Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Review
By David Tobia
November 2, 2012
November 2, 2012
- The Windows Phone 8 hopes to reverse the current trend in the smartphone market whereby Windows Phones have received critical acclaim, but not market share. Currently, Windows Phone has only a 3.5 percent global market share, while iOs and Android have 17 percent and 68 percent respectively, reports Wired.
- The Windows 8 phone features the tile-interface that is now featured in Windows 8. The phone has a customized experience and features tiles that fill the entire screen, whereas older versions had a black rail along the right side of the screen.
- The Wired review prefers the Windows interface to Android’s, and says it can see people switching to Windows Phones.
- Non-Nokia Windows phones do not have public transportation compatibility on the maps application, but do have turn-by-turn directions. The phone also features multitasking, and apps run smoothly in the background, according to Wired.
- But while the Windows Phone has a plethora of good features, it is still limited by the small number of apps for its platform. The lack of Instagram and other “killer apps” will limit the number of users who switch from other smartphones.
- Wired summarizes that the Windows Phone has a “slick, intuitive interface with nice animations that just works,” along with “customizable live tiles and lock screen.”
- The negatives: “Key apps are missing. Windows Store is cluttered, with reviews appearing in different languages. Rooms is useless unless you know a lot of Microsoft employees. Multitasking has some strange behaviors.”
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