So while my work phone - by company requirement - is and will always be an iPhone (currently it's a 5S), my personal phone is whatever I want it to be at any given moment, switching between an iPhone 4 and a Lumia 820 (although in the last year, I've switched from a 520 to a 920 to the 820, heh. I'm fickle like that).
The other night I decided to bite the bullet and throw the 8.1 developer preview on my 820. I popped in my SIM and did all the upgrades. No problem, worked great. Yesterday, however, I had to swing by an AT&T store to have my data plan switched from the iPhone data plan to the generic smartphone LTE data plan.
I tell the guy what I need and he starts asking me for IMEI and all that, which, of course, I get off the phone. I can tell that the 8.1 backgrounded tiles immediately catch his attention. He asks me to restart the phone, which I do. Once it's up, he asks if he can see my phone, so I hand it over to him.
"How... how did you do that to your tiles?": he asks. He reaches under the counter, pulls out a 1520, and sets it next to my phone. "I use Windows Phone too," he adds.
So I tell him about the developer preview and all the cool, new stuff it adds; he didn't know anything about it. I spent probably a good 15 minutes or so going over all the new stuff in 8.1.
Anyway, I just thought that was pretty cool.
The other night I decided to bite the bullet and throw the 8.1 developer preview on my 820. I popped in my SIM and did all the upgrades. No problem, worked great. Yesterday, however, I had to swing by an AT&T store to have my data plan switched from the iPhone data plan to the generic smartphone LTE data plan.
I tell the guy what I need and he starts asking me for IMEI and all that, which, of course, I get off the phone. I can tell that the 8.1 backgrounded tiles immediately catch his attention. He asks me to restart the phone, which I do. Once it's up, he asks if he can see my phone, so I hand it over to him.
"How... how did you do that to your tiles?": he asks. He reaches under the counter, pulls out a 1520, and sets it next to my phone. "I use Windows Phone too," he adds.
So I tell him about the developer preview and all the cool, new stuff it adds; he didn't know anything about it. I spent probably a good 15 minutes or so going over all the new stuff in 8.1.
Anyway, I just thought that was pretty cool.