The 11 keys to Windows Phone that you need to know if you come from iOS (II)
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Do you find iOS monotonous and restrictive? Do you feel like the users who come from Android? Windows Phone could be the next step you've been wanting to take for a long time, but didn't know about yet.
Simplicity, power and practicality are the hallmarks of Windows Phone, a current, dynamic and modern system. What would a switch from iOS to Windows Phone look like? Let's detail it in 11 keys determinants.
Windows Phone, dynamic and modern
Windows has conquered the computers of thousands of users for years thanks to its fantastic features, to highlight its Application Store, Windows Phone brings all its benefits looking to the future, towards the portable.
Switching from iOS to Windows Phone is as simple as we already saw in the Android example: 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.
If you already have your data backed up on your brand new Windows Phone, you should be careful with some iOS features like iMessage), as you could have problems when receiving SMS on your switch to the new Windows smartphone. Supervised everything, we are going to review the keys that make Windows Phone stand out if you come from iOS:
1. Interface and Fluency
The Windows Phone interface is a sea of liberties compared to what is seen on iOS, quite limited in terms of customization for the times that runThe Windows Phone home screen presents us with “tiles” (some of them animated) replacing the traditional static iOS icons.
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.
You will finally free yourself from the hard restrictions and high prices provided by the iOS App Store, in addition, most of the applications of Windows Phone have their namesake in Windows, so the experience will be complete both on your desktop and in the palm of your hand.
3. Maps
If iOS is known for something that stands out negatively, it's for its Maps application, very poor and could be improved. 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
Skype and its native Windows Phone integration are no match for iOS. Skype has been the most popular and versatile system for communicating with your contacts via message, voice call or video call for years.
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
Despite the popularity of iOS, doesn't focus on what's important for your terminal: know what it consumes in terms of battery or network data, or what you consume your storage space. With Windows Phone this is over.
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
The successive iPhones that appear each time bring better photographic features, but nothing comparable to what a Windows Phone can offer you in this field 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
Your iPhone stores all its data in its particular and exclusive cloud: iCloud. iCloud is a service that is quite different, and even worse, with all the advantages that one of the flagships of Windows Phone brings you: its integration with OneDrive, Microsoft's popular data storage service that you can use on any device
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
iPhone has its own office suite and many others from third parties, most of them paid for. They have little to do with the office suite Office, the most widely used and well-known in the world, free on your Windows Phone.
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
iOS has its own music service, but it doesn't have anything like the Xbox experience. Windows Phone joins the Xbox cross-platform ecosystem with Xbox Live and Xbox Music, to be able to enjoy your music and your games both on your smartphone, as on your computer or Xbox console.
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
Siri is the virtual assistant of iOS, useful, but limited. One of the unique innovations that Windows Phone 8.1 will bring to your smartphone is the new voice assistant Cortana. Ask her whatever 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
iOS completely lacks one of the most important points that any mobile operating system can address: its safety and use with 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
