Windows Phone 8 review

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3570494/windows-phone-8-

review

- Got rid of the black bar in home screen

- Custom size of tiles 1x1 - 4x2

- Still not able to change standard keyboard

- ”Word Flow” to ”ease” writing

Design and performance

- ”Together” (contact groups finally)

- Groups as People Hub

- ”Rooms” (somewhat like G+ Circles)

- Skype wasn't available for now

- Mix of pleasant surprises and frustrations

Contacts and communication

A lot of small tweaks e.g. Excel supports charts

All the files are easy to find in SkyDrive

Easier than iCloud apparently

OneNote is really useful

Office, OneNote, and SkyDrive

Wallet and NFC

- Mobile payments with Wallet app and NFC

- Possibility to set up a PIN code for making payments

- Third party apps should be supported but none were available

- Practically Nokia Maps on all WP8 devices

- Fails in a few key areas (bad usability in getting directions and no way of getting info from the map's points of interest)

- Offline worldwide maps available

Maps and Bing

- SmartGlass!

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Xbox

- Zune is removed, instead only Xbox now

- Excellent selection of music, not so in movies

Xbox

- ”Better than expected”

- Finally able to find text in page

- Still only 6 tabs open at the same time

- Isn't based on webkit which is a problem in mobile web

Internet Explorer 10

- Easier to use 3rd party apps

- No Instagram though :(

- Some tweaks, some good some for worse

Camera

”BUY INTO WINDOWS PHONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT”