me..
Same problem here.
Hope they solve it in a future update.
Its the same with me, on my Diamond I created small high quality pics for my contacts & even with these the quality is crap.
On a side note is anybody else thinking that XDA Developers isn't the place for us & our hero handsets? I'm feeling a little bit unloved
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Its the same with me, on my Diamond I created small high quality pics for my contacts & even with these the quality is crap.
On a side note is anybody else thinking that XDA Developers isn't the place for us & our hero handsets? I'm feeling a little bit unloved
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People are only just getting their Hero's so this will get going soon. Its the same when any new devices come out, just takes time.
We have root already, TP2 doesn't have HardSPL yet and thats been out months.
nicelad_uk said:
People are only just getting their Hero's so this will get going soon. Its the same when any new devices come out, just takes time.
We have root already, TP2 doesn't have HardSPL yet and thats been out months.
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I'm not sure I understood half of what you just said. What are Root, TP2 & HardSPL?
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I'm not sure I understood half of what you just said. What are Root, TP2 & HardSPL?
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haha, ok...
Root gives you access to all of your phone and should allow you to flash new roms onto your phone.
HardSPL is used on phones and if you have hardspl, again, you can flash new roms.
TP2 is the Touch Pro 2, just another phone.
Basically I was trying to say the phone is new out, and usually when they are it takes a while for people to come over to them, but they do eventually. When more and more people come on board, there will be a lot more support.
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Its the same with me, on my Diamond I created small high quality pics for my contacts & even with these the quality is crap.
On a side note is anybody else thinking that XDA Developers isn't the place for us & our hero handsets? I'm feeling a little bit unloved
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as stated...this phone has only been out in the uk for just over a week
things will start moving faster once people can get there hands on it.
i don't think it wll be long before the chefs start cooking here for us
You know what I think I need to make a retaction & clarify how I feel about the XDA Developers site & the hero. Both the comments of nicelad_uk & liamhere are totally spot on & it was silly of me to expect the amount of expert knowledge on the hero that I enjoyed with my previous winmo devices.
I realise now that this could be my time to shine & put something back into this community instead of just taking like I was accustomed to before. Now obviously its been established that my knowledge is a bit lax on the software but where I can help I will & hopefully the increase traffic & hel will bring more people to this part of the forum.
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I've just read what I've written & although it WREAKS OF CHEESE I'm leaving it up because when you get past the cheese its pretty much true. Corny but true.
almost forgot thanks for the clarifications nicelad_uk, you really are a, er, nice lad
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almost forgot thanks for the clarifications nicelad_uk, you really are a, er, nice lad
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Haha, trust me, if you asked my girlfriend, she would say the opposite!
I started putting back into the community with my Touch Pro 2, recreating a theme which I loved on my Diamond but wasn't available, it was a good feeling.
Now I'm making apps for Android, nothing big, just getting used to it and trying different things.
And no problem with the help, we all try to help and its good to see a mod using these devices too, other people will follow shortly, when they see the light
Contacts Image quality
I have the same bad images quality in contact also. Even when i had my Touch HD. I sync with Outlook and even set the contact photo from the phone but when a call comes in or is made to the contact its all blurry. Any ideas?
thenewshaft said:
You know what I think I need to make a retaction & clarify how I feel about the XDA Developers site & the hero. Both the comments of nicelad_uk & liamhere are totally spot on & it was silly of me to expect the amount of expert knowledge on the hero that I enjoyed with my previous winmo devices.
I realise now that this could be my time to shine & put something back into this community instead of just taking like I was accustomed to before. Now obviously its been established that my knowledge is a bit lax on the software but where I can help I will & hopefully the increase traffic & hel will bring more people to this part of the forum.
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I've just read what I've written & although it WREAKS OF CHEESE I'm leaving it up because when you get past the cheese its pretty much true. Corny but true.
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That warms my cockles, does that! I feel just the same so I'm trying to help where I can (Not totally altruistic, just its summer break and I have time on my hands)
On the point of poor quality pics in the call window, I think what is happening is that the fone is grabbing the little Thumbnail created for the contacts, not the original pic. The thumbnail then looks like Sh** in the big call window.
