Windows Phone 8.1 review: a magnificent smartphone platform

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18 pointspedrocr5 comments

Features are great, but they don't win consumer markets. Status wins consumer markets and iPhone has that locked down. What Microsoft needs to do is take a page out of clothing designer's handbook: hunt down the popular kids at universities and give them the phone for free and pay them some money to use it.

and maybe add some basic features that are missing, like a forward button in their browser or port important missing apps like Firefox or fix broken features like when you lock the screen rotation in landscape, many screens like the home screen is not available in landscape.

my favorite improvement so far is the new notification/status page that you can pull down from any app (similar to Android)

>>> many screens like the home screen is not available in landscape.

While this would be a great feature since Windows uses the tiles, neither Apple or Android have this feature. So saying this should be a requirement is a bit of stretch since its not currently available on either of the other two dominant platforms.

Does it allow a current device with hardware keys and which stays alive for a week without a recharge?

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