*** Windows Phone 8: Apollo ***

[Glaucus]

Wow, just got a mass of emails. I totaly forgot I signed up and voted in this. Not directly Microsoft from what I can tell. But what ever as long as they are in there.

Gives a good insight into what's been included in wp8 (and a lot were implemented ages ago into wp7.5)
Completed
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/status/401050

 

[Glaucus]

Good review
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/windows-phone-8-review/

Especially like this bit

Windows Phone 8 offers several ways to sync your phone and PC, so that you don't have to go through Zune to get access to your music, videos and photos anymore. Devices on the platform now utilize MTP, which means you can access the phone as an external hard drive. Drag and drop the files you want on the phone and that's all you have to do. You can even go into Windows Media Player and sync up songs and playlists the same way we've been able to do for Android phones.

You can also sync your device with iTunes, but you'll need to use Microsoft's desktop companion app to do so (available for Windows 7 and Mac; Win 8 has the feature built-in). In fact, this particular program is the only option Mac users will have if they want to connect the phone to their machine. When you dive in, the program first asks you if you want to sync iTunes or Windows libraries. If you choose the former, it brings up iTunes in a separate window and begins loading all of your music, pictures, videos, podcasts and ringtones. From there it's just a matter of picking and choosing what you want to toss into your phone. This alleviates one of the biggest concerns iOS users have had in moving over to Windows Phone, and it works seamlessly.

 

[sarge78]

Shame you can't sync a WP7.5 phone to a W8 PC yet, I can't even see the device in windows explorer

Bad show by MS, it's actually put me off WP8 and I'm disappointed they're still treating phones as accessory devices to PCs.

 

[Amp34]

Shame you can't sync a WP7.5 phone to a W8 PC yet, I can't even see the device in windows explorer

Bad show by MS, it's actually put me off WP8 and I'm disappointed they're still treating phones as accessory devices to PCs.

Download the Zune/Xbox Music software from the MS site?

Good review
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/windows-phone-8-review/

Especially like this bit

Still no word as to whether you will be able to play Xbox subscription music on OSX... At the moment the extender doesn't allow it and they appear to have taken off the ability to stream music from the web...