The 11 keys to Windows Phone that you need to know if you come from Android (I)
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Are you a user disenchanted with Android and its complications and need to take a safe step when buying your next smartphone? Perhaps, even if you don't know it, the answer to your needs is Windows Phone.
Windows Phone is a modern, elegant, practical and, above all, fluid system, which has many more secrets than you can imagine. What would a switch from Android to Windows Phone look like? Let's detail it in 11 keys determinants.
Windows Phone, the logical evolution
If you are already used to using Windows on your computer and all its fantastic features, highlight its Application Store, Windows Phone is an exclusive version for smartphones that provides all the advantages of Windows.
Switching from Android to Windows Phone is so simple that, if you have a Nokia Lumia Smartphone, you will have the necessary tools to transfer your contacts via Bluetooth from Android and even your contacts, photos and other personal content.
Do you already have your personal contacts and data at hand? (Note: if you specified the number of your contacts in a custom Android field, you could have problems) Well, we are going to review the keys that make Windows Phone stand out if you come from Android:
1. Interface and Fluency
The interface of Windows Phone is very different from the sometimes confusing and cluttered interface that an Android device can offer. The Windows Phone start screen presents us with “tiles”, some of them animated.
You can pin just about anything to it: Contacts, app access, real-time personalized data, and more. Of course, you can customize both the accent color (20 to choose from), as well as the size and order of the tiles, as well as the background image, to create a unique Home screen, tailored to your needs.
With Windows Phone you will have absolute fluidity whatever the amount of data that the terminal stores or whatever the power of your device: you will have a transition between applications and screens that is always fluid and dynamic, both in a high-end terminal and in the most basic Windows Phone. You will simply worry about enjoying yourself.
2. App Store
The Windows App Store experience carries over to Windows Phone with its own app store. You will have all the necessary applications and the best developers at your disposal.
Gone is the mass of repeated, unnecessary, and even dangerous Android applications, in addition, most Windows Phone applications have their namesake in Windows, so the experience will be completed both on your desktop and in the palm of your hand.
3. Maps
Google Maps for Android is a useful tool, but this utility will be reduced to places where we have access to data networks. Windows Phone brings you HERE Maps, a mapping system developed by Nokia, a benchmark in this field.
HERE Maps is possibly the best map application you'll ever have the pleasure of trying: it has public transportation information, navigation directions, high-quality aerial photos, and downloadable maps for youroffline use to the network.
4. Skype
Another of Windows Phone's strengths is its native integration with one of the kings of communication: Skype, the most popular system and versatile to communicate with your contacts by message, voice call or video call.
Carry Skype in your pocket everywhere, send free messages, make free high-quality voice calls, and switch whenever you want to a video callwith a single press.
5. Sensors
Your Windows Phone is important, but more important is knowing what your terminal consumes of battery or network data, or what you consume your storage space. With Android you could review some of this data, but not control it.
Windows Phone brings you applications such as Data Sensor, which lets you know how much network data you consume, where to find free Wi-Fi and helps you control connections; Storage sensor, which tells you the size of your applications and data and helps you move them from the internal memory to your microSD card; and Battery Saver, which shows you which apps are consuming the most battery and how to increase their battery life.
6. Camera: photos and videos
Your best photo will be seen on Windows Phone. Every month hundreds of Android smartphones take over the market with increasingly advanced cameras, but none of them surpasses what a Windows Phone can offer you with its apps and excellent terminals, such as a Nokia Lumia.
In Windows Phone we see smartphones with quality cameras and technologies that reach the views in the professional audiovisual segment.If we add to this the burst modes, to obtain perfect movement sequences, filters, collections, and even manual functions on high-end smartphones, your photos and videos will be the best you've possibly ever taken on a mobile.
7. OneDrive
The simple fact of having Windows Phone gives you access to one of the most interesting cloud storage services: OneDrive, Microsoft's data storage service.
OneDrive gives you free 7 GB of storage so you can sync photos, videos, documents, and back up your albums. You can upload, edit or share any document whenever you want in the simplest way.
8. Office
Without a doubt, one of the most iconic and useful features of Windows is the office suite Office, the most widely used and well-known. Android has third-party office solutions, but Windows Phone brings all the original Office experience as standard on your smartphone.
Creating, editing, and sharing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents will be as easy as a few taps on the Minimalist and intuitive interface. Your office will be in your pocket from now on.
9. Xbox Live and Xbox Music
In addition to enjoying the entire Xbox experience in your living room thanks to any of the Microsoft consoles, Windows Phone joins the Xbox multiplatform ecosystemthanks to Xbox Live and Xbox Music, something unique that you won't find, for example, on Android.
Xbox games in your pocket: achievements, multiplayer matches, millions of songs to listen to with Xbox Music Pass, downloadmusic applications, streaming videos... Your entertainment center comes to your fingertips like never before.
10. Cortana
Android usually includes specific Google voice searches, without a virtual assistant. One of the unique innovations that Windows Phone 8.1 will bring to your smartphone is the new voice assistant Cortana Ask her what you want, Cortana will answer all your questions.
You'll be able to find out how to get to a certain place using Bing directions or the weather in your city, but you'll also see Cortana's ability to learn about you and your searches to suit your needs. You will be able to interact with the applications of your Windows Phone to control their functions with your voice commands and you can even joke around, Cortana will answer you anyway.
eleven. Children's corner
Android does not natively take into account the most active potential users of any self-respecting family: children. Windows Phone incorporates a mode dedicated to the little ones in the house: The children's corner.
In the children's corner of Windows Phone you can determine which are the games, movies, songs or applications that your children can access without the need for an adult to supervise the use of the device, themselves will access their safe and personalized space
