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Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone?

Posted by timothy on from the gave-baby-to-dingo dept.

First time accepted submitter occasional_dabbler writes "Reviews by 'commentators' such as this one predict certain doom for both Nokia and Microsoft on the basis of the OS being a failure, yet whenever the Lumia handsets are reviewed in the mainstream press they are often highly praised. Windows phone is an immature OS, certainly, but it does pretty much everything you need in a smartphone, is getting better with each update and it is beautiful. I have a Lumia 800, and now I'm used to how it and the WP OS works I find it a painful process to go back to an Android or iPhone for some obscure app not yet supported on WP. WP gave me the same feeling I got when I bought my first iBook, fired up OS X 10.1 and realized I had just been shifted up a decade. So why so serious? What do Slashdotters who have really tried WP think of it?"

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  1. poor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    poor quality phones

  2. Lame advert by 1s44c · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when did Slashdot start publishing adverts as stories?

    Windows phones are lame. I spent good money on one once and it crashed all the time, no way am I risking getting another.

    I can do everything on my Linux phone thanks. There is no reason to spend more money on something that does less!

  3. Re:It's all about the apps by SpryGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    And yet Windows Phones have the best development environment and tools for developers of any phone platform.

    And to be honest, apps aren't as important in the Windows Phone 7 world... many things that you need an app for on other phones are "built in" to WP7.

    There is a chicken-and-egg problem, though, for sure. While there may be 100,000 apps in the WP7 app store (a fraction of the total count in the other stores), there are some missing big names, and "old" versions... due mostly to the lack of users, which of course is due mostly to the perceived lack of apps.

    It's possible WP8 will help break the logjam. We'll see.

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    - Spryguy
    There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
  4. Occasional_dabbler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://slashdot.org/~occasional_dabbler

    Seems that occasional_dabbler never posted any message or comment about anything so far. Yet feels compelled to submit a positive story about Nokia/Windows phone on the day that Nokia announced laying off 10,000 people. This is after Nokia CEO admits that Windows phones are not selling. May be occasional_dabbler works for Microsoft or Nokia, perhaps?