For some reason I was thinking it was $100 for Dev account . Anyone use Spotify? I use it daily and don't think they had an app last time I was on 7.
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OK – new WP user here – I bought the Nokia Lumia Icon on launch a couple months ago. I came from 5 extremely frustrating years on Android, starting with OG Doid, then to the Droid X, then the Galaxy Nexus – Android versions 2.0 up to 4.3. I was really on the fence, do I upgrade to a HTC One, LGG2, GS4, or try out Windows phone??? Well, I had a PC running windows 8.1, a tablet running windows 8.1, so, I decided to keep it in the MS ecosystem, and give it a shot. First impressions were good, it was fast, smooth, never crashes, and has all the apps I need. I am not a heavy app user – if I need to get work done, I will do it on a computer. I use my phone for taking photos of my kids, as a phone / messaging, email, and occasionally gaming and social media, and web browsing / news. I found Android to be so buggy and lagging I literally wanted to throw my phones into oncoming traffic daily. I rooted, and rom’ed to customize, and tinker, but it hardly ever made the phone better. I would have to backup = restore, and reflash different rom, and it just drove me crazy, all for what? So my notification light could be customized, or I could have transparent navigation bar? My sister has a GS4, I play with it occasionally, it lags all the time. Same with the LGG2. Now, maybe the GS5, and the new OneM8 don’t lag like crazy like their predecessors, but for me that was enough. My wife had a Droid Incredible 2, it never got updated past 2.2 without having to be rooted.
fast forward to today, running windows phone 8.1 on my Icon – this thing rocks. The screen is bright and vibrant. It flys with multi-tasking, and games don’t stutter at all (unlike the android phones we all became accustomed to). The app situation is far more media perceived than anything else. Are there some apps missing that other OS’s have, sure. But its hardly put a damper into my usage. The only thing I miss is the free mobile tethering I could get from my rooted android phone.
My advise for anyone that is super frustrated with their POS android phone – go and try out a windows phone for 2 weeks. sign up for developer preview, and install 8.1 – never go back to android again. Even for those IOS users that are looking for a little more customization, without the malware infested android OS, I suggest giving winodws phone a shot. Apps are coming in droves. Ask yourself a ? – Is there an app you cannot live without on your phone? I couldn’t name one, and if there was, it was available on WP. IOS hasn’t been cool in a long time, and android is just the same thing, no innovation in the past 2 years. The live tiles, and transparency / parallax scrolling in 8.1 is pretty bada$$. give it a shot, you never know – It works for me
signed – frustrated FORMER android power user