So as you may or may not know, I get free stuff from my clients. Mostly phones and tablets.
Anyhoo, I recently got given a new Nokia Windows 8 phone.
Now my first reaction was "Yuck, I hate Windows 8" (it does not work on desktop full stop) and my second was "That's a shame because I'm bored of iPhone and iOS7 sucks so badly".
Anyway, I had to use it for some work and well ... I frickin' love it.
Its fast, looks nice, has everything I need, isn't hard to read or garish like iOS7. Its just a really nice phone. I'm not a huge fan of Android either. Too google dependant and it looks like shit as well.
So anyway I'm downloading the Windows Phone SDK and will be hammering out apps for it very soon. There is way less competition in the app store at the moment so that is appealing.
Microsoft seem to have done a really nice job. Apart from anything else, Visual Studio is done so much better than xcode which is a steaming pile of massively unstable manure.
My iPhone is now sat simless in my drawer wishing its home button hadn't got progressively more difficult to activate and that its upgrade from iOS7 hadn't buggered its performance so badly and made it the ugliest thing on a computer since goatse. Its crappy battery life didn't help its cause either. Now it can only hear its replacement chiming and ringing through the darkness as it sits next to my socks. I hope its heart-broken.
Anyone else have a Windows phone?