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

Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by jsz0 on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:35PM (#4966656)

Can you give specific examples of where all this extra scrolling and swiping that you're talking about is required?

One quick example is the mail client. You can only see about 5 messages at a time and that's with only a one line preview of the body. On iOS with a 1 line preview I see 8 messages and I can usually see the entire from/subject line. May seem like a minor gripe but it just adds extra steps to everything I want to do. Is there an option to reduce the font sizes? I couldn't find it last time I looked.

Getting all that information on an iPhone would involve individually opening and checking around 7 different apps

Depends what type of notifications you have setup. I can just look at my lock-screen or Notification Center for most of this. This morning when I picked up my phone I had a few CNN news alerts, a bunch of FaceBook notifications, some text messages, a game reminding me it was my turn, weather, calendar events, etc.

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by shredfvz on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @12:57AM (#4968344)

Mail is a joke of an app on Windows. But unlike on iOS, the Windows Mail application can be replaced. If you were frustrated with the default Mail app, did you seek a replacement?

Do you have a better example of an epidemic WP UI fail? Anyone can build a terrible UI into an app, including the makers of an operating system.

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Re:30 days with Windows Phone 8 — Perspective from an admitt... by pycassa on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @05:57AM (#4968837)

> Mail is a joke of an app on Windows.. What windows are you talking about? I agree that windows 8 mail app sucks.. but mail app on windows phone 8 is one of the best mail app on a smart phone..

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