WEBVTT 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:06.640 this video is brought to you by our trusted partner Intel for a limited time 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:11.360 only with the purchase of any unlocked Core I5 or core i7 Intel CPU get a free 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:15.360 Intel beanie with a chance to win an Intel snowboard valid for Canadian and 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:18.720 US customers only some restrictions apply for complete details visit Intel 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:25.240 gaming promo.com welcome to day whatever this 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:28.320 is of the Epic I switched uh trial with 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:30.080 Windows Phone 8 so I'm going to start 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.800 with telling you guys the conclusion the conclusion is I am not going to be 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:38.399 switching to Windows Phone 8 um I feel like there's some things that are better 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:42.360 about it versus iOS but there are some things that were serious problems for me 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:47.280 that would make it so that I would actually uh you see I'm holding an 8s 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:51.879 now because I spent the last week of my I switched using the 8S rather than the 00:00:49.239 --> 00:00:56.879 8X the reason for that being that especially when I'm typing so um on the 00:00:54.760 --> 00:01:01.199 8X I have small hands and I've had people say oh get a note too because 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:04.400 you'll get no I'm not going to get used to it I'm not going to get used to my 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:08.159 hands are actually just small and can't reach so so I wanted to switch to a 00:01:06.320 --> 00:01:12.799 phone that I can actually type on handed with like I could on my iPhone 4 and I 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:16.240 found that pretty much fixed every complaint I had about the keyboard and 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.200 the keyboard now that I've spent some time with it on a phone that I can 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:24.360 actually use I like a lot better than iOS and it's for a couple simple things 00:01:22.119 --> 00:01:27.680 number one is the inclusion of smilees here that makes a big difference and 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:31.159 then there's uh there's your most recently used ones and you can it'll 00:01:29.479 --> 00:01:35.439 just default to that every time once you select that so so you can just navigate 00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:39.159 to all the ones that you actually like and the inclusion of period and comma 00:01:37.479 --> 00:01:43.840 here because I do actually still care about punctuation even though I'm mostly 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:47.360 texting so totally got used to that liked that about it but I have a whole 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:53.439 other list of stuff that's bothering me so I've been using Row for tweets uh 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:55.399 which is uh apparently yeah there it is 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.560 looks a little something like that and I was having some weird issues with it 00:01:57.479 --> 00:02:03.399 like in the timeline I'd click something here but it would actually open up the 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:07.280 one under it or two under it there'd be like these weird offsets on the touch 00:02:05.119 --> 00:02:10.920 interface and it was driving me crazy to the point where I was ready to just get 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.319 off Windows Phone 8 entirely because the stock Twitter app is was horrible and 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:20.920 then Rowe was having all these issues but Twitter has updated their native app 00:02:18.920 --> 00:02:25.440 um and it is actually pretty awesome now like they've actually put some time and 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:28.120 attention to it into it to the same sort 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:33.519 of standard as on the other platforms so it's uh yeah really really liking the 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.959 Twitter experience although this sort of um epitomizes some of or not epitomizes 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.720 I don't know whatever it illustrates some of the issues I've had with Windows 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:44.720 Phone 8 in general so a lot of the apps tend to be not that well labeled if 00:02:42.519 --> 00:02:48.120 you're not already a Twitter user so you you haven't used Twitter on a mobile 00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:53.680 platform before and you go you open up the Twitter app on Windows Phone what is 00:02:50.440 --> 00:02:55.560 everything okay home I get what's that 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:59.080 what's that what's that what's the difference between this and home I don't 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:01.720 know so you have to actually just like dink around with in order to figure out 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:08.760 what anything is and I mean if you're experienced Twitter user sure but as someone coming into it like this just 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:13.840 isn't it's just not labeled well you know like there's these things down here 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:18.560 you got some like settings and stuff and yeah anyway so we're done with that um 00:03:15.959 --> 00:03:24.599 yeah so way better uh overall um I prefer swipes to clicks so 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:30.200 I prefer SC so uh one of the complaints I had early on was that I whoops okay 