I only stick apps on my phone if i use them, no use = delete as far as i’m concerned.
I’ve just found a nice little Wikipedia app for the phone that is good so thats gone onto the phone. I don’t play games so perhaps thats why i don’t stick loads of apps onto it.
Things like an emergency ‘where am i’ app that i found recently is good to have, angry birds not so much.

Thanks for the MPAtool tip, Flaperon. Very useful indeed.

Sent my Lumia 820 back yesterday. So wanted to love it.
After 4 hours it powered itself down and would not restart. Cured by removing the battery and putting it back in, only for it to power down again 2 hrs later. When it was working the Nokia sat nav kept crashing.
Then three days in it powered down again and simply would not restart.
Swapped for an Iphone. Sorted.

Google has pulled support of its functionality on another OS? Presumably they could do that to iOS if they fancied. Where would iPhone be if Samsung pulled hardware and Google pulled software?!

You’re kidding, right? Apple are already putting various aspects of the iOS device hardware out to other companies, which used to be made by Samsung, like certain chips, so their reliance on Samsung is dwindling rapidly, and what software are you talking about? Google don’t have anything to do with software on iOS, they only supply various apps, and Google need Apple far more than the other way around, because, as has been shown already, Google need the data that comes from people using their search engine, and Apple device users are acknowledged as being the biggest users of Internet data worldwide.

Must be doing something wrong with my Windows Phone,Google calendars has been working since day one,just synced my Google account and Job done.

Admittedly mine is the older 7.8 flavour not the latest Win8,still dead pleased with it and there is nothing about the latest iThingy or Android phones to attract me away from it.

I’d imagine those all important missing apps(Strava,Instagram)will make onto Windowsphone eventually (there are other 3rd Party instagram apps already plus similar photoeffect apps such as lomogram available)

Dwindling maybe but where would Apple’s present phones be if Samsung decided to stop supply of components, they’d be screwed. And what about an iPhone with no Google maps (that went well didn’t it!), no YouTube etc. With 70% market share for android vs 20% iOS I’m not sure Google would be that worried by the loss of Apple customers. I can only see it going one way unless Apple bring something truly innovative to the party with iPhone 5s/6 ios7.

Apple device users are acknowledged as being the biggest users of Internet data worldwide.

Got a source for that claim?

Nokia has an area in the Windows Phone store for its apps – many of which it shares across all Windows Phone handsets. From memory, that includes Maps.

Google is pulling support for EAS on free Google accounts (as opposed to Google Apps Premier Edition) – not the only way to get access to a calendar by a long stretch. CalDAV will still work, and Microsoft is implementing that in Windows Phone shortly, it says here.

My employer gave me a new Nokia Lumia 920 last week and so far seems fine. It is my work phone so I don’t tend to install many apps as I have a personal phone (Android) as well. Is very easy to use and was very easy to set up and connect to my email accounts. Battery seems better than the S3 it replaced, but let’s see how it goes

Salsaboy -do you think they all do that or something? 🙂

Windows mobile will eventually go.

Android and Apple overwhelmingly rule the roost.

Mrs Madhouse struggled for 18 months with her windows 7 phone, biggest bug-bear was the massive lack of Apps, the phone may well have been good but it’s use was severely limited by the lack of third party developer support.

She’s now got my old 3GS till the end of her contract when she’ll be getting another iPhone, she has admitted that she loves it and even though it’s a much older phone than her HTC finds it a better experience to use. I presume she’d have said the same going to an Android phone, it’s the Apps that make the phone more useful.

In terms of OS, windows 8 seems exactly the same as 7, I tried it the other day and can’t tell the difference. Nokia seem to have some good kit but it all harks back to the limiting factor which is the App market – or lack thereof.

I’ll not bother with a windows phone when I come to upgrade, I’m interested to see how the new blackberry’s go as there has been a big push by them to get the developers onside, I’m currently torn between another iPhone and an Android device – liking the new Sony’s, but that will all probably change over e next 6 months!

Can you play flash porn vids on it?

in the last 6 years i have become a android fan, went from a blackberry curve (not amazing) to a HTC Desire HD and now am a year into a HTC oneX and love it.

IMO i phone is just a ”sheep phone” eveyone buys it because it is apparently the best. top android handsets from HTC and Samsung definately are better in most respects except app store.

all IMO of course

I’ve had an iPhone and a windows phone.
Recently had to buy a new phone. On paper the iPhone was what I needed. With it in my hand I preferred the windows phone.
So that’s what I bought. I like being able to swap the battery and having a separate camera button.

bought iphone4 & stayed on my contract at £20 mnth 300 mins, unlimited txt, 500 mb web

You was robbed.
Bought an iPhone 4 and renegotiated my contract for 600mins, more texts than a teenager would use and unlimited Internet for £12 a month. Did sign up for a year but its hardly a contract I want out of.

Whenever these threads come up I wonder if I should have a smart phone at all.
How full is the app store? I only bought four apps ever.
You’re supposed to sync calenders? The only calender I have outside the phone is a 2009 “Hollyoaks babes”, and there’s nothing written on it.
A smart phone without apps is pointless? Well, aren’t the email, satnav, maps, and browser all apps? That’s the bulk of the ‘work’ you’ll do with a smartphone right there and the phone comes with them.

App store, app store, app store… Who gives a chuff!? 😕