Not a solution but could be a reason.
Daisy "must do better" Connolly xx
Dayzee said:
That warms my cockles, does that! I feel just the same so I'm trying to help where I can (Not totally altruistic, just its summer break and I have time on my hands)
On the point of poor quality pics in the call window, I think what is happening is that the fone is grabbing the little Thumbnail created for the contacts, not the original pic. The thumbnail then looks like Sh** in the big call window.
Not a solution but could be a reason.
Daisy "must do better" Connolly xx
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This issue is usually to do with the Sync, its been a common problem with Syncing with Outlook and google from Windows Mobile Devices. I posted a comment about poor picture quality on Google's forums and one of their development team said they would look into it, that was nearly 3 months ago though.
Can't think of anyway round it! Very annoying though. Auto Sync off for me I think.
I think everyone should go to the google forums and reply to this thread...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6b0562c425cc1f5d&hl=en
Make them aware we are noticing these issues!
hey mates, i think so to,when the people gets their hands on this wunderfull device, the development will be started ... mine arrives in 3 days ... cant wait for it ....
Anyone found a fix for this problem???
Ok for all you windows phone7 and call of duty fans here's a little treat. Read this instructions
Not compatible with QVGA,VGA,or HD2
Tested on touchpro2 and Xperia 1x WVGA resolution only
1)Extract files from zip
2)Click on yellow icon in folder
it will take you to a windows phone7 homescreen
3)To play call of duty demo , click on Xbox live
button.
4)To exit click on left arrow on the windows phone7
homescreen. It on botton left of screen.
CALL OF DUTY instructions
1) Control your player going left or right with stylus
2) To fire shots tap on your player
3) Hide behind barrier to avoid enemy shots , but you cant fire while there.
4)Help will come every 20 seconds or so take advantage as bullets will be destored by him.
If you enjoyed the game/app and would like to help me out send a little donation via paypal to [email protected]
Thank You
imagine what windowphone7 could do
This is just a small taste imagine what windows phone7 could do.
Next I'll port halo that be in 3-4 weeks.
lol despite you hijacking other peoples threads to promote your app , nobody has come here and showed any intrest. thread hijacking is not respected and against policy here.
mistakes
kel16harris said:
lol despite you hijacking other peoples threads to promote your app , nobody has come here and showed any intrest. thread hijacking is not respected and against policy here.
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Well I admit I did make a mistake cause I was excited and plus some people thought it couldnt be done. But its better than you , I read your posts and most of them are the most negative I seen around here.
zarpy said:
Well I admit I did make a mistake cause I was excited and plus some people thought it couldnt be done. But its better than you , I read your posts and most of them are the most negative I seen around here.
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I will give that to you. Been there...done that.
Here is the trick....everyone here promotes their own threads all over the place.
But they do it by placing the link in their signature :LOL
Rather than flipping the tiles on the home screen, I would love if they popped out from nowhere to fill the screen.
That would be neat.
thanks for response
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Rather than flipping the tiles on the home screen, I would love if they popped out from nowhere to fill the screen.
That would be neat.
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Thank you for response and suggestion. Iam working on much larger project using Xbox halo graphics .....it will be much larger and deeper
game. That will be in the future.
I suggest throwing all WP7 related development(?) thingys in a separate development(?) section on the board.
windows mobile
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I suggest throwing all WP7 related development(?) thingys in a separate development(?) section on the board.
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Well since this is a concept of what windows mobile7 can do and it runs on most windows mobile WVGA devices like touchpro2 and Xperia 1X I put it here for people to download and enjoy. Also I had to make this game because of a despute I had with other developers saying if you put Xbox graphics on windows mobile engine it wont work. Well I ripped it and it does work with no lag.
Now looking into making a Crysis shooter but make it way better than this game. That will be in the future.