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.400 well let's go back to hold on uh you 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:36.799 know what let's go to a song list that'll do as if you guys can't just 00:03:35.239 --> 00:03:41.799 freeze the frame and read that stuff anyway so let's go to a oh right I don't 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:47.040 have the music loaded onto the 8S okay fine we will go to we'll go to a contact 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:51.280 list right okay so the way that you navigate um from letter to letter is 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:57.760 instead of scrolling down the side like you do on Android and iOS you click here 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:01.200 and then click the letter of let me just 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:03.040 make sure there's nothing sh here yeah 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:08.360 sure whatever so you and then you click the letter and it takes it jumps to the 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.360 right spot um I actually find this not 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:17.000 as easy to work with for a couple of reasons number one is that I find like I 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:19.759 said I find touches less intuitive than just scrolling down the right hand side 00:04:18.479 --> 00:04:23.759 because that's where my thumb is anyway I'm right-handed for a left-handed 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.639 person maybe that's not as good the other thing is that now that I'm here I 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:31.560 kind of have to hunt and Peck because it's going to be a long time before I 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:36.080 memorize this grid and if I'm looking for e that's actually not conveniently 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.759 within my reach whereas this entire right side is within my reach so I find 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:45.479 that faster and more intuitive and that goes for scrolling long lists whether 00:04:41.919 --> 00:04:47.880 it's uh contacts whether it's installed 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:52.199 applications or whether it's uh things like music I just I find this not as 00:04:50.520 --> 00:04:55.440 good and then you see when you don't have something for every letter like 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:59.919 some of them are just kind of grayed out and it just it makes it more visually 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:04.520 confusing I find to actually navigate it uh generally speaking far more crashes 00:05:02.039 --> 00:05:07.840 and hangs than iOS um in my month of using it and I think that's one of the 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:12.120 reasons why it's important to use the platform for a month before drawing any 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:15.520 conclusions I mean I did the the in progress updates where you know some of 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:19.960 them you know I'd say things that were just totally wrong and I'd say things 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:24.199 that that were right but sort of more by chance than from experience with it 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.720 whereas now I actually feel like I know how to use the platform and any 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:31.039 complaints I have are based on we know this is what it's actually like to use 00:05:29.039 --> 00:05:36.560 it for a long period of time um one thing I noticed about the 8 8s versus 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:41.520 the 8X was that the spacebar is the thing that seems to get uh shorter you 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:44.600 got a little tiny space bar in there so I know I said that I do like things like 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:49.280 the smiley face but I mean come on language why does that need to be there so space bar would be something that I 00:05:47.919 --> 00:05:53.800 would have liked to see extended because I find myself often hitting these 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:58.280 instead um on the condensed keyboard on the 8S so the 8X had a slightly bigger 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:04.280 one just because of the W the the bigger screen um I prefer folders and desktops 00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:08.759 for navigation uh versus this tile interface because tile is interesting 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:13.240 and I mean okay so you press the Windows button to go up to the top and you know 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:17.960 you can prioritize things based on size but what I discovered is even on the 8X 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:23.080 which has a bigger screen I am never going to want to make an 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:25.479 icon like here uh let's find one that 00:06:23.080 --> 00:06:29.000 goes full size like photos goes full size I 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:34.919 think I'm never going to want to make an icon like or not an icon whatever a tile 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:39.880 this big because it takes up so much space that it's just ridiculous like 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:47.280 maybe if it was something that I absolutely needed to have sort of in my 00:06:44.280 --> 00:06:49.160 way all the time then fine but as it is 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:53.720 if you're even using so if you're using those you'd get like three per scroll on 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:57.440 your screen if you're using the medium-sized ones you're only going to 00:06:55.479 --> 00:07:02.319 get about eight per scroll on your screen and if you're using the small 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:04.080 ones even then you're only getting about 