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Windows Phone 8 review

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

review

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- 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

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- ”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

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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

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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

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- 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

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- SmartGlass!

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Xbox

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- Zune is removed, instead only Xbox now

- Excellent selection of music, not so in movies

Xbox

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- ”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

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- Easier to use 3rd party apps

- No Instagram though :(

- Some tweaks, some good some for worse

Camera

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

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