Oh dear god, your games are really bad, you know. Exact code copy, just another sprites. Maybe learn a bit more before making ANOTHER "gears of war, cod, halo" crap games? I don't want to be very rude, just make something, well better.
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Oh dear god, your games are really bad, you know. Exact code copy, just another sprites. Maybe learn a bit more before making ANOTHER "gears of war, cod, halo" crap games? I don't want to be very rude, just make something, well better.
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Hmmm I thought I just said that , but I guess your are slow. Well if your expecting I make a console type game and put it out here for free , your dreaming. I will however make games that are simple with peoples favorite theme's.
Can I download your games ? I like to see other developers creations as well.
Hi All
I am a paranormal investigator and I am really wanting some ghost hunting apps on my HTC Touch HD.
iPhone have sevral, one gives you the classic radar view and shows you where noise is coming from. Others are EVP (Electric Voice Phenomenon) and EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) .... does anyone know where I can get anything simliar for WM. I have been googling now for hours and havnt found much except for something called HASA.
I have experience in Visual Basic and willing to make my own set of ghost hunting apps if anyone is willing to help me.
Glad to hear from a fellow investigator! Well don't we need special hardware for that?
Even with the sound detector app which you describe, I doubt that our HD would be able to a) distinguish small noises in a range of more than a couple of meters and b) triangulate their position. It's probably more of an eye-candy application rather than a practical one.
Even so, I believe a dedicated EMF sensor and/or EVP recorder would be much more trustworthy than a simple pda application.
Maybe the magnetic sensor on the HD2 could be of some assistance, but I can't see how :/
dam thatd be sick haha, id just do that for fun!
Is there anybody there?
... Sorry, but I couldn't resist...
Send me 50 bucks and ill give you some phone software that can detect
Ghosts Under Literal Limbo Interment Behind Liquid Ectoplasm
Its a bargain especially considering these ghosts are the most common type. If you want pics let me know i can post them when I get home.
I have a good nose for ghosts..... just sniff em out
Think its only iphone that can do it..... something to do with the self sacrifice at the apple assembly lines
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Send me 50 bucks and ill give you some phone software that can detect
Ghosts Under Literal Limbo Interment Behind Liquid Ectoplasm
Its a bargain especially considering these ghosts are the most common type. If you want pics let me know i can post them when I get home.
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how did u come up with that name
Ghosts Under Literal Limbo Interment Behind Liquid Ectoplasm
LOL
hungry81 said:
Send me 50 bucks and ill give you some phone software that can detect
Ghosts Under Literal Limbo Interment Behind Liquid Ectoplasm
Its a bargain especially considering these ghosts are the most common type. If you want pics let me know i can post them when I get home.
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hahaha classic!
Also, I thought these kind of things require different hardware that is not found on a phone (ie. all apps are fakes...)
d1k_is said:
hahaha classic!
Also, I thought these kind of things require different hardware that is not found on a phone (ie. all apps are fakes...)
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...not the only thing that's fake I'd say...haha
Now we all know that social networking has become a big thing in the past few years. Even more so now that there are apps all over the place that all do the same exact thing. Which is connect you with other people around the world, but what if you want to talk with someone a bit closer?
Everywhere you look there are people on their cell phones, whether it be android based or not. However what if your little people shy and want to strike up a conversation with someone? Especially if their tied up on their phone it makes it tough to bring up a random conversation. What if there was a way to kind of interrupt them and impress them at the same time?
For instance what if your friends dragged you to a bar, bars aren't your thing and you'd rather be at home playing games on your computer or just tearing apart the latest gizmo that you got. Well you happen to notice a girl on the other side of the bar that seems rather nerdy herself that got dragged by her friends and would rather pay more attention to her phone than the drunk guys trying to hit on her.. Obviously going over and saying hi isn't really an option as she'd likely just ignore you like she's done to the rest of the guys, cause your just another drunken idiot that wants to get in her pants (at least thats whats she'd think)..
Wouldn't it be a bit more interesting to say send a message to her phone even tho you don't know her, don't know her number, and know nothing about her.. However it'd get her attention if she got a popup that said "Hi, I can't help but notice your bored.. Me too."
