30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitted iOS addict

Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by recursive on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @09:58AM (#4966096)

I hear about iphone hardware all the time. You've never heard praise for apple's mythical "build quality"?

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by FuzzyDunlop on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:09PM (#4966566)

Or the Retina display, or the 'more powerful GPU'...

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by j2labs on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:18PM (#4966595)

Retina display was something that had never been done. Totally worth talking about.

My original point was anecdotal, so continuing on that, I've only heard game developers discuss the GPU.

Most reviews of the latest windows tablet discussed the hardware. This processor and that amount of ram... I couldn't care much less.

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by mikeash on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @05:30PM (#4967296)

We should distinguish between visible hardware and invisible hardware.

Apple fans will talk about build quality or screen quality, but rarely about CPU or GPU stats. Apple doesn't even publish these, and you have to wait for third parties to figure out what the numbers are.

I'm sure that some people will talk about how great the A6 CPU is or whatever, but few such people actually know what they're talking about when they do it.

Not trying to make a value judgment here, but this is what I have seen.

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by j2labs on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @08:16PM (#4967756)

Bingo.

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by meaty on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:28AM (#4968782)

The build quality is good but the designs are rubbish. They put glass on impact points, mount everything on ribbon PCBs which pack in and do their best to thwart repairers with funny screws and what can only be described ad a rats nest assembly.

Oh and the hardware is just so damn slow and heavy.

I've repaired a couple of 4s's for people and owned a 4 and they're just not very nice. If you've never had another phone then I get your point but seriously take a look elsewhere when you consider your next handset.

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