Nokia Lumia 710
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Replaced my Samsung Intercept with Nokia Lumia 710. So far, I am pretty impressed - both with the phone itself and Windows Phone OS (vs Android). Anybody else tried it?
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Replaced my Samsung Intercept with Nokia Lumia 710. So far, I am pretty impressed - both with the phone itself and Windows Phone OS (vs Android). Anybody else tried it?
Why? What is better in wp than in android? Just curious, this post has been done from my blackberry...
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Replaced my Samsung Intercept with Nokia Lumia 710. So far, I am pretty impressed - both with the phone itself and Windows Phone OS (vs Android). Anybody else tried it?
Haven't tried the Lumia, but I have an LG Optimus 7 and *love* the WP7 operating system, compared to other MS mobile OSes, it's extremely well developed. Have you tried developing for it? Using Silverlight to make the phone apps is a breeze - many .NET projects can be ported to WP7 with very little work. It's a shame that WP7 devices are still not very popular - I think MS would do much better if they made it free to add apps to their marketplace - charging devs $100 a year to publish apps is fine if you have a well established market, but they don't. My only complaint is that you have to have an apphub subscription (i.e. $100 a year) even if you want to deploy to your own phone - what a pain!
My Blog: http://www.dwmkerr.com
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Haven't tried the Lumia, but I have an LG Optimus 7 and *love* the WP7 operating system, compared to other MS mobile OSes, it's extremely well developed. Have you tried developing for it? Using Silverlight to make the phone apps is a breeze - many .NET projects can be ported to WP7 with very little work. It's a shame that WP7 devices are still not very popular - I think MS would do much better if they made it free to add apps to their marketplace - charging devs $100 a year to publish apps is fine if you have a well established market, but they don't. My only complaint is that you have to have an apphub subscription (i.e. $100 a year) even if you want to deploy to your own phone - what a pain!
My Blog: http://www.dwmkerr.com
It's not the quantity of apps that's important, it's the quality. $100 to get in the game is cheap if you write something even half decent. If you write an app that other people are going to use, you are going to find it very easy to make that $100 back either by charging for an app, or putting in an add control. You only need 150 %.99 sales to break even. There's no way of knowing how much revenue you'd get from adds. It depends on the number of users, how frequently and for how long they use your app, and what information about your users you're able to provide to the advertisers.
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Haven't tried the Lumia, but I have an LG Optimus 7 and *love* the WP7 operating system, compared to other MS mobile OSes, it's extremely well developed. Have you tried developing for it? Using Silverlight to make the phone apps is a breeze - many .NET projects can be ported to WP7 with very little work. It's a shame that WP7 devices are still not very popular - I think MS would do much better if they made it free to add apps to their marketplace - charging devs $100 a year to publish apps is fine if you have a well established market, but they don't. My only complaint is that you have to have an apphub subscription (i.e. $100 a year) even if you want to deploy to your own phone - what a pain!
My Blog: http://www.dwmkerr.com
Dave Kerr wrote:
Have you tried developing for it?
No. When it comes to mobile apps I currently believe web is the way to go.
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Dave Kerr wrote:
Have you tried developing for it?
No. When it comes to mobile apps I currently believe web is the way to go.
Very good way to go - however, if you're going to use anything device specific (camera, acccelerometer etc) then that's not an option ;)
My Blog: http://www.dwmkerr.com