Now this may or may not be possible, as I don't know a damn thing about the android nor hacking it. However I remember back in the day of high school me and a few friends during certain times of the day would go to the same computers in school, and since we knew the IP's of those computers we could send messages back and forth between each other cause they either A didn't disable windows messaging, or we had to turn it on.. We'd screw around with others in the library by sending a mass net send to all computers saying "Your computer has been infected!" then shutting them all down remotely..
Would there be a way to do such a proposal? If so anyone up to the challenge? Cause really how amazing would it be to just open up a new way to talk to those around you.
iOS had something I saw that almost kinda does this (at least I think) called sonar.me yet I don't know if android does..
Anyone?
I was thinking that if there was a way to utilize the push notifications.. Tho the question would be how to detect said device.. If they were on the same wifi as you that'd be easier.. Even through bluetooth, tho does bluetooth still transmit even when your not allowing it to be seen?
What about the possibility of just through the phone airways.. I mean they could be sitting there online with their phone anyway to intercept that..
Anyone at all?
Hey man, already thing this is a great idea. Although your scenario doesn't quite mesh with me as I am just as "geeky" in the world of pick-up as what I am in Android nerdi-ology haha (what I mean is I would have no issues going over there and sparking up conversation if shes geeky or not...although geeky would make it easier - bar easy!). Anyway I think that is a great idea. It would be ok if it was an app. Not just you sending a notification to their phone.
I was using message in a bottle for a while. Random and cool. But did not narrow to close proximity nor anything like your proposing.
I think there maybe privacy issues for push notifications being intrusive, but if someone elected for use via an app then they agree to accept notifications I think this would be ok.
I have wanted to have this sort of thing when I was on the train travelling home. I have even caught the eye of some random hottie down the isle and wanted to see if I could somehow contact her. I have scanned bluetooth and even tried to push a picture to someone thinking it could be her *thinks to self "hmm she kinda looks like a Jessica and she has a Nokia N95...bugger it send image to Jessica's N95" caching haha. So yeah I get what you mean .....walking up to someone on a train the environment (although sometimes is expected there is a level of acceptable human behavior there in) is not the place to be attempting to pick-up in dead silence with ears in close proximity eves dropping like all hell in comparison to say a night club/bar/outside area where people are sparse and/or conversation is not easily over heard. *NB: I have attempted (and passing the fear if she is confident and there has been an acceptable level of "eye-sex" or "eye-flirting" with smiles before hand) I won't get flagged off easy. If she is not confident....your pick-up interjection and sudden realisation of overh-hearing ears (eves droppers) can land even the best pick-up artist in a pickle and the shut-down is an even bigger tumble to say the least.
It's ok to get shut down in a bar where people can't hear very well, try getting shut down on a deadly silent train haha being snappy fast whitty and able to promptly deliver a negate to her clear cutting shut down is another subject all together. Being able to do it in a funny way may win you more laughs than her shut down too (geeeze I am going waaaaay off track from Android Nerd to Pick-nerd aren't I? wow I diversed big time! haha ) Aside from that I have been successful in picking up chicks on the train without this technology....but this sort of technology would only leverage a man's capability even more so.
Damn it! If this is made....I need to get a job out of town and get back on the god damned train again. I entered the world of Android to wear my geek hat so I wouldn't become obsessed pick-up dude again and here you are a forum member causing two worlds to collide! Thanks....NOT!
PM for more discussion or clarification of my ramblings haha
Well see thats the thing, sometimes girls just don't to be bothered, so how would you get their attention even for a small chat? If the girl was tech suave it could lead to an interesting topic of discussion on "How did you do that?". They have tons of chat apps that allow you to talk to complete strangers, but these people often are all over the world..
I like the things like the Nintendo DS, or even a Cybiko (if you even know what that is.. =D ) were it has a wireless chat feature where the room is just there and anyone in the area with the same device can just join in. The problem with the Nintendo DS is how often are you in a bar with one? Even the Cybiko (which is super old and was like a young tech kid's playtoy from like 2000) is that no one had it so its not like you could go out to a public area and have people join in on those chat channels.