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:08.919 what whatever it is like 32 per screen so you're actually 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:13.120 scrolling to find applications whereas when you compare that to a folder based 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.879 structure like on the iPhone 4 where you can go folder folder folder folder 00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:21.000 folder folder folder folder and put like nine things in each one it's less 00:07:19.599 --> 00:07:26.560 hunting for things because you categorize them you go okay I want my 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.560 utilities one click two clicks and I'm 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:31.960 in whereas if I have to go scroll scroll scroll to find something something I 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.639 mean even okay so on iOS I might scroll from desktop to desktop I keep 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:39.199 everything on my first and second page so I might have to go scroll click click 00:07:36.840 --> 00:07:42.720 so I find that that a little bit easier and okay so the the argument after that 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:47.000 is oh well you can just swipe to the right and see all your apps that way 00:07:44.599 --> 00:07:53.720 scrolling slow and then I still have to go click click potentially scroll click 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:57.599 to actually get into something and the interface for anything should always be 00:07:55.400 --> 00:08:01.960 as few clicks as possible and I find that this tile interface doesn't really 00:07:59.599 --> 00:08:05.159 achieve that for me dedicated camera button Awesome every phone should have 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.840 one um I'd love it if it was a little bit more stiff cuz I found myself 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:13.280 accidentally hitting it but when you want it just being ready to go sort of 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:17.400 hold down a button and you're ready to take pictures is is actually just kind 00:08:15.479 --> 00:08:21.159 of freaking amazing uh one of the other problems for me and it I mean mobile 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:26.080 platforms it's all about apps Cloud media is not nearly uh or a cloud player 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:30.599 or whatever they call this thing is not nearly as polished as air video on iOS I 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:35.120 found that extremely frustrating because I do like to watch videos on my phone 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:42.719 that I stream from my home server so um yeah Skype integration also wasn't as uh 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:44.399 as smooth as it is with iOS so I mean 00:08:42.719 --> 00:08:48.640 check out the Skype app hopefully I'm doing something wrong here and someone 00:08:45.880 --> 00:08:52.839 can post a comment on the video uh oh whatever I'm not signed in well okay the 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:56.440 point is uh no it's okay I couldn't find a setting within Skype to make it so 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:01.480 that it stayed signed in all the time and would push me chat notifications it 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:05.600 just worked on iOS it's like Yay Apple it just works um but no but seriously it 00:09:03.959 --> 00:09:10.720 just worked and then this one it's like I got Skype calls but not um written 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:16.680 message notifications I mean that's very frustrating to me because i' find them 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:17.920 like hours later uh so yeah it just okay 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:24.480 so what I'm trying to say is maybe there's a way to make it work maybe you can force it to somehow but what I said 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:29.680 was Skype integration is not as smooth as iOS because you have to fuss with it 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:33.440 so that's very confusing and the inability to turn off auto rotate 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:38.160 honestly is just a deal breaker for me like I can't function without being able 00:09:35.640 --> 00:09:42.839 to turn off auto rotate even on iOS I find it incredibly frustrating that on 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:47.360 the phone you can only lock in portrait you can't lock in landscape but not 00:09:45.079 --> 00:09:54.240 being able to lock at all being forced to have auto rotate on no matter what is 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:56.399 just asinine um and and there's a huge 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.720 thread on Microsoft's forums asking for it I've had people tell me no you must 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.320 be wrong there must be a way to do it no there actually isn't a way to do it even 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:08.200 though it must be the simplest possible thing um to to integrate so it just 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:12.480 it'll always auto rotate so what that means is if you actually want to view 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:15.920 something in portrait mode and you're laying in bed you want to read something 00:10:14.040 --> 00:10:19.000 oh oh it moves around oh well actually hold on no I don't want to so you have 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:24.920 to kind of hold it like this and then scroll through it's just ridiculous um 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:28.800 one thing that was way better than iOS is integrating multiple accounts so 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:34.079 going okay yeah I want like Hotmail calendar and a Gmail calendar and I want 00:10:32.040 --> 00:10:38.600 some other random thing and I want my Facebook and my LinkedIn contacts and I 