re: Friend says "Windows Phone is a worthless OS"
More question:
Is WP apps mostly paid?
Are 512MB WP smartphone really worth it?
No it's not. If you are going to get it why go with the low end Wp8's ? unless you have a slow 256 MB phone now you will probably be dissapointed. you will not be able to fully experience all the great things about the phone. It will make you not like it. Save up your money and get a better wp8. 512 mg ram is a joke. I think they made them for kids. Wp8 already has issues being slow when restoring an application like nokia music or something because it doesn't have real multi tasking with most things. I have a bunch of apps I am very impressed with the app store most of what I have is free and the things that are not free are worth it fo rmy needs. Apps are polished and look very nice.
here are some downsides
Music:
If you have music it is a train wreck to try and sync the phone with your music library. Also, trying to create a playlist is the MOST counter-intuitive headache you will ever face with a phone. EVER! you can not edit meta data or do simple things like Remove a song from a play list. change/edit the name of artist, album, genra. You can not easily add songs to playlist. You can not download songs any way but through the music store or like nokia's music store. No bit torrents. No ftp server downloads. Matter of fact... now that I think of it you can't download anything pretty much. I mean some sky drive stuff but not much. Basically the music hub is counter-intuitive. Don't ask me why there is a cnn app in that hub.. i have no idea. It looks very pretty though
and has great things going for it but not very functional
File management:
This does not exist. For example. If your friend emails you a new song you can not save the song to your phone. You may not organize your files or apps in any kind of way. Basically windows lets you look at your stuff but not much else. If you need the phone to do things with documents it will suck donkey testies. You can not download docs from emails. only pics.
Internet:
Very inefficient in my opinion. no forward button. No auto fit to screen. Not many options for the browser
here are some good points
UI
looks beautiful. very nice and clean. Fairly small learning curve to do all the basic functionality. When I say basic I mean VERY basic. Trying to do things that are not so basic like creating a playlist for example is a night mare.
Speed.
it is very fast for most things. It hangs on resuming apps though. But it is pretty darn fast otherwise
Office:
not sure if you use MS Office but if you do I can honestly say this is the very BEST i have ever seen a mobile office apps. Excel and WOrd have never looked better on a phone before
It's new and different and exiting:
u wont look like the rest of the clone robots out there. This UI is VERY fun to use and get used to. You will not grow out of it soon like with android (in my opinion) or get bored of it quickly like iOS
Rooms:
rooms are great very useful. I use them a lot. read up on the WP8 rooms. they are great.
anyway... just wanted to give you some pro's and cons from my perspective on it. I have been using wp8 since november. I have the htc8x, lumia 920, 925, and 810. Let me know if you have questions.