I've seen apps that claim to do this, but they really don't, as its still over the internet instead of your local area..
Hell the closest thing that would almost be like this scenario would be hosting a open wireless connection that anyone could connect to, hosting an irc server on that network and having people connect to that server, which is quite a hastle for any one person to do just for an interesting way to chat..
Tho I agree with the whole privacy issue thing, I knew that'd probably be the case.. What if there was an app that your an that whenever someone came within your vicinity it would pop up saying "So and So has entered your area" and allowed you to click on their name and start saying hi..
Like I said in my first post there was sonar.me for ios, that kinda synced all the social networking sites to see who was in the same place you are. Supposedly it also allowed you to chat with the people that were also in your area. That would be kinda interesting..
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http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apollo-update-not-coming-to-current-windows-phones
Not looking too promising eh?
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http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/apollo-update-not-coming-to-current-windows-phones
Not looking too promising eh?
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I smell BS since this "news" is only a day after another "insider" said it was coming to all WP7 devices.
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I smell BS since this "news" is only a day after another "insider" said it was coming to all WP7 devices.
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2959707/microsoft-developer-evangelist-retracts-mango-apollo
whoops.
Trust nothing and no one until the fat lady sings.....
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2959707/microsoft-developer-evangelist-retracts-mango-apollo
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Verge has become an Android-wh*@# recently. They are hungry for the clicks and hence their anti-Lumia articles. Then they followed it up with anti-Windows Phone and this. I would say, if you own anything but Windows Phone, only then you should read Verge. Their sources always want to be unnamed and always want to be anonymous!
Atleast that dude was filmed and we know him! - I trust what I see. Even if he joked he had balls unlike verge's anonymous people they make up!
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Verge has become an Android-wh*@# recently. They are hungry for the clicks and hence their anti-Lumia articles. Then they followed it up with anti-Windows Phone and this. I would say, if you own anything but Windows Phone, only then you should read Verge. Their sources always want to be unnamed and always want to be anonymous!
Atleast that dude was filmed and we know him! - I trust what I see. Even if he joked he had balls unlike verge's anonymous people they make up!
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Well that article points out how the guy in the video has retracted what he said in the video. Here's the original link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nunos/archive/2012/04/19/my-comments-on-windows-phone.aspx
Imagine all the people that went and got the Lumia and all the money wasted on advertisement only to say.. Nope that phone we threw at you telling you its the best won't see Apollo... Here buy this one instead. Along with the Titan One/Two. Businesses have made stupid mistakes and Microsoft might do another dumb move and spit on your faces.
Only take what comes officially from Microsoft not some websites with no affiliation or some lonely employee.
I am pretty sure none of us will and should get an "Apollo". We clearly don't have specs for that.
However, what we will get is skinned Apollo. We are sure to get all the features of the OS e.g.
1) better multitasking
2) better UI consistancy (if applied)
3) better integration of features (plus additional ones)
4) better or/and faster IE
5) better bluetooth support
These stuff don't need all that extra hardware specs, so we could safely have them.
The rumours of Lumia 610, 800 being tested with Apollo could well be true considering the above could be applied with no extra hardware that comes with Apollo.
Let us keep in mind that Android users are the most ignored for official upgrades (unless you come to XDA).
The article reads like they HOPE MS leaves current hardware behind for Apollo.
Looking at the Tango update and the fact you will be able to send MMS video& ting , As long as we get a few other treats thrown in then I don't think I will be that bothered if I get an Apollo related update or not, TBH I was extremely happy with my HD2 but upgrades and progress lead me over to the Darkside of WP7 and although I suffered from boredom before nodo and see it through to Mango I don't think It will ever be what everyone wants, There will always be a better handset on the horizon and if it turns out MS don't fully deliver then simply change platform.
I too am not bothered about the apollo update if it does not reach the Titan. I too am more than happy with the OS as it stands.