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disolitude on 14 January 2013
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michael_stutzer said:
disolitude said:
michael_stutzer said:

I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole before its "Other" storage problem gets solved and notification center gets added. I saw a phone with 10GB full without an app. If you take the closed system route at least make sure you are capable of providing one.

Though I have to say, I've been using an Iphone 5 for the past few days and WP interface is actually much better. Too bad there is hardly anything under it.

Notification center is hardly a deabreaker since the whole home screen is essentially a notification center.

I am not sure what the "other" storage problem is...32 GB of storage on the phone I find plenty, especially since I have 25 GB's of music on my Skydrive that I stream to my phone daily. 

And that last "hardly anything under it" comment is just nonsence. There is now 150,000 apps and most of the apps normal people use are available. Not to mention that Microsoft/Nokia services and apps take care of most of the essentials already.

The problem is there is an other part in storage options that nobody knows anything about. It gets bigger and bigger and eventually takes control of your phone lol. Only solution is going back to factory settings. Pretty much anyone with a WP device I know have the same problem, a quick search shows there also quite a bit people with the same problem.

Ahh I see what you mean.

Yeah in my 2 years of Windows phone use I figured out how to minimize this other data. Essentially some apps need extra storage, for example if you use the Podcast! app to download podcasts, it stores the podcasts you download on the phone as "other" data. Same goes for things like 3rd party cloud storage apps and music players that let you download MP3s and ringtones from internet. It all goes as "other" data. 

You just have to manage the 3rd party apps you use and delete stuff you downloaded before you delete the apps themselves. The WP8 devices fully support drag and drop for videos, music, documents and pictures...so I am wondering if they may allow you to edit this "other" data as well. Funny thing is that in the 3 weeks I've had the Lumia 920 I haven't het plugged it in to a computer. All my music is in the cloud and I use wireless charging...