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As a dev, I don't access to a reasonably priced WP8 device being sold in my country, and after getting the Lumia 800 a yaer back, if I have to get another phone, the more pertinent question would be how much money I am spending to develop these apps.

BTW, the emulator is horrible.

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Really? my experience with the emulators (both for windows phone, and windows 8) have been fantastic. Can you elaborate what was horrible about them?

Main reason - I am making a typing oriented app, and it so TOUGH to type on the emulator as it doesnt take keyboard input. And I felt the options were limited compared to the Android emulator.

hi -the emulator does take keyboard input - press page down once you've selected a textbox. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh134796%28v=express...

Thanks, I didn't know that. Though it is going to be clumsy on my MBP.

Just press 'page up' and the Windows Phone emulator will let you type with your keyboard. It does get annoying when you have to do this every time, but I think the Windows Phone emulator beats Android's significantly in terms of speed and stability.

> speed and stability

Speed yes, but stability? I've never had the Android emulator crash, and haven't heard of (m)any cases of it either.

Also, is the WP8 a simulator or an emulator?

I had multiple issues with the WP7 emulator, but the WP8 emulator has been great so far.

I'm running Windows in a VM on OS X 10.8 so I wonder what you could be doing to make the WP8 emulator suck.

Contact your local Windows Phone champ if you have one. (Attend a .Net user group and ask around) I have received 4 devices free as a result of partnering with my regional resource.

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