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Truly an underrated phone, this was my wife's phone when we met. Developing for Windows 8 was one of the best imo, I don't know any C# prior to it but it was just so easy, native and fast.

I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways.

MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.

If Microsoft didn't kill it, lack of YouTube and other Google services would. That was the primary difference. With iPhone you had access to Google-owned stuff, Google never allowed other platforms like Symbian/MeeGo/Windows Phone to ever use its online services.

The game was broken from the start. Microsoft had no chance.

I had a cheap $25 Lumia (520?) that was the most delightful phone I used.

If it wasn’t for 3rd parties sunsetting their apps, there would have been no reason to give it up.

Despite being a highly underpowered dirt cheap phone it was incredibly smooth and fast to use.