– Wireless charging: it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but plopping this down my charger on the desk and picking it up without plugging and unplugging is hugely convenient. If you have some special needs or need 50 different choices of a Twitter client (I keep returning to the native Twitter client from Twitter), then you may need a larger ecosystem. Are there some apps I would love to see on Windows Phone 8 that aren’t there (talking to you Amazon Cloud Music client)? Sure. This took a bit of time for some of them, but they’re all here.

All of the major apps I use, Audible, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Netflix, Office, Kindle, YouVersion Bible, Pandora etc. – The Ecosystem: While the media would suggest that I ought to be slitting my wrists over the dearth of apps, this platform actually works for me. What’s been the surprisingly great stuff? I play games but like to do that more on a larger platform (e.g., a tablet like the Microsoft Surface – go Halo Spartan.) Oh, and I talk and text as well :) I am a somewhat casual photographer a bit more than point and shoot but not a lot of manual settings. (Neither Pandora or Spotify serve well for someone who, like me and unlike most of the planet, is album oriented such as myself). So a subscription service is really great to explore and Xbox Music and, more recently, Beats Music are great. I love music (even when I’m reading books) I have fairly eclectic tastes (eveything from The Tallis Scholars and Anne Akiko Meyers on the classical side to OneRepublic, Civil Wars and Ed Sheeran the pop/folk side to a little M83 and Daft Punk and everything in between.

I love books, including audio books (I constantly use the Audible app). I’m in IT for an insurance company, so I like to keep current and experiment a bit with new geek toys. Nokia Lumia 920 with Nokia-Monster Purity HD headphonesīefore diving into my reflections, let me give you some context by describing my main uses of my phone and to do that I need to tell you what I do and what I love.

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