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Lumia 640XL which is a little larger and a little thinner than Lumia Icon has better camera than the more recent cheap smart phones. Nokia is Verizon exclusive while 640XL is AT&T. One of the most frequent applications I use is the camera whether getting some shots for my blogs or photographing or videoing. I have found Nokia Icon an excellent camera on the smart phones I have used. It appears that as selfies have become very popular 640XL has a front-facing camera which has 5MP while Icon had only a 1.2MP.  As built-in software, Nokia Icon had more features than 640XL just looking at advertised full features and that means perhaps some features are not fully documented. What I have in these two images in the post is a comparison of feature sets as found in Microsoft sites. Nokia had more out-of-the box apps than 640XL but perhaps you can always go to Windows Store and install new apps. One thing  I am not sure is when Nokia Icon will get its...

This is about the Windows 10 Technical Preview (simply Preview in this post) for phones which will become eventually Windows 10 Mobile if naming is not changed before the General Availability(GA). In Windows Phone 8.1, there were a number of items without any sort of organization although there were interrrelated items. Here is the overview of the Settings menu in the preview SettingsWin10.png This is the Systems submenu System.jpg This one is for Devices Devices2.jpg This is for Network & Wireless Ntwrkwrls3.jpg This is for Personalization Personalization4.jpg   This one for Accounts   Accounts5.jpg This one for Time and Language time-language5,jpg This is for Ease of Access easeofaccess7.jpg This is for Privacy privacy7.jpg This is for Update & security update_security8,jpg This is for Extras extras81.jpg    

What should have been easy and routine did not work that way. It needed a lot of preparation before installing the Technical Preview using the Windows Insider app from Windows Store. The major steps were: 1. Resting the Windows Phone 8.1 to its factory setting which required using the Windows Phone Recovery Tool 2. Using the Windows Insider app to download and install the Technical Preview. 3. Soft resetting the phone a number of times Windows 10 Technical Preview can be installed on a large number of Nokia/Microsoft phones and each may present some kind of problem or another. It took nearly 3 to 4 days to complete the task. However, if one were to start from a clean start (as they probably did while testing the Windows Insider app), it should take no more than 2 to 3 hours depending on the Wi-Fi connection. After it is installed the phone gets switched off. When you switch on the phone you will be greeted by this:   The About setting displays this:   More...

This is about one scenario where you may need to go back to the factory installed settings for your phone. There could be many other cases where you may need to restore the original image of the phone's OS. The Windows Phone Recovery Tool did fix the problem. This post is about restoring the phone to the original state. This is about a Nokia Icon, a Verizon specific phone. It had Windows 8.0 when purchased and later a Windows Phone 8.1 preview was installed. When finally Verizon rolled out Windows Phone 8.1, Nokia Icon was upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1. Recently Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows Phone became available. ( http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2015/07/good-news-for-windows-phone-users-and.html ) This post here describes the step-by-step procedure to download and install the preview. http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2015/07/installing-windows-10-technical-preview.html ) However it became apparent that the update/install process did not work even after ...

There is a single Windows Store and you can have apps for all of these: PC Tablet Phone IoT-in the works Console Holographic Windows 10 makes user experience device agnostic (no matter what the device is).   Windows 10 Universal Platform allows developers to reuse code and bring apps to Windows platform from other platforms. Simply put, Windows Store is One Store for all digital content Customers can have 40 million songs from Grove, TV shows and innumerbale movies and well over 670000 Windows apps and Games Windows Store is bult on Univesal Platform that supports frequent updates Store has media-rich content, curated collections, recommendatons and more and the store organization is development in progress Store supports debit/credit cards, PayPal, Alipay, app gifting, gift cards and even Bitcoin(only in US) Enhanced App discoverability-Outside of the Store Soon Windows SDK with go-live license will be available and will accept Windows 10 App submissions-both...

Actually this was my question to one of Microsoft's forum. Verizon is my carrier and the carrier is slow in rolling out updates (more interested in quick sells). It took a year for Verizon to go from Windows Phone 8 to Windows Phone 8.1 after Window Phone 8.1 went RTM. Here is my question: Regarding tying OS with Carrier: " I think this is very a bad decision. I bought my Nokia Icon and I was not aware at that time that it was Verizon Specific. When the Operating System was upgraded to 8.1, Verizon took one year to roll out while they were busy selling the Androids and Apples which were the major phones (in terms of sales) after many writing and complaining. http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/07/windows-phone-81.html http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2014/11/filed-complain-to-fcc.html " This is the answer from the forum: Your question on Microsoft Community has received a reply from TomBrad95. Title: Why is Operating System tied to Carrier? Reply ...

Nokia Icon is supported The Windows Phone 8.1 has the correct version number: Version 8.10.14219.341 There is enough space on the phone 15.2 GB free It goes through the motion of updating and the phone gets restarted but always ends up with the 0x80070070 error. I have tried 7 times in the last 28 hours or so. http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2015/07/installing-windows-10-technical-preview.html I am not sure if this is happening while downloading or updating. Perhaps Microsoft should verify the three requirements of updating shown in bold.