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This is very simple to settle. Browser performance, graphics performance.... all seem to be faster on rival platforms. Clearly, windows phone, RT and 8 have to become performant.

@elmer: for me 925 is a good start. Many of my friends also said 920 was heavy and actually preferred 8X. Finally they ended up with Galaxy S3 anyway....go figure.

More importantly, my main point of contention about windows phone OS itself is....even after fixing the UI to Flat style, fixing the app styles to fixed style, it is not able to compete with iOS and Android on performance. Several youtube videos show how the browsers in other platforms are faster. Ditto with many graphically intensive games.

13 minutes ago, MasterPie wrote

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Yes. Did you think they'd make only one phone a year?

 

The rest of your post has to do with the software, which doesn't need to change for every hardware release, and thus, isn't really relevant.

However,

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what exactly do you mean by this?

Unless any recent updates changed it...you can't label contact fields the way you like in windows phone...can you ?

May be microsoft should pay the individual developers of popular apps to make the windows store versions.  Maps needs to be on par with the competition (g***le ). Unified notifications center, workspaces for enterprise and personal, are needed. Full videoconferencing with app sharing...(more for surface tablets).

Lumia 928....really ? really ?

10.2 mm width and 160 grams. "Big dissapointment" is an understatement. Oh ...and software stays the same... no special service or app or anything.

And don't get me started on Windows Phone 8. Missing custom fields, street view maps, temple run2, temple run oz, flat UI, jeez.

Only the offline maps are the compelling thing.

@CaRDiaK:  Agree that the features, productivity, etcetra are awesome. It's just the UI that are annoying to me.... especially the all CAPS menu bar. That's frikkin' lame.

Is the entire industry that has 3D gradient buttons everywhere doing it wrong ? If 2-D flat cartoons is really that cool, Pixar would have never been born. 

While I like all the 2012 overall.....really ? All capital letters in the Main menu, flat buttons with no depth....what is this ? pre windows 3.0 world ?

Up until few years ago, I used to dabble in freelance projects exclusively using parallax products. Nice one stop shop for Microcontrollers, Servos, Sensors, whole bunch of things.

I second Eric Lippert too

Oops... i meant Windows RT and 8 needs to be more performant.