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:44.079 want my Gmail contacts the way that it integrates things within the People app 00:10:41.160 --> 00:10:50.240 here as well as your contacts as well as your calendar is just awesome way better 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:53.720 than iOS where there's certain things that are just randomly weirdly locked 00:10:52.079 --> 00:10:57.480 down like iOS will grab your Google calendar but not your Google Contacts 00:10:55.959 --> 00:11:03.839 and you have to kind of fight with it whereas this one you just kind of go sign sign in sign in sign in sign in 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.959 done and I mean even things like um like 00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:09.760 multiple entries where you have someone on Facebook and Linkedin and you had 00:11:08.079 --> 00:11:13.760 them in your phone already it'll even merge them and then there's tools to to 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:18.519 merge them differently or unmerge them or play around with them however you need to absolutely awesome that's 00:11:16.760 --> 00:11:22.920 probably one of the high points of Windows Phone 8 for me uh Nokia's Drive 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:26.320 app was another one I don't think know if it's called noia Drive anymore it 00:11:24.800 --> 00:11:31.320 seems to be called here drive now I don't know why they would have changed the number oh yeah this is going to show 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:34.680 where I I am right now but that's okay um is awesome when it finds your 00:11:33.040 --> 00:11:40.040 destination I found it was a little bit less uh reliable than Google Apps for me 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:44.600 or Google Maps rather for me here in uh in Vancouver Canada so there you go it 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:48.560 might be perfect where you live but I I found it a little bit less consistent um 00:11:46.800 --> 00:11:51.959 Internet Explorer is awesome compared to Safari um going back to Internet 00:11:50.560 --> 00:11:57.560 Explorer one of the things I complained about last time was needing to go in here for tabs apparently this refresh 00:11:55.760 --> 00:12:01.600 button can be changed to a tab button but that still means I have to go two 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:07.200 places for refresh and I found that frustrating as well um so it's again 00:12:04.880 --> 00:12:12.839 it's just that more clicks thing and last but not least see that see the time 00:12:09.079 --> 00:12:14.240 there okay so if I'm actually like I I 00:12:12.839 --> 00:12:21.560 understand you want to use as much space as possible for um just sort of actually 00:12:18.920 --> 00:12:24.880 viewing your content but I think that uh because so many people are moving away 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:29.399 from wearing watches and moving towards using their phones as their only real 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:34.079 time piece I found that not having quick easy access to that information um so 00:12:32.199 --> 00:12:37.279 especially battery life there's a battery life app I don't know if I've 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:41.000 actually moved it onto the desktop of the uh of the 8S no it looks like I 00:12:39.160 --> 00:12:46.760 haven't but having things like battery life by percentage and time and cell 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:51.000 reception always at the top I think is worth it because it's just ridiculous 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:54.880 when you're when you're watching a video for example actually I don't know if uh 00:12:53.680 --> 00:12:59.480 I don't know if this one's going to work right now okay well let's not worry too much 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:03.560 about like that here let's go to met Tu metr tu's awesome I really like this uh 00:13:01.959 --> 00:13:10.360 really like this YouTube app so let's find something and we're watching some 00:13:07.199 --> 00:13:12.120 video so I'm used to in iOS just 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:19.120 pressing on something and having the time show up for me and I I I like that 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:21.040 so I missed that always knowing the time 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:25.360 um I think that's pretty much it so at the end of the day I won't be switching 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:31.560 but what I will be doing is I will be doing an Android ey switched with the 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.240 allnew HTC1 phone so this is pretty much 00:13:31.560 --> 00:13:38.279 as highend as it gets for an Android phone so I'm going to give it a shot and 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:41.720 slicks got a little smirk on his face going on over there because I said I 00:13:39.839 --> 00:13:46.720 wouldn't do it but I'll be going back to my iPhone 4 in the meantime oh honestly 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:50.360 having a newer phone really made me see how slow the iPhone 4 is now cuz I'd 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:54.240 gotten used to it I used it for like two years so that that part's going to be 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:57.759 hard to go back to I kind of wish I had a more upto-date phone but uh so I'm 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:02.480 going to go back to the iPhone 4 till I can get my hands on an HTC one but this 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:06.079 has been fun and guys leave a comment if you've hung in this long leave a comment 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:11.120 under the video because I will be giving away an HTC 8s I was going to give away 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:16.040 the 8X but it turns out someone needed it so I'll be giving away an HTC 8s to 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:19.440 one of the people who comments 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