Rumors about Windows Compatibility, Are they true?

Dashrender

@Dashrender said:

The only GUI issue I have these days is that I can't pin the Podcast app to the main screen, otherwise the GUI works great.

The Podcast app in 8.1.1 for me is quirky, since going to Denim...it plays but doesn't stay running and it has problems playing 1.5x and 2x so I can skip commercials...

LOL I use the 30 second skip feature for that.

MattSpeller

If this is too much of a fork I'll ask it in a new thread

For those of you with extensive Android and WP experience - relative merits / comparison of the OS's?

@MattSpeller said:

If this is too much of a fork I'll ask it in a new thread

For those of you with extensive Android and WP experience - relative merits / comparison of the OS's?

Hard to really compare them. It depends on what you use your phone for. If you use it mostly for Email, texts, calls, and web browsing I'd say the windows phone is a way better experience.

If you want to play games, use random apps etc Android would be the way to go. Note that currently there is no generic SSL VPN (openVPN) app for Windows Phone so if you need VPN you need either, an app from your vendor (currently many of the popular vendors have them). Or you need a L2TPw/IPSEC or IKEv2 VPN.

nadnerB

@thecreativeone91 said:

Hard to really compare them. It depends on what you use your phone for. If you use it mostly for Email, texts, calls, and web browsing I'd say the windows phone is a way better experience.

If you want to play games, use random apps etc Android would be the way to go. Note that currently there is no generic SSL VPN (openVPN) app for Windows Phone so if you need VPN you need either, an app from your vendor (currently many of the popular vendors have them). Or you need a L2TPw/IPSEC or IKEv2 VPN.

^ What he said.

Kelly

My first smartphone was a WP7 device, and I've only had WP devices since then. I recently got a Nexus 4 just to play with it. It doesn't have a SIM card right now, so I can't speak to the calling/texting experience, but it is hard to compare them. The app experience is night and day. There are so many options for Android. Frankly it is overwhelming. Anyhow, I like playing with the phone, but that is about it. I like to play games on it. When it comes to day to day functionality of phone/email/whatnot, my WP is a breath of fresh air. Some of that could be chalked up to familiarity, but while there are a few tasks that are easier or simpler on the Android, the majority are much easier to do on WP.

It me it seems the OS just gets out of the way more and lets me do what I want to do. With Android the OS kinda gets in the way of doing tasks more and doesn't let me just work without having to think about it. If that makes sense.