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The phones worked more smoothly than any other mobile device I can recall, though. After I tried to switch away from WP7 for the first time, I had to return the Android flagship at that time (Samsung Galaxy Nexus) because it lagged so much. The lack of apps and no way to sync with Linux computers made me eventually migrate to Android, which still seems clumsy and slow even today..

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Man, I miss Windows Phone all the time. If you could have run WP8 on the Lumia 800 I feel like I might still be rocking it today.

I used an HD7 for years, as well as a 925, because it always felt snappy and "brand new".

I fired up my 925 a few days ago and it still feels fresh, quick, and gorgeous.

A 100$ Windows Phone from two years ago is still smoother than a 1000$ Android bought today.

i could never find a $100 windows phone to buy. I always had to get it 'free' with a 2 year service contract. The 'retail' price without a service contract was still, IIRC, in the multiple hundreds ($499? $599?). Not spending that on what would have been a secondary/dev device to play with. FWIW, I never saw too many on ebay or craigslist at the time either.

There were tons of these for $129 in 2013 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00LIWB34Q/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

wish I'd seen one of those - would have used it as a secondary device. :/ thanks.

I had a Lumia 520 when I was a pizza delivery driver, and that was an excellent phone, especially for around $50!

I still use a Windows Phone (and I purchased a few spares as I love it so much!)

Smooth experience, no clutter, no distraction - it just works.

Agreed. A single-core windows phone 7 was waaaay more stable than my android flagship. Superb phones and this is coming from a Linux fan boy.

I guess you might have had one phone OS that was trying to do too much for its hardware and another that did too little.

> The phones worked more smoothly than any other mobile device I can recall, though.

You're probably referring to the first party apps which used an entirely different UI framework which was never publicly accessible.

Meanwhile in the earliest days of Windows Phone Silverlight the default blank app in Visual Studio took more than a second to load.

My Galaxy Nexus was a nice phone IMO, considerably nicer than the LG Nexus 4 that followed it. I actually bought a Nexus 4 and then didn't use it until my GN's screen cracked.

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