The
top criticism of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system has nothing to do
with the OS itself, which people seem to like a lot—it led the other mobile OSes in our 2013 Readers Choice survey results by a good margin. The
platform's significant increase in market share in the past year is also testament to this.
No, instead, the number-one complaint about Windows Phone has been that it
doesn't offer as deep an app selection as you find for Android and iPhone.
But
that's changed a lot over the past few months, as A-level apps make their way
onto the newest major mobile platform—recent examples include the red hot Vineapp, along with the square imaging
staple, Instagram. For me, a bigger
problem is that the Windows Phone versions of big apps like Words with Friends don't offer the full feature set found on
the other platforms. That's largely a factor of the OS being newer than iOS and
Android, and developers are more concerned about getting a version 1 of their
app in the Windows Store than including every little feature.
Now,
it's perfectly feasible to engage in all of the typical mobile activities on
Microsoft's platform—gaming, texting, photo sharing, watching video—you name it,
using any of more than 200,000 apps in the Windows Phone store. Of course,
another ace in the hole for Windows Phone is what it comes preloaded with bona
fide Microsoft Office$69.99 at Dell. Other extremely useful
Windows Phone apps that come bundled with the OS by default go beyond the Office
suite: You get well-designed email, news, photo, and music apps. And depending
on your phone hardware maker, you're likely to get more—particularly with Nokia
phones.
App
set aside, there are actually good reasons to make the switch to Windows Phone.
You may want the phone with the best camera available—the Nokia Lumia 1020$149.99 at Amazon, a sleek HTC 8XT$0.01 at Amazon, or want an affordable but
powerful smart phone like the Samsung ATIV Odyssey .
To
this distinguished hardware, the Windows Phone platform adds other advantages,
too. One of my favorites is that you can install an app directly from the
Windows Phone store website: Without even touching the phone, the app will be
installed. Others include lock-screen notifications, informative live tiles on
the home screen, family "rooms" for private communicating, and tap-to-send
sharing that uses NFC technology.
Whatever
your reason for choosing Windows Phone as your mobile operating system, you need
to check out our top app picks here—they'll make you like your phone choice even
more, and best of all: They're all free for the download
by Jillur Rahman
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