<story><title>30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitted iOS addict</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/12/22/30-days-with-windows-phone-8-perspective-from-an-admitted-ios-addict/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWebMicrosoft+(The+Next+Web+Microsoft)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsz0</author><text>Every time I&apos;ve used a WP device I&apos;ve walked away disappointed. Haven&apos;t done an extended test just 10-15 minutes on various devices. If I had to point to any one thing that leaves me disappointed it&apos;s probably the excessive amount of scrolling and swiping required. Even on the larger display devices the amount of information I can see without scrolling/swiping is a fraction of what I&apos;m used to from iOS/Android. It leaves me with kind of a stuck-in-the-mud feeling that I&apos;m just doing a lot of extra work to access the same amount of information. The same type of problem pops up with apps in a different way. They tend to be fairly basic and lacking features. I guess this is to be expected for a relatively young platform but it&apos;s really difficult to step away from these iOS/Android apps that just have so much more functionality. Between the apps and UI style it almost just feels to me more like a glorified feature phone. People said the same thing about the iPhone but it had some really killer features. To get a real web browser I was happy to give up the unified messages system on my BlackBerry. I can&apos;t really find the killer features in WP that would justify the trade-offs. Honestly every interaction I&apos;ve had with WP so far makes me very happy to return to iOS/Android where all my apps pack tons of information on the screen and have just about every feature I need.</text></comment>
<story><title>30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitted iOS addict</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/12/22/30-days-with-windows-phone-8-perspective-from-an-admitted-ios-addict/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+TheNextWebMicrosoft+(The+Next+Web+Microsoft)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>One factor I also look at is what happens when you want to write some code on your computer and put it on your device (it does say &quot;Hacker&quot; at the top left).&lt;p&gt;Only Android scores well in this respect and it looks like none of the competition really cares.</text></comment>