1a. Can I upload my music to the music app and does it work in the cloud? (like Google music)
1b. Can I then download specific songs to the windows phone? Similar to the "On device music," option on Google music.
2. What's the actual capacity for apps/music/documents on the HTC Windows Phone 8x? I know it says 16gb, but I'm curious how much is taken up by pre-installed apps and the os.
3. Does anyone miss anything from android after switching?
Thanks for any help.
This is as much a Windows Phone question as a HTC 8x question.
1a. XBox Music works perfectly in the cloud without having to use Skydrive, as long as you have a Windows 8 pc. All music that resides on your Windows 8 computer is automatically placed in the cloud service. In turn all your music is accessible via cloud on your Windows Phone 8, XBox, Windows RT, and other Windows 8 computers. If you still have Windows 7, then you need to use the Skydrive option or use the Google music app that was mentioned, Cloudmuzik, as the Zune software does not have cloud capability.
1b. You can download to your windows phone device as long as you have that set as one of your 4 download devices. But truthfully depending on the size of your music collection, in my opinion 16GB is not a lot of space for most music collections and still install apps and have photos and videos on your phone.
2. The actual capacity may be slightly different for everyone, depending on what pre-installed apps you decide to keep and so forth. After i uninstalled several apps that I knew I wasnt going to ever use, I believe I was sitting around 12-13GB of available space. That was before installing new apps and files that I do use.
3. This one I can not really answer. Never used an Android phone, though I do have an Android tablet. Not exactly the same experience.