[Windows Phone 8 General] Venekor:
Simply for me if they allow me to install stuff that I want like on Android using APK files and they had hardware that was current, basically if Samsung made the Galaxy Note 2 with Windows Phone 8 then I'd be happy to try it.

Sadly however it looks like Microsoft want to control the hardware, I doubt you'll have Quad core on Windows Phone 8, they'll probably make that a Windows Phone 9 thing. Microsoft also want to create a closed OS, they're doing it with Windows 8 and the Metro UI and I don't get why. Windows is popular because it is open, the software Microsoft makes is complete crap, everything I use on Windows is third party and infact I prefer Linux to Windows, only reason I don't use it full time is because the games support is on Windows. Using Ubuntu atm from a USB stick and it is amazing, far better and the great thing is if Ubuntu starts to suck, there is always someone else making a UI based on Linux.

Closed Operating Systems sucks, they take ages to evolved and you cannot use what you want. I mean no Flash Player is an instant killer for me, I cannot view free porn sites, I cannot view most of the Youtube videos as lots of content is flash based, the apps suck, hardly any content compared to the Browser. Without Flash you feel like you're using a gimped browser. Apple fanbois can hate all they want but I've never had a problem with flash, it runs perfect on my Android phone and my PC and it doesn't crash every 5 seconds like people seem to say.... I just think there is something wrong with Apple devices if they're struggling. Yeah Adobe look like they're pretty much killing Flash by dropping mobile support, however until it is gone you need it.

I'm not a developer but my GS2 performs way better than my friends iPhone 4s, I'm using a custom rom and the battery lasts longer too. I noticed the Iphone while using 3G drains battery like mad compared to my GS2 which lasts longer on it. my browser performance is better, I can view flash without it lagging one bit in BBC iPlayer browser based site. I can multitask with loads of windows open at once, all running and my memory like I said never goes above 600mb and it only went to 800mb playing a 3D intensive game and having other stuff open in the background too.

Android might not be perfect but it's an open OS which makes it far superior to every OS out there for mobiles right now. It in no way runs badly like everyone says, I just think people don't know how to use their phone properly, you never ever use the default rom, it's terrible and has a load of crap slapped on it.

I want Nokia to do well, I've always loved their phones in the past but I just don't think the hardware is anything great and Windows Phone hold it back. Sadly Microsoft are digging their own grave trying to follow in Apples footsteps, Apple devices are not user friendly, my Mother struggles to use her iPad 2. She has thrown it to one side and gone back to her Laptop, Windows 7 is a friendly to use OS. As soon as they started to lock things down, hide the more advance options then they make their OS harder to use. I mean to view stuff I would in Windows 7 I have to go through about 40 more menus and it's all so hidden.

I just hate the direct everything is going.

The other thing I hate people saying it doesn't need better specs because it's well optimized. Well if someone was making a graphical power house of a game, they're going to need more ram for higher res textures, you could do that with 2GB of ram but not 1GB. You need more ram for higher resolution screens that we have now, I'm guessing the GPU shares the system memory and doesn't have it's own stored somewhere and that is why it is partitioned? You'll need more CPU horse power for things like physics and more going on at once and having more cores, you could devote each core to different things. I mean you could have the background apps dedicated to the first core and the other three for gaming. You'll also need a more modern GPU for improved features like shaders or open gl support and it'll also push more polygons and have better raw horsepower. The one in the Lumia 920 is 2 years old now....

More power is better and that argument makes no sense to me, why shoot yourself in the foot?